Join Two Very Different Clinical Product Rooms in the Next Month
Supporting clinicians at two critical inflection points in clinical product
This is Clinical Product Thinking 🧠, your weekly newsletter featuring practical tips, frameworks and strategies from the frontlines of clinical product.
Good afternoon friends, this is issue No. 019. This week we’re diving into two rooms I’m hosting, each designed to support clinicians and clinical product leaders at very different inflection points in their journey.
Over the last year, I’ve spoken to dozens of clinicians trying to move into clinical product and just as many product leaders trying to work out how to use clinical expertise well once they’re in the room.
What keeps coming up is this: most of the advice out there is either too abstract, too sanitised, or too late.
So I’m hosting two deliberately different kinds of rooms:
One is about breaking in.
The other is about breaking through.
Both are based on lived experience from experts in the field, not theory.
Event 1: Breaking Into Clinical Product with Numan (Live Panel)
Breaking into clinical product can feel daunting, not because clinicians lack capability, but because the path in isn’t clearly marked.
This live panel brings together clinicians and product leaders who’ve each taken very different routes into clinical product at leading healthtech companies.
Rather than abstract career advice, this session is grounded in personal experience: what worked, what didn’t, and what each panellist wishes they’d known earlier.
What we’ll explore
How each panellist broke into clinical product and the inflection points that mattered
The skills and experiences that actually make a difference when looking for a role
What they look for now when working with, hiring or developing clinical product talent
How to nail a clinical product interview
Practical advice on how to get your foot in the door at leading healthtech companies
You’ll hear directly from
Danielle Brightman (Numan) on building the clinical product team at Numan and what she looks for in a clinical product manager
Tulsi Patel (Hertility) on what non-clinical product leaders look for in clinical product hires
Dr Yath Premadasan (Flo Health) on breaking into clinical product at a company with global scale
Host: Dr Louise Rix (Clinical Product Thinking) on patterns she sees across dozens of clinical product careers and where people most often get stuck
Bring your questions, your uncertainties and your curiosity. The value of the session comes from the room as much as the panel.
Event 2: From Burnout to Breakthrough — An Intimate Clinical Product Dinner
If the panel is about getting in, this dinner is about what happens after.
Join a small group of clinical product leaders, clinicians and founders for an intimate dinner exploring how lived clinical experience becomes the engine for category-defining healthtech products.
This is for people who already feel the frustration: you see the problems clearly, but turning that insight into a scalable, credible product is harder than it looks.
What we’ll discuss
How to turn clinical expertise into a true product advantage, not just a credential
Common patterns clinicians face when building products and businesses
How to move from problem → insight → product → traction in the NHS
How to navigate regulation, partnerships, evidence and early GTM without burning out
Why strong clinical insight, safety and product thinking still differentiate teams in a crowded market
We’ll hear from Dr Arun Notaney, Founder of GP Automate, on how his experience as a GP partner sparked the idea for automating GP workflows and how he turned frontline pain into a product now used across the NHS.
As always, the dinner is highly collaborative. Bring your questions, your stories and your toughest challenges. We co-create the room together.
The practical bits
Food: A delicious three-course meal, served family-style
Cost: £65 (including service). Drinks can be ordered and paid for separately on the night 🍸
Why these rooms matter
Conferences give you content. Panels give you positioning. Small rooms of people doing the work give you something closer to the truth.
These events aren’t about optics. They’re about helping clinicians and product leaders navigate the real trade-offs.
If either room sounds like where you are right now, I’d love to have you there!
That’s all for this week. See you next time! 👋
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Written by Dr. Louise Rix, Head of Clinical Product, doctor and ex-VC. Passionate about all things healthcare, healthtech and clinical product (…obviously). Based in London. You can find me on Linkedin.
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