Category: Professional Updates

What do you do for work? What do you do for work? That simple question from an unsuspecting guest at a holiday party last weekend sparked a 20-minute response on the status of the renal care industry and how we at Cricket Health are going to turn it on its head. continued

When my father immigrated to Canada at the age of thirteen, he couldn’t speak a word of English. He came a long way from a farm in Greece, took the risk to start his own small business and provided me with opportunities that he never had himself. continued

Throughout my medical career, there have been moments of reckoning that have entirely changed the way I thought about patients living with a chronic disease. continued

For family game night, my daughter’s favorite game is Jenga. As the tower destabilizes, she nervously anticipates whether the next poke of a block will destabilize the tower and elicit screams of “Jenga!” when it falls. continued

More than three years ago, I met Arvind Rajan and Vince Kim as they were beginning their journey to change healthcare for individuals suffering from chronic kidney disease (CKD) with a new venture called Cricket Health. continued

Here in San Francisco, we have the remarkable fortune to have one of the best academic medical centers in the world, the University of California San Francisco, in our backyard. What makes it special isn’t just its world-class research, or the clinical excellence of its 24,000 staff; it’s the strong ethos of patient care, of … Continued continued

The legendary broadcaster Walter Cronkite once said that “America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” continued