What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
This blog post appears during the 2019 HLTH Conference, held in Las Vegas, NV. As a venture capital investor, I love Las Vegas. It is the ultimate home of hoping your money makes more money, so it is like my natural habitat. This is the 2nd year of the HLTH Conference, and already it is […]
Stanford professor Kari Nadeau lives the life, some would say the dream, of what Judah Folkman has called the inquisitive physician, integrating her deep knowledge of chemistry, her experience in biotech drug development, and her clinical acumen and deeply-felt compassion for patients to bring the best of medicine and science to children and adults with […]
It is easy to get depressed quickly when reading about mental health and substance use statistics and how much negative impact poor mental health status has on people, on families, on the healthcare system and on the economy as a whole. Suicides are up, depression rates are rampant, opioid and other substance use is off […]
David Altshuler was living the academic dream as professor and human geneticist at Harvard and MIT, where he was co-founder and Deputy Director of the Broad Institute. Yet in December 2014, he left this life to join Vertex, in continued pursuit of his translational vision. Born in upstate New York, David moved to the Boston […]
During the last Tech Tonics episode (released September 23 and featuring the inimitable Tanisha Carino of FasterCures), David Shaywitz and I delved into Tanisha’s underground obsession with Karaoke. While admitting that Madonna’s “Dress Me Up” is her go to song on the microphone, I got it in my head to ask her what song exemplifies […]
Tanisha Carino’s family fled from the Ferdinand Marcos regime in the Phillipines and settled in what she still believes to be the sweetest of homes: Alabama. As she travelled through young adulthood she had her first awareness that many Americans live on the fringe, desperately needing both healthcare and social services. Since then Tanisha has […]
Hi Everyone, apparently the Internet gremlins were at it again – it appears that several of my most recent posts are not getting emailed out each week, as they normally would. Thus, I am resending this last one to you – apologies if you have, in fact, already read it. There have been other posts […]
Every year in October, the powers that be who award Nobel prizes get together to choose the anointed. There are prizes for literature and for economics and, in most interesting to me, several for science and medicine. It has always been my perception that those chosen to receive the science and medicine awards were selected […]
Physician, scientist, patient, advocate: Glenn Pierce inhabits all four roles, and seems the physical embodiment of the translational impulse, driven by his own experiences coping with severe hemophilia to advance the science – and the policy – he hopes will eventually cure this condition for patients across the globe. While other kids enjoyed carefree childhoods, […]
This week I had the good fortune to return to Dublin, Ireland and see many of my international colleagues and friends who are associated in one way or another with HealthXL, the digital health intelligence platform and expert community, and Health Beacon, a very cool medication adherence company focused on specialty pharma. Health Beacon hosted […]
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.