The One About Technology & Our Health with Apple VP of Health Dr. Sumbul Desai
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Joining me in Apple Park is Apple’s VP of Health, Dr. Sumbul Desai. We learn how she merged the worlds of health, science and technology into her career from lived experiences and her own mother’s stroke that led her to pursue medicine. Now into an evolving role in changing (and saving) lives with common technology devices, we discuss some of the core ways we can utilize technology to benefit our health, including preventative care, and the importance of taking care of us. Paying attention, taking notes, not letting the little things just slide.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.8 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostis, Sarah Nicole. |
| 0:13.4 | And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:20.8 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, |
| 0:23.8 | get real, because we are all in this digital space together. |
| 0:34.9 | Alrighty, everyone, welcome back. I am sitting in Apple Park right now at the Apple Event |
| 0:39.5 | 2023, and I have an absolute dream guest. And I don't know if you know how long we have |
| 0:45.9 | been hoping this would come together. So I'm so excited to welcome Dr. Sumbull Desai, who is the VP |
| 0:52.5 | of Health at Apple. Welcome to the show. Thank you. And that is so |
| 0:56.5 | kind. I really appreciate it. And thanks for having me. I think there is so many layers to all of this, |
| 1:02.1 | but I want to just, first of all, I will get into this a little bit later, but Apple Health has |
| 1:07.0 | changed my life recently. And I want to share that with you a little bit. But I would like to hear first how you got into this position. |
| 1:14.5 | And what exactly do you do here? |
| 1:17.2 | Such a good question. |
| 1:18.7 | Maybe I'll take the first part of the question first, how I got here. |
| 1:21.5 | So I started my life off in career in computer science. |
| 1:31.1 | And never, I grew up of Indian Indian descent my parents my father in particular always wanted me to be a physician and I was a pretty rebellious teenager |
| 1:36.6 | so I decided I wasn't going to do that and so I ended up going into the very daring world of |
| 1:42.9 | computer science and media and so I you, you know, went to undergrad, |
| 1:47.6 | had actually interned with some media companies. And then later on in life, in about 2001, |
| 1:53.8 | my mother had a massive stroke. And that's kind of where I first got exposed to health care |
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