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Medical Misfits is a podcast about doctors who don't work as doctors.
They tell you why they left the hospital, what they're doing now and if you should do the same.
Matthew Fenech: Working at a Think Tank, Medical Safety Lead and Co-Founder
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1 hour 5 minutes 26 seconds
2 years ago
Matthew Fenech: Working at a Think Tank, Medical Safety Lead and Co-Founder
Matthew "Matt" Fenech is a doctor and now co-founder of a startup called Una Health which develops an app for
diabetics to improve their nutrition and blood sugar management. Before co-founding Una Health in 2021, Matt
worked at a think tank called Future Advocacy and as Medical Safety Lead at Ada Health.
I think Matt is a really interesting person to talk to because his career path is by no means "linear", what
he might have called it - I don't know of any doctor who would have considered working at a think tank, simply
because no doctor seems to be aware of these sort of job opportunities. And that's not all - after that, Matt
worked at Ada Health, a well-known healthcare startup developing a symptom checker app. And now Matt
co-founded his own startup.
Looking back at Matt's past activities, he says (and I think it's a quite smart observation) that there's been
somewhat of a progression in his jobs: First, at the think tank, he worked on what sort of Healthcare policy
might make sense. Then, at Ada Health, he worked in a company where he could actually be closer to real-world
changes; and finally, now, in his own startup, he has even more degrees of freedom in building things and
implementing the changes he envisions for the Healthcare system.
I ask Matt about how he got his first job. Also, as he worked in diabetes research before completely leaving
the hospital behind, I asked him whether he thought that his research experience was beneficial for his later
jobs - or was it all for nothing? After touching upon what the hell employees of think tanks actually do I ask
him what his new company, Una Health, is about and how he plans to improve diabetes care through it.
Medical Misfits
Medical Misfits is a podcast about doctors who don't work as doctors.
They tell you why they left the hospital, what they're doing now and if you should do the same.