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Co-founder and former CEO of Propeller Health, a respiratory healthtech company. In 2019, the company was acquired by ResMed. I continued to lead the business until stepping aside in 2021 to become an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. At Propeller, we pioneered the application of digital technology to chronic disease management and pharmaceutical therapy. During the company's history, we partnered with leading health plans, provider systems, PBMs, retail pharmacies, and pharmaceutical companies to bring clinically-proven digital solutions to clinicians and people with respiratory disease.Beginning in 2012, with one of the first US FDA 510(k) clearances for a digital health product, the company went on to market nine additional 510(k) devices. In 2021, together with Novartis, we received EMEA approval for the first co-packaged software and pharmaceutical product, which was marketed in 15 countries.Since 2022, I have been advising and consulting part-time for various startups and organizations, and currently serve as non-executive director at Closed Loop Medicine, a UK-based company working on personalized dosing for high-value medicines.I received my PhD in medical anthropology from the University of Arizona in 2004. My dissertation research, funded by the National Science Foundation, examined the rising prevalence of asthma and allergy in India, a topic that I previously studied among Native Americans in Alaska, Arizona and New Mexico. From 2006 to 2009, I was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. In 2010, I was named a Champion of Change by the Obama administration for my work on technology and innovation.Between 2004-6, I was an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, assigned to the Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch. During this time, I provided epidemiological support to the National Asthma Control Program, and investigated the health effects of a variety of environmental exposures. In addition, I helped establish emergency illness and injury surveillance in coastal Mississippi and New Orleans after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

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