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Episode 76: Dr. Avinash Jayaraman on Why Your Kid's Screen Time Is a Clinical Emergency

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After training as a physician, earning an MBA from Wharton, and co-founding Sonara Health, a digital health company that raised over $10 million from the NIH, VCs, Dr. Avinash Jayaraman could have gone in almost any direction. He chose to focus on one of the most urgent and underserved crises in adolescent health: the mental health epidemic driven by technology overuse.

In this episode, Dr. Jayaraman unpacks why screen time and social media have become a clinical problem, not just a parenting debate, what it actually takes to build a mental health startup for kids and teens…

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