At HLTH2025, Ian Khan speaks with Ophir Kagan of Maitri Health about building a digital support network that empowers patients, friends and clinicians alike. Ophir shares how her personal journey as a cancer survivor inspired the app’s “support circles” model—making help simple and removing the stigma around asking for it. They explore how such platforms can improve treatment adherence, emotional well-being and patient-provider communication.
Ophir Kagan is the Co-Founder & CEO of Maitri Health, a New York-based health technology company that helps patients form “support circles” with family, friends and clinicians during medical treatment. A cancer survivor herself, Ophir launched Maitri to turn trauma into community empowerment—leveraging her decade of experience in clinical research, emergency medicine and product innovation to build a compassionate tech platform that improves outcomes and reduces isolation.

Ian Khan is a globally recognised emerging tech leadership expert. A practising Futurist, Creator of the Future Readiness Leaders Circle, Multiple times author including "Metaverse for Dummies", Filmmaker and Storyteller on PrimeVideo and Emirates Airlines, one of the worlds largest airlines with 10 Million passengers per year. Ian's ground breaking work has been featured on CNN, the BBC, Fox, Bloomberg, Wharton Daily, ArabNews, RT, CoinBase, Korea Times, Spanish Daily Expansión, Ian hosts the worlds largest Future Readiness leadership networks, bringing together high performance entrepreneurs and leaders on a common mission to build future ready and undisputable businesses. Khan's new book is titled "Undisruptable" and is scheduled to release in early 2024.
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