Dr. Greg Osmond: Chief Medical Officer of PathologyWatch (Raise the Line)

Hi, I'm Shivani. Thanks for checking out our raise the line interview series.

In which me and my cohost osmosis chief Medical Officer Dr Rishi Desai explore how to strengthen our healthcare system with some amazing leaders in medicine, technology, education and government and they have some great advice for people starting careers in healthcare as well.

I hope you'll watch these highlights and then go listen to the full podcast interview wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Doctor Rishi.

Today on Razor Line, I'm gonna be joined by Greg Osmon, Chief Medical Officer of Pathology Watch, which provides digital products and services for dermatology practices including integration with electronic medical record systems.

I'm looking forward to talking to him about how he sees the role of pathologists on the care team and how pathology is changing, including the growing use of artificial intelligence in the field.

Can you start by telling us about your background, what got you interested in medicine? I've always been drawn into the sciences, been interested in science for a long time.

I failed on college for, for a couple of years and went on a mission to Honduras. So I was in Honduras for a couple of years and one day I was down in the middle of nowhere.

We got home that night and under our door, there was this letter from some general of the US Air Force saying your country needs.

You come to this address tomorrow. We had no idea what that was.

So we sh so we went, obviously, um, and they were doing, the US Air Force was doing cataract surgery for, for these people down in Honduras and they spoke Spanish, but they couldn't communicate with the Honduran cause it's just, you know, a little bit of an interesting dialect and uh we were really in the middle of nowhere.

And so uh yeah, so we ended up interpreting for them for their cataract patients for a couple of days and saw that and it was incredible going from blind to uh being able to see in a matter of, you know, minutes basically.

So that's, that's what got me into medicine. So when I came back, when I came back, you know, I was on a career in health care from there.

You know, our audience is uh composed of a lot of students, early career health professionals. I'm curious, what's your advice to them about meeting the challenges of this moment and approach their career in healthcare in general, given kind of the direction you're seeing in pathology and even more broadly in healthcare?

Exactly. This isn't just pathology, this is healthcare at large.

It's changing rapidly and, and the same technology is being plugged in everywhere that it can be. Right now.

I would say that you need to do what you love and are interested in. And if you're, you know, if you're really interested in diagnostic sym pathology, but you're worried that, you know, the market's changing and, you know, you don't know what it's gonna be like.

There's always gonna be room in every specialty for people that are, that are highly competent and passionate about what they're doing.

Uh It does, it doesn't matter, there's always room for you. So, so it's a, it's a great time to be in health care and um I think health care is gonna be a lot better in 10 years because of it.

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