Innovation signals are everywhere, but what matters are those that move from laboratory potential to measurable clinical impact.

Joining the conversation are Jim Pollock and Tom Meese from LumenAstra, demonstrating how clinical insight, technical capability, and strategic execution bridge the gap between healthcare innovation and patient outcomes. The discussion explores how their innovative work in developing non-invasive internal body temperature measurement technology will transform the future of AI development, enhance predictive models, and drive the creation of new clinical applications, all while leveraging the interdisciplinary nature of healthcare technology.

This isn't promotional & theoretical. Just the evidence of what happens when we measure the right interventions and act on them wisely.

What You Will Discover:

- Introduction to Lumen Astra & Its Mission

- Innovative temperature measurement technology

- Why has technology only emerged now

- How real-time brain temperature improves clinical decisions

- Dr. Kalia's compassion fatigue story in Neuro-ICU

- Building through customer discovery over assumptions

- Closing: AI, evidence, and future

Connect with us:

Dr. Junaid Kalia, Neurocritical Care Specialist and Founder of Savelife.AI™

💼LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/junaidkaliamd

🔗Website - https://www.junaidkalia.com/

📹YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@junaidkaliamd

Dr. Harvey Castro, ER Physician, #DrGPT™

💼LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/harveycastromd/

🔗Website - https://www.harveycastromd.com/

📷Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/harveycastromd/?hl=en

Edward Marx, CEO, Advisor

💼LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardmarx/

🔗Website - https://www.marxadvisory.com/

📹YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@EdwardMarx

Connect With Our Guests:

Jim Pollock - Co-founder, LumenAstra

💼LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jipollock/

Tom Meese - Co-founder, LumenAstra

💼LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-meese-615ab35/

For clinical collaboration or investment inquiries

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🔗- https://www.lumenastra.io/

Visit our website:

https://signalandsymptoms.com/

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What if the biggest barrier to better cancer care isn't technology—it's how physicians approach treatment with ego?



In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Talia Baker, a transplant surgeon who walked away from clinical practice to solve a problem she witnessed firsthand: the liver cancer patient journey is fundamentally broken.

Dr. Baker introduces the Lori MDT project, a vision for reshaping how patients navigate fragmented cancer care. But the real conversation goes deeper—into the uncomfortable truths about institutional incentives, the care gaps between diagnosis and treatment, and why even the best academic centers are limited by their own biases. Her core argument: fragmented cancer care demands interdisciplinary collaboration and technology-driven process re-engineering. The era of incremental improvements is over. The future belongs to integrated services that cut across specialties—not siloed excellence in labs or imaging alone.

What You Will Discover:

- How the system's fragmentation and silos fail patients today

- Why 75% of cancer patients don't get multidisciplinary care

- The hardest problem: physician hubris, not technology implementation

- The wisest surgical lesson—knowing when not to operate

- Why we lost sight of focusing too much on product quality over service integration

- Building mosaics of superpowers before digital twins take over

This isn't about replacing clinicians with AI—it's about collaboration across clinicians, technologists, patients, and systems to augment what we can do together.

Referenced in the show:

🖇️ "OpenTSLM: Time-Series Language Models for Reasoning over Multivariate Medical Text- and Time-Series Data" – https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02410

🖇️ “Artificial intelligence should genuinely support clinical reasoning and decision making to bridge the translational gap ” – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-025-01725-9

🖇️Chain-of-Influence: Tracing Interdependencies Across Time and Features in Clinical Predictive Modelings – https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09895

🖇️“Large language models forecast patient health trajectories enabling digital twins” –

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-025-02004-3

Connect with us:

Dr. Junaid Kalia, Neurocritical Care Specialist and Founder of Savelife.AI™

💼LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/junaidkaliamd

🔗Website - https://www.junaidkalia.com/

📹YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@junaidkaliamd

Dr. Harvey Castro, ER Physician, #DrGPT™

💼LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/harveycastromd/

🔗Website - https://www.harveycastromd.com/

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What if we're running a sick care system pretending to be healthcare? AI promises to change that by improving access for patients and reducing burden for providers, but only if we have leaders who know how to guide the transformation. The challenge: healthcare offers no structured pathway for developing these leaders.

Joining today's expert panel: Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA, President & CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs, and Muhammad Siddiqui, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Reid Health. Together, they reveal why this leadership gap exists across four levels (personal, organizational, systemic, and societal) and what's actually working on the front lines.

The conversation moves beyond theory into practical realities: why the traditional triple threat model (clinician-researcher-educator) must evolve into something new, how real implementation success shows up in physician quality of life before ROI spreadsheets, and why sustainable AI adoption ultimately requires changing the rules that shape our current healthcare system. The missing piece isn't just technology. It's a culture of continuous learning that prepares physicians to bridge clinical expertise, technological fluency, and entrepreneurial thinking.

What You Will Discover:

- Introduction & Episode Overview

- The Four Barriers to AI Adoption

- Why Physicians Aren't Becoming Tech Entrepreneurs

- The New Triple Threat in Medical Career

- Building AI IQ of Healthcare Through Education

- The Leadership Development Gap

- Bridging Clinical Innovation and Business Value

- The Complexity of Healthcare Sales

- Actionable Advice for Healthcare Leaders

- Reframing the Problem: Changing the Rules

Referenced in the show:

🖇️ "There is no Chief Healthcare AI Officer School" – https://arlenmeyersmdmba.substack.com/p/there-is-no-chief-healthcare-ai-officer

📚 Digital Health Entrepreneurship (Health Informatics) by Arlen Meyers - https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Health-Entrepreneurship-Informatics-dp-3031339010/dp/3031339010/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

Connect with us:

Dr. Junaid Kalia, Neurocritical Care Specialist and Founder of Savelife.AI™

💼LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/junaidkaliamd

🔗Website - https://www.junaidkalia.com/

📹YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@junaidkaliamd

Dr. Harvey Castro, ER Physician, #DrGPT™

💼LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/harveycastromd/

🔗Website - https://www.harveycastromd.com/

📷Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/harveycastromd/?hl=en

Edward Marx, CEO, Advisor

💼LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardmarx/

🔗Website -