Clinical Leadership in Health Tech - What does that really look like?

In a comprehensive dialogue between Dr. Satya Raghuvanshi, VP of Clinical at Accurx, and Dr. Abeyna Bubbers-Jones, Dr. Raghuvanshi provides deep insights into considerations and philosophies around product development, networking, and recruitment in healthcare and tech-oriented roles. How can you use your curiosity thinking and put yourself at a competitive edge when applying for jobs.

This episode blends practical advice for aspiring professionals with an insider’s view of  recruitment and team-building strategies from a leadership perspective.

 

Timestamped overview

• [00:02:27] First pediatric Hackathon sparked interest in healthcare.
• [00:06:00] Appreciating product thinking, clinical experience, collaboration.
• [00:10:19] Growing clinical team, emphasizing empathy for healthcare.
• [00:14:44] Speak to people, understand how they think.
• [00:16:06] Left pediatric training early for health tech.
• [00:20:03] Doctors need curiosity and connection for leadership.
• [00:23:36] Hiring for potential, flexible thinking & collaboration.
• [00:28:52] Equal vote in lunch, standardized interviews, assessing leadership.
• [00:30:14] "360 view of a person is difficult"

Standout Quotes:

Working in Health Tech: "Whilst I love pediatrics, love clinical medicine, definitely wanted to use my brain in a different way to solve very unbound and often complex challenges in healthcare end to end using technology."

— Satya Raghuvanshi  [00:03:59 → 00:04:13]

 

The Importance of Product Thinking and Collaboration: "One was a really deep appreciation of product thinking and how you translate your clinical experience and your clinical background into product development...also just the ability to collaborate...can you work effectively with engineers, can you work effectively with product managers to deliver an end to end solution?"

— Satya Raghuvanshi  [00:06:02 → 00:06:13]

 

Product Development in Healthcare: "Good products should solve a problem."

— Satya Raghuvanshi  [00:15:44 → 00:15:45]

 

Upskilling and Entrepreneurial Spirit: "I think there's quite a lot of activity based things. So hackathons, fellowships, courses that you can do that helps upskill you and lots of those are subsidized or accessible on online forums, et cetera. So you'll get lots of different opportunities there to be able to generally upskill. I think there's something to be said for that kind of almost entrepreneurial spirit in the sense of solving problem within your existing care setting."

— Satya Raghuvanshi  [00:21:41 → 00:22:46]

 

Hiring based on Potential and Flexibility: "So we also don't hire for skills. We hire things like we're not expecting anyone to have done product development who have come from a health tech company. We're looking for people who show potential. And by potential, I mean can you think flexibly around a problem? Can you have fixed ideas? But actually, are you open to those fixed ideas being challenged when you're given more contextual information or something that maybe doesn't quite fit with the answer you didn't?"

— Satya Raghuvanshi  [00:23:41 → 00:24:10]

 

Cultural Fit in an Organization: "One of the big red flags for me is when somebody's really derogatory if they work in primary care and they're derogatory about their secondary colleagues or that's actually anticipated to the mission what we're trying to achieve. And if you come in with that opinion, but you're also not willing to say, hey, this problem and this is something I want to solve or get to make better. That will be a bit of a red flag to me."

— Satya Raghuvanshi  [00:25:58 → 00:26:17]

 

Importance of Team Dynamics: "So we always invite people to come and have lunch with the team because they have an equal vote in whether or not that person joins. And so that, I think is quite important because something that I found is where you have that imbalance actually ends up causing so much disruption down the line."

— Satya Raghuvanshi  [00:28:52 → 00:29:08]

 

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ABOUT THE HOST

Dr Abeyna Bubbers-Jones is a practising medical doctor and Founder of Medic Footprints: the global platform connecting doctors with diverse career opportunities beyond conventional medicine.

Her mission is to dramatically elevate health outcomes in the world by connecting 1 million doctors with diverse careers by 2030.

Continually exploring her own path off the medical treadmill, she has developed a wealth of expertise in specialist recruitment connecting industry & health tech companies with talented doctors, whilst supporting & coaching doctors in their own career development and wellbeing.

She is an award-winning entrepreneur, Consultant Occupational Health Physician, BBC Expert Voice, Public Speaker, Musician and not-so-good boulderer!