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Spotlight on Women in Health Ventures Theia
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Healthcare does not have a “women in healthcare” problem, but a “women in healthcare leadership” problem. Yet being a leader doesn’t just mean climbing the corporate ladder. We need more women to take ownership of their ideas and translate them into companies. On Spotlight on Women in Health Ventures, Theia co-founders Sumun Khetpal, Shabnam Eghbali, and Irene Park speak with women and allies that are challenging the status quo and changing the healthcare entrepreneurship and investing scene.
Produced by Theia. Editors: Ellie Park, Pearl Zhang, Aseem Jain. Album art: Mia Kim, Sabrina Tian. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theia-hc/support
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Innovating in Value Based Care with Dr. Kameron Matthews (Cityblock Health)
We are thrilled to have Dr. Kameron Matthews on the podcast today. She is the Chief Health Officer at Cityblock Health, where she leads the clinical strategy and operations for a rapidly growing company that provides innovative, personalized, and accessible care to individuals and communities with complex health and social needs. She has over 15 years of experience as a board-certified family physician, a health policy expert, and a mentor to aspiring and practicing health professionals from diverse backgrounds. She aims to transform health care delivery and outcomes for underserved populations by leveraging innovative operations, data, technology, and human-centered design. In addition to working at Cityblock health, she co-founded and directs Tour for Diversity in Medicine, a national initiative that educates and inspires future physicians, dentists, and pharmacists of color, and serve as a Health Innovators Fellow at the Aspen Institute, a prestigious program that fosters entrepreneurial and values-driven leadership in health care. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the highest honor in the field, and served as a senior executive at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, where she oversaw the largest integrated healthcare network in the country in the Office of Community Care and later served as Chief Health Officer of the health system. She is passionate about advancing health equity, quality, and innovation, and empowering the next generation of health care leaders. She received her JD from the University of Chicago Law School and her MD from Johns Hopkins.
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Developing Diagnostic Devices In Low-Resource Settings with Dr. Mireille Kamariza (OliLux Biosciences)
Dr. Mireille Kamariza is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at UCLA and co-founder and CEO of OliLux Biosciences, a company dedicated to providing low- cost, portable and reliable diagnostic devices in low-resource settings. She is a chemical biologist with expertise building diagnostics tools against infectious organisms. With a background in chemical biology and infectious disease research, she researches new tools to selectively probe molecular activity of live cells, in real-time, with versatile applications in research and medicine.
She was previously a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows working with Prof. Pardis Sabeti at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. There, she worked on developing CRISPR-Cas13 assays to detect bloodborne viruses such as Ebolavirus, Lassa virus, Yellow Fever virus, and many others.
Prior to her appointment at Harvard, she completed her doctoral studies in Biology at Stanford University where she developed a new diagnostic technology for the rapid and simple detection of tuberculosis at the point-of-care. This project was awarded a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant to test their diagnostic devices in places with high levels of disease. In addition, her work was translated into what is now OliLux Biosciences.
Dr. Kamariza has received numerous awards, including being named as one of Chemical & Engineering News's Talented 12 in 2020 and Endpt’s 20 under 40 in 2023. In December 2022, Nature Medicine named Dr. Kamariza as one of 11 early-career researchers to watch.
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Innovating in the Home-Based Care Market for Chronic Conditions with Naama Stauber Breckler (Better Health)
We are so excited to invite Naama Stauber Breckler, a software engineer and a product manager turned healthcare entrepreneur who has founded 3 prior companies and has now started Better Health. Better Health is a healthcare company providing a digital care solution that bundles peer support, education, and delivery of medical supplies to patient’s homes. Through her work, Naama aims to tackle gaps in the quality of care for people with chronic conditions. Naama received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of business and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from The Academic College of Tel Aviv.
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Delivering Sexual Wellness Solutions with Dr. Lyndsey Harper (Rosy)
Dr. Lyndsey Harper is an enthusiastic and passionate women's health advocate, a Board Certified Ob/Gyn, Associate Professor of Ob/Gyn for Texas A&M COM, a Fellow of The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health. Dr. Harper is the founder and CEO of Rosy, an award-winning women’s health technology company that connects women who have sexual health concerns with hope, community, and research-backed solutions. She has been named Forbes Top 53 Women Disrupting Healthcare, People Newspapers’ 20 Under 40, a Top Innovator in North Texas for 2020 and a DBJ Top Woman in Tech.
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Closing the Gender Health Gap by Exploring the Vaginal Microbiome with Priyanka Jain (Evvy)
Priyanka Jain has always been passionate about leveraging data to improve outcomes for women. She is co-founder and CEO of Evvy, a company focusing on closing the gender health gap by discovering female-specific biomarkers, starting with the vaginal microbiome. Evvy has the metagenomic sequencing vaginal health test and offers care based on the discoveries to diagnose, treat, and predict risk for complex health conditions in the female body. Prior to Evvy, Priyanka worked as Head of Product at Pymetrics, where she focused on building algorithms to make hiring more fair, efficient, and transparent. She is also a spokesperson for the United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up Campaign, Chair of the Acumen Fund’s Junior Council, and on the Innovation Board for the XPrize Foundation. She received her B.S. from Stanford University where she was a Mayfield Fellow and President of Stanford Women in Business.
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Just the Doctor's Order - A Digital Solution for Chronic Pain with Rachel Trobman (Upside Health)
Rachel Trobman is founder and CEO of Upside Health, a digital health company transforming the way chronic pain is assessed and treated through remote physiologic monitoring, therapeutic monitoring, and behavioral health integration. Prior to Upside, she worked in news production and content development, working for NY1, the New York Times and NBC News. During our conversation, Rachel details her path to founding Upside Health and what the pain management market looks like. Her advice to aspiring healthcare entrepreneurs: find a problem - not the solution - that you're obsessed with.
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