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Aleksandr Zverinskiy and the Discipline of the Missing Mile
The Tampa psychiatrist has spent his career moving between the exam room and the operating map - building a practice around the stubborn distance between available care and the people meant to receive it.
Mikayel Abramyan Built His Career in a Twelve-Mile Circle
He grew up in Hollywood, left California to become a doctor, then returned to practice close to home. Two decades later, Mikayel Abramyan is extending that neighborhood career into a founder's experiment in practical family wellness.
Justin Barad Took the Long Way Back to Video Games
He left game development to learn medicine from the inside. A decade of training later, Justin Barad returned with a stranger he met online, savings from his bar mitzvah, and an operating room that could fit inside a headset.
Anna Flattau Is Making Primary Care Big Enough to Stay Personal
Her career has been an experiment in a difficult form of growth: making care reach more people without letting the relationship at its center disappear.
Sanjiv Lakhanpal Saw a Blind Spot. Then He Built 130 Clinics Around It.
A surgeon trained in India and the United States turned an overlooked corner of medicine into a national outpatient network. His playbook is equal parts specialization, repetition, physician leadership, and an insistence that the patient remains the core stakeholder.
Deborah Mabin Built a Career Where Medicine Meets the Map
From diagnostic radiology in The Pas to health-system leadership across Manitoba, Deborah Mabin's public record is a study in the quiet work of making institutions hold together.
Bozidar Jovicevic
Bozidar Jovicevic is the CEO and co-founder of Evermed, a New York startup that lets medical societies and healthcare organizations launch a Netflix-style, on-demand video library in about 90 days. A medical doctor and FIDE chess master who spent 17 years running global digital initiatives at Novartis and Sanofi, he now builds technology that turns conference recordings and expert lectures into searchable, monetizable continuing-education libraries for physicians. He also hosts the Pharma Launch Secrets and Digital Innovators Circle podcasts.
Yermie Cohen
Yermie Cohen is the founder and CEO of Memorang, an AI stack for education that lets organizations build, launch, and scale custom learning and assessment content. A med student who arrived at UCLA from MIT with biology and mechanical-engineering degrees, he was buried in flashcards and frustrated by tools that were either too simple or too expensive, so he built his own. Memorang began as a free spaced-repetition study app in 2013 and has since become a platform pitched at publishers, institutions, and professional organizations who want to turn expertise into AI-driven courses, quizzes, and exams with humans kept in the loop.
Amin Nikoozadeh
Amin Nikoozadeh is the founder and CEO of Vave Health, a San Jose company building affordable, wireless handheld ultrasound. A Stanford-trained electrical engineer who spent years shrinking an entire imaging system onto the tip of a 3mm catheter, he started Vave in 2015 after confronting a stark fact: roughly two-thirds of the world's population has no access to medical imaging. The company's pocket-sized probe earned FDA 510(k) clearance in 2019 and now powers millions of scans across hospitals, medical schools, and underserved clinics.
Roman Giverts
Roman Giverts is the CEO and founder of VuMedi, the largest video education network for healthcare professionals, which he built from his UC Berkeley college apartment after watching his girlfriend's father — an orthopedic surgeon — prep for surgery by watching technique DVDs. Founded in 2008, VuMedi has grown to serve 600,000+ healthcare professionals across 25+ medical specialties, with a library of 100,000+ videos from institutions like the Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic. In May 2025, VuMedi raised an $80M Series B, bringing total funding to $82.1M, with annual revenue of $45.5M and 260+ employees across Oakland, Minneapolis, and Zagreb, Croatia.
Hal Paz
Hal Paz (Harold L. Paz, M.D., M.S.) is an Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he focuses on digital healthcare innovation and AI-driven health solutions. A physician-scientist and seasoned health system CEO, he has led multi-billion-dollar enterprises at CVS Health/Aetna, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Penn State Health, and Stony Brook University Medicine. He has served as a medical school dean twice over - first at Robert Wood Johnson, then at Penn State - and has authored over 100 papers on sepsis, ARDS, and medical devices. Now at one of Silicon Valley's most ambitious venture firms, he bridges the worlds of clinical medicine and frontier technology, helping founders navigate the notoriously complex terrain of American healthcare.