Key Takeaways
💡 How enhanced recovery protocols reduce opioid use and addiction
💊 Billion Pill Pledge: Eliminating one billion unnecessary opioid pills from American homes
💪 How Goldfinch Health is bringing change to the surgical recovery process
🏙️ Goldfinch’s role in Austin’s evolving healthcare scene
👨👩👧👦 How Brand’s family experiences with healthcare shaped his mission
Meet the Guest – Brand Newland
Brand Newland, PharmD, MBA, is the CEO and Co-founder of Goldfinch Health. Inspired by personal experiences with the pitfalls of surgery and a lack of proactive solutions to the Opioid Crisis, Brand helped to launch a vision toward a higher standard of care in surgery and recovery in 2018. Goldfinch Health optimizes the surgery and recovery experience, saving companies, government stakeholders, and patients, not only from the harms of opioids but also from wasting time in post-surgery recovery and money in outdated healthcare.
In 2021, Newland founded the Billion Pill Pledge with a mission to erase 1 billion opioid pills from our collective homes, medicine cabinets, and communities. Thanks to advances in science and medical practice over the last two decades, we can achieve better pain management with fewer opioids. All that’s missing is the spark. The Billion Pill Pledge is designed to catalyze collective action toward opioid first dose prevention.
Brand received a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Iowa and holds a certification in pain management. He has also completed an MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Connect with Brand and the Billion Pill Pledge
Show Notes
In today’s episode, Adam interviews Brand Newland, CEO and Co-Founder of Goldfinch Health, a company that’s transforming surgical recovery. Brand takes us through his journey from pharmacy school to becoming a healthcare entrepreneur, driven by personal experiences and the opioid crisis. He dives into Goldfinch’s mission to tackle the opioid epidemic through their Billion Pill Pledge, aiming to eliminate one billion unnecessary opioid pills from homes across the U.S.
Brand dives into the real-world consequences of opioid over-prescription and how Goldfinch’s enhanced recovery protocols are not only reducing opioid use but also speeding up recovery for patients. From his roots in small-town Nebraska to leading a thriving healthcare startup in Austin, Brand’s story is a testament to the power of innovation in the face of adversity. Tune in to hear Brand’s bold vision for the future of healthcare and the vital role Austin plays in shaping that future.