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As an advisor, you will be part of a powerful community of top healthcare leaders using their expertise to catalyze systemic change and innovation from an untapped source – women!

Advisors to entrepreneurs contribute to the growth and success of these women-led businesses and are at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies and business models.

Our Advisors

Valerie Bahar, MD, MBA

Associate Medical Director, Community Health Choice

Sheila Bangelore

Venture Partner, Springtide Ventures

Jenny Barnett-Sarpalius

Chief Financial Officer, University of Texas Medical Branch

Samir Batra

Baha Enterprises: Founder & CEO, HIP: Managing Partner

David H. Berger, MD, MHCM

CEO, Suny Downstate Medical Center, Professor Of Surgery And Public Health, Suny

Amanda Ebbighausen Bernal

Managing Director - Digital Health, Accenture

Hillary Biskner, MBA

Fache Founder & Managing Partner, HBH Strategy, Former VP, Head Of Product, Cerner Corporation

Lance Black, MD

MBID Chief Clinical Strategy Officer, Prana Thoracic

David Bradshaw

Managing Partner, Waypoint Healthcare Solutions, LLC, Former, Sr VP Consumer And Employer Solutions, Cerner Corporation

Sara Brand, PHD

Founding General Partner, True Wealth Ventures

Stephanie Carlton

Partner McKinsey & Co.

Jeff Carnrite

Partner, Carnrite Ventures

Jacob Choi

Assistant Regional Director, USPTO

Tray Cockerell

Chief Growth Officer, Patient Care Intervention Center, President And CEO, High Potential Consulting, LLC, Former Strategic Relationship Executive, Humana

M. Justin Coffey, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Workout Health

Craig Cordola

Executive Vice President, Ascension Capital

Barb Cross

Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Kansas City, Vice President, Product & Strategy

Patricia Daly

Senior Associate, CVS Health Ventures

Jeff Davis, MD

Founder & CEO, Exploring 4 Solutions, LLC

Myra Davis

Senior Vice President/Chief Information and Innovation Officer, Texas Children's Hospital

Debbie Demeo

Regional Chief Operating Officer, Kindred Hospitals

Karen Deschaine

Partner, Cooley LLP

Stefanie Diaz

Sr. Manager, Industry Discovery & Venture, Catalyst By Wellstar

Susan (Susie) Distefano

Consultant & Leadership Coach, Consultant & Leadershio Coach Distefano Consulting, LLC

Kyra Doolan

Managing Director, Texas Halo Fund

Devin Dunn Head

Healthtech Accelerator, Texas Medical Center Innovation

Stephanie Fertig

HHS Small Business Program Lead At The National Institutes Of Health

Richard Fu

Chief Growth Officer, Flume

Deb Gage

Board Member/Strategic Consultant, Former CEO, Medecision

Jay Goss

General Partner, Wavemaker Three-sixty Health

Rosalia Hajek

Enterprise Business Information Security Officer, MGM Resorts International

Erik Halverson, PhD

Partner, pH Partners

Amanda Hammel

SVP, Chief Information Officer, Memorial Hermann Health System

Nada Hanafi, SVP, Regulatory Strategy, Veranex

Nada O. Hanafi, MSC. MPH

Founder & Manager, MedTech Strategy Advisors, LLC

Irene Helsinger, Managing Director, Board of Directors, Newport LLC

Irene Helsinger, SHRM-CSP

SPHR Managing Director | Leadership Team | Human Capital

Erin Henkel

Chief Design Officer, NOCD

Karen Hill, MD, MBA

Chief Medical Officer, Texas Children's Health Plan

Angela Holmes

CEO, Mercury Data Science

Ken Janda

Founder And Principal, Wild Blue Health Solutions, Former President/ceo Community Health Choice

Dan Jenson

Founder & CFO, Cardioone

Charles Kim

Director, Office of Petitions, USPTO

Chester Koh, MD

Founder, Principal Investigator, Southwest National Pediatric Device Innovation Consortium

Will Krawczyk

Director, New Ventures & Commercialization, Banner Health

Melissa Lederer

Chief Experience Officer, mHUB

Laurie Levermann, MHA

Chief Information Officer, Community Health Choice

Bets Lillo, NACD.DC

Independent Board Director

Kassity Mai

Associate, Cooley, LLP

Pooja Majmudar, PhD

Director Startup Banking, Silicon Valley Bank

Rosie McStay

Founder, Strategic Consultant - Healthcare, Nonprofit, Public Policy, RVM Strategies LLC

Justin Meade

Assistant Director Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Texas Children’s Innovation Hub

Pete Mehravari

The Director of the Global Intellectual Property Academy, USPTO

Winji Miao, SEVP

Chief Operating Officer, Texas Health Resources

Catherine Mitchell

Chief Strategy & Operations Officer, Optum

Tamara Neuhaus, MD OB/GYN

Strategic Advisor To Startups, Former Chief Medical Officer, The Cusp

Kelli Newman

President, Newman & Newman Inc

Elif Oker, MD, Founder, Strategic Advisor, CMO, InSun Solutions

Elif Oker, MD, FACEP

Founder & CEO, InSun Solutions

Brad Otto

Principal At Springtide Ventures

Eshawn Pascal

Venture Capital, Healthworx

Michelle Patriquin, PhD, ABPP

Director of Research, The Menninger Clinic

Eddie Patton Jr., MD, MBA, MS, FACHE, FAAN

Founder & General Partner, Medingenii Capital; General Partner, Prosalus Capital Partners

Kathryn Peek, PHD

Managing Director | Golden Seeds Early-stage Investment Firm, Member | Gs Healthcare Sector Group

Sarah N Pletcher, MD MHCDS

System Vice President, Executive Medical Director, Strategic Innovation, Houston Methodist

Homer Quintana

Director, Center for Rapid Device Translation, Houston Methodist

Karen Rakers, MD

Vice President, Next Level PRIME

ASHKARA REDDY SVP, Consumer Health Solutions, Baylor Scott & White Health

Akshara Reddy

Senior Vice President, Consumer Health Solutions, Baylor Scott & White

Alyssa Reisner

Director And Principal, CVS Health Ventures

Allison Rhines

Head, Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JLabs @TMC

Stephanie Rogers

CEO, Aetna Better Health Texas

Margaret B. Row, MD, MBA, FACP

Former Chief Oncology, Summit Health, Former VP Clinical Operations, MD Anderson Cancer Network

Kerry Rupp

General Partner, True Wealth Ventures

Faye Sahai

Founding Managing General Partner, Telosity Ventures

Naseem Sayani

Co-founder & Managing Director, Emmeline Ventures

Geraldine Schott, PhD

Associate, pH Partners

Kim Schwartz

Managing Director – Healthcare Technology, Accenture

Roberta Schwartz, PhD

EVP & Chief Innovation Officer, Houston Methodist Hospital

Heidi Schwarzwald, MD

CMO & SVP Signify Health HCS, A CVS Health Company

Hope Shimabuku

Director of the Texas Regional Office, USPTO

Angela A Shippy, MD, MHA, FACP

FHM Senior Physician Executive & Clinical Innovation Lead For Nonprofit Health, AWS

Becca Shmukler

Principal | Laerdal Million Lives Fund

Karl Skowronek

Supervisory Patent Examiner, USPTO

Farzad Soleimani, MD, MBA, FAAEM

Healthcare Partner, 1984 Ventures

Michelle Stansbury

Vice President, Innovation And It Applications, Houston Methodist

Scott Talbot

Partner, Cooley LLP

Ini Ekiko Thomas

VP, Information Technology, Memorial Hermann Health System

Robbyn Traylor, MD

Founder & President, Clean Conscious Network

Andrew J. Truscott

Global Health Technology Lead, Accenture

Bill Turpin

VP North America / Cardmedic, TMCI Advisor

Murat Uralkan

Director of Innovation, Houston Methodist

Reynaldo Vasquez

Regional Outreach Officer, USPTO

Steve Weylandt

Investor, Early-Stage Advisor, Board Member

Leslie Wise

CEO and Managing Director, evidencematters

Lisa Wright

President/CEO at Community Health Choice

Jay Zeidman

Managing Partner, Altitude Ventures

Anna Zornosa

Advisor, Entrepreneur, Investor, Entrepreneur In Residence, NIH Seed Fund