Med Tech Talks Ep.80: Sven Jungmann Pt. 1

A master career juggler, who somehow manages to impact more and more people through his marvellous field of work. We are talking about a pioneer of digital healthcare entrepreneurship in Europe, Dr. Sven Jungmann.

In this week’s episode, we talk to Sven about his dream of joining the armed forces and why he deviated from that to venture into healthcare. Sven also gives his straightforward opinions about the importance of impact in healthcare, and how he aims to create a big one himself.

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Timestamps

00:59-03:54 - So who is Sven Jungmann? A card game inventor? A doctor? A tech guy? Well he’s all three of those!

04:15-09:00 - Find out the one thing that you love, and be the best at it. Sven doesn’t completely agree with this notion, and he has his reasons too!

09:08-13:22 - A lifelong dream of joining the armed forces, and how that changed when an army sniper, and his mentor, advised Sven to not pursue it.

13:23-17:50 - Scaling up - why is it important? Sven reflects upon his eureka moment, when he realized how much of an impact he wanted to make in his field of work.

17:51-19:04 - An explainer on effective altruism, and how that influenced Sven’s educational journey at Oxford.

19:05-23:59 - Going back to medicine after Oxford, then getting back out of it to go into digital health start-ups; a glimpse of Sven’s topsy-turvy career arc.

24:00-27:10 - Sven talks about the different roles that conventional doctors are now taking up while including himself in the list as well.