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26th Jan 2021

The Real Deal About Gaming

The Real Deal About Gaming

Andrew Hilvers is a software engineer, digital health entrepreneur,  and game developer for a triple-A video game company.

In this episode, Andrew and Ravi take a deep dive into gaming.  Why are games so addictive, what does it take to create a game, and what role do they play in our culture? Here’s a rare chance to hear from an expert from in the complicated, creative, multi-billion-dollar world of video games. 

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ravi komatireddy

Dr. Ravi Komatireddy MD is a physician and digital health entrepreneur who is currently the Founder and CEO of Motiv Health Inc, a startup passionately focused on using human and AI coaching for health behavior change.

He is an Internal Medicine physician who trained at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and the University of California San Diego. He was one of the first wireless digital health scholars at the Scripps Translational Science Institute where he earned a masters in clinical translational investigation.

Previously, he co-founded and served as Chief Medical Officer of 2 funded digital health startups: Lumiata Inc., a big data, AI healthcare company focused on creating the world’s largest medical knowledge graph; and Reflexion Health Inc., a digital medicine, virtual physical therapy platform using motion tracking cameras in the home. He also received the first grant from NASA flight opportunities program to advance research in digital health and human spaceflight and continues to work with NASA on a COVID-19 Taskforce. He advises several Digital health startups and holds a volunteer faculty position at the University of California San Diego.

In general, he's intensely curious about the world and won't stop bothering people until they answer his questions.