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How do you go from being an Olympic speed-skater⛸ to building a neurological research foundation and sitting on the board of a VC firm? Well if you ask Crystal Phillips how she did it, she’d tell you that she just rolled into it…
This time around, on our...
How do you go from being an Olympic speed-skater⛸ to building a neurological research foundation and sitting on the board of a VC firm? Well if you ask Crystal Phillips how she did it, she’d tell you that she just rolled into it…
This time around, on our latest episode of Med Tech Talks, Geoffrey Ching gets to chat with Crystal Phillips, founder of Branch Out Neurological Foundation and Health Lead at Thin Air Labs. We find out about her career as a speed skater and how a life-threatening illness completely changed the direction she then headed towards.
Timestamps:
00:52-03:52 - Crystal’s initial days as a speed skater.
03:52-08:52 - Being diagnosed with MS and giving up speed skating for the time being.
08:52-12:39 - Taking an alternative route towards recovery, and almost making it to the 2010 Olympics.
12:40-14:32 - Drawing the curtains on her skating career, and starting Branch Out Foundation.
14:32-18:33 - Crystal elaborates the path that Branch Out took, going more towards research rather than pharmacology, and the hardships that they have come across.
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