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Challenging the Gold Standard: Interview with Profound Medical CEO Arun Menawat

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In this episode of Medsider Radio, we sat down with Dr. Arun Menawat, Chairman and CEO of Profound Medical. Profound is commercializing the TULSA-PRO system, an alternative approach to prostate cancer treatment that uses MRI-guided thermal ultrasound to target and eliminate cancerous tissue without surgical incisions. Before joining Profound in 2016, Arun served as the Chairman and CEO of Novadaq Technologies for 13 years, guiding the company from a startup to one of the fastest-growing, NASDAQ-listed medical technology businesses with a market cap exceeding one billion USD. Earlier in his career, Arun served as President of Cedara Software, a company that developed the industry’s first medical imaging software platform. Today, it’s part of IBM’s Watson Health.In this interview, Arun shares insights on building credibility with physicians, the strategic approach to clinical trials that led to their recent Medicare reimbursement coverage, and his vision for transforming the future of surgery beyond prostate ca