As an emergency room nurse during the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Cari Toneck remembers a city engulfed in anger. After four white police officers were acquitted of nearly beating a Black man to death, L.A.’s long-simmering racial tensions finally erupted. For six days and nights, buildings burned, dozens of people lost their lives and a […]
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Dharmi Tailor – Roivant Sciences
Dharmi Tailor is multilingual, but not in the traditional sense: she speaks scientist and inventor. As partner and head of legal for Roivant—a biotechnology and healthcare company—and with a bachelor’s degree in public health policy and management, she understands and can interpret the highly technical speak of researchers and clinicians. That’s allowed her to do […]
Paul Bokota – The HydraFacial Company
Many want their children to follow in their footsteps. Paul Bokota may get to live that dream. His youngest daughter is considering attending law school and serious about following Bokota, who’s been a private attorney, then general counsel for nearly three decades. She does wonder if he misses going to court, though. “I do miss […]
Olga Victoria Prieto Zamora – Alcon
There was a time when Olga Victoria Prieto Zamora believed that motion was the potion to professional growth. So the young lawyer would spend a few years each with Latin American law firms or companies, then moved on, eager to apply her learnings elsewhere and garner new insight. But she seems to have settled down […]
Nausheen Rokerya – Visiting Nurse Service of New York
It’s hard to remember a time before the COVID-19 pandemic. The days before social distancing and mask mandates often feeling like a lifetime ago. “I often joke that I don’t even know what I did before COVID,” says Nausheen Rokerya. “These days, roughly 75 percent of my meetings relate to work generated by the pandemic.” […]
Markus Green – Pfizer Inc.
There was good news to report the July morning when Markus Green spoke with Vanguard. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had announced that those fully vaccinated by Pfizer Inc. were 88 percent protected against severe cases of the COVID-19 Delta variant. The pharmaceutical giant and its partner, BioNTech, also were examining data for […]
Merritt McGowan – Lyniate
It was a harrowing and difficult time for Merritt McGowan and her family. They had moved to New York City from Mississippi in the ‘80s when her father began working on Wall Street. Just as she was becoming accustomed to life in the Big Apple, her dad was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, an incurable disease […]
Alan Schmitz – Connect for Health Colorado
Alan Schmitz couldn’t believe news stories about federal and state bills being passed that were 500 or 1,000 pages long. It didn’t seem real. Who would write that many words—and who would read them? He would. Since encountering those stories, Schmitz has spent the last seven years helping people understand the 900-page Affordable Care Act […]
Karen Maher – Pivot Health Solutions
Pivot Health Solutions is on the rise. Actually, as Karen Maher points out, the health and wellness industry is on the rise, in greater demand than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic. And as general counsel, chief compliance officer and corporate secretary, she’s helping guide Pivot Health Solutions’ growth while creating new ways to increase diversity, […]
Robert Bryson Carter – Cone Health
Robert Bryson Carter knew he was in for a sea change when Cone Health began to shift from volume-based to value-based health care about a decade ago. Value-based care, where providers are paid based on the quality of care as opposed to the volume of services provided, is emerging as a model that can alleviate […]
