Investing in the Future of Medicine (with Dr. Justin Norden)

While digital technologies now permeate nearly every aspect of our lives, their application to improve medicine remains limited. Still, recent advances in artificial intelligence, telecommunications, and other technologies hold enormous potential to transform how healthcare is delivered. At the forefront of exploring this potential is Dr. Justin Norden, a physician and investor at the venture capital firm GSR Ventures, where he focuses on investments in digital health companies. With a background in computer science, Dr. Norden previously worked on the healthcare team at Apple and helped launch the Center for Digital Health at Stanford University. He joins us in conversation to discuss how he discovered investing and entrepreneurship as a way to tackle problems in medicine, clarify misconceptions about digital health and venture capital, and explore how technologies are shaping the future of medicine.

In this episode, you will hear about:

• A brief introduction to venture capital - 1:48
• How Dr. Norden’s experiences during medical training led him explore entrepreneurship and healthcare investing - 3:22
• How Dr. Norden’s passion for computer science influenced his medical education - 7:30
• What it was like to leave a clinical career - 10:18
• The past and current state of technological advancement in medicine - 20:28
• Co-host Dr. Johnson’s concerns over the ways technology has, at times, impeded the delivery of health care - 28:38
• Dr. Norden’s vision for the ideal balance between humanism and technology in medicine - 34:31
• How Dr. Norden considers the reconciliation between the profit motive of companies and the preservation of what makes medicine meaningful - 38:28
• How Dr. Norden decides which digital health companies to invest in - 44:57
• Advice to young clinicians who are curious about healthcare innovation - 50:09

Follow Dr. Norden on Twitter @JustinNordenMD.

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