Femtech: Bridging the Gaps in Traditional Healthcare for Womxn Around the World
Women around the world - including in the most developed countries - often lack access to safe, affordable, and equitable healthcare. It's no secret that the health of women impacts the health of their immediate families, friends, and entire communities — making women's health more than just a "women's problem." In fact, women's health is largely to be considered a public health issue with organizations globally working to improve access to and outcomes of care.
Femtech, a soon-to-be trillion dollar industry, is working hard to address the gaps in healthcare for women.
In this panel event, we'll be talking to women's health leaders who are innovating healthcare solutions for women in four different regions of the world, about what femtech is and who it serves, how femtech bridges life-threatening gaps in healthcare for women, the top women's health issues being solved by femtech, and how women across the globe can leverage femtech to advocate for themselves and demand better healthcare.
Panelists include:
Moderator: Hadly Clark, MHSA - FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute (US)
Marissa Fayer - HerHealthEQ (global non-profit)
Francesca Geary-Stingl - Fermata (Singapore)
Dr. Fatima Ahmed - Orcha Health (UK)
Delaney Dunn Dichoso - Hera Diagnostics (US-based, launching product in Mexico)
(Keep reading for detailed bios)👇
This panel is moderated by:
Hadly Clark, MHSA, Associate Director, FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute
Hadly Clark, is an experienced health information technology professional focused on the intersection of health and technology and the voice of the patient, including policy, product development, data equity and discrimination. Currently at FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, she leads initiatives exploring the use of patient generated data to accelerate biomedical research including removing barriers to access and establishing good stewardship of patient data. Previously, at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Hadly oversaw the operational development of clinical quality measures supporting quality improvement programs for ASCO’s patient registry and value-based reimbursement under the Quality Payment Program (QPP). Before joining ASCO, she worked at Compass Professional Health Services, guiding patients to low-cost, high quality providers and analyzing claims data to identify key trends in healthcare consumer behavior to predict future consumption and health outcomes. Hadly has 10+ years of experience as a dedicated patient advocate helping people navigate through the complex often opaque U.S. health system. Find Hadly on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Meet our panelists
Marissa Fayer, CEO, HERhealthEQ
Marissa Fayer is a 20+ year medtech executive, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She is the CEO and founder of social enterprise non-profit HERHealthEQ, the president of advisory firm Fayer Consulting LLC, Executive Vice-President of Women’s Health at DeepLook Medical, and Venture Partner at Assiduity Capital. Her mission is to move innovation and the health of women forward throughout the world.
Marissa has previously served as an executive at Hologic, Olympus (formerly ACMI), Maquet-Getting (formerly Atrium Medical), Providien Medical, and Accumed Innovative Technologies. Her consulting clients include several Top 500 companies and innovative start-ups including Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Nuvasive, National Institute of Health (NIH), Oerlikon Medical, Emit Imaging, and others. Marissa sits on the board of medtech companies Welwaze Medical and DeepLook both focused on improving the diagnosis of breast cancer; and PMD Medical focused on Urinary Incontinence. Marissa graduated from Boston University with a BS in Manufacturing Engineering and from University of Connecticut with an MBA.
Marissa is a TEDx Speaker (2019 at TEDxLugano), a UCSC Miller Center Social Entrepreneur Fellow, and has been listed as one of the Top 100 Women in Medtech in 2018, a Top Woman Activist to Watch, awarded the 2018/9 Africa Development Award, a Wonder Women in Medtech in 2017, and has spoken at the World Alliance Forum, CapGemini Women of the West Forum, Lithuanian Biotechnology Association, MPO Summit, DeviceTalks Boston and San Francisco, and others. Marissa has appeared in several online and print publications such as Medical Design & Outsourcing, BloombergLaw, Med Device Online, and TheStreet.com. Marissa leads the #wealththroughhealth and #healthequityforwomen movements and is dedicated to innovative solutions for global operations and improving women’s health throughout the world.
Marissa lives in New York City and can be found at www.marissafayer.com
Marissa Fayer website: http://marissafayer.com/
HERhealthEQ website: https://www.herhealtheq.org/
Marissa Fayer’s TEDx Talk: https://youtu.be/imXMRX6va28
Francesca Geary-Stingl, PR & Marketing Consultant, fermata Singapore
Francesca Geary-Stingl is a PR & Marketing Consultant at fermata Singapore. A self-titled 'femthusiast' (female enthusiast), Francesca is looking for ways to make femtech and femhealth a part of everyone's daily conversation in Southeast Asia.
Francesca can be found on Linkedin here or fermata's Facebook community, Taboo Talks.
Dr. Fatima Ahmed - Orcha Health
Dr. Fatima Ahmed is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and NHS Clinical Entrepreneur. She is the clinical lead for Maternity and Women's health at ORCHA, a global leader in providing access to trusted digital health technologies and their safe adoption.
Orcha Website: https://orchahealth.com/
Orcha Library: https://appfinder.orcha.co.uk/
Twitter: @fatima_alzara
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-fatima-ahmed-38955414b/
Delaney Dunn Dichoso, COO & General Counsel, Hera Diagnostics
Delaney Dunn Dichoso is COO & General Counsel at Hera Diagnostics, an impact-driven company focused on addressing the global cervical cancer crisis with diagnostic tools that are simple, affordable, accurate and, most importantly, provide immediate point of care results to underserved women globally. A passionate advocate for women’s health initiatives, Delaney’s career background and experience is varied in a multitude of areas including law, business development, operations, tech and healthcare.
Hera Diagnostics Website: https://hera-diagnostics.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/delaney-dunn-dichoso/