Melissa Hanna
Nadia Ramey
Nadia Ramey has over 15 years of experience working in heath IT, clinical research, and digital health. She is currently the Senior Director of Health IT and Clinical Informatics at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). In this role, she is responsible for developing the strategic plan, mission, and objectives in her department to improve health outcomes for women through the use of digital platforms. Dr. Ramey is working to build on the health IT projects within ACOG and establish new partnerships and opportunities to develop a world class health IT and clinical informatics initiative. Some of these projects include clinical content curation, digital health, clinical decisions support, health IT standards, and data aggregation. Most recently, Dr. Ramey’s interests in women’s digital health has focused on perinatal anxiety and digitizing clinical guidelines. She is a strong supporter of technology to improve the delivery of care and clinical outcomes for women.
Carolee Lee
Carolee Lee is an innovator, entrepreneur and thought leader dedicated to improving women’s health and wellbeing, and their opportunities to succeed. She was founder and CEO of Carolee Designs, one of the world’s leading accessories brands. Carolee launched WHAM (Women’s Health Access Matters), a nonprofit organization working to bring awareness and funding to women’s health research to transform women’s lives. Carolee forged a research partnership with the RAND Corporation to create The WHAM Report, the first study to analyze the economic costs, benefits and social impacts of health research that focuses specifically on women. The WHAM Report is changing the conversation around women’s health research, proving women’s health research is an economic issue we cannot afford to ignore. Through partnerships with leading advocacy groups, business leaders, researchers and economists, WHAM is using this data drive change.
Carolee is also a mentor and leader in business, philanthropic and educational organizations. She is a past Chair and Foundation Board Chair of the Committee of 200, a community of the most successful women in business, and has served as director on the board of DSW, Inc. Carolee is a founding board member of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, where she has served since 1986. She currently sits on the Women’s Leadership Board at The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Lisa Shah
Dr. Lisa Shah is the Chief Medical Officer of Advantia Health. Dr. Shah has years of hands-on experience in healthcare and innovation, from designing value-based care models to leading the implementation of new care delivery models in the practice setting. In every role, she works to incorporate patient- and provider-friendly technology into the entire care experience. Currently, Dr. Shah leads the team that is building Advantia's flagship practice, Liv by Advantia Health, which will offer integrated, complete care for women including gynecology, obstetrics, primary care, mental wellness, physical therapy and more in one convenient location designed for women. Recently, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Shah drove innovation and expansion by quickly bringing telehealth online for all of Advantia's 450,000+ patients. In addition to her career as a practicing physician and health care innovator, Dr. Shah has been a long standing advocate of equity and inclusion for women. She is passionate about making healthcare for all women convenient, efficient, high quality, positive experience.
Prior to Advantia, Dr. Shah served as Chief Innovation Officer at Sound Physicians where she led the development and implementation of innovative provider and patient focused virtual care models. Previously, she spent five years at Evolent Health, a publicly-traded company focused on accelerating the transformation to value-based care for providers and health plans. At Evolent, Dr. Shah served as Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations and Network working with health plans and accountable care organizations to build the most effective provider-led care models across multiple populations.
Dr. Shah graduated from Duke University with a BA in English. She completed medical school at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ. Dr. Shah attended the University of Chicago where she completed her residency training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, an academic post-residency research fellowship in hospital-based medicine, and received her Masters in Public Policy. In addition to her role at Advantia Health, she practices primary care within the Advantia healthcare network. Dr. Shah is a Washington Business Journal Minority Business Leader awardee and recently received the Washington Business Journal C-Suite Award. She is a member of Women of Impact, a group of women healthcare executives dedicated to helping women across the healthcare industry have long lasting impact on improving the health of the nation. Dr. Shah lives in Bethesda, Maryland with her husband and three children.
Surbhi Sarna
In 2018, at the age of 32, Surbhi Sarna sold her company to Boston Scientific for $275M. Her entrepreneurial journey started nearly two decades before that moment. Surbhi was only thirteen years old, writing an essay for her English class, when all of a sudden she felt such a sharp pain her side that she blacked out. She didn't know it then, but that would be one of the most defining moments of her life. After six months, she finally got her diagnosis - she was suffering from complex ovarian cysts, but there was no way to know whether or not those cysts were cancerous. From the unnecessarily long diagnostic time to the lack of therapeutic options, she knew she wanted to work on innovation in the healthcare space. Her talk will be about her entrepreneurial journey, what it takes to raise money and hire a season team, break down barriers around you and finally get to an exit.
Alisa Miller
Sateria Venable
Sateria Venable is the Founder & CEO of The Fibroid Foundation (www.fibroidfoundation.org), a global, patient-founded advocacy organization.
The Fibroid Foundation develops programming to support its community of over 25,000 women. Sateria began her advocacy efforts in 2007. Since that time, the organization has developed a substantial network within the medical community.
Venable, who holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University, has co-authored several scientific papers on fibroid research. She is the inventor of an undergarment inspired by her journey, that she hopes will transform intimate apparel for all women. A sought-after speaker, she has been featured in print and radio media, and has presented at gynecologic conferences worldwide.
Dominique Malacarne Pape, MD
Claudia Reuter
Claudia Reuter is an experienced entrepreneur, executive and board director, and a published author. Recognized by the Boston Business Journal as a 2016 Women to Watch in Science and Technology, and as a Changemaker by HUBWeek, she currently serves as GM Americas East for Techstars. She is also a member of the board of directors of Lessonly, and a member of the editorial advisory board for Innovation Leader. Prior to joining Techstars, she served as the SVP of Digital Services & Labs for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and was the co-founder and CEO of SchoolChapters. A graduate of the University of Vermont, she is also a lifelong learner and has completed additional coursework at institutions including RISD, MIT Sloan, and Trinity College. She is also a graduate of Lead Boston, an experiential program focused on inclusive leadership. Passionate about sharing more stories about what's possible for women she is also the creator and host of the podcast, "The 43 Percent." which was featured on Apple's New & Noteworthy list, and selected as an editors choice by Stitcher and Himalaya App. Her book, "Yes, You Can Do This! How Women Start Up, Scale Up, and Build the Life They Want.' (Wiley 2020) is available now.
Becca Shmukler
Becca Shmukler is a Principal at the Laerdal Million Lives Fund, a $100M venture fund investing in companies helping to save lives, where she focuses in part on investing in companies improving maternal and neonatal healthcare outcomes across the world.
Becca has worked in the healthcare industry for nearly a decade. She started her career as a strategy consultant for hospital and health system CEOs at the Advisory Board Company, before working in business development + partnerships roles at Castlight Health, a healthcare technology company, and Rock Health, a digital health investment fund. While at Rock Health, Becca grew strategic partnerships nearly 6x, and partnered closely with organizations like Google, CVS Health, Intermountain Healthcare, Optum and dozens of others on their healthcare innovation priorities. Becca hails from Washington, DC, but currently lives in San Francisco with her husband and her very spoiled dog.