Our guest today is Dr. Alana Arnold , a board-certified emergency medicine doctor and CEO of Parent Partners. Her work focuses on improving children's health in communities by giving families tools to gain health literacy, while empowering them.

In this conversation, Dr. Alana Arnold, details her journey from medicine to entrepreneurship, highlighting the challenges faced in pediatric care and the innovative solutions she is developing to address these gaps. She emphasizes the importance of health literacy, the need for better pediatric readiness in emergency care, and the role of her companies, Parent Partners and PEMPAL, in transforming healthcare delivery for children. The discussion also covers the challenges of navigating the healthcare system, the importance of accreditation, and the strategies for engaging with smaller healthcare providers to improve pediatric care. Episode sponsored by: ⁠⁠⁠⁠PolicyMap⁠⁠⁠⁠, the data platform that let's you easily measure inequities on multidimensions to understand the impact of health disease and solutions.

Our guest today is Dr. Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained Physician-Scientist, innovator and investor with over 25 years of clinical, research, biotechnology, and entrepreneurial experience. Founder and chair of NextMed Health (formerly Exponential Medicine), Founder of Digital.Health and GP of Continuum Health Ventures, as well as Faculty Chair of Medicine for Singularity University and Fellow of the Aspen Institute, Health Innovators Fellowship.

In this conversation, Daniel Kraft shares his journey from a medical student to an entrepreneur in the healthcare space, discussing the rise of providerpreneurs and the challenges they face. He highlights the importance of digital health solutions and the need for a marketplace that connects providers with these tools. Kraft emphasizes the shift towards self-care and patient empowerment, as well as the role of conferences like NextMed Health in fostering innovation. He also discusses his venture capital fund, Continuum Health Ventures, which focuses on improving healthspan and democratizing healthcare through early-stage investments. Episode sponsored by: ⁠⁠⁠PolicyMap⁠⁠⁠, the data platform that let's you easily measure inequities on multidimensions to understand the impact of health disease and solutions.

In our latest episode, we speak with Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH of the American Medical Association to discuss her work in health equity and the importance of addressing social determinants of health. She emphasized the need for accountability and transparency in the development and deployment of AI in healthcare. We explored how collaboration and coalition-building are key to advancing health equity efforts in today's climate but most importantly, Dr. Maybank highlighted the importance of sharing research findings, even if they are not favorable, and the need for spaces where researchers can come together and learn from each other. Through her extensive experience, Dr. Maybank recommended leaders focus on principles, accountability, and incentives to drive positive change in the current hype cycle of AI. Episode sponsored by: ⁠⁠⁠PolicyMap⁠⁠⁠, the data platform that let's you easily measure inequities on multidimensions to understand the impact of health disease and solutions.