What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
I have advised (and continue to advise) a number of companies large and small about go-to-market strategies and how to think about launch and market entry. There are, as you can imagine, huge differences in how to approach these depending on whether one is a pharma/medical device company, a health services company or a digital […]
Few of you are likely old enough to remember “Who’s on First?,” the famous comedy bit from Abbott and Costello, but that’s a shame. If you haven’t heard it, you really should seek it out (listen here) because it’s one of the funniest comedy skits in history, at least in the view of me and […]
“I am woman, hear me roar In numbers too big to ignore” -Helen Reddy, I Am Woman We are a little more than two weeks away from the 2020 election and we are, as usual, deep in the throes of men telling women what’s good for them. If you listen between the lines of the […]
A childhood fraught with illness, loss and uncertainty drove Torrie Fields to an adulthood focused on making these experiences better for others. Torrie sincerely believes that we are all here for a reason and that her reason to is help people have more dignified, less painful experiences at the end of their lives. Having learned […]
We just finished celebrating the 50th anniversary of the U.S. landing on the moon, only to have the story marred by the news that astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, likely died from what at least looks to be major medical errors in his treatment. What a tragic end to […]
By Susannah Fox, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn and Lisa Suennen I’ve lived long enough to have learned The closer you get to the fire the more you get burned But that won’t happen to us Cause it’s always been a matter of trust -A Matter of Trust, by Billy Joel If you’re in health care and you […]
Earlier this week I was on a panel at a major healthcare conference in Washington, DC and, while it covered a variety of healthcare system maladies, the main topic was healthcare pricing transparency. There were a few moments during the panel that raised my eyebrows and compelled me to set the record straight, both on […]
As everyone in healthcare knows, and also every single San Francisco-based Lyft and Uber driver, the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference (“JPM”) was held last week. “JPM” has become a shorthand for the ritual amassing of healthcare life forms in San Francisco that occurs right when your New Year’s Eve hangover is wearing off. It is […]
Passionate about the intersection of policy and medicine, Darshak Sanghavi’s career has taken him from pediatric cardiology to the Obama Administration to his current role as Chief Medical Officer of OptumLabs, always seeking to define and improve on one thing in particular: the outcomes that matter most. Like so many origin stories, Darshak’s begins in […]
Growing up on Capitol Hill in a Washington, DC political family, Sarah Iselin did the obvious thing, at least to her, by rebelling and going to art school. But when her practical self realized that was going to make for a hard living, she eventually found her way to healthcare through an internship at the […]
Lisa Suennen is a venture capital investor and the managing partner of Venture Valkyrie, LLC, which publishes the Venture Valkyrie blog and co-produces the Tech Tonics podcast. She is also co-founder of CSweetener, a women's healthcare mentoring organization.