Her Story - Envisioning the Leadership Possibilities in Healthcare

Re-meet the Hosts: This episode showcases the Her Story Advisory Council. Ceci Connolly is the President & CEO of the Alliance of Community Health Plans. Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., serves as CEO and President of Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health. Kristi Ebong is the head of Partnerships and Market Development at Define Ventures. Julie L. Gerberding, M.D. is Chief Patient Officer and...

Meet Mary Rotunno: Mary Rotunno is the General Counsel for El Camino Health and Board Chair at Momentum for Health. She is also a board member for VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc. and SaNOtize Research and Development Corp. Previously, she served as Senior Counsel for the Bay Area Region at Dignity Health. Mary has also worked as a registered nurse. She graduated from University of Illinois at the Medi...

Meet Seema Verma: Seema Verma serves on the board of directors for Lumeris, LifeStance Health, WellSky, and Monogram Health. Previously, Seema served as the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). She was also the Founder, President, and CEO of SVC. Seema received an undergraduate degree in Life Sciences from the University of Maryland, and a Master’s in Public Heal...

Meet Robin Bronk: Robin Bronk is the CEO of The Creative Coalition. She is an author, public speaker, and film producer, including producing several award-winning Public Service Announcement campaigns. Robin joined the Creative Coalition in 1998 as the Executive Director. Prior, she was the VP of Corporate Community Strategies at APCO Worldwide. Robin also serves on the New York Cultural Task Forc...

Ceci sat down with Mandy Cohen, former Secretary of Health in North Carolina, and incoming EVP of Aledade and CEO of Aledade Care Solutions. They discuss the intricacies of healthcare policy and opportunities for the federal government and healthcare industry to drive higher-value care. Check it out here or wherever you get your podcasts.

Meet Melinda Buntin, Ph. D.: Melinda Buntin, Ph. D is the Mike Curb Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University. She is also the deputy editor of JAMA Health Forum. Previously, Dr. Buntin was a Director in the Health, Retirement and Long-Term Analysis Division at the Congressional Budget Office. She also served as chief economist and founding director of the Off...

Meet Stacy Hurt, MHA, MBA: Stacy Hurt, MHA, MBA is a Patient Engagement Consultant, Senior Healthcare Advisor for OSP, and is a HIMSS "Digital Influencer." Stacy is also a certified personal fitness trainer, member of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, member of the #TelemedNow Thoughtleader group, and member of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Previously, she was a Strategic...

Meet Marna Borgstrom: Marna Borgstrom is CEO of Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale New Haven Health. She started her career at Yale New Haven over 40 years ago, and advanced through positions of increasing responsibility in administration, management, and operations. In 2005, she was selected to serve as CEO, and after 17 years will be retiring in March of 2022. She received a Bachelor’s in Human Bi...

Meet Nimisha Kalia, M.D., MBA, MPH: Nimisha Kalia, M.D. is the Chief Medical Officer at GE Corporate, and an Assistant Professor and Interim Director for the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the Executive Director of Health, Safety and Environment for Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System. She earned her M.D....

Meet Yasmeen Long: Yasmeen Long is the Director of FasterCures, a Center of the Milken Institute. Previously, she served as the co-director of the Health Policy Fellowships and Leadership Programs at the National Academy of Medicine and as a Program Officer at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. She was also a Research Program Manager at the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at th...

Meet Deena Shakir: Deena Shakir is a Partner at Lux Capital and a Lecturer in Management at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. She serves on the board of directors for multiple organizations including Maven Clinic, SteadyMD, Alife Health, H1, Adyn, Shiru, and AllStripes. Prior to Lux, Deena was a Partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures). She received a BA in Social Studies and Near E...

Meet Dana Udall, Ph. D.: Dana Udall, Ph. D. is the Chief Clinical Officer at Headspace Health as well as the Chief Clinical Officer at Ginger. Previously, Dr. Udall was a staff psychologist, Specialty Clinical Services Lead, and Eating Disorder Treatment Team Coordinator at the University of Colorado Boulder. She was also the founder of ED Educate and had a private psychology practice. Dr. Udall r...

In this episode, we get to know Her Story’s new advisory council member, Kristi Ebong. Kristi is the head of partnerships and market development at Define Ventures. Kristi is interviewed by fellow advisory council member Sanjula Jain., Ph. D.

Meet Senator Jeanne Shaheen: Senator Jeanne Shaheen is the sitting U.S. Senator for New Hampshire. She is a member of the Senate Committees on Armed Services, Foreign Relations, Appropriations, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and the Select Committee on Ethics. Previously, Sen. Shaheen served as the Director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government. Sh...

See what's coming up on Her Story Season 3! Trailer features: Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (NH) Dana Udall, Chief Clinical Officer, Headspace Health Yasmeen Long, Director, Milken Institute, FasterCures Nimisha Kalia, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, GE Deena Shakir, Partner, Lux Capital Marna Borgstrom, Former CEO, Yale New Haven Health Season 3 hosts include: Joanne Conroy, M.D., President and CEO, Dartmouth...

Meet the guests: This episode features three leaders previously interviewed on Her Story . Ivelyse Andino is the founder and CEO of Radical Health. Carolyn Witte is the co-founder and CEO of Tia. Solomé Tibebu is the founder and host of Going Digital: Behavioral Health Tech, and Advisor for the Upswing Fund for Adolescent Mental Health. Key Insights: Radical Health.  While working in biotech, Ivel...

Meet the Guests: This episode features three leaders that have previously been interviewed on Her Story . It showcases Renee DeSilva, the CEO of The Health Management Academy; Kelsey Mellard the Founder and CEO of Sitka; and Jane Chao, Ph. D. co-founder and CEO of Ceribell. Key Insights: Unabashedly You. Renee DeSilva advises new CEOs to understand the business, think critically about your team, a...

Meet the guests: This episode features three leaders that have previously been interviewed on Her Story . Parveen Parmar, M.D., MPH is an Associate Professor of Clinical and Emergency Medicine, and Chief of the Division of Global Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Vivian Lee, M.D., Ph. D., MBA is the President of Health Platforms at Verily L...

Check out highlights from season 2 as guests share their advice on a variety of topics.

Meet Our Guests:  Dr. Arghavan Salles is a bariatric surgeon at Stanford University. She is a Special Advisor for DEI Programs for the Department of Medicine, and Senior Research Scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She is also a keynote speaker, researcher, and writer, focusing on topics like gender bias, physician well-being, and COVID-19. Dr. Ariela Marshall is a hematologist a...

Meet Megan Callahan:  Megan Callahan is the former President of Lyft Healthcare. Previously, she was the Chief Strategy Officer for Change Healthcare, and one of the primary designers of its creation. Megan oversaw the merger that created Change Healthcare while the Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development at McKesson Technology Solutions. Megan was at McKesson for 13 y...

Meet Dr. Leana Wen: Dr. Leana Wen is an emergency medicine physician, a professor of health policy and management at George Washington University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is a contributing columnist for The Washington Post and a CNN medical analyst. She has published two books; her most recent is a public health memoir, “Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in th...

In this episode, we sit down with Renee DeSilva, CEO of The Health Management Academy. The conversation explores balancing career and family, transitioning into a CEO role, bringing on new talent, and more.

Meet JaeLynn Williams: JaeLynn Williams is the Chief Executive Officer of Air Methods, America’s leading air medical service. JaeLynn is a jack of all trades with experience in healthcare, statistics, and marketing. Previously, she was the CCO for GE Healthcare Digital, and served in a variety of roles for 3M Health Information Systems, including President and General Manager and Six Sigma Master...

In this special episode, we sit down with Dr. Vineet Arora, Dean for Medical Education at The University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine. The conversation explores exposing students to these different career paths within medicine, bridging the gap between learning and doing, social media’s key role in medical education, and more.