When Every Minute Is Critical: Scaling AI to Save Stroke Patients
Release Date: 05/06/2026
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When Every Minute Is Critical: Scaling AI to Save Stroke Patients
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What if frontline clinicians everywhere had instant access to expert-level stroke imaging — no matter where a patient arrives? In this episode of Med Tech Gurus, we’re joined by Michalis Papadakis, CEO and Co-Founder of Brainomix, an Oxford University spin-out using AI to transform how stroke is diagnosed and treated. With a background in neuroscience from Imperial College London, UCL, and the University of Oxford, Michalis built Brainomix with a singular mission: ensure patients don’t miss out on life-saving stroke treatments due to delays or lack of imaging expertise. Under his...
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From Signal to Scale: Turning MedTech Data into Growth
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Why do so many great MedTech products stall after launch — even when the data is there? In this episode of Med Tech Gurus, we’re joined by Amy Brouhle, Vice President of Strategic Business Development at S2N Health. A former emergency department nurse turned commercialization leader, Amy brings more than 20 years of experience spanning clinical care, GPO strategy, national accounts, and MedTech growth. Her career includes senior roles at Vizient, Hillrom, and GE Healthcare, giving her a rare, end-to-end view of how innovation actually gets adopted — or stuck. At S2N Health, Amy helps...
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From Acute Care to Continuous Care
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Why has healthcare resisted digital transformation longer than almost any other industry? In this episode of Med Tech Gurus, we’re joined by Mariano García-Valiño, four-time entrepreneur, digital health innovator, and CEO of AXENYA—recently named one of the world’s best digital health companies by Newsweek. Mariano has built, scaled, and exited billion-dollar healthcare companies by combining technology, data, and human-centered design to tackle chronic disease at scale. Mariano is also the author of Inedible, where he argues that modern healthcare is still built for acute illness, not...
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Beating the Clock: Rethinking Brain Tumor Care
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Stickers That Can Save Lives: The Future of MicroWearable Health Monitoring
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What happens when rocket-science precision meets frontline healthcare? In this episode of Med Tech Gurus, we sit down with Professor Mark Kendall, Founder & CEO of WearOptimo and one of the world’s most visionary biomedical innovators. A former rocket scientist turned medtech pioneer, Mark has already transformed vaccine delivery with groundbreaking platforms like PowderJet and Vaxxas. Now, he’s doing it again — this time with a revolutionary micro-wearable sensor designed to pull high-fidelity biosignals directly from the skin without painful needles or invasive...
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From Data to Decisions: Powering Growth in MedTech
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Why Patients Are Losing Trust in Healthcare | The MAHA Signal Explained
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The Future of Stroke Care Starts Here
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In this episode of Med Tech Gurus, we sit down with Dr. Adam S. Arthur, Chief Medical Officer for Medtronic’s Neurovascular business — and one of the most influential voices in modern stroke care. With more than 20 years as a practicing neurosurgeon, clinical researcher, and academic leader, Dr. Arthur has helped redefine standards of care for ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, carotid disease, and neurovascular innovation worldwide. Now at Medtronic, he’s leading the charge to translate real-world clinical insight into breakthrough devices that scale — from next-generation...
info_outlineWhat if frontline clinicians everywhere had instant access to expert-level stroke imaging — no matter where a patient arrives?
In this episode of Med Tech Gurus, we’re joined by Michalis Papadakis, CEO and Co-Founder of Brainomix, an Oxford University spin-out using AI to transform how stroke is diagnosed and treated. With a background in neuroscience from Imperial College London, UCL, and the University of Oxford, Michalis built Brainomix with a singular mission: ensure patients don’t miss out on life-saving stroke treatments due to delays or lack of imaging expertise.
Under his leadership, Brainomix developed Brainomix 360 Stroke, the world’s first fully automated AI imaging suite for stroke care — now deployed in more than 30 countries, backed by 50+ clinical publications, and processing patient scans in minutes with results delivered in under sixty seconds. In this conversation, we explore how starting with a true clinical unmet need, relentless evidence generation, and seamless workflow integration enabled Brainomix to scale globally and materially improve patient outcomes.
If you care about AI in healthcare, stroke innovation, clinical adoption, or scaling medtech from academia to enterprise, this is a blueprint worth hearing.