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Brad Younggren’s Career Is a Map of Where Care Is Going Next
From a Stryker unit in Iraq to smartphone diagnostics, text-first primary care and a newly acquired Seattle startup, Younggren has spent two decades asking the same practical question: how much closer can the system move to the person who needs it?
Cresilon Killed Its Big Launch - Then Built a Bleeding-Control Business the Hard Way
A 17-year-old's algae experiment became a syringe of hemostatic gel. The useful business lesson came later, when blackened batches forced Cresilon to cancel a launch and become its own manufacturer.
Clay Nolan Is Turning a Paramedic's Friction Into One Coordinated Machine
A paramedic saw skilled responders lose precious attention to airway work. More than a decade later, Clay Nolan is still engineering a simpler answer - and learning how long a clear idea can take to become a clinical system.
Inflammatix, Inc.
Inflammatix is a Sunnyvale, California molecular diagnostics company that reads the body's own immune response instead of hunting for the pathogen. Its FDA-cleared TriVerity test measures 29 host mRNAs from a blood sample and, using machine-learning algorithms, returns three scores in about 30 minutes: likelihood of bacterial infection, likelihood of viral infection, and overall illness severity. Run on the company's benchtop Myrna instrument, it is built for emergency and critical-care clinicians who need to decide fast whether a patient is heading toward sepsis. Spun out of Stanford in 2016, the company has raised more than $205M.
Patricia "Trish" Henwood
Patricia "Trish" Henwood, MD, FACEP is an emergency physician who runs quality and safety across an 18-hospital system as Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer of Jefferson Health in Philadelphia. Before the C-suite, she carried a portable ultrasound probe into an Ebola treatment unit in Liberia and built training programs that put imaging in the hands of clinicians in Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and beyond. She founded the nonprofit PURE to bring point-of-care ultrasound to resource-limited settings, published her bedside Ebola work in the New England Journal of Medicine, and now applies the same systems thinking to closing care gaps for vulnerable populations at home.
Brad Olson
Brad Olson runs Sollis Health, the members-only concierge urgent and emergency care company that treats your time as the real luxury. He came to medicine sideways - from Bain consulting to Starwood's loyalty empire to Peloton's first 100 employees - and now applies the playbook of emotional loyalty and hospitality to a 15,000-member, 11-clinic operation where the average wait to see an ER-boarded doctor is zero to fifteen minutes. His pitch is blunt: if any consumer business ran like a hospital ER, it would be out of business the next day.
Vituity
Vituity is a 100% physician-owned and led multispecialty partnership delivering acute care across the United States. Founded in 1971 as California Emergency Physicians (CEP America), it rebranded as Vituity in 2018, combining 'vital' and 'acuity.' Today roughly 5,500 doctors and clinicians staff emergency departments, hospital medicine, critical care, anesthesiology, psychiatry, neurology, telehealth and more across hundreds of care sites in 27+ states, treating millions of patients a year - all without private equity, insurer, or hospital-system ownership.
Michael Harrington
Michael Harrington is the Chief Executive Officer, Practice Management at Vituity, the physician-owned, multispecialty partnership headquartered in Emeryville, California. An accountant by training, he has spent more than three decades inside healthcare operations and stepped into the CEO role in 2002 after years as Vituity's CFO.
Robert Mittendorff
Dr. Robert Mittendorff is General Partner and Global Head of Healthcare at B Capital, one of the world's leading multi-stage global investment firms with over $6 billion in assets under management. An MD, MBA, and biomedical engineer rolled into one, he brings the rare combination of clinical credibility, operating experience, and investment acumen to healthcare venture capital. He led B Capital's inaugural $500M+ Healthcare Fund I, backing category-defining companies across digital health, medtech, biotech, and AI-driven healthcare from seed to IPO.
David Craig
David Craig, MD is the CEO of Spruce Health, a San Francisco-based HIPAA-compliant healthcare communication platform serving 25,000+ healthcare providers. A Stanford-trained emergency medicine physician who began coding in his teens, Craig brings rare dual fluency in medicine and software engineering. He joined Spruce in 2014 as Chief Medical Officer before taking the CEO role in late 2021, and still works weekly ER shifts to keep his clinical perspective sharp while leading a team building the communication infrastructure for modern healthcare.
Ziad Obermeyer
Ziad Obermeyer is a physician-scientist and professor at UC Berkeley whose 2019 Science paper exposing racial bias in a healthcare algorithm used by millions changed how the world thinks about AI fairness. An emergency medicine doctor who moonlights as a machine learning researcher, McKinsey alum, and serial founder, Obermeyer co-founded Dandelion Health and Nightingale Open Science while testifying before Congress and earning a spot on TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI.