Episodes

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Stephanie Mercado of the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ). Stephanie was recently named as a Top Most Influential person in healthcare which is representative of her work and the work of NAHQ. NAHQ, aims to provide solutions for the most pressing issues in healthcare which today vast. “…..but I think could be summarized in three words. Care, cost and cliff. We want to stay ahead of where health care delivery is going. We want to ...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Candace Richardson of General Catalyst. Candance talks about her investing philosophy, why measuring portfolio success based on societal impact is important, what Black History Month means to her, and then we also talk some girl math – as in when closing the gender health gap has a $1T global impact ….WHY is it that we saw investment in women’s health companies cut in half in the last two years??. Spoiler alert – the answer is complicated… Well, ac...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Dr. Bayo Curry-Winchell, known to many as just Dr. BCW. She is the creator of Beyond Clinical Walls, a popular video series where Dr. BCW discusses a wide variety of health topics. Her intention is to create awareness and advocate for patients while also infusing health equity into the series. Advocacy and standing up for people has been important to Dr. BCW since she was a little girl. Her why comes from her father who would bring her to rallies an...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Dr. Nishi Rawat, Bamboo Health’s Chief Clinical Officer. In medical school, like most physicians, Dr. Rawat had little to no training on mental health or substance use disorder. And yet, day in and day out, as a critical care physician this is what she was seeing. Dealing with these medical issues, the overdoses, over and over without having the right tools at her fingertips, led Dr. Rawat to want to do more than just putting a band aid on this this...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN’s Race and Equality Senior Writer and an award-winning journalist. Nicquel’s love for journalism started early as a staff writer for the high school newspaper where she covered protests on school dress code policy. Being extremely curious about what is happening in the world around her led to covering all the newsroom beats over the years. The coverage that matters the most to her, as a black woman living in America, is zer...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Naomi Allen, CoFounder and CEO of Brightline. This is the finale episode of this Inspiring Women collaboration highlighting several of the extraordinary women leaders in the 7Wire family. Naomi is no stranger to building and scaling companies and her experience includes near seven years working in the area mental health on the adult side. IT was when her son had a mental health crisis, that her passion turned to pediatrics. Recognizing there was a ...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Dr. Robin Berzin, Founder and CEO of Parsley Health. This is the next episode of this Inspiring Women collaboration highlighting several of the extraordinary women leaders in the 7Wire family. A third of this country, ~100M Americans, have two or more chronic conditions which also equates to about seventy percent of the cost of care in this country. Robin quickly draws our attention to the fact that the majority of these conditions are risk-adjusta...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Jennie Shulkin, Founder and CEO of Override Health at HLTH 2023. This is the next episode of this Inspiring Women collaboration highlighting several of the extraordinary women leaders in the 7Wire family. Jennie joined forces with her father, Dr. David Shulkin, former US Secretary of the VA to address to create Override and to address chronic pain. Why? Two traumatic brain injuries left her with complex chronic pain and seeking treatment was not j...

Kicking off this Inspiring Women collaboration highlighting several of the extraordinary women leaders in the 7Wire Ventures family. As a seasoned healthcare executive, entrepreneur, and previous government servant, Lori is familiar with the need to address healthcare problems at scale. Given the tsunami of need, Lori created Caraway to redefine healthcare for an entire generation, the GenZ population. Caraway is focused on healthcare delivery of this population with an approach that makes sens...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with the Inspiring Women co-founders of Iron Health at HLTH 2023: Stephanie Winans, CEO, Kristina Furlan, Chief Product Officer, and Susanna Wiborg, Chief of Staff. This is the finale episode of this Inspiring Women collaboration highlighting several of the extraordinary women leaders in the Redesign family. Each of these founders came to Iron Health to improve equity, access, and outcomes across women’s health. And to raise the bar. In the US, women have worse outcom...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Kathy Kaluhiokalani, Founder and CEO of Pip Care at HLTH 2023. This is the next episode of this Inspiring Women collaboration highlighting several of the extraordinary women leaders in the Redesign family. Pip Care was launched out of the Redesign process to address support for patients before, during and after surgery. Kathy has such a clear vision and leads with purpose and intensity, coupled with perspective and a sense of calm that she attribut...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Rachael Jones, Founder and CEO of Syntax Health at HLTH 2023. This is the next episode of this Inspiring Women collaboration highlighting several of the extraordinary women leaders in the Redesign family. Syntax Health was launched out of the Redesign process and Rachael could not be more excited to talk about the company, how data and analytics support the industry’s move to Value Based Care. And then of course, what it really means to be part of ...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Brenda Schmidt, Head of Enterprise Growth at Redesign Health at HLTH 2023. In collaboration with Redesign Health, Laurie is speaking with several of the extraordinary women leaders in the Redesign family. This first collab conversation is with Brenda Schmidt. Brenda joined Redesign after a substantive career in healthcare as an executive, builder of companies, venture studio chief, board member….the list goes ON. She self describes as an “INTRApren...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Chelsea Clinton. What an honor to speak with Chelsea Clinton at the HLTH 2023 conference in Vegas. Despite thumping music and flashing lights, Chelsea didn’t miss a beat to focus on the important space of healthcare and use her platform to address inequities. Hear Chelsea talk about: Maximizing time requires an amazing team + a robust calendar To be the professional that she wants to be, focus, being regimented, accountable, and surrounding hers...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Lisa Suennen, veteran healthcare leader and commentator. Also, founder of CSweetner, now a part of HLTH supporting the advancement of women in healthcare. Kicking off HLTH 2023, Lisa provides her views on 5 key topic areas at the conference – what’s exciting and where we might be a bit more skeptical. Hear Lisa’s Hot Takes on: Stand-alone technology is useless Pay attention to the important convergence of technology with services or medical devic...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Elisabetta Bartoloni, a Heidrick & Struggles Partner and leader of the Americas Global Markets Practice. In our post-pandemic workplaces where opportunities to advance to leadership have changed,

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Deepthi Bathina, CEO and founder of RhythmX AI and Healthcare Partner at SAIGroup. Deepthi’s interest in healthcare is personal. She lost her grandmother early due to complications from diabetes. What Deepthi remembers was the lack of understanding of how diabetes could be controlled. And the suffering, not only in her family but across many other parts of the world. And she wants to do something about it. As a teen, she discovered coding – simply...

Inspiring Women and Boulder, Colorado is stop # 9 on the HIT Like a Girl Pod Road to HLTH 2023. It was planes, trains, and automobiles for founder Joy Rios who journeyed across the country, visiting innovative health tech hubs and speaking with women about some of the most pressing problems in healthcare today. Along the #RoadtoHLTH23, the ideas flowed freely, as did the laughs, networking and idea sharing. In Boulder, Colorado, our day began with an early morning and very gorgeous hike, some s...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Marta Ronquillo Newhart, longtime Chief Communications and Brand officer to Fortune 100 companies. When Marta tells her “how did you get here?” story, it begins and then comes back to her roots, her family. Marta comes from the family Ronquillo. She talks about her renowned grandfather Rosalio Ronquillo married to her grandmother Virginia (pronounced viahinya) Bermudez Ronquillo. Her grandfather was a storyteller. A businessman. An entrepreneur. An...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with the very inspiring Congresswoman Diana DeGette, now in her fourteenth Congressional term representing Colorado and the nation. Congresswoman DeGette reflects on her life of public service as well as some of her signature legislation over her near 25 years in Congress. When she started in Congress, a mere 12% of the US Representatives were women. Today, that number has more than doubled but remains under 30%. She is quick to point out the many leadership positions...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Women Morgan Diaz, VP of Strategy, Operations and Partnerships at athenahealth. In her day job, Morgan has responsibility for the largest, most connected marketplace in healthcare with over 400 partners connecting data to the core athena EHR system. Morgan talks about the data flywheel this creates with interoperability at the core. And the innovation is impressive. No one company can do it all. Physician practices today are looking for specialty specifi...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Women Carolyn Starrett, CEO of Flatiron Health. Carolyn Starrett grew up wanting to be a judge. Over time and through early jobs, she found a love of technology and a strong desire to work on important problems with a great team. Today, she has found that at Flatiron. She loves the cancer care focused mission but it’s the innovation that is coming that excites her. Day to day, Carolyn focuses on four key pillars that you might expect from a CEO. Vision ...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Women Priya Bathija, Jhaymee Tynan, and Phoebe Yang at the WBL (Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation) Annual Summit. A consultant and two lawyers walk into a room. What happens? They leave as friends with a renewed commitment to DEI. This conversation centers DEI discussions with a focus on business excellence. It must start there. This powerhouse trio is not interested in simple, cursory discussions or performative compan...

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Tuyet DesJean at the WBL (Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation) Annual Summit. A daughter of immigrants, an infant refugee whose parents went from the boat to the camp in pursuit of something better. Every day Tuyet looks at that family picture by her desk, herself as an infant, her young parents (17 and 21 at the time) and she is reminded. And she is grateful. And what she knows today and knows deeply, is that she is ...