What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
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 […]
Growing up in a small town in Iowa, Jill Hagenkord never imagined herself as a doctor, or scientist, or entrepreneur – yet she became all three, blazing her own path and charting for herself a captivating personal and professional journey. Jill’s childhood was especially difficult; her parents divorced when she was ten, leaving Jill and […]
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 […]
Arnaub Chatterjee comes from a long line of physicians, and in his youth, assumed he’d follow the family tradition. At college at the University of Michigan, he pursued a well-traveled path towards medicine, graduating with a degree in cell and molecular biology. But then his heart wandered, and ultimately he found himself having a difficult […]
Like half of America and, no doubt, all of the inhabitants of Wakanda (given their affiliation with Disney), I watched the musical Hamilton on July 3rd on my newly acquired Disney+ streaming account. It wasn’t my first Hamilton rodeo. I have been very fortunate to have seen the musical a few times in both New […]
Madeline Bell is one of those people who decides what they want and does what it takes to make it happen. She grew up wanting to be a nurse, wanting to work with children and ultimately deciding she wanted to lead. She has achieved all three of these things and so much more. Today Madeline […]
Since March 23, 2020, Dr. Patrick Hines, physician, scientist and entrepreneur has spent most of his time between the Detroit Children’s Hospital and a nearby hotel room, where he stays to minimize COVID-19 risk to his family. He occasionally drops by to participate in movie night from a backyard chair while his wife and kids […]
Since the coronavirus hit our shore, I have been so worried about getting terrible news indicating that the end of the world is near. I’ve been dreading and anticipating the straw that would break my proverbial camel’s back and send me right over the edge. That straw came Friday when I was informed by Ticketmaster […]
Note: this post also ran today on The Timmerman Report Luke Timmerman calls me his humor columnist. That’s become a laugh line of its own in our house. My adult daughter, staying with us during the pandemic, said this to me just last week: “If you’re going to need frequent comedic validation, you’re going to […]
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.