April 14, 2023

Med Tech Talks Ep. 74: Dr. Morad Hameed Pt. 2

Med Tech Talks Ep. 74: Dr. Morad Hameed Pt. 2

A robust health-system inspired from of a mountain of paper records. That is basically a condensed definition of how T6 Health Systems came into existence.    On part 2 of our conversation with Morad Hameed, we delve deeper into his professional life...

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A robust health-system inspired from of a mountain of paper records. That is basically a condensed definition of how T6 Health Systems came into existence.
    
On part 2 of our conversation with Morad Hameed, we delve deeper into his professional life, as Geoffrey Ching chats more about T6 Health Systems, a boisterous health system, built exclusively for trauma patients. The inspiration, the stories, the failures, the successes; we get to know about them all.

 

Timestamps:

24:16-25:25 - So what is T6 Health Systems? Morad gives us a 30-second explainer.

25:26-30:24 - The intersection between injury and geography, and how that took Morad’s research to South Africa.

30:24-32:01 - The origin story of T6, courtesy of a mountain of paper records in South Africa.

32:02-34:39 - The impact of T6’s enormous data collection on the trauma patients.

34:40-39:39 - Playing the balancing act between trauma surgery, teaching, and building a business from scratch.

39:40-42:36 - The most cliched, yet the most important takeaway - Learning from your failures; be it surgery or business.

42:37-44:32 - Morad’s definition of success, in the context of T6.

44:33-47:03 - The cross-applicability of Morad’s experience as a trauma surgeon and his work in public health, in working at T6.