Innovators at the Crossroads of Healthcare and Business with Dr. Alex Youssef and Dr. Shad Faraz of Sky Therapeutics

AMBOSS: Beyond the Textbook

In this episode, Dr. Tanner Schrank and Sophie Neale sit down with the medical doctors and cofounders of Sky Therapeutics. During the discussion, they explore the rewarding, yet challenging, field of healthcare entrepreneurship, its challenges, and its rewards. Dr. Alex Youssef and Dr. Shad Faraz also detail their unorthodox journeys through medical school to business school to starting their own company. Listeners will gain valuable insights on how healthcare startups are started, what it's like to leave clinical medicine for the board room, and very fruitful advice for medical students around the globe.
Read More:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahdabul-faraz-md-641380161/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexyoussef/
https://potbppodcast.com/
https://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/Pages/2022-2023-blavatnik-fellows.aspx
https://www.hbs.edu/mba/blog/post/physicians-off-the-beaten-path
AMBOSS Question: https://next.amboss.com/us/shared/questions/XUbz9bGrV/4
Book rec: “The Patient Will See You Now” by Eric Topol from 2014: https://drerictopol.com/portfolio/the-patient-will-see-you-now/
Fun fact: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1923/
https://diabetes.org/blog/history-wonderful-thing-we-call-insulin

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