Founder Stories
Long-form conversations with physician-founders building healthcare companies. Where the idea came from, where it got hard, what they wish they'd known earlier.
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The MD+ Podcast is an audio series featuring physician-founders, healthcare investors, and trainees navigating non-traditional paths. Hosted by Geoff Bocobo, MD. Launched June 2023; available on Spotify.
Three series
The show rotates between three formats so it stays useful at any career stage, whether you're curious, building, or already shipping.
Long-form conversations with physician-founders building healthcare companies. Where the idea came from, where it got hard, what they wish they'd known earlier.
Shorter conversations with operators, investors, and clinical leaders shaping healthcare's edge. Recent guests have included the Roon co-founders.
Interviews focused on the hard career-stage decisions: residency vs. industry, clinical vs. research, founding vs. joining. The detail most podcasts skip.
Episodes
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18 episodes

Dr. Julie Schulz
In this episode, Geoff chats with Dr. Julie Schulz (MD, MPH), Vice President of Product at Avalon Healthcare Solutions, to discuss her path from medicine and public health into product leadership. Dr. Schulz shares how physicians can help build data-driven healthcare products, and how her work at Av

Purpose in Virtual Care with Dr. Tom Milam
In this episode, Geoff chats with Tom Milam (MD, MDiv), Chief Medical Officer at Iris Telehealth, to discuss his inspiring journey from child and adolescent psychiatry to leading a national tele-behavioral health organization. Dr. Milam shares insights on scaling access to mental healthcare through

Dr. Suhina Singh
In this final “HLTH Retro,” recorded live at HLTH 2025 in Las Vegas, Geoff sits down with Dr. Suhina Singh (MD/MBA) - CEO & Co-Founder of Jonda Health - to discuss her journey from clinical medicine to building in health data infrastructure. They explore what led her to focus on fragmented, often un

Dr. Imran Khan
In this next "HLTH Retro" recorded live at HLTH 2025 in Las Vegas, Geoff sat down with Dr. Imran Khan to discuss the latest advances in Multiple Myeloma care, as well as his leadership both in the clinic and as a VP at Johnson & Johnson. Dr. Khan also spotlights a newly developed pharma medical trai

Dr. Nisha Mehta
In this episode of The MD+ Podcast recorded live at HLTH 2025 - Las Vegas, Geoff sat down with Dr. Nisha Mehta to discuss her clinical & entrepreneurial career journey, and how Physician Side Gigs has grown since. https://mdplus.community/

Dr. Raymonde Uy
In this episode, we do a flashback and revisit a discussion from ViVE 2025: Listen in, as Geoff Bocobo sits down with Dr. Raymonde Uy - the Medical Director for the National Association of Community Health Centers, where he specializes in clinical informatics innovation. _____ Huge thanks to the HL

Vikram Bhaskaran
In this episode, MD+ Co-chair Arvind Rajan and outgoing co-chair Clara Sun chat with Vikram Bhaskaran, founder and CEO of Roon. They are building a patient-first health platform to replace “Dr. Google” with clear, compassionate medical guidance. Vikram shares how his caregiving experience shaped Roo

Check out our latest episode led by our Director of Biotech, Wilson Wang! In this discussion, Dr. Craig Shimasaki shares his unconventional journey from music major to biotech CEO of Moleculera Biosciences. Discover how physicians can engage with biotechnology innovation, the impact of AI on healthc

Dr. Grover
Yet another fantastic installment of the MD+ Podcast! Come listen in for a special re-introduction to our community's goals, followed by an insights-filled chat with Dr. Grover led by our very own Archita Goyal (Dir. of Health Policy). Of note, Dr. Grover is the inaugural executive director of t

Saud Siddiqui, MD
Another great episode of The MD+ podcast! Listen in as Kylie Long, a long-time MD+ executive team member, interviews Dr. Saud Siddiqui- a key cofounder of the beloved Sketchy Medical. Tune in to learn more about Saud, and how he helped build Sketchy to what it is today. You won't want to miss this

Richard Lisi MD, MBA
Another exciting episode featuring co-chair Clara Sun and incoming Brown University anesthesia resident Richard Lisi, as he discusses his health tech pursuits. https://mdplus.community/

Yvette Zhu & Elliot Crooks
Hypercase is Case Western's student-led incubator aimed at solving healthcare challenges through inter-professional and interdisciplinary collaboration. It's an exciting time, as these incubators are propping at medical schools and universities across the country. Other notables incubators include

Dr. Manchanda
In this episode, Archita Goyal sits down with Dr. Rishi Manchanda to discuss "social medicine": how collaboration with physicians, industry, and other stakeholders can influence policy, as well as practical ways to transform health equity by working directly with communities (e.g. the power of socia

Shiv Gaglani
In this episode, our MD+ co-chair Clara Sun sits down with Shiv Gaglani - founder of the educational platform: Osmosis. https://mdplus.community/

Dr. Pham
In this episode, Archita Goyal sits down with Dr. Hoangmai Pham to discuss advocacy in the disability space, as well as targeting systems-level issues. https://mdplus.community/

Kavya Davuluri
In this episode, Luke sits down with Kavya to discuss Venture Capital and FemTech! Kavya Davuluri is an aspiring OB/Gyn and current MD/MBA Candidate at the University of Michigan. She’s passionate about DEI, MedEd, and healthcare innovation. Currently, she's a Chief of Staff Intern at Attend and pr

Dr. Kaeli Yuen
In this episode, Luke sits down with Kaeli Yuen, MD to discuss her career path in medicine, along with her roles in various digital health initiatives. Originally recorded Q1-2023 https://mdplus.community/

MD+ is a community of medical students and aspiring physician-innovators who are exploring unique career paths in fields within and adjacent to medicine, with the ultimate goal of positively transforming healthcare. In this episode, podcast co-host and former MD+ Executive Team member Geoff Bocobo
Host
Geoff has been the podcast's host since launch in June 2023. Previously Director of Medical Devices at MDplus during the org's 2021–2023 era. That brings the long view on what's changed in healthcare innovation, and a deep network of physician-builders to draw on for guests.
Most guests are members of the MDplus community. The Slack is where the follow-up questions, intros, and side-conversations actually happen.