57: Do we really need precision medicine for our drug prescriptions? With Athena Doshi, founder of Celeste 15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators

On this episode, Vinay Shankar is joined by Athena Doshi, founder of Celeste, a medication diagnostic tool. The company aims to tackle the gender gap in health, to provide prescriptions that fit physiology to improve outcomes in women’s health. Celeste aims not only to bridge the gap, but decrease wastage and eliminate the time it takes to treat a patient with the optimal drug. The platform works seamlessly with healthcare systems to provide a holistic approach to diagnostics and prescriptions. Learn all about it, and why Athena believes the ExactRx platform is a crucial infrastructure piece for healthcare systems.



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How she began her first company at college as a response to a medical mission trip in Tanzania

How she is using the principle of co-design to develop Celeste as a holistic standard of care

How Celeste is addressing the gender data health gap and its disproportionate impact on women

How Celeste’s diagnostic tool called ExactRx, is addressing the experiences patients have with medication to produce better health outcomes

How the tool automates existing guidelines

How the underpinning research for Celeste is pharmacometabolomics, an area the co-founder specialises in

How Celeste can be used by clinicians to better inform their prescriptions

How Athena is focussed on pitching Celeste as an infrastructure system for healthcare systems







Guest: Athena Doshi

Website: Celeste



Host: Dr Vinay Shankar

Website: https://www.oncedaily.co

Podcast: 15 Minutes With The Doctor