Career Pivot - From Clinical Cardiology to CMO of a Startup Focused on Hypertension with Jay Shah, MD

Dr. Jay Shah is Chief Medical Officer at Aktii, where they are developing technology focused on identifying and monitoring hypertension. Dr. Shah is a practicing Cardiologist who pivoted his career from strictly patent care, to becoming the CMO of a start-up. In this episode he shares  his thoughts on career pivots, how he researched options that were the right fit for him, what it is like to be a CMO in a start-up, what hypertension is and the difficulty of diagnosis, and how wearables can change the way hypertension is managed.    

Links from this episode:

• Jay Shah, MD LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jshahmd/
• Aktiia https://aktiia.com/