Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general.

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In this episode, Adam shares his long and winding road from investment banking at Golden Sacks

to medical school at UPenn and then to joining the MD MBA program at Wharton.

Learn why he ended up in McKinsey doing strategy

consulting after one year of residency and listen to the end for one big warning as you set out

to map your career. Adam, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Sure, happy to be here.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Yep.

So I'm a healthcare venture capital investor at Avinity Health Capital.

We invest in late stage med tech, so med device,

diagnostics, and some digital health. I'm a physician by training, and I guess, you know,

just starting from college, I was an economics major, so I guess you could say I came back

full circle to the business world. After college, I was an economics major, so I guess you could say I came back full circle

to the business world.

After college, worked on Wall Street briefly,

and then decided I wanted to go to medical school

and did all the things you have to do

to get into medical school, ended up pursuing

a joint MD MBA, doing a bit of residency in emergency medicine, but I sort of

never lost that interest in the business side of things and healthcare systems and ended up

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