A clinician on the board
What makes business sense doesn’t always make clinical sense. I’ve been a non-executive director since 2024, and I sit on the boards of Certus Biomedical and GAS Inc.
Current roles
Boards
Board and advisory roles in healthcare technology, alongside my clinical work in Oxford.
- Non-executive director
- Certus Biomedical
- Non-executive director
- GAS Inc
The questions I ask
Who actually uses it?
Does it make life easier for patients, and for the clinicians looking after them? You don’t need a business background to ask those. You need to have done a shift recently.
A product with a great business case that adds ten minutes to every patient on a ward round ends up in a cupboard. If you’re building something for patients or clinicians, get a clinician involved early, not once it’s built and changing it costs a fortune.
Clinical reality
A practising doctor’s view of how a product will actually be used on a busy ward or in a clinic.
Building with AI
I built WardRun, Medacted and Resus One with AI tools and caught a lot of convincing errors the models made. How I built them.
Evidence
Co-author of a multi-centre evaluation of AI-assisted chest X-ray interpretation, Emergency Medicine Journal, 2024.
Reach
An audience of 250,000+ people and experience explaining medicine clearly, for when a product needs to be understood.
How appointments work
Board and advisory roles are arranged through Med Services. I declare all interests, and my board work is kept separate from my NHS role.
- IntroductionTell us about the company, the stage and the role.
- ConversationA call with the chair or founders to see if it’s a fit.
- TermsTime commitment, fees and any equity agreed in writing, with conflicts checked.
- AppointmentBoard meetings planned around my clinical rota.
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