What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
Warning: Rant Ahead. I’ll start by making my biases clear. I believe science is a real thing. I know that scientists make mistakes sometimes, and that we don’t always know what we don’t know; yes, science does evolve, so sometimes what we thought at first changes later when more data is available. But I also […]
Last night I went to see a show called Your Favorite Woman: The Joy of Sex Education. It’s a one woman show featuring the profoundly smart and funny Samantha Bee and it’s touring the U.S. If you are a) female, b) male or c) any or all of the above, you should run, not walk, […]
Chronic diseases are the leading driver of U.S. health care costs, accounting for 85% of all healthcare spending. We try to direct, cajole, influence, motivate and otherwise engage with patients to get them to better self-manage their many chronic ailments. We train clinicians to treat these afflictions and invest heavily in new drugs and devices […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the guy that is currently viewed as the “capo di tutti capi” of scientists these days, turned 81 on December 24th. Happy Birthday Doctor Fauci. I can only imagine how astonished Fauci is to observe the growing general disdain for and/or repudiation of science this past two years. My recollection is that […]
You know how when you hear a song or a new word that you haven’t heard before, all of a sudden you start hearing it everywhere? Like you never heard anyone say the word “phygital” and all of a sudden it’s everywhere as if some sort of tipping point has been reached. Today was that […]
“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 […]
Some people are using the pandemic to explore all the ice cream flavors. Some are using it as a way to avoid street clothing (honestly, I haven’t put real shoes on in 7 months). And some of us are reaching down deep and finding a level of thoughtfulness and productivity that I don’t quite know […]
I was engaged in a conversation this morning with a large group of healthcare leaders about how the threatened and actual dismantling of the US Postal Service is not just a way to suppress the vote, but is also a way to ensure that we further cripple what’s left of our country’s efforts to improve […]
With a knack for engineering and a passion for patients, Dr. Andrew Trister’s career has taken this Jersey boy from radiation oncology to Apple to his current role at the Gates Foundation, where he’s spearheading their efforts to leverage technology to improve the health of people around the world. Andrew – like E Street drummer […]
Sometimes we get the opportunity to work on things that feel especially important, and last week saw the culmination of one of those things. On July 17, 2020, The Commonwealth Fund, in collaboration with Manatt Health, released a two-part report entitled Transforming Primary Health Care for Women. I was so fortunate to get to work […]
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.