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Pain is real whether it is felt immediately after a traumatic event or in the absence of apparent tissue damage on imaging. We now know through pain neuroscience research and understanding the biopsychosocial approach to chronic pain that patients' perceived experiences of pain are unique to them and are entirely valid. On the show today, we have Dr. Neel Mehta, MD. He is the Division Chief of the Weill Cornell Pain Management Center and an Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College. He also leads research on Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN).We chat about the uses, benefits, and side effects of LDN and how it can be used with patients with hypermobility, fibromyalgia, interstitial cystitis, and more. Dr. Mehta discusses how little research has been done on the drug and how he hopes to delve deeper into it to maximize patient outcomes. Dr. Mehta also serves as a Co-Director of Och Spine at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is the Immediate-Past President of the Eastern Pain Association and Secretary of the New York Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. Dr. Mehta completed his fellowship in Interventional Pain Medicine in the Tri-Institutional Pain Medicine Fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, and Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Connect with him and his team:646-962-7246weillcornell.org/services/pain-management@wcmpain
This week, Ashto and Jonesy delve into Swipe to Unlock: an introduction to technology and business strategy concepts, and a compulsory read for anyone pursuing a career in the tech industry. Understanding technology is becoming essential no matter what you do for a living. Doctors are now using artificial intelligence to diagnose patients. Farmers are using drones to grow better crops. If the world's biggest companies used to be oil and electric firms, they have now been replaced by the likes of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft.In this book, Aditya Agashe, Neel Mehta and Parth Detroja use real-life examples to break down software, hardware and business strategies, and show you the tools to understand them better. You don't need to be a master coder to learn these technological concepts. Whether it's the ins and outs of the internet or the business strategies of tech giants, the authors of Swipe to Unlock believe that everything is understandable in plain, simple English. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Once Bitcoin started to gain traction, it became inevitable that other cryptocurrencies would start to appear. And so the altcoins were born. An altcoin - as you may remember from the last episode - is any cryptocurrency that isn't Bitcoin. There are now thousands of altcoins in existence, but the flood began as a mere trickle with the release of Namecoin in 2011. Slowly, other altcoins began to emerge - some of which are still with us today, many of which have faded into obscurity. In this episode, we look at a few of the most notable altcoins to break out in the decade following Bitcoin's entrance into the world. As so many are no longer relevant, we've focused mostly on the ones that have survived in some way, shape or form. It's a useful look into crypto's past, which will help us better understand its present over the course of future episodes. This episode will also serve as a useful primer for our upcoming series of episodes about the king of all the altcoins: Ethereum. Some interesting chapters and snippets about altcoins can be found in several of the books we've referenced before. These include: Bubble or Revolution? (2021), by Neel Mehta, Adi Agashe and Parth Detroja The Age of Cryptocurrency (2015) by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey We hope you enjoy the show. Producer for iHeart Media: Noel Brown Editor: Sam Moult See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We're getting to the end of our exploration of blockchain technology, which means we're almost ready to start talking about cryptocurrency. In this final blockchain-focused episode, we clarify a few definitions and look at what exactly is going on under the hood when a bitcoin transaction is made. Although blockchain can get pretty complicated, we know that a basic understanding of it will stand you in good stead when we start to talk about crypto in earnest. Further reading for those who like to curl up with a good book: The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything (2018), by Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains (2018), by Anthony Lewis Bubble or Revolution? (2021), by Neel Mehta, Adi Agashe and Parth Detroja Blockchain Revolution (2016), by Don and Alex Tapscott We hope you enjoy the show. Producer for iHeart Media: Noel Brown Editor: Sam Moult Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Last time we started talking in earnest about blockchain: the technology that makes cryptocurrency possible. We avoided getting too deep into the weeds, as it's easy to get swamped by technical jargon if you're not careful. This time, we're wading out a little deeper and talking more about how blockchain works. We'll explore some of the processes that take place when we use a blockchain and explore how they're able to function. Naturally, things get a bit more technical from here, but never fear - we'll explain everything as we go along. We'll look at hash functions, Merkle trees, nodes, miners and much more besides. And, if that all sounds a bit too technical we'll also be exploring how one man ended up spending 10,000 bitcoins on pizza. Some further reading if you fancy it: The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything (2018), by Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains (2018), by Anthony Lewis Bubble or Revolution? (2021), by Neel Mehta, Adi Agashe and Parth Detroja Blockchain Revolution (2016), by Don and Alex Tapscott We hope you enjoy the show. Producer for iHeart Media: Noel Brown Editor: Sam Moult Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Cryptocurrency couldn't exist without a technology that many have heard of, but few really understand. Blockchain is something of a buzzword these days and, from the outside, it can look dauntingly complicated. Surely this is something best left to the geeks, right? Well, blockchain is indeed pretty complex, but that doesn't mean it's incomprehensible: it just needs some careful explanation. In this episode, we'll begin to explore the subject of blockchain; what it is and what it's designed to do. We'll introduce a few terms that are useful to know in the world of crypto, but we're going to keep things pretty simple today. The tricky stuff comes later! A working knowledge of blockchain technology is an invaluable aid to understanding cryptocurrency. Once we start to talk about Bitcoin in later episodes, a little blockchain know-how will go a long way. If you want to dig deeper into the wonders of blockchain, then there are a number of well-written and easy-to-understand books available. We found all of those below super-helpful when researching blockchain for this and later episodes. The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything (2018), by Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains (2018), by Anthony Lewis Bubble or Revolution? (2021), by Neel Mehta, Adi Agashe and Parth Detroja Blockchain Revolution (2016), by Don and Alex Tapscott We hope you enjoy the show. Producer for iHeart Media: Noel Brown Editor: Sam Moult Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
We welcome Dr. Neel Mehta, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Director of Pain Management at Weill Cornell Medicine, as well as Co-Director of the Weill Cornell Center for Comprehensive Spine Care. Dr. Mehta specializes in interventional pain management with a focus on minimally invasive therapies and this episode focuses on how spinal cord stimulation is used as a method of pain management. We cover: (3:03) how spinal cord stimulators work and how to determine if you're a good candidate, (10:20) how this can help those with gastrointestinal motility and gastroparesis or the sensation that food is stuck in your esophagus, (12:18) how it could be helpful for those with diabetes, (14:45) the functional improvements spinal cord stimulation can provide, improving quality life, as well as the limitations of the treatment, and (18:00) why the treatment is an alternative to opioid use. Learn more about Dr. Mehta here: https://weillcornell.org/neelmehta
Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) has proven surprisingly effective in the treatment of chronic pain, so why have so few people heard about it? Neel Mehta, MD and Kris Ferguson, MD discuss how this medication is helping patients with chronic conditions such as fibromyalgia and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Neel D. Mehta, M.D., is the Director of the Weill Cornell Pain Management Center and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College. He also serves as a Co-Director of the Center for Comprehensive Spine Care, Medical Director of 14 South Amenities Unit, and Advisory Board Member to the Patient Experience Task Force and Integrative Medicine Center. He is a Director-at Large-of the New York Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and President-Elect of the Eastern Pain Association. Dr. Mehta completed his fellowship in Interventional Pain Medicine in the Tri-Institutional Pain Medicine Fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, and Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Embodying Weill Cornell's tripartite mission, Dr. Mehta delivers superior patient care, conducts groundbreaking research, and educates doctors-in-training in the field of pain medicine. His clinical area of expertise is in musculoskeletal pain of the back, neck, and joints, post-operative pain, neuropathic disorders, pelvic pain, and cancer and cancer-treatment related pain. His work has been featured on New York 1 and ABC-7 television, and he has discussed the history of pain on National Public Radio. Dr. Mehta was an invited expert on Facebook Patient Chats for the Neuropathy Association of America, and has led courses in Barcelona, Spain and Mumbai, India training the next generation of international pain medicine physicians. Dr. Mehta is leading efforts to help improve the patient experience for those undergoing surgery, while advancing the field of knowledge in chronic pain and spinal cord stimulation. He has authored over 30 peer-reviewed papers, chapters and abstracts. https://weillcornell.org/neelmehta
Author of the #1 Amazon bestsellers "Swipe to Unlock" and "Bubble or Revolution." Passionate about civic tech, open data, and product management. Former CS @Harvard, PM @Microsoft, founder @Civic Digital Fellowship, engineer @Khan Academy. Want me to speak at your company or university, or want to talk about my books? Drop me a line at neel@namehta.com. https://www.linkedin.com/in/neelmehta18/
Neel Mehta, MD, talks with Linda about how LDN can be incorporated in many different treatment plans for many types of diseases.
Aditya (Adi) Agashe is a Product Manager at Microsoft and the best-selling author of Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy as well as his most recent book, Bubble or Revolution: The Present and Future of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies. Alongside his two close friends and fellow PMs, Neel Mehta and Parth Detroja, Adi creates content that provides a thorough, yet understandable introduction to complex topics like how to break into tech and what exactly blockchain is. Adi got his start in entrepreneurship when he was at Cornell, launching two companies -- Belle Apps and Belle Delivery. We talk about topics like how to establish credibility with an audience, the major differences between the public and private blockchain, what the most promising current and future applications of blockchain are and much more!
Neel D. Mehta, M.D., is the Director of the Weill Cornell Pain Management Center and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College. He also serves as a Co-Director of the Center for Comprehensive Spine Care, Medical Director of 14 South Amenities Unit, and Advisory Board Member to the Patient Experience Task Force and Integrative Medicine Center. He is a Director-at Large-of the New York Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and President-Elect of the Eastern Pain Association. Dr. Mehta completed his fellowship in Interventional Pain Medicine in the Tri-Institutional Pain Medicine Fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, and Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Embodying Weill Cornell's tripartite mission, Dr. Mehta delivers superior patient care, conducts groundbreaking research, and educates doctors-in-training in the field of pain medicine. His clinical area of expertise is in musculoskeletal pain of the back, neck, and joints, post-operative pain, neuropathic disorders, pelvic pain, and cancer and cancer-treatment related pain. His work has been featured on New York 1 and ABC-7 television, and he has discussed the history of pain on National Public Radio. Dr. Mehta was an invited expert on Facebook Patient Chats for the Neuropathy Association of America, and has led courses in Barcelona, Spain and Mumbai, India training the next generation of international pain medicine physicians. Dr. Mehta is leading efforts to help improve the patient experience for those undergoing surgery, while advancing the field of knowledge in chronic pain and spinal cord stimulation. He has authored over 30 peer-reviewed papers, chapters and abstracts.
Neel D. Mehta, M.D., is the Director of the Weill Cornell Pain Management Center and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College. He also serves as a Co-Director of the Center for Comprehensive Spine Care, Medical Director of 14 South Amenities Unit, and Advisory Board Member to the Patient Experience Task Force and Integrative Medicine Center. He is a Director-at Large-of the New York Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and President-Elect of the Eastern Pain Association. Dr. Mehta completed his fellowship in Interventional Pain Medicine in the Tri-Institutional Pain Medicine Fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, and Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Embodying Weill Cornell’s tripartite mission, Dr. Mehta delivers superior patient care, conducts groundbreaking research, and educates doctors-in-training in the field of pain medicine. His clinical area of expertise is in musculoskeletal pain of the back, neck, and joints, post-operative pain, neuropathic disorders, pelvic pain, and cancer and cancer-treatment related pain. His work has been featured on New York 1 and ABC-7 television, and he has discussed the history of pain on National Public Radio. Dr. Mehta was an invited expert on Facebook Patient Chats for the Neuropathy Association of America, and has led courses in Barcelona, Spain and Mumbai, India training the next generation of international pain medicine physicians. Dr. Mehta is leading efforts to help improve the patient experience for those undergoing surgery, while advancing the field of knowledge in chronic pain and spinal cord stimulation. He has authored over 30 peer-reviewed papers, chapters and abstracts. Subscribe to our mailing list * indicates required Email Address *
All you need to win in medtech these days is a good product, right? Neel Mehta, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at EpiFinder, is the first to tell you that his digital health startup has an amazing product with the potential to improve millions of lives. He’ll also tell you that success requires new approaches to innovation, marketing, entrepreneurship, clinical feedback, corporate culture, grit, and a little luck. All that, plus the story of how Jared and Neel first met thanks to #PinkSocks (look it up – it’s a thing!). Special thanks to True North Custom for partnering with us to spread the awesome, yo! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Improving healthcare through better access to facilities, connectivity, and patient interactions
Tech Connect AZ, brought to you by the Arizona Technology Council and powered by Coplex, seeks to expand the awareness of local technology heroes and their accomplishments through intimate interviews with the tech titans themselves. Part How I Built This, part Under the Radar, the Tech Connect podcast will provide an intimate view into the lives of Arizona’s most innovative and creative minds and companies, many of whom you may not even know about yet.Know of a great company or innovator that should be featured on Tech Connect AZ? Get in touch with us at marketing@aztechcounil.org and share comments on Facebook + Twitter: @aztechcouncilThe Arizona Technology Council is the driving force behind making our State the fastest growing technology hub in the nation; connecting and empowering Arizona’s technology community. As Arizona’s premier trade association for science and technology companies, the Council is recognized as having a diverse professional business community and top professional networking organization. The Arizona Technology Council offers numerous events, educational forums and business conferences that bring together leaders, managers, employees and visionaries to make an impact on the technology industry. To become a member or to learn more about the Arizona Technology Council, please visit http://www.aztechcouncil.org.About our podcast sponsor, Coplex is an expert team of startup creators located in Phoenix, AZ. Ranked Top 7 Startup Accelerator, Coplex helps non-coding, industry experts start successful tech companies and get them to venture-ready in as little as nine months. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Neel Mehta is a co-founder at EpiFinder, a Phoenix area-based startup that assists doctors in diagnosing epilepsy with more confidence. Eleni Kapogianis manages biz dev and marketing for the company as well. They joined Adam to talk about how they approach personal vs. professional use of social media channels, plus why Neel lives on LinkedIn and Eleni can't get enough of Instagram. Neel on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/neelmehta14 Neel on Twitter: @neelmehta14 Eleni on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/eleni-kapogianis-373a998a Website: epifinder.com Epifinder on Instagram: @epifinderinc This episode is hosted by Adam Leidhecker, Brand Strategist at Coplex in Phoenix, AZ, and produced by Vincent Orleck, President of Social Media Club Phoenix. Recorded live at Social Media Day Phoenix 2018 held at 1951@ASU SkySong in Scottsdale, AZ on June 30th, 2018.
ASU alumnus Neel Mehta joins us to discuss EpiFinder, a novel biomedical informatics technology for patients and healthcare providers that helps improve diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. Neel is Epifinder's Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer. epifinder.com
Vincent is joined by Neel Mehta, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at EpiFinder. Neel thoughtfully opens up about how the startup came to be, along with some discussion about how local entrepreneurs can make the most of all the resources that Arizona has to offer. Recorded live at Techstars Startup Week PHX 2018 powered by Chase. Head to phxstartupweek.com for more details. Major props to Raz Yalov and his team at ZCast for producing the entire show live all week in near-real time! And a huge thanks to 48 Startups for sponsoring the show. #yesPHX is the world's most generous startup community for entrepreneurs. For more information and updates from the #yesPHX community: Visit our website - yesphx.com Join our active Facebook Group Follow us on our Facebook page, Twitter, and/or Instagram Read our Medium publication Join our Slack group Follow the #yesPHX hashtag on Twitter and/or Instagram
Neel Mehta is a co-author of "Swipe to Unlock: The Non-Coder's Guide to Technology and the Business Strategy Behind It." At time of this interview Neel is a senior at Harvard, studying computer science, and has held internships at Microsoft, Khan Academy, and the U.S. census bureau. One of Neel's greatest passions is using technology for social good. He started by launching an education app with a quarter-million users while he was still in high school. More recently, he founded a civic technology nonprofit, Coding it Forward, empowering young coders to use their talents for good. In our discussion, Neel shares what drew him to technology at a young age, how he landed his competitive internships in college, why it's important to understand technology even for professionals not in tech roles, and more.
Black Hat Briefings, Las Vegas 2005 [Video] Presentations from the security conference
AV software is becoming extremely popular because of the its percieved protection. Even the average person is aware they want AV on their computer (see AOL, Netscape, Netzero, Earthlink, and other ISP television ads). What if: Instead of protecting ppl from hackers AV software was actually making it easier for hackers? This talk will outline general binary auditing techniques using AV software as an example, and demonstrate examples of remote AV vulnerabilities discovered using those techniques. Alex Wheeler is a security researcher, who specializes in reversing engineering binaries for security vulnerabilities. His research experience was cultivated during his time with ISS X-Force, which he spent auditing critical network applications and technologies for security vulnerabilities. Alex's recent audit focus on AV products has lead to the discovery of serious systemic and point vulnerabilities in many major AV products. Neel Mehta works as an application vulnerability researcher at ISS X-Force, and like many other security researchers comes from a reverse-engineering background. His reverse engineering experience was cultivated through extensive consulting work in the copy protection field, and has more recently been focused on application security. Neel has done extensive research into binary and source-code auditing, and has applied this knowledge to find many vulnerabilities in critical and widely deployed network applications.
Black Hat Briefings, Las Vegas 2005 [Audio] Presentations from the security conference
AV software is becoming extremely popular because of the its percieved protection. Even the average person is aware they want AV on their computer (see AOL, Netscape, Netzero, Earthlink, and other ISP television ads). What if: Instead of protecting ppl from hackers AV software was actually making it easier for hackers? This talk will outline general binary auditing techniques using AV software as an example, and demonstrate examples of remote AV vulnerabilities discovered using those techniques. Alex Wheeler is a security researcher, who specializes in reversing engineering binaries for security vulnerabilities. His research experience was cultivated during his time with ISS X-Force, which he spent auditing critical network applications and technologies for security vulnerabilities. Alex's recent audit focus on AV products has lead to the discovery of serious systemic and point vulnerabilities in many major AV products. Neel Mehta works as an application vulnerability researcher at ISS X-Force, and like many other security researchers comes from a reverse-engineering background. His reverse engineering experience was cultivated through extensive consulting work in the copy protection field, and has more recently been focused on application security. Neel has done extensive research into binary and source-code auditing, and has applied this knowledge to find many vulnerabilities in critical and widely deployed network applications.
Black Hat Briefings, USA 2007 [Video] Presentations from the security conference.
This presentation addresses the stated problem by focusing specifically on C++-based security, and outlines types of vulnerabilities that can exist in C++ applications. It will examine not only the base language, but also covers APIs and auxillary functionality provided by common platforms, primarily the contemporary Windows OSs. The topics that will be addressed in this presentation include object initialization/destruction, handling object arrays, implications of operator overloading, and problems arising from implementing exception handling functionality. Various STL classes will also be discussed in terms of how they might be susceptible to misuse, and unexpected quirks that can manifest as security problems. This presentation will include discussion of bug classes that have yet to be discussed or exploited in a public forum (to our knowledge) for the topic areas outlined.
Black Hat Briefings, USA 2007 [Audio] Presentations from the security conference.
This presentation addresses the stated problem by focusing specifically on C++-based security, and outlines types of vulnerabilities that can exist in C++ applications. It will examine not only the base language, but also covers APIs and auxillary functionality provided by common platforms, primarily the contemporary Windows OSs. The topics that will be addressed in this presentation include object initialization/destruction, handling object arrays, implications of operator overloading, and problems arising from implementing exception handling functionality. Various STL classes will also be discussed in terms of how they might be susceptible to misuse, and unexpected quirks that can manifest as security problems. This presentation will include discussion of bug classes that have yet to be discussed or exploited in a public forum (to our knowledge) for the topic areas outlined.