Ep 072 - PICU (and Entrepreneurship) with Dr. Arup Roy-Burman

This is another exciting conversation with a physician who is
following a non-traditional career path!


Dr. Arup Roy-Burman


Dr. Roy-Burman is a pediatric intensivist (aka pediatric critical
care specialist) and former Medical Director of the Pediatric
Intensive Care Unit at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. Dr.
Roy-Burman is now the CEO of Elemeno Health, which he cofounded
in 2016.


Dr. Roy-Burman completed his undergraduate degree at UC Berkley
in 1989; completed his medical degree at UCSF in 1994; completed
his residency in pediatrics at Stanford in 1997; and then
returned to UCSF for a fellowship in pediatrics critical care
(aka PICU fellowship), which he completed in 2000.


After his fellowship, Dr. Roy-Burman took his first attending job
at the Children's Hospital of Oakland eventually crossing the Bay
to fill the role of Medical Director of the PICU at UCSF Benioff
Children’s Hospital in 2011, where he was also the Director of
Transport, Access and Outreach. In this dual role of Medical
Director of the PICU and Director of Transport, Access, and
Outreach allowed Dr. Roy-Burman to interact with large swaths of
the healthcare system from inpatient to outpatient and with all
sub-specialities who consult in the PICU. With this experience of
the inter-workings of the hospital system combined with his
clinical understanding of patient care and provider pain points,
he decided to co-found Elemeno Health, which received backing
from famed accelerator and venture capital firm, Y Combinator. At
a high-level, Elemeno Health is a SAAS (software as a service)
company whose software aims to help push best-practices to
front-line providers as well as capture feedback from these
front-liners, thereby closing the "knowledge-practice gap."


***Medical students, residents and all interested
parties:*** If interested in joining the Elemeno Health
team, Dr. Roy-Burman would love to hear from you at
info@elemenohealth.com!


Please enjoy with Dr. Roy-Burman!


P.S. We recorded this one in Dr. Roy-Burman's car on his drive
from an investor meeting in Palo Alto back to his startup digs in
Oakland, which makes for an interesting listen! Try to get
through the first 5 minutes--the audio gets much better.