I always have a fun time speaking with Jawad Ali and it’s always a pleasure. Jawad is a practicing general surgeon, founder of Vality (a physician led consulting firm specializing in digital surgery, patient engagement and surgical devices) and founder of Austin MedTech Connect (a private community connecting founders, clinicians, investors and healthcare stakeholders).
We talk about success, surgical innovation, physician burnout, medtech in Austin and goal setting. I hope you all enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
00:00 Introduction
00:36 How has your childhood shaped you?
01:58 How do you find balance between seeking new opportunities and stability?
03:34 Decision to go to medical school
05:18 How has your engineering thinking framework helped you and hurt you?
08:12 Decision to go into general surgery
09:54 Goal setting, how do you define happiness?
12:14 What’s the biggest advancement in surgery since the Da Vinci robot?
15:00 Example of how population health can optimize preop care?
16:52 AI vs human surgery
20:29 How far are we from AI performing surgery?
22:38 What did you learn from your chief resident year? Do people change?
25:21 Vality partners and your favourite client
27:52 Caresense
29:05 What is digital surgery?
30:35 Has the surgical process within the OR been optimized?
31:32 Refugee Coalition - how we can best help developing countries
32:55 Should we help developing nations by building their infrastructure for them or providing them with the capital/ knowledge to do it themselves?
35:44 Is failure a prerequisite for success?
36:39 Austin MedTech connect
42:18 Do you think healthcare should be profitable?
43:18 What is the end goal for you? What are you looking forward to?
46:38 Physician burnout, will it get better?
Jawad Ali - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jawad-ali-md-11152662/
Vality Partners - https://www.valitypartners.com/
Austin Medtech Connect - https://www.austinmedtech.org/
Rishad Usmani - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishadusmani/
Healthtech investors - https://www.healthtechinvestors.com/
Newsletter - https://www.healthtechinvestors.com/newsletter
Podcast - https://www.healthtechinvestors.com/podcast
