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Award-winning healthcare leader. Former Googler, software engineer & technical manager…

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  • eViRa Health

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Volunteer Experience

  • Founding Board Member

    Ideas in Action

    - Present 13 years 5 months

    Science and Technology

    Ideas in Action, Inc. is a startup bringing together passionate innovators, industry visionaries, and idea catalysts throughout the local communities and beyond.

  • Patient Advocate, Patient Liaison, Translator

    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, MGH, and variety of other medical providers

    - Present 33 years 6 months

    For 30+ years:

    ✦ Helping patients navigate their patient journeys across many traditional medical/surgical treatments,
    alternative therapies and mental health.
    ✦ Conditions I help with include cancer, diabetes, heart disease, MS, orthopedics, mobility, anxiety, depression and more.
    ✦ Established relationships and worked closely with the BI oncologist and many oncology fellows over
    a 12-year period for a patient with metastatic breast cancer. Was a primary caregiver and…

    For 30+ years:

    ✦ Helping patients navigate their patient journeys across many traditional medical/surgical treatments,
    alternative therapies and mental health.
    ✦ Conditions I help with include cancer, diabetes, heart disease, MS, orthopedics, mobility, anxiety, depression and more.
    ✦ Established relationships and worked closely with the BI oncologist and many oncology fellows over
    a 12-year period for a patient with metastatic breast cancer. Was a primary caregiver and patient advocate, and helped navigate their participation in several clinical trials.

Honors & Awards

  • 50 Top Digital Influencers

    IPFConline

    50 TOP DIGITAL INFLUENCERS TO FOLLOW AT THE END OF 2021 AND IN 2022
    and
    50 TOP DIGITAL INFLUENCERS TO FOLLOW AT THE END OF 2020 AND IN 2021

    One of only 4 people representing HealthTech on this list, along with Eric Topol, Brian Ahier and John Nosta:
    http://ipfconline.fr/blog/2021/11/02/50-top-digital-influencers-to-follow-at-the-end-of-2021-and-in-2022/

  • Top Healthcare Social Graph Score

    Symplur

    Symplur assigns a Social Graph Score based on its trusted analytics and database of “tens of thousands of healthcare topics with billions of conversations and millions of healthcare influencer profiles”. My score is 99.12 out of a maximum 100.

    https://www.evirahealthtechstrategies.com/industry-recognition

  • Top 30 Health Tech Influencers

    The Awards Magazine

    "The influencers who have made a significant contribution to the health-tech industry.
    Their enthusiasm for improving technology applications in the medical field is admirable."

    https://www.theawardsmagazine.com/health-tech-inflencers-2021/

  • 50 of the Most Influential Voices in Healthcare

    Medika Life

    "In healthcare, these names matter. Add them to your network and amplify change.

    We have strived to identify voices that carry weight, both within their chosen fields of expertise and across the broader industry. These are the voices that affect change and they are all driven with a singularity of purpose. Creating a better, more accessible, more equitable healthcare system.

    These individuals enjoy instant amplification and their opinions affect and direct trends and policy. They…

    "In healthcare, these names matter. Add them to your network and amplify change.

    We have strived to identify voices that carry weight, both within their chosen fields of expertise and across the broader industry. These are the voices that affect change and they are all driven with a singularity of purpose. Creating a better, more accessible, more equitable healthcare system.

    These individuals enjoy instant amplification and their opinions affect and direct trends and policy. They are, in short, influencers. These are the names to watch in healthcare in 2021 and beyond."

    https://medika.life/fifty-of-the-most-influential-voices-in-healthcare-for-2021/

  • Top Women in Tech influencers

    Onalytica

    Women in Tech: Hot Topics and Top Influencers

    "Enacting this change to create a more gender-equal industry is not just a case of ticking the diversity box – studies have shown that a more diverse workforce is more productive and innovative especially for tech."

    "In partnership with long-established digital marketing leaders TopRank Marketing we’ve compiled a few lists of the most influential women in top tech topics for you to get inspired!"

Languages

  • English

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  • Russian

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Organizations

  • IEEE

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  • MDG Boston (Medical Development Group)

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