The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare

Meg welcomes Dr. Jennifer Schneider, Co-Founder and CEO of Homeward Health, a technology-enabled, community-based healthcare provider delivering high-quality care to those who lack access, specifically rural Americans and the Medicare population. 

Discussion topics:  

• Leveraging technology and AI to make healthcare delivery more equitable 
• Dr. Schneider’s personal experiences receiving care in rural US
• The differences in cultures of care
• How a care model focused on partnership, rather than competition, can help fill service gaps
• Female leadership
• Gender gaps in ownership, payment equity, and value perception
• Homegrown, an initiative from Homeward working to mitigate these issues through mutual learning and support

Further Reading:

• https://homewardhealth.com/
• Decoding Health Signals: Silicon Valley’s Consumer-First Approach to a New Era of Health
• ABC 13 Grand Rapids, MI: "Hope Delivered," Matt Gard.
• Rite Aid And Homeward Partner To Support Seniors In Underserved Communities
• Homeward to Rearchitect Rural Healthcare for 60 Million Americans

Episode Credits: 

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company. 

Hosted by Meg Escobosa. 

Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, and Wendy Nielsen.

Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty. 

All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty. 

©2023 The Krinsky Company

Meg welcomes Liz Beatty, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Inato, a marketplace that enables clinical researchers and sponsors to make clinical research more inclusive and accessible for patients no matter who they are or where they live. Inato also increases clinical trial efficiency by enabling all community sites to offer the right trials to their patients. 

Meg and Liz discuss the problems with the traditional clinical trial landscape, the role of the doctor and care team in the process, the difficulties for patients in accessing the right clinical trials, and how Inato is bridging this gap while increasing speed and efficiency for drug discovery research. Liz also explains the importance of research and community-based practices, leveraging technology, her mentorship experience, and the impact she hopes to make in the future.

Further Reading:

• Inato
• Liz Beatty on CVS' recent exit from clinical research
• Why diversify clinical trials?
• Cameron, D., Willoughby, C., Messer, D., Lux, M., Aitken, M., & Getz, K. (2020). Assessing Participation Burden in Clinical Trials: Introducing the Patient Friction Coefficient. Clinical therapeutics, 42(8), e150–e159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinthera.2020.06.015 

Episode Credits: 

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company. 

Hosted by Meg Escobosa. 

Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, and Wendy Nielsen.

Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty. 

All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty. 

©2023 The Krinsky Company

Meg welcomes Anna Lindow, CEO + Co-Founder at Brave Health, a virtual mental health provider dedicated to helping people thrive by engaging them in high-quality, affordable, and easily accessible mental health care.

Meg and Anna discuss the supply and demand imbalance for mental health services, especially for Medicaid recipients and other underserved populations. Anna also reflects on her experience building Brave Health, the support they’ve received, and how technology has helped them scale and evolve according to patient density and need. She also shares the importance of cultivating teams and lessons from past work experiences.

Further Reading:

• Brave Health
• Working together to make a difference in maternal mental health
• Anna Lindow: Developing Alumnae Who Care About the Future
• Can Telehealth Close the Mental Healthcare Gap?
• Brave Health Doubles Down on Expanding Medicaid Behavioral Health Model
• Changing the Landscape of Women’s Health: Founders and CEOs Sound Off
• Brave Health and MedArrive Team to Bring Virtual Mental Health to Most Vulnerable Medicaid Populations
• Brave Health Expands to 18 States, Announces First Value-Based Care Agreement
• Brave Health and The Doula Network Partner to Support Maternal Mental Health for Medicaid Populations

Episode Credits: 

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company. 

Hosted by Meg Escobosa. 

Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, and Wendy Nielsen.

Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty. 

All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty. 

©2023 The Krinsky Company

Meg welcomes Miruna Sasu, President and CEO of COTA, an RWE service founded by doctors, engineers, and data scientists to create clarity from fragmented and often inaccessible real-world data to provide a comprehensive picture of cancer that can be used to advance carepaths and research.

Meg and Miruna discuss utilizing patient-generated data, difficulties with EMR, the drug development and clinical trial processes, as well as ethical considerations and patient burden. Miruna reflects on her own personal experience with cancer diagnoses for both of her primary caregivers: her grandparents. She also shares her mentorship experience and provides advice to get involved and take control of your care as a patient.

Further Reading:

• Antimicrobial Nectar Inhibits a Florally Transmitted Pathogen of a Wild Cucurbita Pepo
• Floral Transmission of Erwinia tracheiphila by cucumber beetles in a wild Cucurbita pepo
• Indirect costs of a nontarget pathogen mitigate the direct benefits of a virus-resistant transgene in wild Cucurbita
• COTA and Google Partner to Use Natural Language Processing to Harness Unstructured Data
• https://cotahealthcare.com/blog/

Episode Credits: 

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company. 

Hosted by Meg Escobosa. 

Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, and Wendy Nielsen.

Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty. 

All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty. 

©2023 The Krinsky Company

Meg welcomes Lori Daugherty, CEO of Ascellus, a physical and behavioral health provider for injured workers that provides customized treatment options through CBT practices, as well as medical care for injured workers. With a network of over 1,500 licensed clinicians nationwide, Ascellus works to improve resilience, health outcomes, and reduce costs for workers’ compensation claims and minimize time spent away from work.

Meg and Lori discuss the barriers to mental health care access, the needs of employees, how Ascellus bridges this gap, and how the healthcare ecosystem can follow. Lori reflects on her 30 years of experience, her leadership and ways to cultivate leadership in others, what she’s proud of, and how the landscape has changed post-COVID.

Lori is experienced in Medicaid, Medicare Part B, third-party contracting, administration, client services (both public and private), and working with early-stage healthcare companies to develop their infrastructure and maximize growth. She is also a member of the Tampa Bay Business Journal Leadership Trust, where she shares her expertise and inspires future leaders in the field, much like those who have helped inspire her.

Further Reading:

WCRI Study: Psychosocial Factors Can Act as Barriers to Recovery - WorkCompWire

Improving Outcomes for Work-Related Concussions: A Mental He... : Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (lww.com)

https://journals.lww.com/joem/pages/results.aspx?txtKeywords=Addressing+mental+health+factors 

Episode Credits: 

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company. 

Hosted by Meg Escobosa. 

Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, and Wendy Nielsen.

Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty. 

All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty. 

©2023 The Krinsky Company

Meg welcomes Inna Plumb, Co-Founder and COO of MedArrive. 

MedArrive enables healthcare providers to seamlessly extend care services into the home, unlocking access to high-quality healthcare for more people at a fraction of the cost. MedArrive’s fully integrated care management platform allows providers and payors to bridge the virtual care gap by marrying physician-led telemedicine with hands-on care from EMS professionals.

MedArrive has more than 20k highly-skilled EMS providers in its national network, and services span dozens of clinical use cases, including chronic condition management, transitional care, readmission prevention, urgent care, vaccinations, palliative care, and more.

In this exciting conversation, Meg and Inna discuss MedArrive’s unique approach to care in the home, the inspiration behind the company, Inna’s unusual path to a career in healthcare, her immigration to the US, her dedication to mentoring, and much more. 

Inna Plumb is the COO and Co-Founder of MedArrive. She was a founding partner at Redesign Health, where she helped to build a variety of healthcare companies including Calibrate and Vault, while also leading the Venture Building team. She has a strong background in Operations and Finance, having led the Supply Chain team at Blue Apron and starting her career as a banker at Evercore Partners and subsequently an investor at Soros Fund Management.

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Episode Credits: 

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company. 

Hosted by Meg Escobosa. 

Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, and Wendy Nielsen.

Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty. 

All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty. 

©2023 The Krinsky Company

Meg welcomes, Vivian DeWoskin, VP of Strategy and Head of Life Sciences at Komodo Health.

Meg and Vivian discuss Komodo Health, which brings together large amounts of anonymized, linked patient-level data used to understand how patients navigate their care journey in the real world; Komodo Health’s “Healthcare Map;” data and rare diseases; access to clinical research; Komodo’s ability to reduce the time to diagnosis for challenging conditions; increasing diversity in clinical research patient populations; Vivian’s background in and love of Neuroscience; her mentors and mentees; and much more. 

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With two years under her belt overseeing commercial operations at Komodo, where she is responsible for helping the world’s leading life sciences companies tap into real-world patient data to spot gaps in care, identify sweet spots for new drug development and improve provider engagement strategies, DeWoskin also hosts female mentorship groups aiming to emulate her own impressive career mentors in helping women succeed in the sciences.

Further Reading:

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Episode Credits: 

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company. 

Hosted by Meg Escobosa. 

Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, and Wendy Nielsen.

Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty. 

All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty. 

©2022 The Krinsky Company

Meg welcomes Stephanie Trunzo, SVP and GM of Oracle Health.

Oracle Health provides cloud solution systems for health insurance, healthcare providers, virtual care, electronic health record systems, and public health.

Stephanie leads the P&L across strategy, product, services, sales, support, and operations. Oracle Health connects clinical, operational and financial data to improve care and advanced decision-making around health and wellbeing. In one of the largest mergers this year, Oracle acquired Cerner, an electronic health record company. 

Meg and Stephanie discuss the unique benefits of the Oracle Health/Cerner merger; the journey to more equitable care; the promise of increased integration of health data; the future of predictive AI modeling in healthcare; and some of the ways Stephanie is working to address the gender gap in healthcare leadership. 

Further Reading:

PointSource

Episode Credits: 

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company. 

Hosted by Meg Escobosa. 

Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, and Wendy Nielsen.

Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty. 

All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty. 

©2022 The Krinsky Company

Meg welcomes Shahrzad Yavari, COVAX Cold & Supply Chain Consultant at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Gavi is an organization working to improve vaccination efforts globally.

Shahrzad is a public health strategist and avid women’s rights advocate who has dedicated much of her efforts to creating opportunities for women globally. Her background in psychology helped to shape her interest in community-driven solutions for various challenges in the healthcare and education sectors, among others.

Her most recent achievements include her work with Gavi, where COVAX has been a lifeline in vaccination efforts for many countries, responsible for delivering more than 1 billion vaccines worldwide. She also established and scaled an innovative vaccine cold chain program installed in over 17,000 health facilities across 23 countries.

In this episode, Meg and Shahrzad discuss the complex network working to solve disparities in equitable vaccination efforts; the Cold Chain and Shahrzad’s relevant expertise; her upbringing and how that affected her career path; her advice for those entering the field; and more.

Producer Calvin Marty joins Meg to tell Shahrzad’s story in a new format. 

Further Reading:

Gavi

Covax

Paul Farmer

Urban Health Resource Centre

Episode Credits: 

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company. 

Hosted by Meg Escobosa. 

Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, and Wendy Nielsen.

Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty. 

All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty. 

©2022 The Krinsky Company

Meg welcomes Eliza Sternlicht, Co-Founder and COO of MediCircle, a New Jersey-based pharmaceutical redistribution startup. 

Eliza Sternlicht is not only a startup co-founder with a rich history of working to solve medical issues and disparities, she’s a senior in college at Brown University. At such a young age, Eliza already has an enviable resume full of noble causes tackled.

Her most recent project is MediCircle, a New Jersey-based pharmaceutical redistributor. They connect unused, unexpired oral cancer medications with charitable clinics where patients can receive them, free of charge.

On today’s show, Meg and Eliza discuss Eliza's history of working to solve medical issues and disparities over the course of both her high school and college years; how she and co-founder, Jack Schaeffer, discovered the issue of unused, wasted cancer medication which led to the founding of MediCircle; Danny Worshay's class and book, "See, Solve, Scale," and how it informed MediCircle’s inception; Eliza's rich and varied family endeavors; her advice for young startups; and much more. 

Further Reading: 

Brown University

Bear Dens

Danny Warshay

Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship’s Brown Venture Prize

MediCircle Reinvests Winnings Into Pilot Program

Episode Credits: 

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company. 

Hosted by Meg Escobosa. 

Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, and Wendy Nielsen.

Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty. 

Theme music composed and performed by Calvin Marty. 

©2022 The Krinsky Company