Her Story - Envisioning the Leadership Possibilities in Healthcare

Meet Sara Sawyer:  Sara Sawyer, Ph. D. has received national and international prizes in virology. In 2022, she was awarded a Pioneer award from the National Institutes of Health, and in 2011 she was the recipient of the PECASE award from President Barack Obama at the White House. Dr. Sawyer serves as a Senior Editor at eLIFE, and as a consultant to the U.S. government on the topic of pandemic pre...

Meet Leslie Norwalk:  Katie is the CEO of RockHealth.org, an organization that builds community and advances solutions for those who need it most to ensure that digital health works for all. Previously, Katie curated health content for the Aspen Ideas Festival and was Managing Director of the Aspen Global Innovators Group, where she led global efforts to address poverty alleviation, human rights,...

Meet Leslie Norwalk: Leslie Norwalk serves as Strategic Counsel for Epstein Becker & Green. She sits on the boards of directors of Arvinas, ModivCare, Neurocrine Biosciences, NuVasive, and several privately held health care corporations. Leslie is also a member of APCO Worldwide’s International Advisory Council. Previously, Leslie served the Bush Administration as the Acting Administrator for the...

Meet Lisa Simpson: Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch. President and Chief Executive Officer of AcademyHealth. Before joining AcademyHealth, Dr. Simpson was a professor of pediatrics, first as an Endowed Chair in Child Health Policy at the University of South Florida and then as the Director of the Child Policy Research Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati...

Meet the Guests: Stephanie Hartselle, M.D. is a pediatric and adult Psychiatrist and CEO of Hartselle & Associates. Alison Darcy, Ph. D. is the President and Founder of Woebot Health. Solomé Tibebu is a Senior Fellow for Digital Transformation at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, a Venture Partner at GreyMater, and Founder and Host of Going Digital: Behavioral Health Tech.   Key Insights...

Meet Karen Antman: Karen Antman, M.D. is Provost of the Medical Campus and Dean of Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. She is an internationally recognized expert on breast cancer, mesotheliomas and sarcomas and has written more than 300 journal papers. Previously, Dr. Antman served as Deputy Director for Translational and Clinical Sciences at the National Cancer Institute...

Meet Melinda Estes: Melinda Estes, MD is president and CEO of Saint Luke’s Health System. She is also a board-certified neurologist and neuropathologist. Dr. Estes served as 2020 chair of American Hospital Association Board of Trustees. Prior to Saint Luke’s, Dr. Estes was president and CEO of Fletcher Allen Health Care as well as CEO of Cleveland Clinic Florida. Dr. Estes received a bachelor’s fr...

Meet Susan Turney: Susan Turney, M.D. is the CEO of Marshfield Clinic Health System. Previously, she was President and CEO of the Medical Group Management Association. She was also CEO and Executive VP of the Wisconsin Medical Society.  She is a Fellow in the American College of Medical Practice Executives (FACMPE) and for 22 years, Dr. Turney was an internal medicine physician at Marshfield Clini...

Meet the Guests: Since her diagnosis with ALS at age 32, Gwen Petersen has poured her energy into advancing the science of her disease. Gwen is not the stereotypical ALS face; thus, she does a lot of media work to dispel the myth that ALS is an older white man’s disease. Prior to her diagnosis, Gwen worked as a Recruiter for one of the top ten medical centers in the country.   Leah Stavenhagen is...

Meet the Guests: Dora Mills, M.D. the Chief Health Improvement Officer of MaineHealth. Seema Verma, the former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. And Denise Cardo, M.D. She is the director of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.   Key Insights: One of the m...

Meet Sandra Fenwick: Sandra Fenwick is the former CEO of the Boston Children’s Hospital. She serves on the Board of Director for the Children's Hospital Association and chairs its Public Policy Committee. She serves on the Board of Directors of CRICO, Livongo Health, Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically-inspired Engineering, Jobs for Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Digital Health Council, an...

Meet Leslie Meehan: Leslie Meehan is the Deputy Commissioner for Population Health at the Tennessee Department of Health. Previously, she was the Director for the Office of Primary Prevention at the Tennessee Department of Health. She also served as the Director of Healthy Communities at the Nashville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization. She received a bachelor’s from Emory University and a ma...

Meet Joanne Conroy, M.D.: Joanne Conroy, M.D. is the CEO and President of Dartmouth Health. She was also recently elected by the American Hospital Association (AHA) to be their chair-elect designate. Prior to Dartmouth Health, Dr. Conroy served as CEO of Lahey Hospital and Medical Center (formerly the Lahey Clinic). She also served as Chief Health Care Officer for the Association of American Medic...

Meet Dora Mills: Dora Mills, M.D. is the Chief Health Improvement Officer of MaineHealth. Previously, she was the Vice President for Clinical Affairs and Director for the Center of Health Innovation at the University ofNew England. She also served as the Medical Director of MaineCare, and the Director of Public  Health for the Maine State Government. Dr. Mills received a Bachelor’s in Biology and...

Meet Anjali Kataria: Anjali Kataria is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mytonomy. She served in the Obama Administration as one of the first Entrepreneurs in Residence at the FDA. She also served as Senior Technology Advisor in the Office of the CIO to the President at the EOP. She also co-founded and was Chief Marketing Officer for Conformia Software. When that company was acquired by Oracle, she became...

Meet Amber Barnato, M.D.: Amber Barnato, M.D. is the John E. Wennberg Distinguished Professor and the Director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She is trained in two medical specialties, public health and preventive medicine, and hospice and palliative medicine. Dr. Barnato received a bachelor’s from the University of...

Key Insights: Suzanne Barakat, M.D. experienced personal tragedy, and was forced to fight through her grief to combat islamophobia in medicine, media, and society.   Reluctant Activist.  Dr. Barakat’s Brother, his wife, and her sister were murdered by a white supremacist for being Muslim. Additionally, two of Dr. Barakat’s relatives were assassinated for their political activism and journalism, pr...

Meet Sanjula Jain, Ph. D.: Sanjula Jain, Ph. D. is SVP of Market Strategy and Chief Research Office at Trilliant Health and a Co-founder of Think Medium. She also serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Division of Clinical Informatics. Previously, she was the Executive Director of Research and Advisory at The Health Management Academy. She received...

Meet Denise Cardo, M.D.: Denise Cardo, M.D. is the director of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She first joined the CDC as a medical epidemiologist. Prior to the CDC, she worked in the division of infectious diseases at Escola Paulista de Medicina in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where...

Meet the Guests: This episode features three leaders previously showcased on Her Story and the powerful advice they received from mentors. Renee DeSilva is the CEO of The Health Management Academy. Melinda B. Buntin, Ph. D. is a Mike Curb Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University. And JaeLynn Williams, the CEO of Air Methods. Key Insights: Mentors play an impo...

Meet Cindy Lawrence: Cindy Lawrence is the Executive Director and CEO of the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath). She started as a volunteer for the organization, and served in a variety of roles including Chief of Operations, Associate Director, and Co-executive Director. She also directs extracurricular mathematics programs with Brookhaven National Laboratory. Previously, she was a Lead Inst...

Meet Megan Ranney, M.D., MPH: Megan Ranney, M.D., MPH is the Academic Dean of the School of Public Health and the founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health at Brown University. She is co-founder and Senior Strategic Advisor to the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine at the Aspen Institute. Dr. Ranney is also an emergency physician, researcher, and c...

Meet the Guests: This episode showcases three guests previously featured on Her Story . Vineet Arora, M.D. is the Dean for Medical Education at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Stacy Hurt is a Patient Engagement Consultant and HIMSS Digital Influencer. Kimberly Manning, M.D. is the Associate Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Department of Medicine at Emor...

Meet Jessica Posner Odede: Jessica Posner Odede is the CEO of Girl Effect. She is also a Co-founder and Board Member of Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO). Previously, she was an Associate Direction at Novastar Ventures. Jessica is the author of “Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss and Hope in an African Slum.” She received a bachelor’s in African American Studies from Wesleyan University.  Key Insigh...

Meet Hisani Madison, Ph. D., MPH: Hisani Madison, Ph. D., MPH is the Senior Director and Precision Medicine Franchise Lead at AstraZeneca. Previously, she was a Senior Scientific Reviewer at the FDA and served as a Special Volunteer and Post-doctoral Fellow at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Madison received a B.S. in Biology from Hampton University, an MPH from Johns Hopkins University, and a...