On this episode of Health Explorers, Dr. John Martin and Michael Kisch speak with Vicky Demas, Founder and CEO of identifeye HEALTH, a company using AI and automation to transform retinal imaging, preventing vision loss and unlocking powerful health insights at the point of care.

Before launching identifeye, Vicky helped bring GRAIL’s multi-cancer detection test, Galleri, to life and was a founding member of Google Life Sciences, which later spun out to become Verily.

We explore Vicky’s journey building cutting-edge health tech, her passion for translating science into scalable solutions, and why she believes the eyes might be a literal window into your health—and your soul.

On the latest episode of Health Explorers, we speak with Sari Kaganoff, the Chief Commercial Officer of Rock Health. At Rock Health, Sari leads the consulting and insights membership team, supporting companies on strategy and achieving a deeper understanding of digital health trends. She is also a venture advisor to Rock Health Capital and an angel investor. Before Rock Health, she worked at McKinsey, advising clients on harnessing the power of digital, data, and analytics to improve patient care. Sari brings a unique perspective, which is informed by the research she and her team conduct and their many interactions with big and small companies. This makes her a distinctive voice in the digital health ecosystem and someone who can often see where the industry is going before almost everyone else. In this episode, we learn where the following emerging growth opportunities may be, the hard questions that founders need to ask themselves, and what Sari would do if she waved a magic wand and made one change to the US healthcare system.

New episode of Health Explorers w/Renee Ryan, former CEO of Cala Health.

On the latest episode of Health Explorers, I speak with Renee Ryan, the former CEO of bioelectronic medicine pioneer Cala Health.

Renee brings a unique perspective, having spent time as a start-up CEO and a healthcare investor. Before running Cala Health, she was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Jefferies & Co, and Robert Baird. Renee then joined J&J's ventures team where she invested in over 15 companies. While at J&J she played a central role in incubating several start-ups and joint ventures including Verb Surgical in partnership with Verily.

In this episode, we discuss Renee's experience on both sides of the investor-operator relationship. What she thinks each doesn't fully grasp about the other, the key trait she looks for in leadership hires, and the advice she provides to early-stage founders.