Lara Setrakian
Co-Founder
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Accelerating the Future of Healthcare Together with your host Lara Setrakian
26 March 2024
CEO, Institute for Healthier Living Abu Dhabi and Staff Physician, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Institute for Healthier Living, Abu Dhabi | Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi
Dr. Nicole Sirotin, MD DipABLM FACP, is an award-winning Internal Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine physician. She is the CEO of the Institute for Healthier Living in Abu Dhabi, a breakthrough project for precision medicine. She served as a Department Chair for 9 years at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi and now as a staff physician. Dr. Sirotin previously held faculty positions at Weill Cornell Medical College and Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is currently serving as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.
With a career spanning over 18 years, she is an accomplished physician thought leader and international speaker in Precision Lifestyle Medicine with a passion for building innovative programs, leading an effective team and spreading the scientific message on how central lifestyle choices are to our health and longevity.
19 March 2024
Co-Founder and Chairman
GluCare.Health
Ali Hashemi is a health tech investor with a particular focus on the application of deep learning and complex algorithms to solve challenging problems in healthcare. Ali is also the Co-Founder and Chairman of GluCare.Health, a hybrid healthcare metabolic disease perform generating among the best outcomes globally for its patients.
Ali previously founded Amana Healthcare, a continuum-of-care hospital platform in the Middle East, acquired by Mubadala Healthcare in 2018. Earlier, Ali was a member of the Healthcare and Private Equity Practices at Bain&Co, based in New York City, and later founded and led the Middle East Healthcare Practice at Booz&Co, based out of Dubai.
Ali studied Medicine and earned his MBA concurrently from McGill University. He earned a B.S.E. with Distinction from Duke University with a dual major in BioMedical Engineering and Religion and a minor in Chemistry.
Ali is a member of the Global Advisory Board for the Duke Fuqua School of Business, a lecturer for the Duke Global Executive MBA Program, and a proud Duke basketball fan.
19 March 2024
Clinical Innovation Lead
University of Manchester
Videha is the Clinical Innovation Lead for the Pankhurst Institute for Health Technology Research and Innovation at the University of Manchester. He has a PhD in Health Informatics and completed fellowships in Digital Health, Medical Leadership and Clinical Entrepreneurship. A surgeon by training he now has a portfolio career spanning clinical medicine and health technology. He leads a range of projects across healthcare providers, academia, and industry, aimed at impacting patient care by translating new and emerging innovations into clinical practice.
He is also the co-founder of Fava Health; an early-stage start-up providing digital services to health systems, life sciences and start-ups to put pharmacogenetics into practice - unlocking the potential of personalised medicine at scale.
Check out this sneak peek as we sit down with Ali Hashemi, CEO and founder of meta[bolic], to discuss the future of digital health and why he believes it will be defined by hybrid models that blend virtual and in-person care. Hashemi shares his vision for human-centered digital health tools that empower patients and providers, not replace them. We explore the potential of hybrid healthcare to improve outcomes, lower costs, and restore the human element to medicine.