Balancing innovation, entrepreneurship and patient care, with Sharief Taraman, MD
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In this episode, host Hansa Bhargava, MD, discusses computer science and technology in medicine and the inequities and lack of preventive care in pediatrics with Sharief Taraman, MD.
- Intro 0:01
- In this episode 0:12
- Sharief Taraman, MD 0:55
- Taraman discusses his career and how he got to where he is. 1:27
- At what point in your journey of practicing medicine did you decide to go back to your passion in computer science, and how did you make that change? 3:33
- Taraman talks about finding positions at institutions that helped nurture his combined interests in practicing medicine and computer science. 5:56
- On the topic of “thinking outside the box,” can you tell us about how you looked at the problem of diagnosis around autism, the bottlenecking and how you solved for that? 9:17
- What is it like to run a business? What are the pitfalls or the potential? 11:34
- Taraman explains how he and his team made an “Iron Man suit” for a child patient. 13:19
- MoveDBrace.com 15:18
- What do you think is the bottleneck in the healthcare system, and how can we overcome that? 17:00
- Bhargava and Taraman discuss the inequities in medicine because of the healthcare system. 20:30
- Glia journal 21:45
- Is it the first three years of a child’s life that you can rewire a child’s brain? Or can you affect the child’s brain at different points in their life, even as an adult? 22:51
- Bhargava and Taraman talk about the lack of preventive care for children. 25:17
- What would you say to doctors who are looking to add something onto their practices other than clinical medicine? What would you say about technology, and how they can learn more about it? 29:00
- Thanks 31:20
Sharief Taraman, MD, is dual board-certified in neurology with special qualifications in child neurology from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and clinical informatics from the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He is the chief executive officer at Cognoa, Inc., and he is a health sciences associate clinical professor at University of California-Irvine School of Medicine in the department of pediatrics and affiliate professor at Chapman University Dale E. and Sarah Ann Fowler School of Engineering.
We’d love to hear from you! Send your comments/questions to Dr. Bhargava at podcasts@healio.com. Follow Dr. Bhargava on X @hansabhargavaMD and on Instagram @doctorhansaMD. Dr. Taraman can be reached on LinkedIn.
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