What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
My lovely friend Susannah Fox thinks and writes extensively about peer-to-peer healthcare, as well as the plight of people with rare health conditions. In a recent article, she developed a framework for thinking about what conditions do and don’t get addressed to patients’ satisfaction (and her friends helped her render it as below): Susannah asked […]
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 […]
I got a Baby’s brain and an old man’s heart Took eighteen years to get this far Don’t always know what I’m talkin’ about Feels like I’m livin’ in the middle of doubt ‘Cause I’m Eighteen I get confused every day Eighteen I just don’t know what to say Eighteen I gotta get away Lyrics […]
I have lots of wonderful friends, but today’s blog is inspired by one in particular: Susannah Fox. You may know her as the former Chief Technology Officer of the US Department of Health and Human Services (back when Human still meant something), or from her prior stints at Robert Wood Johnson and Pew Research (or […]
Susannah Fox eloquently described her job as U.S. HHS Chief Technology Officer – a role which just came to an end in the transition to a new administration – as “helping Health and Human Service (HHS) leadership harness the power of data, technology, and innovation to improve the health and welfare of the nation.” It […]
Maybe it’s something in the water (or on Newsweek magazine covers), but I have been getting asked a lot lately for advice from young women about how to succeed in business and overcome the significant anti-female bias that still exists in many quarters, but especially in Silicon Valley and finance. The question often sounds like […]
Such a good question from my friend David Shaywitz, MD, PhD, (and co-author with me of the book Tech Tonics). David has spoken and written about this this theme frequently, and most recently at the Health 2.0 conference held last week in Santa Clara, CA. He and I and 2000 of our closest friends were […]
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.