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Frontrunners Update – Diplomatic Training – Gold – Search – Philanthropy – Investors

In Publisher Channel, Updates by Mary Kurek

November 2, 2021 New Frontrunners: Welcome to the League! Jillian Haslam:  Philanthropist/Author/TEDx Speaker  Interview here Eleanor Haglund:  Aspire360 Investor/Founder Match Platform  Interview here Adam Gordon:  Plumb.one Independent Search Engine focused on research  Interview here Joyce Nwatuobi:  ThriveHealth Kidney and Behavioral Telehealth  Interview here Don’t forget that you can listen to our interviews and related content on your favorite podcast platform.  Link …

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Joyce Nwatuobi is Creating Greater Accessibility in Kidney Care and Behavioral Health

In Health, Publisher Channel by Mary Kurek

Joyce Nwatuobi is the CEO of ThriveHealth, based in Wisconsin, in the United States. Her mission is to improve patient care by creating a quality suite of telehealth products focused on specialty fields. Those fields would be kidney care and behavioral health. Both of these specialty fields are not easily accessible in community emergency rooms, prisons, and small clinics, where …

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Frontrunners Update – Behavioral Telehealth – Search with Privacy – Film Project

In Publisher Channel, Updates by Mary Kurek

SEPTEMBER 2021 “Before his interview was even published on the site, one of our most recent community members was connected to another for a business demo involving a major economic development opportunity.  So far, green lights ahead.” What’s New: New Members: If you are not already a Frontrunners League member, you can find out how it works here. Shout out …

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Cellphone, COVID-19, and Climate Change in Africa

In Climate, Features 20 by Mary Kurek

By:  Osita Aniemeka, PhD, Ambassador, Telemedicine Today, NIGERIA Before the dawn of COVID-19, the effects of climate change were already being felt by people across Africa. Evidence shows that change in temperature has affected the health, livelihoods, food productivity, water availability, and overall security of the African people. According to the Climate Change Vulnerability Index for 2015, seven of the …

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Guest Editor: Dr. Wilma Hunt-Watts, D.P.M.

In Features 17 by Mary Kurek

Dr. Wilma Hunt-Watts  D.P.M. (Doctor of Podiatric Medicine), D.A.B.M.S.P. (Diplomate of the American Board of Multiple Specialties in Podiatry), F.A.P.W.C.A. (Fellow of the American Professional Wound Care Association) is a Frontrunners League Member having been featured in the 10th edition of The Introducer on Veterans Advocates and Entrepreneurs. She serves on the American Diabetes Association Board of Directors We welcome …

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Networking Opportunities Identified in The Introducer Edition on Health Tech

In Health Tech, Networking Opps, News by Mary Kurek

Welcome to what The Introducer does best – facilitate connection.  For those who have been reading The Introducer for a while, you know that about a week after the edition goes live, we post the networking connections we see between those featured in the current edition (and we include some from previous editions where there’s a fit).  So, for The …

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Jacques Kpodonu on The Value of Health Tech

In Health Tech, Stakeholders, Stakeholders Health Tech 12 by Mary Kurek

Stakeholder Series:  The Value of Health Tech – Q & A With… Jacques Kpodonu, Faculty, Harvard Medical School and Cardiac Surgeon, Beth Israel Deaconess Med Center, US Jacques Kpodonu shares his viewpoints on the value of health tech. Jacques’ focus is on healthcare innovation, cardiac surgery, capacity building, and health systems innovation.  You’ll find more of Jacques’ interests and accomplishments …

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Yan Chow on The Value of Health Tech

In Health Tech, Stakeholders, Stakeholders Health Tech 12 by Mary Kurek

Stakeholder Series:  The Value of Health Tech Yan Chow, Medical Director, Digital Medicine, Translational Medicine, Amgen, US Yan Chow is a healthcare technology leader who we’ve asked to share his viewpoints on telehealth, innovations, data, and pharma.  Currently, Yan’s expertise is being utilized at Amgen, the world’s largest independent biotechnology firm, with 20,000 employees, revenues of $23B, and a focus …

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Game Changer Henrik Ibsen (Health Tech)

In Game Changers, Game Changers Health Tech 12, Health Tech by Mary Kurek

Henrik L. Ibsen, CEO, OpenTeleHealth, Aps, Denmark Why This Focus of Impact: Henrik Ibsen on Health Tech starts here:  Henrik founded a healthcare IT company in 2003, worked for 10 years as a consultant, and developed HealthCare IT solutions on a national level in Denmark, until becoming tired of consulting.  He started OpenTeleHealth in 2015 to continue and commercialize a …