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About Jean Drouin: Jean is a leader with over 25 years of experience in healthcare management, technology, operations, finance, and cultural change.  As CEO, Jean focuses on creating the environment that allows Clarify to deliver on its mission by delighting customers and growing a great team. Jean leads the Executive Leadership Team which sets the company’s vision and strategy and is responsible...

42% of adults in the US qualify as obese. But there are only a few thousand doctors board-certified in obesity, most of whom work exclusively in academic medical centers.   So, what can we do to address the obesity epidemic in our country? How do we give the 200 million Americans struggling with metabolic health access to the information and support they need?   Isabelle Kenyon is Founder and CEO...

About Thom Bales: Thom is a Principal in Strategy&, a part of the PwC network. He leads PwC’s Health Services Sector with responsibility for our payer-provider and digital health growth. He has over 20 years of management consulting experience, originally with Booz Allen Hamilton/ Booz & Company merged with PwC to become Strategy&. He has expertise in health services growth, operations, technology...

When Krista Drobac first started thinking about home-based health care, she assumed that the biggest barriers to adoption would be cultural. But she quickly learned that policy was the problem. And then came COVID-19. Regulations were loosened, and we were allowed to experiment with caring for patients at home.   So, how do we convince policymakers to preserve the advances in home-based care made...

Starting a company in the healthcare space is incredibly difficult, as founders face regulatory hurdles, high security standards and complicated reimbursement policies, among many other challenges.   But what if you had an expert to help you assemble a founding team and shepherd you through the first 15 months of being a startup?   What if there was a platform to streamline the complex process of...

About Manny Montalvo: Manny Montalvo is SVP, Head of Digital Health & Innovation at Teva Pharmaceuticals since September 2021. Manny is responsible for overseeing the US Respiratory business, the US commercial innovation work, and the US and GLOBAL DIGIHALER® franchise. Manny’s digital health team at Teva is entirely homegrown and has pioneered a class of digital pharmaceutical devices - a rarity...

Morgan Health is focused on improving the quality, equity, and affordability of employer-sponsored healthcare in the U.S. by investing capital in companies focused on improving healthcare in the commercial marketplace.   As the Head of Healthcare Innovation at Morgan Health, Rivka Friedman is focused on improving the quality, equity, and affordability of employer-sponsored healthcare in the U.S. b...

About Theresa Demeter: Theresa Demeter is an entrepreneurial executive administrator with 30 years of healthcare performance and operational experience. In her role as a Managing Director at Tegria, she brings her passion for conceptualizing and implementing innovative solutions that drive quality and performance improvement to optimize patient outcomes. Theresa developed Tegria’s offering that he...

A holistic medical approach using hyper-personalized nutrition protocols, mental health, sleep, movement, mindfulness, and relaxation enables patients to see the whole picture of their health, leading to 85% of patients improving or resolving their chronic conditions within the first year.   Parsley Health is on a mission to make life-changing modern holistic medicine accessible to everyone, anywh...

About Kevin Grabenstatter: Kevin Grabenstatter is a Managing Director in L.E.K. Consulting’s San Francisco office. Kevin joined L.E.K. in 2006 and focuses on strategy and growth for health systems, physician practices, and other providers, value-based care delivery, and emerging technologies/HCIT. He advises clients on critical strategic issues across the healthcare value chain.  Kevin formerly he...

Robin Shah is an oncology subject matter expert, building a career around startups in the cancer care space. So, he regularly receives phone calls from people whose friends, family members or colleagues have been diagnosed with cancer and don’t know what to do.   And Robin wondered how he could help people in this way at scale.   How could he support cancer patients who didn’t know someone like hi...

About Maulik Majmudar: Dr. Maulik Majmudar is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer at Biofourmis. Dr. Majmudar served as Medical Officer at Amazon, where he led several healthcare-related initiatives. Before Amazon, Dr. Majmudar was associate director of the Healthcare Transformation Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, where he was respon...

Healthcare is a $4 trillion industry just waiting to be disrupted. But because people’s lives are at stake, we must disrupt the space responsibly.   And that’s why every digital health company needs clinical experts on their teams and advisory boards. Ruby Gadelrab is Cofounder and CEO of MDisrupt , a health advisory platform on a mission to organize the world's digital health products by performa...

About Brad Kittredge: Brad Kittredge, Co-founder, and Chief Executive Officer of Brightside Health has spent over a decade pioneering evidence-based and consumer-driven healthcare solutions, including building the Product teams at 23andMe and Lantern. Inspired by the challenges of a close family member with lifelong depression, Brad’s mission is to ensure that everyone has access to life-changing...

The World Health Organization estimates that one billion people have a mental health condition, but 70% of them aren't getting care.   So, what is the best way to address this supply-demand imbalance?   How do we help someone with a clinical diagnosis manage their condition? And what can we do to support the mental health needs of people before they develop a serious issue?   Russell Glass is CEO...

About Omar Nagji: Omar Nagji is the Chief Commercial Officer of Memora Health, the leading technology platform for virtual care delivery and complex care management. Prior to joining the Memora team, Omar helped co-found the Healthcare team at Lyft, where he was responsible for developing and executing the strategy that took Lyft Healthcare from its infancy to an industry and thought leader in the...

The Oura Ring is helping people track their health data now and understand how we can optimize our health in the future.   Tom Hale is the new Chief Executive Officer of ŌURA, the makes of the Oura Ring . With a background in software, Tom became interested in tracking his health and fitness after a health crisis in his own life.   On this episode, Tom joins hosts Dr. Jessica Shepherd and Dr. Jord...

About Jordan Penn: In the past decade, Jordan Penn has spent his healthcare career as a storyteller, leveraging healthcare data and analytics to follow the patient journey, assist in research, and more. His expert knowledge of medical and pharmacy claims, lab data, and EMR/EHR data has made extraordinary contributions to his clients, he has also been deeply involved with analyzing patient journeys...

About Judith Kulich: Judith serves as ZS’s lead for patient health and equity, focused on partnering with clients across the healthcare industry to drive meaningful progress in health equity. She is also an elected member of ZS’s Shareholders’ Council where she serves as the chair of the ESG Committee and leads the ZS Practice Council. Judith has spent much of her 20-plus years in the healthcare i...

Today, in the average ICU, there are 35 smart devices with independent alarms, resulting in 750 alarms per patient per day.   And technology that was supposed to make life easier for medical professionals is overwhelming them and contributing to burnout.   So, what can innovators do build technology that supports providers and enhances the care experience?   Tom Polen serves as President, Chairman...

About Simon Gisby: Simon is a principal and the Life Sciences and Health Care Group leader with Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC (DCF) and a principal in Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP. He has more than 20 years of investment banking experience focused on the healthcare industry. Before joining DCF, Simon was a director with Houlihan Lokey where he specialized in the financial rest...

Imagine having 24/7 access to your primary care physician.   Doctors and patients alike are frustrated with the current model of rushed visits and disconnected care. But what if there is a better way? What if we leverage a combination of virtual and in-person support to deliver a new model of value-based care?   Dr. Tom X. Lee is CEO of Galileo , a next-generation healthcare delivery system that u...

About Yaw Fellin: Yaw J. Fellin, is the VP of Product and Solutions and Clinical Effectiveness for Wolters Kluwer Health Yaw Fellin brings more than 15 years of experience as a healthcare executive, with proven results leading cross-functional teams, generating value and revenue growth, most recently at Optum, a global healthcare IT company. Prior to that, Yaw spent over 12 years at the Advisory B...

We recognize that nutrition is the front line of health care.   But it’s challenging for patients to sustain lasting changes to their eating habits outside the clinical environment.   Can technology help us promote healthy eating after a patient leaves the hospital or exam room? How do we deliver a customized digital nutrition coaching experience that keeps users engaged for the long-term?   Vanes...

About Heidi Riney: Dr. Riney is board-certified in sleep medicine and neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), Georgia Association of Sleep Professionals (GASP) and National Sleep Foundation (NSF), where she serves on the Public Affairs Committee. She completed her medical training at Wake Forest, neurology reside...