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Finding Genius Podcast

Reframing Cardiovascular Health | How To Take Action Against Hypertension

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we connect with Dr. Jay Shah, the Chief Medical Officer at Aktiia. As a cardiologist by training and practice, Dr. Shah has developed extensive experience within the medical field – with expertise lying in the academic, clinical, and teaching environments. 

After more than 10 years as a practicing medical professional, Dr. Shah was ready for something new. He was ready to impact more patients using his clinical experience in a different way. This is where Aktiia came into the picture…

Aktiia is a revolutionary company that is on a mission to empower both patients and providers to improve the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of hypertension. This is a condition that affects nearly half of the American adult population, and more than 1 billion people worldwide. 

Join us now to learn about:

  • What Aktiia is, and why it was founded.
  • The biggest problems in blood pressure management. 
  • The importance of monitoring your blood pressure, and why people tend to neglect doing it regularly. 
  • What "stable blood pressure" is. 

Want to learn more about Dr. Shah and his work with Aktiia? Click here now!

Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9C

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm a cardiologist by training in practice.

0:02.1

I did my medicine training at Massachusetts General Hospital and I did my cardiology fellowship

0:08.3

at Washington University in St. Louis, which is a great clinical, you know, and academic

0:12.7

powerhouse.

0:13.7

And then I went out to Portland, Oregon for my first job and did something quite different

0:17.2

and I started my own practice from scratch, which isn't done much these days.

0:20.7

I built a practice essentially from nothing and to a very busy, big clinical practice in

0:25.4

Metropolitan Portland.

0:26.8

And after I did that for seven years, I had an opportunity to go to the Mayo Clinic

0:30.7

and so I've been there for the last three years as the director of thoracic erotic aneurysms

0:34.9

in the Arizona practice and started and sort of built their, you know, referral center

0:39.2

for erotic aneurysms.

0:40.8

And then, two years ago, I started looking to do something different, you know, I've

0:44.0

been in practice for over 10 years, doing very well, it's really pretty good at it.

0:49.2

But in some sense, it became sort of routine.

0:52.4

Forget frequently asked questions.

0:54.2

Common sense, common knowledge or Google.

0:56.8

How about advice from a real genius?

0:58.8

95% of people in any profession are good enough to be qualified in license.

1:03.3

5%?

1:04.3

Go above and beyond.

1:05.3

They become very good at what they do, but only 0.1% are real geniuses.

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