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Wayne Guerra M.D. MBA is the Chief Medical Officer of iTriage. Dr. Guerra has over 20 years experience as a practicing Emergency Physician. He earned his medical and undergraduate degrees from UCLA and his MBA from the University of Denver. In 2008  he co-founded iTriage with his colleague, Peter Hudson M.D, also an emergency physician. He is based in Denver, Colorado, where the company is headquartered.     Wayne, great to talk with you. Can you start off by telling [...]

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Jean is the CEO of Touch Surgery, a mobile surgical simulator enabling users to practise surgical procedures on their smartphones. A registrar in Plastic Surgery, Jean combines his NHS job with working on the company. His co-founders - Andre Chow, Ad Gandhe and Sanjay Purkayastha - are all NHS surgeons and between them the team have expertise in surgical simulation, 3D animation and programming, as well as over 200 academic publications. They are one of the current cohort of startups working with the NYC [...]

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We are pleased to be able to offer a 10% partner discount to all readers booking tickets to this year’s Doctors 2.0 conference in Paris – see details below. For your place at the event, email doctors20@basilstrategies.com with Doctorpreneurs in the subject line         Press release Program Doctors 2.0 & You (3rd Edition: 6-7 June 2013) is based on the Best Practices for social media and mobile applications in 17 diseases. Paris, March 15, 2013 – The [...]

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Last year we interviewed Dr. Alexander Finlayson about his journey as a social entrepreneur. Alexander is Founder and CEO of Medicine Africa, a platform that  provides training support to health workers in Somaliland.  The team have recently raised funding to grow their team and expand the platform and Alexander has been combining his global health research with driving the initiative forwards. Watch this interview with Alexander to hear the latest on what the team are achieving to help positively impact [...]

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Doctors and health entrepreneurs – if you haven’t yet signed up for  our forthcoming Designing for Health Workshop, there’s still time, with applications open for just a few more days! Places are filling up fast, with participants flying in from as far afield as Spain, Italy, Belgium and Germany. We have numerous UK and European doctors taking part, as well as students and professionals from across the business, engineering and design worlds. Our keynote speaker is Sue Siddall, head of [...]

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Doctorpreneurs has teamed up with the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at the University of Cambridge, and a host of industry experts and Design-Thinking aficionados, to create this fantastic opportunity to learn, firsthand, how Design-Thinking can be used to innovate in health and healthcare.   During this workshop, interdisciplinary teams (designers, engineers, business minds, medics, scientists and social scientists) will work together, coached by experienced Design-Thinkers, to explore and create solutions to real healthcare challenges. Teams will work on problems identified by [...]

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Jean is the CEO of Touch Surgery, a mobile surgical simulator enabling users to practise surgical procedures on their smartphones. A registrar in Plastic Surgery, Jean combines his NHS job with working on the company. His co-founders - Andre Chow, Ad Gandhe and Sanjay Purkayastha - are all NHS surgeons and between them the team have expertise in surgical simulation, 3D animation and programming, as well as over 200 academic publications. They are one of the current cohort of startups working with [...]

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Following on from a fantastic first event in November with speaker Dr. Mohammad Al Ubaydli (Patients Know Best) applications to attend our next event are now open! This time our speaker will be Dr. Thom Van Every. Thom has an incredible story and will be talking us through his journey from full time clinician through to selling two businesses in the same year!   About Thom Thom qualified as a doctor in the UK and worked in junior posts in England, [...]

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