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Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast

Episode 173: Innovation In The Time of Covid: The MasksOn.org story with Drs. Sanjay Vakil, Jackie Boehme and Alex Stone

Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast

Jed Wolpaw

Health & Fitness

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I welcome Sanjay Vakil, Jackie Boehme and Alex Stone to the show. Jackie and Alex are two of the co-founders of MasksOn.org and Sanjay is the Executive Director. We discuss the story of their company that provides free masks to healthcare workers and how people can go about innovating to help others … Continue reading "Episode 173: Innovation In The Time of Covid: The MasksOn.org story with Drs. Sanjay Vakil, Jackie Boehme and Alex Stone" Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:19.9

I'm Jed Wolthaw and we've got a really fun a show for you today. I'm thrilled to welcome three guests to the show and they're going to talk about the idea that they had, how it actually became a company that's currently helping people during this COVID crisis.

0:33.4

And I think it'll be really interesting for folks out there

0:36.3

who may want to get some PPE,

0:39.2

and then also for folks who are interested

0:41.8

in thinking about developing their own idea.

0:43.6

So I have with me Dr. Sanjay Vakeel, he's a PhD product manager at Google and really a little

0:51.1

bit of a slacker because he only earned three degrees at MIT

0:54.8

including a PhD in aerospace engineering and he's also done a lot of other

0:59.5

interesting stuff and work for some other companies as well. I've also got with me two resident anesthesiologists.

1:06.0

The first is Dr. Jackie Boem, who's a C.A.3 resident at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

1:12.0

She was also a med student at Harvard. at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

1:12.6

She was also a med student at Harvard

1:14.7

and got her MD there, and she'll be doing an ICU

1:17.4

fellowship next year in Florida.

1:19.1

And finally, Dr. Alex Stone, who I knew well

1:22.0

when he was a medical student here at Johns Hopkins.

1:24.5

He's now a C.A.2 resident also at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

1:27.9

He is someone who actually designed the first ever ACRAC logo and though we've moved on to a new logo,

1:35.6

we certainly always remember Alex is one of the initial contributors to ACRAC.

1:40.0

So the three, Sandra is the executive director and Jack and Alex are two of the three co-founders along with

1:46.3

Eugene Man who couldn't join us today of a company called Maskson.org and obviously

1:51.6

that is also the website. So why don't you guys tell me a little bit about how what is masks on

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