Making a Difference for Heart Attack Patients: Matthew Shields Fine Tunes Stent Accessibility
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
After Matt Shields experienced a heart attack during his daily run in 2016, he decided to change the world as much as that morning changed him. This podcast explores his inspiring effort to improve the process of stent manufacturing and deliverability.
Listeners will hear
- How he experienced a heart attack at age 40 despite years participating in performance sports like running and cycling exercise,
- Why he turned to collecting data about stent manufacturing after getting one of his own implanted, and
- What his new software tracking stent usage hopes to accomplish for the industry.
Matthew Shields works for CSRIO, Australia's national research science agency. He'd spent years supporting telescope systems by creating an efficient tracking system for telescope parts. But after his heart attack in 2016 during a winter morning run, he recalibrated his job focus toward making a difference for patients and doctors working on heart health.
His long recovery gave him time to think, and this combined with the realization of the importance of the timing of the stent implant he received helped point to this new path. He understood that to make a difference on a global scale, he could energize and streamline the stent manufacturing process, which was filled with missing links and inefficient trends.
His software tracks stents through the supply chain and utilizes metrics like delivery time from the factory, where parts are made, and how the supply chain of raw materials functions. As they "cascade down this waterfall," he says that by the time they end up in Australia, the stents might have been damaged and there's no way to really return them or even trace their origin.
From his personal experience, he knows how important a stent's availability is and how vital is it is for various stakeholders to be aware of correct supply location and amount. By creating a dialog around the parts transfer at a granular level as well as the deliveries, he hopes to correct inconsistences, inefficiencies, and redundancies. In addition to this work, he is involved in exercise and sports cardiology, reaching out to those who are both heart patients and sports enthusiasts.
For more about his sports cardiology work, see his website: epichearts.com.au. For more about the software he's working on, see the CSRIO web page.
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| 0:30.4 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | Today I have Matt Shields. |
| 0:43.0 | He created a company called Epic Hearts. |
| 0:46.0 | It's a platform to showcase the return to participation in performance sports after a heart attack. |
| 0:51.0 | And Matt grew up exploring the outdoors and developing a passion for riding you know bicycles |
| 0:56.3 | He actually reached high performance levels in road cycling competing in Europe but age 40 he suffered a major heart attack when he was starting to go for a bike ride or a run. |
| 1:08.0 | Matt's going to talk about his personal story and his connection to heart research Australia, |
| 1:12.0 | from a heart attack to cycling 433 kilometers across |
| 1:15.9 | New Zealand. Amazing. Heart research, technology, and sheer determination. Matt has now created an amazing system whereby he helps people that have art conditions. |
| 1:27.6 | So we're going to talk about that and go through his history and welcome Matt. |
| 1:32.1 | My software, which is called MyLM. I'm the founder and CEO of MyLM and that software is used to track products like stintents in the medical supply chain. |
| 1:43.7 | So that's the kind of the thing that came out of my journey. |
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