Saya Nagori, MD; Founding Physician, FemHealth Project

Purpose Summit Host

Sylvia Romm, MD, MPH Health Lead of Virtual Care, Cityblock Health

Dr. Romm is a pediatrician who has been focusing her work on using digital care delivery to improve access and equity in health care.

Pamela Mehta, MD Board-certified Orthopaedic Surgeon

 Dr Mehta is a board certified orthopaedic surgeon who founded her own practice 6 years ago and holds leadership positions as chief of Ortho within prominent health care systems and startup MDisrupt

Jessica Shepherd MD, MBA FOUNDER OF SANCTUM MED + WELLNESS & Policy, CAPS, PPFA

Dr. Shepherd is here with us to discuss her love for wellness and integrative health that can impact everything we desire to be in our optimal health

Katie Deming, MD. Founder and CEO of MAKEMERRY

 Dr. Deming is a radiation oncologist, inventor, and entrepreneur. She is the CEO/Founder of MAKEMERRY, a line of intimates for women with sensitive skin.

Katie Marks-Cogan, M.D., Cofounder of Clear Allergy and Chief Allergist of Ready,Set,Food!

Dr. Katie Marks-Cogan is a board-certified pediatric and adult allergist & immunologist, cofounder of Clear Allergy, which is her private practice in LA, and Chief Allergist of Ready,Set,Food!

Pooja Goel, MD Founding Physician, HARA clean beauty & wellness

Dr. Pooja Goel is a Family Medicine trained physician. With a background in primary care, she has always looked at health from a prevention mindset. After becoming aware of and researching the toxic potential of beauty and self-care products, She founded HARA clean beauty. Through this platform she aims to curate the best in clean beauty so you can shop beauty without bringing toxins into your routine.

Carrie SiuButt, MBA; CEO of SimpleHealth

Carrie SiuButt is CEO of SimpleHealth, a reproductive health company that currently provides birth control online. Carrie is a global executive with over 20 years of experience in transforming health and wellness companies, providing strategic and financial excellence all with a focus on the bottom line.

Sonia Patel, PharmD; Co-founder and Chief Pharmacist, Capsule

Sonia Patel is the Co-founder and Chief Pharmacist of Capsule, a technology business rebuilding the pharmacy industry from the inside out with an emotionally resonant brand and seamless customer experience. She has more than a decade of experience working in the pharmacy industry. She joined Capsule as the first employee as the Chief Pharmacist and has since built and scaled all of Capsule’s operations.

Alice Zheng, MD, MBA, MPH

Alice is a healthcare consultant at McKinsey & Company in the pharmaceutical/medical device and global health practices with a special interest in women's health. She previously trained in clinical medicine and worked in global health.

Ann Mond Johnson, MBA; CEO of the American Telemedicine Association

Ann Mond Johnson is CEO at the American Telemedicine Association (ATA). Prior to that, she served as CEO of Zest Health, a technology-enabled service; as Board Chair and Advisor to ConnectedHealth, a leading provider of private insurance exchanges; and as co-founder and CEO of Subimo, a pioneer in healthcare cost and quality decision support tools for consumers –for which she was inducted in the Chicago Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 2016.

Paola Portela MD, MHA

Paola Portela is a board certified pediatrician and Chief Medical officer for the Angel Harvey Family Health clinic. Her passion for working with the underserved brought her back to the community where she grew up. She is currently the Chief Medical Officer at the Angel Harvey Infant welfare clinic in Logan Square. Dr. Portela was born in Colombia, South America and raised in Logan Square. She feels privileged to be giving back to the Latino community.

Andrea Paul, MD; CEO of Health Media Experts

Andrea Paul is a physician serial entrepreneur and investor in the digital health space as well as a healthcare marketing expert. She is the founder of BoardVitals, Health Media Experts, and a venture partner at SpringTide Investments.

Dana Northcraft, JD, Senior Director, Innovation & Policy, CAPS, PPFA

As Senior Director, Innovation & Policy in CAPS, Dana is primarily responsible for leadership and strategic direction surrounding telehealth for abortion services with a cross-functional team of experts in Operations, Policy, Research, Litigation & Law, among others, as well as various affiliates in order to make abortion services available to our patients via telehealth. Prior to joining PPFA, Dana was responsible for inspiring collective work as a litigation attorney, representing injured people in negligence claims with a particular focus on the Chinese immigrant population in NYC as well as union workers and veterans nationwide. She is an alumna of two Planned Parenthood affiliates in Missouri, has co-founded a feminist non-profit, and done work for various progressive projects and candidates.

Tanika Gray Valbrun, CNN Producer, Founder The White Dress Project

Tanika Gray Valbrun is an award-winning Journalist and Educator with a passion for women’s health. After her personal struggles with uterine fibroids, Tanika’s passion for women’s health inspired her to create The White Dress Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing awareness, raising funding and increasing education about uterine fibroids. As the founder of The White Dress Project, Tanika has successfully worked with doctors, health advocates and elected officials in multiple states to get legislation passed declaring July as “Fibroid Awareness Month”. Recognized as a thought leader and patient advocate for uterine health, she has also spoken at various events domestically and internationally.

Dr. Pinkey Patel, PharmD, NASM-CPT, Pre/Post Natal Correct Exercise Specialist and CEO & Founder of The SnapBack

CEO and Founder: Dr. Pinkey Patel, a mama and clinical pharmacist who is also a certified NASM personal trainer, specializes in pre/post natal corrective exercise. Dr. Patel first hand experienced the gap in women's healthcare and the lack of reliable, credible resources. As a mother of two, she is her primary clientele and is actively using her postpartum app to rehab alongside her users. From learning how to establish a business from scratch in 2018 to developing a consultancy, and building out an app, Dr. Patel has juggled working full-time as a pharmacist, being a mother of two, being pregnant and successfully bringing a product to market. When you're doing something as visceral and life-altering as growing a human, the resources you receive during and afterwards should reflect that magnitude, they should be as thoroughly created, as seriously considered as the life we create.

Neela Sethi MD, Board Certified Pediatrician, Co-Founder of Jaanuu

Dr. Neela Sethi was born and raised in Palos Verdes, California. She attended the University of California at Los Angeles for her undergraduate training, with Psychobiology as her major. She stayed a loyal Bruin and continued at UCLA medical school. She completed her residency in Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. She believed that women should be empowered by the scrubs they wear and felt that unisex, ill-fitting ones were not for her. She decided then to create a company that would help women feel their best so they could do the perform at their best. That is when Jaanuu was born. To see it grow into what is has become today (including men and plus sizes) has been a dream come true. Dr. Neela has always been known for her positivity, love of human connection, and for always putting other first. She loves her family more than anything in the world and they continue to be her driving force to succeed. 

Ona Utuama, MD MPH Founder and Creative Director Tribal ëyës

Ona Utuama MD MPH, is a Family Physician - Hospitalist, public health researcher and published author, mentoring public health students and connecting physicians locally and internationally. She recently became an entrepreneur and founded Tribal ëyës. An e-commerce eyewear line of neutral and ethnic designs.

Hala H. Sabry, MBA, DO

Dr. Hala Sabry is a Board-Certified Emergency Medicine physician, the founder of Physician Moms Group (PMG), and a super mom of five- with two sets of twins! PMG is the largest online support network for women physician mothers, with over 115,000 members, Hala is expanding her purpose and outreach to coaching individuals and businesses.

Karima Ladhani, PhD, Founder & CEO Barakat Bundle & Giving Cradle, Assistant Director Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program

Karima is the Founder & CEO of Barakat Bundle, a social enterprise that creates life saving bundles for mothers and newborns in need in South Asia. She is also the Assistant Director of the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program, which works with government health and education ministers to support human development in developing countries..