Healthtech exec, board member, and advisor. Invest Committee @LifeArcVentures. Prev: co-founder/CEO Propeller Health (acq ResMed)
Joined November 2008
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Jun 11
Built a small Chrome extension: YearMap. The whole year on one screen, all 12 months in a single grid. Color-coded category lanes, notes, calendar export. I use it for travel, kids' sports, board meetings, etc
yearmap.app
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May 16
The University of Michigan chose 50 inventions from its catalog for its new startup accelerator. That leaves 4,950 misfits on the sidelines, with no owner, no way forward, and no one asking what else could be done with them.
That’s what my four-part series is about
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Mar 24
University innovation systems can produce companies, but struggle to develop a product without building a startup around it.
Part 2 of my Orphaned Innovations series about how the startup became the only option, why it persists, what it costs.
dvansickle.substack.com/p/or…
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Mar 12
A whole category of innovations coming out of universities have no path forward. First of four posts on why these get orphaned, and what a different model might look like.
davidvansickle.com/p/orphane…
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13 Jul 2025
I wonder whether anyone's tried to make a terrestrial radio station powered entirely by AI? (ie, using a combo of tools to write dialogue, research local events / news, speak text, create music, and stitch it altogether and control broadcast)?
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2 Jul 2025
For as long as I can remember pulmonary rehab has been a marvel of supply constraint. A safe effective intervention for COPD that we make available only to a handful. Even if you don’t hear much about it, thankfully there’s been a strong, recent surge in virtual PR programs
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2 Jul 2025
Including Kivo Health, Zeph Technologies, Kaia Health, FlexTogether, BreatheSuite and Morlen Health (Kaiser Permanente spinout), all profiled in this overview
copdessentials.com/blog/virt…
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27 Jun 2025
We need more people exploring creative ways of building medtech companies at fractions of the costs it took historically
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20 May 2025
Too late now, but dang this was a massive study of Propeller Health in COPD. 164 primary care centers, 835 patients, enrolled for a year, yielding 23 percent reduction in treatment failure
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David Van Sickle retweeted
10 Apr 2025
For 75 years, every time any U.S. state has requested epidemiologic assistance (an “Epi-Aid”), CDC sent disease detectives. Now, Wisconsin has asked for help to address newly discovered lead poisoning in Milwaukee. But all CDC experts in lead poisoning were just fired, along with so many others who have spent their working lives dedicated to protecting Americans. As far as I know, this would be the first time the CDC every has not responded to a formal request for assistance from a state.
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9 Apr 2025
I refuse to act my age when competing physically with younger people…
- Ed Gavagan today in Oldster
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18 Mar 2025
Nothing against these companies, but kind of disappointing that there's only a single device (ie Paragonix) among them
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David Van Sickle retweeted
11 Mar 2025
Earlier I shared an article here about how Musk is destroying our disease-detection systems.
And how we will definitely regret it.
But Musk’s own social media megaphone throttled my post.
So I’m telling you here—I’m attaching a gift link in the post below.
Share it. Read it.
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7 Mar 2025
We've not only stopped filing new patent applications on NIH discoveries, we're also apparently abandoning ones in prosecution?🤦♂️
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19 Feb 2025
So far, Guns at Last Light is my favorite of the trilogy
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15 Feb 2025
This (amazing) paper was one of the things that gave me the idea for Propeller Health, which I started soon after I left EIS
15 Feb 2025
9/ This was the first time that virus had ever been seen in the New World, and birds-especially crows had fallen dead in piles in Queens before the human cases- they had no immunity
We developed a methodology to use statistical clustering to identify the spread of the virus.
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