​Designing and Delivering the Future of Women’s Health

​Join leaders across care, research, product development, investment, patient advocacy, and policy to spotlight women’s health as a powerful and growing sector with deep roots in Rhode Island.

​Together, we’ll spark new collaboration and accelerate action to shape the future of care for women.

Thank you to our host, Rhode Island Life Science Hub and our sponsors Flourish Care, Nova, Origyn Solutions, Ocean State Labs Powered By Portal Innovations, and Slater Technology Fund.

​See the Agenda below, with updates on speakers to come.

​Agenda:

​8:30-8:50 Registration

​8:50-8:55 RILSH Welcome
Lilia Holt, Interim President, RILSH

​8:55-9:05 Keynote Opener
Mukesh K. Jain — Senior Associate Provost for Life Sciences, Senior Vice President for Health Affairs, Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences

​9:05- 9:50 Keynotes
Methodius G. Tuuli — Chair, OB/GYN, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; Chief, Women & Infants Hospital
Sonia Millsom — CEO, Oxeon

​9:55-10:40 Designing Science Around Women (Panel)
Kerry Evers — Moderator, Pro-Change Behavior Systems
Melissa Bowley — CEO, Flourish Care
Kate Dangremond — VP, Population Health, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island
Meghan Riddle — Associate Director of the Memory & Aging Program at Butler Hospital
Martin Taylor — Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University; Co-Founder, Line Diagnostics

​10:45-11:25 Designing Innovations for Women (Panel)
Jenny Hoffmann — Moderator, NEMIC
Jeanette Numbers — CEO & Founder, NOVA Design
Julia McDowell — Partner, F-Prime Capital
Meg Eckenroad — Head of Commercial Strategy, Origyn Solutions
Victoria Adewale — Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellow, Women & Infants Hospital
Aurora Pryor — Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital, Surgeon-in-Chief

​11:25-12:30 Closing + Networking
Michelle Wu — Emcee, Wu Consulting