Surgical Technology Development with Ananth Ravi

Oncology Overdrive

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with MOLLI Surgical co-founder and CEO, Ananth Ravi, about inventing surgical technology to provide better patient care, addressing inequities in surgical tool access and more. • Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive 1:15 • About Ravi 1:27 • The interview 2:10 • Tell me about how entered this field and how you ended up founding a company that invents surgical instruments. 2:42 • How did you end up moving from Zambia to Canada? 5:02 • Tell me more about MOLLI Surgical. How is this precision surgery unique from what is already out there? 6:47 • What is your background to help you go from ideation to implementation, and how did you take the steps to make your ideas a reality? 10:31 • How do you address rural and global disparities when it comes to accessing these technologies? 16:12 • In an ideal world, where would you see this technology being utilized, and are there any other technologies that you think will revolutionize this type of care? 19:32 • What else excites you about this space? […] How did you find going from the academic space into this role in the business/corporate space? 22:19 • Jain and Ravi on work-life balance. 25:51 • What’s next for you in the next three to five years? 29:26 • If someone could only listen to the last few minutes of this episode, what would you want them to take away? 30:15 • How to contact Ravi 30:42 • Thanks for listening 31:39 Ananth Ravi is president, CEO and co-founder of MOLLI Surgical.

We’d love to hear from you! Send your comments/questions to Dr. Jain at [e-mail]. Follow Healio on X and LinkedIn: @HemOncToday and https://www.linkedin.com/company/hemonctoday/. Follow Dr. Jain on X: @ShikhaJainMD. Ravi can be reached at www.mollisurgical.com or via email [e-mail]. Disclosures: Jain reports no relevant financial disclosures. Ravi reports he is president, CEO and co-founder of MOLLI Surgical.