The Pediatric Moonshot
Welcome to the Pediatric Moonshot Podcast. The mission of the Pediatric Moonshot initiative is to reduce healthcare inequity, lower costs, and improve outcomes for children both locally and worldwide. This is to be achieved by developing real-time, privacy-preserving applications that access and leverage data from every one of the one million healthcare machines across all five hundred children’s hospitals globally.
Join us for engaging 1:1 interviews hosted by Dr. Timothy Chou, the driving force behind the Pediatric Moonshot initiative, as he talks to visionaries from diverse fields, ranging from esteemed clinicians to influential business leaders – all united by their dedication to enhancing the well-being of children.
Each episode provides an in-depth exploration of the current pediatric healthcare landscape, shedding light on the challenges we face, and the innovative solutions driven by passionate professionals from all walks of life.
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The Pediatric Moonshot
E30: Rewriting the Odds: Dr. Rahul Rathod on Single Ventricle Heart Disease and the FORCE Registry
In this episode of the Pediatric Moonshot Podcast, host Tim speaks with Dr. Rahul Rathod, pediatric cardiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rathod explains the challenges of single ventricle heart disease—a rare and life-threatening condition requiring multiple surgeries early in life—and shares how his team is advancing care through the FORCE Registry, the largest Fontan dataset in the world. They also discuss the groundbreaking FUEL 2 trial and how AI-driven imaging analysis is transforming pediatric cardiology. This is a powerful conversation about hope, data, and the future of care for some of the most vulnerable patients.
This episode is brought to you by BevelCloud—powering distributed AI in healthcare and driving the Pediatric Moonshot forward. Learn more at BevelCloud.ai."