The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare The Krinsky Company

Meg welcomes Natalie Douglas, an award-winning healthcare specialist, an experienced entrepreneur, CEO, board director, and investor. She is the founder of Lucidity LLC and RealiTi Health, as well as chairman of the board for Entia Ltd and TidalSense. She is also an investor and advisor for many portfolio companies, such as Ceek Women’s Health, RwHealth, Vitaccess. 
In this episode, Natalie shares her experience in various leadership roles in life sciences, pharma services, medical devices, digital, SAS, and data analytics. She discusses various challenges and some of the innovative solutions she’s led as a private equity-backed CEO, building a global market, fem tech, and the next era of the healthcare landscape.

Natalie was honored with “Pharma Voice Top 100,” “Health Investor Power Top 50,” “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Finalist),” “First Woman in Business Services Awards,” and “The Sunday Times Fast Track in the following categories over multiple years:  Top Track, Buyout Track, Profit Track.”
 
Further Reading:
https://www.lucidityllc.com/#FounderPharmaVoice: Exploring New FrontiersManaging Data From Disparate and Siloed Sources
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, Markala Comfort, and Wendy Nielsen.
Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty. 
All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty. 
©2024 The Krinsky Company

Meg welcomes Nancy G. Brinker, the founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure and The Promise Fund of Florida. Nancy was also United States Ambassador to Hungary from 2001 to 2003 and Chief of Protocol of the United States from 2007 to the end of the George W. Bush administration. 

Nancy walks us through her personal experience with her sister Suzy's battle with breast cancer and how that great loss inspired her to dedicate her life to fighting the disease, creating Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Meg and Nancy discuss Nancy’s current work with the Promise Fund of Florida, a nonprofit dedicated to improving access to breast and cervical cancer screenings. She explains her restlessness and desire for faster progress, leading her to create a new model of care that focuses on early detection and treatment for underserved populations. Nancy highlights the importance of patient navigators and partnerships with federally qualified healthcare centers in providing comprehensive care.
 
Further Reading:
https://nancybrinker.com/about/Promise Fund of FloridaSusan G. KomenPromise Me: How A Sister’s Love Launched The Global Movement To End Breast CancerEditSignEditSignForty is the new 50 when it comes to breast cancer screening for women
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, Markala Comfort, and Wendy Nielsen.
Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty. 
All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty. 

©2024 The Krinsky Company

"If you live in a county that's designated as 'rural,' your healthcare outcomes are far worse, to the tune of 23% higher mortality. In these rural markets, hospital closures...rural health clinic closures are increasing at an exceeding rate. There's half the number of primary care doctors and about an eighth or a tenth the number of specialty care doctors. And 10% of all rural counties have zero healthcare services whatsoever." -Dr. Jennifer SchneiderMeg 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 USThe differences in cultures of careHow a care model focused on partnership, rather than competition, can help fill service gapsFemale leadershipGender gaps in ownership, payment equity, and value perceptionHomegrown, 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 HealthABC 13 Grand Rapids, MI: "Hope Delivered," Matt Gard.Rite Aid And Homeward Partner To Support Seniors In Underserved CommunitiesHomeward 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:
InatoLiz Beatty on CVS' recent exit from clinical researchWhy 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 HealthWorking together to make a difference in maternal mental healthAnna Lindow: Developing Alumnae Who Care About the FutureCan Telehealth Close the Mental Healthcare Gap?Brave Health Doubles Down on Expanding Medicaid Behavioral Health ModelChanging the Landscape of Women’s Health: Founders and CEOs Sound OffBrave Health and MedArrive Team to Bring Virtual Mental Health to Most Vulnerable Medicaid PopulationsBrave Health Expands to 18 States, Announces First Value-Based Care AgreementBrave 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 PepoFloral Transmission of Erwinia tracheiphila by cucumber beetles in a wild Cucurbita pepoIndirect costs of a nontarget pathogen mitigate the direct benefits of a virus-resistant transgene in wild CucurbitaCOTA and Google Partner to Use Natural Language Processing to Harness Unstructured Datahttps://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