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  • This is a very special episode of the Podcast as it is the first video podcast, recorded live during the Final Pitch Event of the 2023 Children's Health Impact Accelerator, in London at the Science Gallery. If you wish to watch this episode, you can find it over on our Thinking of Oscar You Tube page.

    In October 2023, David had the fortune of chairing an accelerator dedicated to Children’s Health in collaboration with London based Accelerator and Venture Builder Founders Factory, on behalf of UKRI / Innovate UK.

    During the event we were fortunate enough to have a wonderful quartet of innovators who agreed to come on stage and talk about the opportunities, and some of the things to look out for, when financing a start-up focused on children’s health.

    We are therefore delighted to share with you all a live recording of the panel conversation which included insights and guidance from Paediatric Venture leaders, John Parker and Marc Ramis, Children’s Health Innovation leader from Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Emma Hughes and wonderfully chaired by Founders Factory’s own healthtech investor Claire Mongeau.

    Full details of each of the 10 wonderful start-ups who formed part of the accelerator can be found below:

    🌟Happy Marlo
    🌟ConsoneAI Ltd
    🌟Goal Manager®
    🌟Tutti Toot
    🌟Hibi Health
    🌟Grow with Iris
    🌟Envisionit Deep AI®
    🌟Moti Me
    🌟Lorestry
    🌟Tender Touch

    I hope you all enjoy the conversation and please share and continue to shout from the rooftops the importance of investment in children’s health, not in the future, but now!

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  • Our guest today on the Not Mini Adult’s Podcast is Entrepreneur, CEO and start-up founder of mOm Incubators, James Roberts.

    James is the inventor of a new neonatal incubator, that has helped premature babies thrive in NHS hospitals and in war-torn Ukraine. During our conversation he shares some invaluable advice for anyone looking to create an impact start-up, especially in the world of children’s health.

    The World Health Organization estimates that there are nearly one million preventable neonatal deaths each year. Keeping the infant warm could save thousands of new-borns each day. However, most incubators are too large, complicated, and expensive for universal use.

    The mOm Essential Incubator is a compact, cost-effective machine that has been designed to work in multiple environments. It is being used in a series of pilots in the NHS to ease the need for short-term admission to special care, and to help maintain the core temperature of babies being moved around hospitals.

    The Incubator has also been deployed in emerging economies and war zones. Over 75 incubators have been sent to Ukraine, where they are being used to keep babies warm in hospitals and bomb shelters transformed into make-shift neonatal wards.

    James and his team have won numerous awards. The mom prototype caught the attention of the James Dyson Foundation, which in 2014 awarded him the global James Dyson Award for innovation.

    In 2018 James was named in MIT’s 35 under 35 and in 2023 he was presented with one of the most prestigious individual awards by the Royal Academy of Engineering – The Princess Royal Silver Medal.

    I had the pleasure of inviting James to be a mentor on the recent Child Health Impact Accelerator that I chaired on behalf of Innovate UK and in partnership with Founders Factory. And having got to know James, this was a story that we just had to share.

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  • On the 40th episode of the Not Mini Adult's Podcast we are thrilled to welcome Founder and CEO of Brazilian based start-up Joel de Oliveira Jr. Joel is also our first interviewee from South America.

    Joel is a mechanical engineer and business executive by background and has many years of experience working in multinational companies such as Ericsson, Embraer and Kaelus, in a number of different countries. After Joel lost his son, Lucas, to cancer he decided to move away from his corporate career to launch Luckie Tech. Luckie Tech has an important mission, which is to reduce the mortality rate of children undergoing cancer treatment using innovative sensor technology.

    Joel is a true inspiration, and we once again have a wonderful conversation which we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.


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  • On this episode of the Podcast we talk to Leanne West who is the Chief Engineer of Pediatric Technologies at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Also known as Georgia Tech) and President of the International Children’s Advisory Network (iCAN).

    Leanne is also the Pediatric Innovation Catalyst at the Global Center for Medical Innovation where she leads innovation in pediatric medical devices.

    In her 25+ years working at Georgia Tech, she has led multimillion dollar programs and teams of researchers to develop products for government and industry partners.

    Leanne serves as the technical liaison between Georgia Tech and pediatric hospitals around the world, with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Shriners Hospitals being the main partners. She works closely with clinicians to understand and identify problems that need a solution to allow them to take better care of their patients.

    Regular listeners to the Not Mini Adults Podcast will know that we are passionate about the empowerment of children and their families when it comes to new technologies and solutions to care for sick children and young people. And at iCAN this is enabled through the fostering of greater global understanding about the importance of the pediatric patient and caregiver’s voice in healthcare, clinical trials, and research.

    Leanne is without peer when it comes to making sure that the patient voice is listened to and understood and is also a role model for women and young girls looking to make their way in STEM.

    This is once again a wonderful conversation with one of our great friends in the paediatric field and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

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  • On this episode of the Not Mini Adults Podcast we are delighted to welcome President & CEO of Children's Healthcare Canada and Executive Director of the Pediatric Chairs of Canada, Emily Gruenwoldt.

    Children's Healthcare Canada is a national organization representing health delivery centres and systems serving children and young people across the country. They are the only association that brings together perspectives from across the entire continuum of care to improve children's health in Canada.

    We talk to Emily about the how she, and her team are using advocacy to inform and shape child health policy in Canada, improving children’s and young people’s health and healthcare.

    There are many lessons to be learned from this conversation that other countries across the world could take note of. Most of all this conversation exemplifies the importance of organisations making a stand and advocating at the highest levels of government and being the voice of our children.........just until they can advocate for themselves!

    You can find Emily on Twitter (X) here or Children's Healthcare Canada here.

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  • In this episode of the NMA Podcast we discuss the incredibly important topic of inequalities within children healthcare. Addressing this issue is a priority for all children’s hospital across the UK and in many, many more around the world.

    One in three children in the UK lives in relative poverty and research shows a clear and consistent link between child poverty and paediatric morbidity and mortality.

    There is no better person to discuss this with than Dr Ian Sinha who is a Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital as well as a Professor within the Division of Child Health at the University of Liverpool.

    Ian’s research focuses on paediatric asthma and neonatal lung disease. And he is particularly interested in the impact of social and health inequalities on children.

    This is a fantastic onversation with Ian where he explains more about this issue and what measures he and his team are taking to try and make change.

    You can find Ian on Twitter (X) here.

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  • On this episode of the Not Mini Adults Podcast we talk to Jon Manning who is the the CEO and Founder of Arthur Ellis: Mental Health Support an organisation focused on Mental Health through Well-being Skills Development Programmes and Support for Businesses who Drive Positive Change in the Workplace. They also operate a 1:1 Mentoring Service to provide support to children (from 8 years old), young people and adults. Working with individuals to help them develop strategies for their exact needs to help them recover and move forward from any mental health related issues.

    Jon has experienced living with mental health conditions for over 20 years and with a background in the commercial world, he set up Arthur Ellis: Mental Health Support to positively impact the way wellbeing and mental health is proactively managed throughout society. Jon believed that awareness needs to be more actionable if we really want to gain control over it rather than being purely focused on recognising symptoms, meaning people are already sick.

    Jon leads the march on helping individuals look further than signposting to encourage people across the country to learn to manage mental health before the need for professional intervention. Through his work with organisations Jon and his team are then able to offer subsidised support for children in need of mental health support.

    This is a very important conversation in light of the awareness and increasing problems that society has helping people of all ages with mental health conditions, no more so that with many children up and down the country and across the world. We were lucky enough to be treated to a little therapy during this episode and we hope you enjoy it and take something away with you.

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  • In this special bonus episode of the Podcast we talk to Tiffani Ghere and Iain Hennessey who amongst many other things are members of the board of the International Society for Pediatric Innovation (iSPI). Tiffany is the Executive Director and Iain is the Vice President of Digital Design and Transformation.

    In this conversation we will be discussing the forthcoming PEDS2040 conference set to take place in San Diego at the Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa.

    As iSPI’s flagship event, PEDS 2040 presents a unique opportunity to witness the future of pediatrics as it unfolds. Attendees will be able to collaborate with like-minded stakeholders in pediatrics. You will be able to learn from innovation and intelligence leaders and gain valuable insight about the challenges we face in pediatrics. We talk to Tiffani and Iain about what's going to be happening during the conference and why you should attend. Find out more here.
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  • This is a special bonus episode of the podcast as Thinking of Oscar are teaming up with start-up builder and funder, Founder’s Factory and healthcare experts Humant Consulting to host the recently announced Children’s Health Impact Accelerator, which starts this summer. On this bonus episode we talk with Olivia Brooks and Athene St John from Founders Factory on first why it’s so important to focus on children’s health (just in case anyone listening to this podcast didn’t know by now). And second what the Children’s Health Impact Accelerator is and what is on offer if someone was interested in taking part.

    The Children’s Health Impact Accelerator is a 10-week non-equity startup programme based in Liverpool and London, funded by Innovate UK in partnership with Humant, Thinking of Oscar and Founders Factory.


    You can register here.

    The programme is aimed at spinouts, start-ups, and entrepreneurial minded academics. It supports ambitious founders to develop and test their innovative solutions by providing expert support, mentorship and connection into key healthcare communities.

    Founders will have access to vital resources to help develop and test their innovative solutions for children, including functional support across product, growth and fundraising, access to mentors and expertise across health and life science, as well as an established network of hospitals, such as Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

    Applications for the Children’s Health Impact Bootcamp are still open. If you’re an early stage founder innovating in the children’s health space, this could be the perfect opportunity to progress your idea and take it to scale.

    The Children’s Health Impact Bootcamp 🚀
    ➡️ 10-week non-equity startup programme
    ➡️ Combination of functional expertise, mentorship, and access to a vast healthcare network
    ➡️ Funded by Innovate UK in collaboration with Medical Research Council, operated by Founders Factory, and in partnership with health tech consultants Humant, charity Thinking of Oscar, and Alder Hey Children's Hospital

    If you’re interested in finding out more and applying, follow the link above.

    Applications close Thursday 29th June 2023.
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  • The Not Mini Adults Podcast Returns with our fourth season and we dive straight into the world of personalised medicine.

    On this week’s episode we speak with Henry Pinchbrook, CEO and Co-Founder of Insight Surgery. Personalised medicine has been a hot topic in the medical world for a while and Insight Surgery are being truly impactful by helping clinical teams to understand how best to care for their patients.

    Insight Surgery is all about helping patients and they do this by working with surgical teams to plan their operations using 3D models, both digital and printed to assist them in achieving the best results for their patients.

    We have a fascinating conversation with Henry and find out how a corporate lawyer went from the court room to helping individuals in east Africa who needed prosthetic limbs, to setting up a 3D printing lab in one of the biggest children’s hospitals in the UK.

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  • Sorry for the wait........ but here is the launch of Season 4 of the Not Mini Adults Podcast!

    We are also announcing the launch of a collaboration with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and TheHill in launching the "Thinking of Oscar Paediatric Innovation Clinical Fellowship".

    Applications are invited for a Clinical Fellowship programme in paediatrics. This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic, forward thinking trainee who wishes to develop higher level clinical skills in a university teaching hospital and take full advantage of the links held with other Oxford institutions. 40% of the fellow’s time will be spent identifying local needs and developing or sourcing innovations using human centred design principles.

    The Fellowship is supported by ‘Thinking of Oscar’ a charity that founded in the summer of 2014 after the very sudden and unexpected death of David and Hannah Cole’s little boy Oscar, at the John Radcliffe Hospital. Hannah and David are both passionate about innovation and technology and the role it has in improving care, and are excited to be supporting this fellowship to bring new innovations to paediatric care for the benefit of patients, carers and staff.

    The posts are aimed at paediatricians in training from ST3 level or higher, looking to develop a special interest in leadership and management while continuing banded clinical practice in an acute environment. The post will performed Out of Programme.

    Applications for the post close on Friday 10th June, and interviews will be held shortly thereafter.

    For further details please contact [email protected] or get in touch with us via our website.

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  • On this weeks Podcast we are delighted to welcome Sarah Marikos who is the Executive Director of the ACE Resource Network.

    ACE standing for 'Adverse Childhood Experiences'.

    Sarah’s professional career has focused on the science of things that can hurt us and heal us. As an undergraduate at the University of California Berkeley, Sarah studied and conducted research on the US national opioid epidemic, the emergence of 2009’s H1N1 in-fluenza, and other major public health problems.

    But witnessing Hurricane Katrina’s devastating and inequitable impact on communities influenced her to pivot from the pre-med track to public health, deciding to pursue a master’s in public health (MPH) in epidemiology to better understand the confluence of factors that influence the health and well-being of people and communities.

    Today Sarah says that she enjoys connecting people and data to improve systems in order to prevent harm and help people recover and heal.

    In this episode we talk to Sarah about her journey and most importantly the impact that discovering the research around Adverse Childhood Experiences has on families and the impact that it could have on society if it was better understood by all.

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    Follow Dr Burke Harris on Twitter here. Discover her book The Deepest Well/Toxic Childhood Stress here.

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  • This week we are joined by Jo Pinney and Grace Welby who are both Play Specialists at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford in the UK.

    October 11th 2021 is the ‘Play In Hospital Week’ in association with the National Association of Hospital Play Specialists and this week’s guests successfully applied to launch the festivities so we are delighted that this podcast will be able to coincide with recogning the incredibly impotent role that Play Specialists have to making the lives of children and their parents that little bit more bearable whilst they are in hospital.

    Jo Pinney is a Senior Health Play Specialist at the Oxford Children’s Hospital and has been a Health Play Specialist since 2001- even before there was a dedicated wing for the children’s hospital. Jo has worked in several different areas, with her current role as a senior HPS within E.N.T and Plastics outpatients where she has been since 2012.

    Jo says that she ‘loves her role and find it especially rewarding when we have hooked or sucked an interesting find from a child’s ear or nose’.

    Grace Welby is very special to Hannah and I as she was one of the pay specialists alongside Sam Mortlock. Grace has worked at Oxford Children’s Hospitals for 7 years, starting as a Play Assistant on an acute ward whilst training on the job & qualifying as a Health Play Specialist 5 years ago.

    Grace says that “she very much enjoys her role as a Play Specialist, normalising the hospital environment for the patient & their families through play, having the time to interact & distract children from what can be a scary experience but seeing them smile is the most rewarding thing!”

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  • We are honoured to welcome Professor Sir Andrew Pollard to the Not Mini Adults Podcast this week. Sir Andrew is Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity at the University of Oxford, Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, Fellow of St Cross College and Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at the Oxford Children’s Hospital, Oxford, UK.

    Andrew trained in Paediatrics at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, specialising in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at St Mary’s Hospital, London, UK and at British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada.

    He chairs the UK Department of Health’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation and the European Medicines Agency scientific advisory group on vaccines, he is also a member of World Health Organisation’s SAGE.

    Andrew was knighted in 2021 by Her Majesty the Queen for services to public health, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sir Andrew played a crucial role in the development of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine and led the global clinical trials that started in the spring of 2020.

    There is one word to describe our conversation with Sir Andrew and that is 'IMPACT'. This was truly an inspiring conversation and we of course discuss Andrew’s work in developing a COVID-19 vaccination, but just as importantly his work in helping to develop vaccines for children all over the world.

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  • In this weeks episode we talk with Innovate UK's Director of Health & Life Sciences, Richard Hebdon. Innovate UK is part of the UK Research and Innovation and helps businesses develop new products, services, and processes needed in order to grow through innovation.

    Richard leads and manage the Innovate UK Health & Life Sciences Sector comprising health, agriculture and food with a combined current portfolio valued at £685 million, with a historic investment of £1.8 billion.

    Prior to joining Innovate UK, he worked in technology transfer, R&D management and research and innovation roles in industry and the public sector. This included working in pharmaceutical and vaccine discovery where his original technical background was in microbiology.

    A link to the 2021 Biomedical Catalyst 2021 that we discussed with Richard can be found here.

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  • In this episode we have the fortune of speaking with Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon Mr. Jay Jayamohan. This was a very pionient and moving conversation about the importance of 'Empathy' and caring for not only the patient in ones care but the whole family.

    Dr Jay works at our local Hospital, the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and is also an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Oxford. He has been the star of two highly acclaimed BBC fly-on-the-wall series following the work of neurosurgeons.

    Dr Jay's work breaks down into three primary areas: Paediatric Neurosurgery - tackling tumours and congenital problems in children; Craniofacial Reconstruction - working with a plastic surgeon to give babies or victims of accidents a shot at a normal life; Expert Witness - employed by the courts to help solve head related crimes or provide the case for the defence.

    Jay is also the author of acclaimed book "Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon". Described by Dr Amanda Brown, author of The Prison Doctor as "an inspirational book written by a truly remarkable man" and 'Extraordinary' by the The Times.

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  • This week we are joined by Neonatologist, Dr Don Sharkey to discuss innovation, research and technology within neonatal care.

    Dr Sharkey is Clinical Associate Professor of Neonatal Medicine at the University of Nottingham and Neonatal Intensivist at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust in the UK.

    Don is an academic neonatologist with a broad research portfolio aimed at reducing major morbidities in newborn infants.

    Don’s main research focus is in healthcare technologies for babies and children, focused on neonatal resuscitation, neonatal monitoring and diagnostics, and computer vision and machine learning techniques.

    This was a very powerful and thought provoking conversation and we hope you take as much from it as we did.


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  • This week we are delighted to welcome technologist, entrepreneur, author and lecturer, Dr. Timothy Chou to the Podcast. We are going to discuss the power of the Cloud and what it could mean for children’s healthcare and research.

    In his own words, Timothy has been lucky enough to have a career spanning academia, successful (and not so successful) start-ups and large corporations and he is also an author.

    As President of Oracle’s original cloud business, Oracle On Demand, he grew the cloud business from it’s very beginning. Today he serves on the Board of Directors of Blackbaud and Teradata.

    Timothy started his career at one of the original Kleiner Perkins start-ups, Tandem Computers. Now as the Chairman of the Alchemist Accelerator he is focused on next generation enterprise software start-ups.

    Dr. Chou started teaching at Stanford University in 1982 and launched the university’s first class on cloud computing. For those of you that listened Episode 25 of Podcast, this is where Timothy met his now good friend Dr Anthony Chang and where the shoots of an idea were formed to begin a project to connect all healthcare machines in all the children’s hospitals in the world, which like the consumer Internet, may completely change children’s healthcare on the planet.

    Today we discuss this story and understand more about the opportunity that Timothy and his team and trying to uncover.

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  • Welcome back to Season 3 of the Not Mini Adults Podcast. To kick off Season 3 we have a very special guest and spend our time talking about the importance of data and AI and what it will mean for our children's wellbeing now and in the future.

    This week we are talking to Dr. Anthony Chang. Dr. Chang is the Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer as well as Medical Director of the Heart Failure Program at Children’s Hospital of Orange County. Dr Chang also founded the Medical Intelligence and Innovation Institute (MI3) at CHOC Children’s.

    Dr. Chang holds an MD from Georgetown, an MPH from UCLA, an MBA from the University of Miami, holds a certification from MIT on AI, and has an MS in Biomedical Data Science from Stanford.

    Anthony has been called “Dr. AI” by the Chicago Tribune having published numerous peer reviewed papers in ML and AI related to medicine. He is passionate about how AI can transform healthcare and works tirelessly in advancing the use of AI.

    Dr Chang is also one of the original founders of the International Society for Paediatric Innovation and to us is the Godfather of Paediatric Innovation.

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  • Season 3 of The Not Mini Adults Podcast - Pioneers for Children's Healthcare and Wellbeing will launch on June 18th, 2021.

    Don't miss an episode by subscribing wherever you listen to your podcasts.

    It's been an ‘interesting’ start to 2021 and we are delighted to be back.