She Was Told It Was Anxiety. Now Dr Ariella Heffernan-Marks's AI Platform Ovum Is Diagnosing What Doctors Missed
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Ariella was a medical student telling doctors about her own migraines and being told it was anxiety. That experience is the reason Ovum AI exists. She built the health platform she needed as a patient, using her training as a doctor, and it now tracks things about women's bodies that traditional medicine has never measured in one place.
About The Guest Dr Ariella Heffernan-Marks is a medical doctor turned founder and the person behind Ovum AI, a health platform built for women. She trained at Monash, completed her MD at Macquarie, worked as a doctor at Prince of Wales Hospital, is doing a PhD in FemTech and AI at The George Institute, and has raised $5.7M.
What We Cover - What Ovum is and the story behind building it - Building the first women's health-specific longitudinal dataset - What the Ovum Brain does that a general chatbot cannot - Earning trust from people the medical system has already dismissed - What responsible AI looks like day to day inside a product - What to do with years of customer data and no plan for it
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