Here is a non-comprehensive list of women leaders in the digital health space.
Research, Non-Profit, & Academic
- Veenu Aulakh (California Health Care Foundation)
- Vivian Distler (Health Horizons Program)
- Deborah Estrin (Center for Embedded Network Sensing & openmHealth)
- Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann (UCSF)
- Susannah Fox (Pew Internet)
- Regina Holliday (Advocate & Artist)
- Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey (CEO of RWJF)
- Margaret Laws (California Health Care Foundation)
- Miriam Lueck Avery (Institute for the Future – Health Horizons program)
- Rachel Maguire (Institute for the Future)
- Ida Sim (UCSF & openmHealth)
- Wendy Sue Swanson (Seattle Children’s)
Media & Leadership:
- Abbe Don (Health @ IDEO)
- Sara Holoubek (Luminary Labs)
- Val Jones (Better Health)
- Christine Peterson (Personalized Life Extension Conference)
- Jane Sarasohn-Kahn (Health Populi)
- Lena Shaw (UCSF)
- Robin Strongin (Disruptive Women in Healthcare)
- Indu Subaiya (Health 2.0 Conference)
Health Gaming & Behavior Change
- Alexandra Carmichael (CureTogether & Quantified Self)
- Kendra Markle (AlterActions)
- Stephanie Habif (Habit Design)
- Debra Lieberman (Health Games Research)
- Jane McGonigal (SuperBetter)
Entrepreneurs:
- Sidney Baker (Autism 360)
- LeAnna Carey (AuraViva)
- Anjelika Deogirikar (Infusion)
- Alexandra Drane (Eliza)
- Judy Faulkner (Epic)
- Carleen Hawn (Healthspottr)
- Susan Love (Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation)
- Jen McCabe (Contagion Health)
- Sona Mehring (CaringBridge)
- Jill Prevost (BloomHealth)
- Jill Shah (Jillslist)
- Anne Wojcicki (23andme)
Rock Health Entrepreneurs:
- Carla Bayot (DesignMyMeals)
- Shawn Bolan (HealthOnDeck)
- Liz Cooledge (DocSpot)
- Eri J Gentry (Genomera)
- Heather Anne Halpert (Curious)
- Maria Ly (Skimble)
- Cara Moretti (DesignMyMeals)
- Eve Phillips (Empower Interactive)
- Yelena Rubinshteyn (Log Frog)
- Amy Sheng (CellScope)
- Christina Tran (PatientNudge)
- Rebecca Woodcock (Cake Health)
Rock Health team:
- Linda Avey (Advisor)
- Emily Chang (Mentor)
- Sona Makker (Research Associate)
- Halle Tecco (Managing Director)
- Clare Wylie (Event Coordinator)
- Leslie Ziegler (Creative Director, Patient Advocate)
Venture Capital:
- Rowan Chapman (MDV)
- Esther Dyson
- Nina Kjellson (Interwest)
- Barbara Lubash (Versant)
- Rebecca Lynn (Morganthaler)
- Naheed Misfeldt (Aberdare)
- Lisa Suennen (Psilos)
- Sue Siegel (MDV)
Who’d we miss?
