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The Medical AI Podcast

The Medical AI Podcast

Dr. Felix Beacher 70 Episodes Jan 1, 2026

The Medical AI Podcast is a 30-minute show hosted by Dr. Felix Beacher that explores the latest innovations in artificial intelligence in healthcare. Topics range from medical imaging and large language models to regulatory strategy and ethics. The podcast aims to keep listeners up to date on the rapidly evolving field of AI in medicine.

Episodes

Ep 70: Responsible AI and healthcare, with Dr Heather Bassett, CMO of Xsolis Jan 1, 2026 00:36:56 Responsible AI is a much vaunted concept that aims to connect AI with human rights, equality and fairness. Whocould argue with that? Well there are plenty of critics who complain that in practice, restrictions of these kind only stifle innovation and progress. And in accepting such restrictions we risk delivering outcomes that are worse. With Dr Heather Bassett, the Chief Medical Officer of Xsolis
Ep 69: Agentic AI and preventative disease, with Eugene Sayan of Softheon Dec 31, 2025 00:33:06 Agentic AI systems are causing a huge buzz right now. These are AI systems that actively make changes in the world as opposed to merely giving information. In healthcare, could agentic AI systems help address the huge problem of preventable disease ? This is an economic drain that is huge and unnecessary represents around 30% of personal healthcare costs in the US. With Eugene Sayan of Softheon. T
Ep 68: Can AI help you become your own doctor? With Dr Gabriella Lawrence of TytoCare Dec 31, 2025 00:32:39 Video calls to your doctor from your home, is old news and very 2021. But what if you could have a consultation with your doctor from home, which involved YOU performing physical exams yourself, AND as accurately as with an in-person visit?This is what new AI-guided tools claim to be already delivering. This could potntially mean a drastic easing on healthcare systems and better outcomes for peopl
Ep 67: AI and delusions of beauty, with Gretchen Andrew Oct 31, 2025 00:35:43 Normally on this amazing podcast I cover AI systems that can help with medical treatment. Today we are discussing an angle on the harms of AI on health.With me to discuss is doyen of the art world and AI provocateuse, the amazing and wonderful Gretchen Andrew In particular, we look at whether are AI tools are providing a particualrly pernicious and powerful way in which our perceptions of beauty a
Ep 66: Plummeting Fertility - can AI help? With Kirsten Karchmer, CEO of Conceivable Oct 24, 2025 00:29:37 Scary fact: fertility rates across the West have plummeted to alarmingly low levels, marking a significant demographic shift. Most Western countries now have a Total Fertility Rate (TFR) well below the 'replacement level' of approximately 2.1 children per woman—the rate needed to maintain a population size without migration. For instance, the European Union's TFR hit a historical low o
Ep 65: Could AI help heart disease and sexual problems? With Dr Elliot Justin MD Oct 14, 2025 00:51:48 Could AI help you be a sexual superhero? (And reduce your cardiovascular risk) Use the coupon code: FELIX15 for a 15% discount when they make a purchase through our website. You can log in to your affiliate account and check all assigned coupons on Dashboard here: https://af.uppromote.com/myfirmtech/loginErectile dysfunction may not be life-threatening but it is no doubt life-worsening. Does AI ha
Ep 64: AI and Psychedelics ✌With Cedric Chenefront, Founder of Well Wired. Oct 6, 2025 00:42:53 Have you ever been dropped into the divine realm, the ultimate substrate of all reality? Have you ever given birth to yourself infinite times? Or felt connected to the entire universe in a way which is spiritually life-changing? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, you've probably been on mind-altering drugs, or psychedelics, like LSD or psilocibin.Remarkably, there is growing evide
Ep 63: Brain-computer interfaces - coming miracles or technodehumanisation? With Dr Robyn Waller Sep 15, 2025 00:46:44 Brain-computer interfaces are for some, medical technology bordering on the miraculous. Elon Musk’s neuralink is, for example, promising to cure some cases of blindness and paralysis. It has even been suggested that brain-computer interfaces could help humans become "superhuman": theycould dramatically boost human cognition and even help people become telepathic. On the other hand, scien
Ep 62: Shaking up Healthcare Systems for AI, with Dave Trier, VP at ModelOp Sep 8, 2025 00:31:06 Let’s imagine a utopian future of medical AI. Implantsand wearables constantly monitor your health. AI systems process those health data in real time and recommend any treatments, combining those data with those from your genome. Recommended drugs, naturally, are more efficacious and cheaper than those from 2025. life expectancy will be 100 and old age will be longer, healthier and groovier than e
Ep 61: Could you fall in love with a robot? With Andrew Kiguel, CEO of Realbotix Jul 7, 2025 00:42:57 In Blade Runner Rick Deckard, meets Rachel. She is very beautiful and vulnerable, with a rich life narrative, andemotional depth. However, Rachel is a highly sophisticated, super-realistic android. But nonetheless he falls in love with her. How close are we to this vision of the future? Are there medical uses to companion robots? And are there hidden dangers? And what about you? - Could you fall i
Episode 60: How to make money from medical AI, with Chris Wood, CEO of RevealDX Jul 1, 2025 00:31:58 Under capitalism a company has to make money. But a big problem in medical AI is that few companies are. Most are burning up venture capital and profitability is very hard to achieve. A key reason is that it is extremely difficult to obtain government reimbursement for the use of medical AI products. But a small number of companies are making progress here. What can learned from them? And how woul
Episode 59: How is AI changing pathology? With Imogen Fitt of Signify Research Jun 16, 2025 00:31:26 Microscopic analysis of tissue slides, or pathology, is a vital diagnostic tool. It can determine disease type and stage and it remains the gold standard approach for diagnostics in cancer. But the process is labor-intensive and dependent on the skill of the pathologist. AI techniques could address those problem and are rapidly changing pathology analysis. Buthow exactly? What does the future look

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