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
E34: AI for Children’s Hearts: Dr. Joshua Mayourian on Early Detection and Global Impact
In this episode of the Pediatric Moonshot podcast, Dr. Joshua Mayourian—engineer, physician-scientist, and founder of the Congenital Heart AI Lab at Boston Children’s—shares how his journey from chemical engineering to pediatric cardiology is shaping the future of heart care for kids. He explains how AI-enabled EKGs can detect arrhythmias, measure heart function, and even predict mortality risk with expert-level accuracy. Josh also discusses his team’s groundbreaking efforts to identify congenital heart disease in newborns, the challenges of scaling AI models across diverse populations, and the potential of AI-enhanced echocardiography to transform diagnosis globally. This conversation highlights how engineering, medicine, and AI can converge to save children’s lives worldwide
This episode is brought to you by BevelCloud—powering distributed AI in healthcare and driving the Pediatric Moonshot forward. Learn more at BevelCloud.ai."