Leveling the Playing Field by Prioritizing Health Equity

About the webinar:

One of the largest challenges we have in healthcare is getting everyone the access to the care they need and trying to get out ahead of acute events. Even in 2023, we know that people of lower socioeconomic status, older Americans, rural populations, and populations of color have trouble accessing the care they need. Lack of access,combined with our shortage of healthcare resources, is creating gaps in our care system. Health tech - particularly digital - has an opportunity to really impact this challenge.

Hear from Julia Hu, CEO & Co-Founder at Lark, Dr. Lynne Nowak, Chief Medical Officer at Lark and Krishanu Evans, VP Strategy and Transformation at Walgreens Boots Alliance as they discuss the following:

• The structural change industry leaders and innovators need to champion to reach underserved populations, including policy changes that would support greater health equity.
• The critical role that AI and digital health tools play when providing care to people in Healthcare Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs).

Speakers:

Julia Hu, CEO & Co-Founder, Lark Health

Julia Hu is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Lark. Founded on the personal experience of having grown up with an undiagnosed chronic condition, Julia is passionate about bringing compassionate care to those struggling with or at risk of chronic disease. Hu was named one of the “Top 10 Women in Tech” by Forbes and was a winner of Inc. Magazine’s “30 under 30”. Prior to founding Lark in 2011, Julia ran global startup incubator, the Clean Tech Open, built a sustainable construction startup, and was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Stanford’s StartX incubator. She is on the board of the Council for Diabetes Prevention and a Singularity University faculty member. Hu received her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees at Stanford University and half of an MBA from MIT Sloan before founding Lark. Julia loves to stay fit with hip hop.

‍Dr. Lynne Nowak, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Lark Health

Passionate about using data and technology to improve healthcare, Dr. Nowak has over 30 years of experience helping patients live healthier and more fulfilling lives. Dr. Nowak leads Lark’s Clinical, Studies & Research, and Business Insights teams. Before joining Lark in 2022, Dr. Nowak led provider experience, clinical analytics and product strategy, and health information interoperability as VP/GM Clinical Data and Provider Solutions at Evernorth (formerly Express Scripts) and Cigna. She also has nearly 15 years of direct patient care experience as a Board Certified internal medicine physician in outpatient primary care, inpatient hospitalist medicine, and hospice/palliative care. Dr. Nowak earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame and her Medical Degree at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, and she completed her Internal Medicine training at the Mayo Clinic.

Krishanu Evans, VP Strategy & Transformation, Walgreens Boots Alliance

Krishanu is an experienced strategy and corporate development executive with a strong track record of driving business transformation and growth, and bringing to market innovative products and services across multiple healthcare industry sectors, including payers, providers, pharmacy, consumer products, technology, and digital health. Most recently the VP of Strategy and Transformation at Walgreens Boots Alliance, Krishanu led the creation and formation of WBA’s U.S. Healthcare business, a new healthcare company focused on expanding Walgreens’ retail pharmacy into healthcare delivery. Prior to WBA, Krishanu held senior positions in corporate strategy and growth at multiple integrated health systems. Earlier in his career, Krishanu was a manager at Deloitte Consulting, supporting payers in transformation, growth, and regulatory activities. Prior to that, he held multiple roles in healthcare technology companies including Epic Systems, driving technology & product implementations, systems integration, and portfolio management. Krishanu has an M.B.A. from Arizona State University and a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University.

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