![]() I was on the faculty as a cardiologist, but I also taught the medical students. How did you come up with the idea to start that company?ĭR. DESAI: Jason, you started Boards and Beyond, which is a platform that helps a lot of medical students prepare for board exams. It also helped a lot that I worked for a year and I saw a lot of people miserable in their jobs so when medicine got hard, I never sort of said "Gee maybe there's this rosy great place out there where I could have a real job" and I was always so glad to be in medicine and felt like I was better off.ĭR. For starters, I still have that sort of engineering mind of fluid flowing through a pipe and things like that, and what little math there is in medicine never really bothered me. DESAI: Do you feel like your background kind of starting outside of medicine has influenced your journey at all?ĭR. That's how I got into it it was kind of a second choice, not the first thing I was going to do.ĭR. I had some friends who were in med school who were liking it and I did some shadowing, and so long story short, I applied to med school and went to medical school at the University of Connecticut. It was a cubicle kind of job, it wasn't that exciting, and so, I started to reconsider my options. However, after I graduated, I worked for a year for an engineering company and I sort of could see the path ahead of me. In fact, there were a lot of pre-meds in some of my classes like organic chemistry and they sometimes drove me nuts because they were obsessed with getting the perfect grade on everything to get into med school. I actually had no inkling of ever being in healthcare. So I'm from a town called Trumbull, Connecticut, and I went to college in Pennsylvania at a school called Lehigh and I studied chemical engineering there. I'm just curious, do you mind just telling me a little bit about your background and what got you first interested in healthcare?ĭR. ![]() DESAI: So Jason, I was just noting that you're a lifer at UConn, a Husky. Thank you so much for being with us today.ĭR. He's also a faculty member at the UConn School of Medicine and is the founder and CEO of Boards and Beyond. He's been a practicing cardiologist since 2008. Ryan is a practicing cardiologist who received his MD and MPH degrees at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in 2001. ![]() RISHI DESAI: Hi, I'm Rishi Desai and today on Raise the Line, I'm happy to be joined by Dr. ![]()
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