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Unlocking the Potential of AI in Healthcare: A First Principles Approach
Unlocking the Potential of AI in Healthcare: A First Principles Approach
This article was co-authored by Nuzi Barkatally and Roza Vazin, PhD ~~~ It’s impossible to ignore the buzz around AI in…
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Nuzi Barkatally shared thisIt was my third year in a row attending Behavioral Health Tech, and it's always amazing. Thank you to the fearless leader Solome Tibebu (& team) for putting on another year of such an amazing event. It is a special conference with so many special people working in behavioral health. If you have FOMO seeing all the pics, you should definitely join next year. Some highlights include: Participating in the women's health roundtable and focus group where I met Emily Zhen Melissa Bowley Jessica (Schiffman) Gaulton MD, MPH and many more amazing women! The Designing for Youth panel with Esha Mittal! Spending time with Sarika Kasaraneni! Some delicious matcha at the Rula booth! An early birthday celebration with Nina Kandilian and Steve Agular! Meeting folks from the Wellcome Trust! Lampros Bisdounis Tayla McCloud, PhD And seeing so many amazing old friends and meeting new ones!! I never take enough pics... Aimun Malik Carmine Di Maro Danish M. Vivek Mittal La Keisha Landrum Pierre Olivia Idigo Margaret Malone Arhum Saleem, M.D. Bukhtar Khan Brad Markey Leah Blain, PhD Neha Chaudhary, MD Zain Qayyum Hannah Szlyk, PhD, LCSW Vasanta Pundarika Shalyn Watkins Amy G. Veronica Venezia Micah Friedland Liz Rockett Ross Harper Ravi Chauhan
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Nuzi Barkatally shared thisSophie Nazerian is sharing her brave postpartum journey. Our story and all the other amazing women's stories we have heard (and not heard, but know to be true) is why we are building what we are building. Excited to share more very soon!Nuzi Barkatally shared thisHealth is wealth. Literally, your wellbeing, your mind-body, is tied to how well you do at work and in the professional world. This is why Nuzi Barkatally and I have been sharing the brave women's stories of what they overcome or are still navigating health wise, I want to note, while excelling in their careers. Thank you all for participating. Here is my story and it's why I'm building what I'm building. https://lnkd.in/gJufRWnU
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Nuzi Barkatally shared thisWomen with IBD, join me for the 2026 IBD & Women's Health Conference on Sept. 27th put together by Dr. Puja Khanna, director of the Women's Health IBD program at Cedars-Sinai! I attended this event last year and it was so good to connect with other patients and clinicians focusing on fertility, pregnancy, menopause, mental health, nutrition and the latest in IBD care for women. You can register here: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gDPM34ma #IBD #WomensHealth #Gastroenterology #CrohnsDisease #UlcerativeColitis #IBDAwarenessNuzi Barkatally shared thisThe 2026 IBD & Women's Health Conference is just days away — and Dr. Puja Khanna, director of the Women's Health in IBD Program at Cedars-Sinai, wants you there 💜 Join us Sunday, Sept. 27 at the Harvey Morse Conference Center at Cedars-Sinai for a full day dedicated to the unique challenges women face living with inflammatory bowel disease. 🩺 Provider Session: 7:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. CME available | Register: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gyJjYDXZ 💜 Patient & Caregiver Session: 1 – 5 p.m. Register: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gDPM34ma Topics include fertility, pregnancy, menopause, mental health, nutrition and the latest in IBD care for women. We hope to see you there! #IBD #WomensHealth #Gastroenterology #CrohnsDisease #UlcerativeColitis #IBDAwareness Maria T. Abreu Natalie Gonzalez
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Nuzi Barkatally shared thisWe have had so many amazing women share their stories as part of our series: What I wish another woman told me about... To conclude this series, Sophie Nazerian and I are sharing our own. ✨ I thought it was important to share my experience going through the egg freezing process as someone who has an autoimmune condition as many of the immune-modulating medications we are on pose risks to pregnancy and it is important to advocate for yourself by having a conversation about your fertility with your doctor as part of your treatment plan. I know I wish I had this conversation sooner. Instead, I had to make a last minute decision to do egg freezing before I started a new medication. Here is what I wish other women knew. My full story is in our substack link in the comments below.
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Nuzi Barkatally shared thisSo good catching up with you AJ Fortier!Nuzi Barkatally shared thisOG SVB LA! Now on the flip side, thanks for supporting these bootstrapping (aka strapped) founders AJ Fortier
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Nuzi Barkatally shared thisThe OB clinic that was supposed to catch Arielle Radin Pulverman, PhD's infection never did. She called them daily with fevers and pain so bad she couldn't lie down. They weren't concerned. It took an ER visit and a CT scan to find the antibiotic-resistant abscess growing in her pelvis after a crash c-section. Arielle shares how the medical system isn't designed to keep you safe, and the way clinics triage over the phone makes you not want to go in. So the advocacy falls on you, and whoever's standing next to you. She survived eleven nights in the hospital with her baby because her husband, mother, and a night nurse traded off watching them around the clock. Nobody tells you that you might need a full support team just to get through recovery. Or that hospitals often won't let you keep your baby without someone there full time. Arielle never budgeted for a night nurse. She needed one anyway. She's strong, sure. But she's also furious, and she should be. Survival should never have been this hard as a new mom. You can read her full story in our substack link below.
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Nuzi Barkatally shared this"I think I am dying. I can feel my heart is not working properly." That's what Melissa Wear told the on-call OB at 6am, two days after giving birth, certain something was wrong and checking her own blood pressure cuff. Her heart rate had dropped to 37, and within five minutes she was surrounded by every cardiologist in the hospital. Nobody had told her this could happen. Her OB said giving birth would cure her elevated blood pressure, and when it didn't, a hospital doctor told her and her husband it was normal. Preeclampsia can develop up to six weeks after delivery, and almost nobody hears that in a birthing class. Melissa got through it. Her daughter is here, her family is whole, and she now knows exactly what to watch for. She's sharing this so the next woman doesn't push down that little voice telling them "something is wrong" before anyone believes her. Read Melissa's full story on our substack. Link in comments below.
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Nuzi Barkatally shared thisWe know about postpartum depression. But did you know up to one in five women experience depression or anxiety during pregnancy? Ali Whitman shared her experience for our series, "What I wish another woman had told me." Across two pregnancies she was waking with panic attacks in the night, sometimes twice before sunrise. She couldn't eat and was losing weight at her weekly OB appointments. She describes her mind as constantly manufacturing worst-case scenarios she couldn't talk herself out of. It can be invisible to a care team. As she puts it, mental health doesn't show up on an ultrasound. Blood pressure? good. Baby? healthy. Everyone concludes you're doing beautifully… while she could barely get out of bed. She took medical leave and felt like she was admitting defeat. She sees it now as what got her and her baby to the finish line. None of the catastrophes came true. Her mother survived a bone marrow transplant and knows both grandsons. Her boys are healthy. Ali has her mind back. If you didn't know prenatal depression had a name, send this to someone. One in five means somebody you know is in it right now. Thank you Ali for sharing your story. 💗
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Nuzi Barkatally shared thisWhat does it mean to advocate for yourself? Shoshana L. found a lump at 32. Her first doctor felt it and told her it "didn't feel like cancer." The biopsy came back benign. Two days later, they called to say they'd been wrong and she'd need another one. That's the moment most of us would go quiet. She'd been given good news, then a correction, then a plan. The path of least resistance was to stay put and let them redo it. But she had lost trust in this doctor. So, instead, she called her ObGyn and asked to be referred to someone else. The new doctor redid the entire workup and found invasive ductal carcinoma. Stage 1. Caught early enough to treat. This is what it means to advocate for yourself. Shoshana’s gut told her something was wrong. So she went to a doctor she trusted, and asked that person to send her to someone they'd vouch for. You are allowed to get a second opinion, to switch doctors, to look at other paths. You're allowed to leave without a reason, without a confrontation, and without telling them why. You’re allowed to trust your gut. I want to hear, have you have ever changed doctors and had it change everything? ~~~~~~ This is one in a series of women sharing the health lessons they wish another woman had told them sooner. For more of Shoshana's story, check out our substack link in the comments below.
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Tayla McCloud, PhD So lovely meeting you too! Would love to stay in touch. :)
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Nuzi Barkatally reacted on thisNuzi Barkatally reacted on thisProximal Ventures is so excited to be working with Fidji Simo, Rohit Gupta, Rishi N. Reddy, and the rest of the ChronicleBio team! For many people living with complex chronic illness, getting a diagnosis still leaves a fundamental question unanswered: what is driving my disease, and what will help? Chronicle Bio is combining detailed clinical + multiomics data and AI to better understand conditions including POTS, ME/CFS, and Long COVID. The goal is to uncover the underlying biology and use those insights to guide better treatment decisions. Better data and a more precise understanding of disease could change which treatments we develop, how we test them, and who ultimately benefits. Thank you to Amy Feldman and Forbes for bringing attention to this work and the patients at the heart of it.
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Nuzi Barkatally liked thisNuzi Barkatally liked thisLab Spotlight: Dr. Suzanne Devkota 🔬 What does the gut microbiome have to do with Crohn's disease? Dr. Devkota, director of the Cedars-Sinai Human Microbiome Research Institute, has spent more than 15 years working to answer exactly that question. In this week's Lab Spotlight we are sharing insights directly from Dr. Devkota — on creeping fat in Crohn's disease, what a research breakthrough would mean for patients and why patient participation is the driving force behind everything her lab does. Swipe through for her thoughts and stay tuned later this week to meet the brilliant team behind the research. #IBD #Microbiome #LabSpotlight #CrohnsDisease #UlcerativeColitis #GutHealth #IBDResearch
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Nuzi Barkatally reacted on thisNuzi Barkatally reacted on thisLinkedIn Peeps! I'm excited to share that I'll be speaking at HLTH USA this November in Las Vegas! I'll be on a panel titled "Redesigning the Benefits Blueprint" on Tuesday, November 17, at 1:00 pm. I'll be sharing the Velocity Stage with a phenomenal group of health benefits peers, including Amtrak's Nathan Counts, RxBenefits, Inc.'s Dr. Ritu Malhotra, PharmD, and HelloFresh's Noora Garnett. The panel will be moderated by Winston Taylor's Susan M. Nash. We'll be digging into why clinical strategy and health benefit costs can't be thought of separately, especially as the cost of some cell and gene therapies climbs toward the price of a home! The conversation will also cover how PBM contracts can be effectively renegotiated, how plan design is evolving to tackle the seemingly insurmountable issue of runaway trend, and whether stop-loss policies can hold up in light of all of this massive and rapid increase in cost. All in service of a bigger question: How did access and affordability all of a sudden become two sides of the same coin? So if you're headed to HLTH USA this year, please come join us at the Velocity Stage. I'd love to connect while I'm there! Please drop a comment below or send me a note and let's find time! https://lnkd.in/gQUnE2fGHLTH USA 2026 Agenda | AI, Care Delivery & Innovation SessionsHLTH USA 2026 Agenda | AI, Care Delivery & Innovation Sessions
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Nuzi Barkatally liked thisNuzi Barkatally liked thisExcited to share the launch of Facktor Ventures. Community health centers collectively represent the largest primary care network in the country, yet they’ve historically had far too little influence over where capital goes and what gets built. Facktor Ventures is designed to change that—bringing health centers into the investment process not just as customers or pilot partners, but as investors with a real stake in what comes next. If you’re familiar with the community health space, you likely know the depth of Facktor's relationships and experience across the sector. Building on Facktor's 20+ years working alongside community health organizations, Facktor Ventures is a natural extension of that work: helping give the organizations delivering care to underserved communities a greater voice—and an ownership stake—in the innovation being built for them. Health equity and expanding access to high-quality care have been central themes throughout my career, and it’s been incredibly rewarding to help bring this idea to life alongside an incredible team with deep roots in community health. Read more about it here: https://lnkd.in/gRGfY3_a Jay Boyer Michael Ceballos Facktor Ventures Facktor
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Nuzi Barkatally reacted on thisNuzi Barkatally reacted on this🎉 Well, this is pretty exciting! 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗹𝗲𝘅 has been nominated for TWO Signal Awards! TWO! 🎙️ Best Business Podcast 🎙️ Best Technology Podcast For a relatively new podcast?? I’m so thrilled! I started 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗹𝗲𝘅 to tell the fundraising stories of female founders - the messy raises, the absurd moments, the bias, the resilience, the lessons learned, and what it actually takes to get capital in the bank. These stories are usually whispered between founders, shared privately after the meeting, or only talked about once the door closes - but on this pod, we talk about them #outloud. 🙏 To everyone who subscribed, listened, shared an episode, sent me a note, or told someone else, “𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦” — thank you. The love for these conversations has been just incredible. > > > > 🎯 Help me get these nominations over the line! Vote for us in the 𝙇𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧'𝙨 𝘾𝙝𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚 category! ▶️ Vote here for Best Business Podcast: https://lnkd.in/eNac2hz8 ▶️ Vote here for Best Technology Podcast: https://lnkd.in/emgPtmVm > > > > LFG. 🚀 #founders #funders #fundraising #venturecapital #gamechangers #worldchangers
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Nuzi Barkatally reacted on thisWomen's health is no longer waiting for permission. ➡️ Investors are paying attention. ➡️ Founders are building. ➡️ Researchers are generating evidence. ➡️ Policymakers are recognizing that improving women's health is not only a health imperative, but an economic one. Yet meaningful progress requires more than capital. It requires bringing together the people shaping policy, research, healthcare, innovation, and investment to solve problems collectively. That's why gatherings like WHH Women’s Health Horizons matter.Looking forward to joining this important conversation in Washington, DC and learning from the leaders working every day to move women's health forward. #WomensHealth #HealthcareInnovation #HealthTech #LifeSciences Kate C Arnold, MD, MBA Tracy Chadwell Lauren M. Darisse Dave Whelan Lauren Ruotolo Stacey Brayboy Lara Zibners MD MMEd MBA Susanna Ling Allison Mignone Drew Stewart Elizabeth Mulkey Liz Powell, Esq., MPH The UpLyft CollectiveNuzi Barkatally reacted on thisWHH Washington D.C. Speaker Announcement | Pooja M. We’re excited to have Pooja M., Investment Partner at KELES Digital Health and founder of The UpLyft Collective, joining us at the WHH Women’s Health Horizons Washington, D.C. Summit, bringing a perspective spanning venture investment, healthcare innovation, and ecosystem building across the U.S. and Europe. On October 7, 2026, 200+ senior leaders and 40+ speakers will come together at the National Union Building for a policy-focused day exploring the decisions and systems shaping women’s health. Held in special partnership with the Society for Women's Health Research (SWHR) and Women's Health Advocates, the Summit will connect leaders from across policy, healthcare, research, industry, investment, advocacy, and innovation. Pooja M., is an investor, strategist, and ecosystem builder focused on advancing innovation across healthcare and women’s health. She is an Investment Partner at KELES Digital Health, a pan-European impact venture fund, where she works closely with founders, investors, and strategic partners to help bridge European healthcare innovation with opportunities in the U.S. market. Over the course of her career, Pooja has worked with early-stage and growth stage companies through roles spanning venture investing, technology transfer, business development, and healthcare innovation. Prior to KELES, she held leadership positions at Silicon Valley Bank and worked in technology commercialization at New York University, Temple University and Rutgers University. Pooja is the founder of The UpLyft Collective, a leadership ecosystem for senior women across healthcare, life sciences, and digital health. She is a frequent speaker on healthcare innovation, investment, and women’s health and serves on the boards of health-tech and diagnostics companies. Join us in Washington, D.C. for a day bringing together perspectives from across the women’s health ecosystem to strengthen connections between policy, investment, research, healthcare, and innovation. Secure your ticket today: https://lnkd.in/g94tDxxy Jason Clark Brontë Delmonico Emma Saul Crisca P. Alexia Tzelepis Sofia Lani Christen Hankins Drew Stewart Carlene Bartley #WomensHealth #HealthcareInnovation #DigitalHealth #VentureCapital #HealthInvestment #WHHDC
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Nuzi Barkatally reacted on thisNuzi Barkatally reacted on thisI love celebrating founders’ wins – today I’m celebrating my own: 5 years as the Founder/CEO of Grow Through Story! 🎉🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 Everything good in my entrepreneurial journey so far, everything I’m grateful for – from customers and partnerships to communities like The Upside to speaking opportunities/workshops – came from ❤️ having the COURAGE to take very uncomfortable actions and ❤️ making HUMAN CONNECTIONS that turned into relationships over time. Back in 2021, walking into an event where I knew no one made my stomach curdle. But it got easier with practice and with realizing that nearly everyone appreciates someone taking an interest in them 🤗 Now I do it all the time…and around LA, chances are pretty good I know at least one person there 😁 My top 5 highlights from these 5 years: 🌟 Helping individual clients WIN pitch competitions (June Han!) 🌟 Coaching hundreds of founders across many high-stakes pitch events: HumanX in SF, Visa She’s Next and Visa Everywhere Initiative globally (collab w/ KITE Scouting), UChicago’s India Deep Tech Accelerator, the German American Chamber of Commerce’s LA28 mobility event this spring and more. 🌟 Mentoring for Techstars – and becoming a 2x All-Star Mentor and 2026 Give First Award winner! – and several other programs, including FoundersBoost, gener8tor gBeta Inland Empire, Long Beach Accelerator and MassChallenge. → huge bonus: getting to know other mentors! 🌟 Teaching the Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Pitch Deck Masterclass and the strategy & storytelling class for Oneday’s accredited MBA program. 🌟 Hosting in-person events at #LATechWeek in 2024, 2025 and yes, in 2026 as well! → RSVP for my Funded Founder Lunch on 10/16 with fireside guest Jim Goodman: https://lnkd.in/gSMV8QbV But I’m far from done! Who do you know who needs my help? They could be one of 5 types of growth-stage founders I love to support, no matter their industry / technology / location: 📈 Growing their sales with an in-person event strategy where choosing the right events/showing up prepared is critical for ROI/meeting investor expectations. 💰 Raising a Seed or Series A with a deck or narrative that should be working but just isn’t landing with investors aligned on stage, hypothesis, check size, etc. 📣 Pitching at Startup World Cup, LA Tech Week or any other event where non-dilutive cash, in-kind prizes or partnerships are at stake. 🎤 Speaking at an industry event (keynoting, presenting a case study, moderating a panel) where ideal clients are listening/watching/deciding if they believe in the solution. ✈️ Expanding into the US market from abroad, where understanding how to connect with American investors and customers is key for growth (especially if English isn’t their first language). ➡️ If that sounds like you, please DM me soonest so we can schedule a time to talk. Because I believe (and have since day one of this business) that FOUNDERS DESERVE TO WIN! 🤩
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