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Scaling Access to Healthcare: The Future of AI and Wearables with Dr. Trishan Panch

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Sports, Sleep, Optimize Performance, Wearable, Fitness, Science, Health, Life Sciences, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Data, Hrv, Whoop, Strain

4.6734 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this month’s episode of the WHOOP Podcast Longevity Series, Emily Capodilupo sits down with physician, entrepreneur, and AI educator Dr. Trishan Panch to explore what artificial intelligence actually means for the future of medicine. From ICU algorithms to everyday primary care, Emily and Dr. Panch unpack why the healthcare system is structurally built for acute rescue rather than prevention and how AI, wearables, and continuous monitoring could fundamentally shift that model. Dr. Panch pr...

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0:00.0

You even need doctors. What determines your health is what is going on for the other 364.5 days

0:05.9

of the year that you're not anywhere near a doctor. Could it all just be done with wearables?

0:10.4

If you look at improving people's health, there is a big need to look at optimizing a health state over time by monitoring data on more of a week-to-week month-to-month basis.

0:19.9

But it's impossible to answer these questions without at least some first principles

0:23.3

understanding of modern AI algorithms.

0:25.9

Can this just be done with wearables and AI, or is there still a role for doctors?

0:30.1

So what I would argue is...

0:33.1

Hi, everybody. I'm Emily Capitaluppo, Woop Senior Vice President of Research Algorithms and Data,

0:38.6

and today I am joined by Dr. Trishan Ponsh. Thank you so much for being here.

0:43.9

Dr. Trishon is a physician entrepreneur. He has a very cool mix of background. He's an MD,

0:50.3

but he's recently really embraced all things AI and become a very fascinating entrepreneur.

0:56.2

So he is CEO of Lunar Studio.

0:59.3

He's executive chair and chief science officer of Lumen Health.

1:02.4

And he's co-founder of Wellframe.

1:04.3

And he brings this very cool experience bringing technology for high-risk populations

1:08.7

and merging that with all of his clinical expertise.

1:12.4

So Trishan, thank you so much for being here. Thanks for the introduction. Thanks having me.

1:15.4

Why don't we just start with the sort of easy basics. Tell me about this intersection of AI and

1:21.2

your clinical. Yeah, fair enough. It's good. It's a very topical question, of course. I'm sure

1:26.0

lots of your listeners are kind of thinking about this.

1:28.4

I mean, most tangibly, what I'm working on at the moment is we run a course at Harvard School of Public Health.

1:34.7

And it started off actually when I was kind of more on the software side myself.

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