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Latitude Episode 33: You’re A Heart Surgeon, Why Are You Doing A Startup?

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You’d think being a heart surgeon would be enough right? Not for Irfan Khan, that’s just a comma in his career. While working as a heart surgeon Irfan discovered that patients wanted access to clinical trials.

Thus, the quest to start Circuit Clinical began.

This week on the podcast we talk with Irfan about the process of leaving his life as a heart surgeon and starting Circuit Clinical, and how the Buffalo startup aims to scale and bring clinical trials to the masses.


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