Fabienne Cotte: Managing Clinical Trials While Surfing in Asia

Things we talked about

• How she got her first job in digital health already during her studies
• Why she decided to continue working in digital health upon graduating versus working in a hospital
• How it’s like to work from Bali: Surfing, productivity, time zone differences, coworking spaces
• Why working in a different time zone makes her more productive
• An example of a study they did in Tanzania which compared mid-level healthcare professionals using software versus physicians without software (with very interesting results)
• How a typical work day looks like for her
• How she had to start managing people a few months in to her job
• Why she’s considering going back to work in the hospital to work as a physician in Dermatology some time in the future

Links As Mentioned In The Podcast

• Fabienne on LinkedIn.
• Ada Health: Where Fabienne currently works. A healthcare company in Berlin developing a symptom checker. Note that Matthew Fenech, a prior guest on this podcast, also worked at Ada Health, and I also worked there as Ada was my first consulting customer back in 2020.