ViTAL Chats

Learn about Dr. Laurie Kramer, a professor at the Applied Psychology department of Northeastern University, and former director of the University Honors Program. She will be speaking about her road to academia, her enterprising endeavors, and advice for undergrads pursuing research.

On this episode of ViTAL Chats, we are speaking with Sia Shah, the events coordinator of Rural Health Initiatives (RHI) at Northeastern. Sia shares with us some of the key factors that limit access to care for rural populations, what RHI is doing to combat this, and what listeners can do to help.

In this episode of ViTAL Chats, we interviewed Kim Valente, the CFO of Strong Minds, a non-profit dedicated to revolutionizing mental health in Africa. Strong Minds offers cost-free group therapy to underprivileged women and young individuals in Uganda, Zambia, and Kenya. Since 2013, they’ve helped 230,000 individuals combat depression. Our discussion today hopes to shed light on non-profit careers and strategies to tackle the global mental health crisis.

The Husky Health Innovation Challenge (HHIC) was founded by ViTAL in 2018 as the first healthcare-focused case competition for undergraduates in the Greater Boston Area. In teams of three to four, participants propose innovative digital health solutions to a salient issue in healthcare identified as the case topic.

Leading up to the 2023 competition, we invited last year's winners, Alana Caluwe, Virali Patel, Sanjita Bhattacharya, and Adam Kwoh to share their experience. Tune into this episode of ViTAL Chats to learn about the Spring 2022 HHIC case, the team's process of curating their solution, and the advice they have for this year's participants.

In this episode of ViTAL Chats, we interviewed Brett Miller, a Northeastern alumni and the founder of 110 Fitness - the largest wellness center in the world for people with Parkinson's disease. Brett is a researcher, a licensed physical therapist, and the Head Coach of Rock Steady Boxing South Shore. He shares insight into the physical therapy industry and the journey to founding a business.

In this episode, we interviewed Thanh Doan, an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University. Thanh has had various experiences working on research projects, including one on Hepatitis B Screening in the Asian American population at Stanford Care. He shares this experience, and elaborates on other projects he had been involved in, how to get started, and how to balance research with coursework and social life. 

WELT Corporation is a leader in digital therapeutics and a valuable partner of ViTAL Ventures Consulting. In this episode of ViTAL Chats, we interviewed Danny Kim - the Chief of Staff at WELT and a founder of ViTAL - who shares about his journey from ViTAL to WELT, and his insight into the industry and WELT's contributions in it.

In this episode of ViTAL Chats, we invite Dr. Eliot Heher, a transplant nephrologist and founder and CEO of Square Knot Health, to discuss the ethical and technical challenges of transplantation, and the promising possibilities that xenotransplantation brings to the field.  

In this episode of ViTAL Chats, we invite Northeastern Professor Allison Bauer to speak on the history of pandemics and its possible impact on improving public health outcomes. 

In today's episode of ViTAL Chats, we discuss telemedicine and some of its preventative care uses in wearable technologies with Dr. Stephen Intille.

For our first episode of the year, we're featuring Aditya Raj, an alumni of ViTAL, to talk about his experiences with ViTAL and what he's been up to since!

This episode will discuss the current trend in anti-Asian hate crimes and existing health disparities among Asian-American population. We hope that after listening to this podcast, you will be able to describe hate crime acts toward the Asian community and summarize the longstanding health inequity in the system that the Asian-Americans are facing.

As one of the last episodes of this semester, we want to introduce you to Linh Dang, our co-director of the Venture Consulting team at ViTAL. She’s graduating this year and was awarded with Huntington 100 for her outstanding achievements and activities on campus and globally.

Last March, we collaborated with NuImpact to bring in Thomas Torre, the co-founder and CEO of BendFinanacial and Shankha Basu, the co-founder and COO of Medxoom for the Intersection of Fintech and Healthtech event. This episode will capture the conversation of the two speakers and give you insights of how these sectors can align with each other.

For this academic year, ViTAL will be centering the speaker events around digital health. This episode is a special collaboration with Peer Health Exchange. We will together discuss how technology can improve health literacy in patients. 

Welcome back to ViTAL Chats. This episode will kick off the new semester by discussing the opportunities that COVID-19 brings.  

For this academic year, ViTAL will be centering the speaker events around digital health. This episode will conclude the Digital Health series by discussing the role of Data Analytics in Healthcare. 

For this academic year, ViTAL will be centering the speaker events around digital health. This episode will discuss how digital therapeutics and technology can improve care for patients’ mental health. 

For this academic year, ViTAL will be centering the speaker events around digital health. This episode will discuss how wearable technology has influenced healthcare and share the speakers' inputs in the Digital Health Speaker Event in late September.

In the last episode of the E-board members highlight series, we would like to introduce you to Shibangi. She was the Executive Director of Vital from 2019-2020 and currently serves as the advisor of the club. She will talk about her school/ work experiences, and her journeys to ViTAL. 

In the next episode in the E-board Highlight podcast series, we'd like to introduce you to Nirban Bhatia, the Director of Venture team. He will talk about his school, work, podcast, and ViTAL journeys. 

To continue the E-board members highlight series, we would like to introduce you to Elisa, the Director of the Special Events team. She will share her school, co-op, and ViTAL experience in this episode. 

To kick-off a new semester, we would like to introduce you to our E-board members highlight series where the members will share their experiences about school, co-ops, and ViTAL. The first guest for today’s podcast is Heenal, the Director of Operations at ViTAL.

In this episode, we want to address the Black Health Matters movement and recap the Healthcare disparities webinar we held in late June.