The Not Mini Adults Podcast - “Pioneers for Children’s Healthcare and Wellbeing” – Details, episodes & analysis

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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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 connect@thehilloxford.org 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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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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