Let's Talk Risk! Podcast
Let’s Talk Risk! brings together MedTech leaders and practitioners for thoughtful conversations on the challenges that shape risk, quality, innovation, and leadership. With 150+ episodes and more than 30K downloads, it helps professionals gain the clarity and confidence to lead through complex decisions. naveenagarwalphd.substack.com
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- StandardSummaries onlyLTR 148: Chris Daly on Companion Diagnostics, AI, and FDA’s Evolving Approach
Published Mar 20, 2026
Summary“Test, test, test - and don’t accept the outcome unless you’re fairly confident in the level of uncertainty that remains.”Companion diagnostics (CDx) are inherently high-consequence because they can directly shape treatment decisions. That reality drives a higher bar for clarity: intended use boundaries, evidence expectations, and tight specificity in what the test is claiming and for whom.In this Let’s Talk Risk! conversation, host Naveen Agarwal sits down with Chris Daly to discuss how
- StandardSummaries onlyLTR 141: Ashkon Rasooli on Applying an Agile Mindset to Risk-Based Quality Systems Under QMSR
Published Jan 30, 2026
Summary“Delaying a product that is adequately safe and effective is itself a risk, one we rarely acknowledge in our quality systems.”In this episode of the Let's Talk Risk Podcast, host Naveen Agarwal speaks with Ashkon Rasooli, a seasoned SaMD and AI/ML quality strategist, about what QMSR readiness really means for software-heavy medical device organizations.Ashkon explains why traditional hardware-centric quality thinking breaks down in software environments, where failures are deterministic,