Announcements from Oath Care, DexCare, Included Health, Aetion

Derek Streat is Co-founder and CEO of DexCare, a data-driven intelligence company that makes healthcare access better for everyone. He is an accomplished healthcare technology entrepreneur and executive, having co-founded and/or led six venture-backed companies including three in health tech and four acquired by public companies.Prior to joining Providence as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence to commercialize DexCare, Derek served as Vice President of Digital Solutions at Johnson & Johnson after it acquired his surgical AI company, C-SATS. There he transformed the organization responsible for training 250,000 surgeons worldwide into a leading healthcare quality improvement and continuous learning institute.Derek is also actively involved in national healthcare data transparency efforts for the improvement of patient care as a Co-founder and Board member of two leading data sharing organizations, PEDSnet and the Improving Renal Outcomes Collaborative (IROC).

Wendy Turenne is a healthcare analytics specialist with 20 years of experience building bridges between data, analytics, and business strategy. As SVP, of RWD & Delivery Operations, Wendy leads client engagement, data strategy and integration, and operational performance for Aetion. Previous to joining Aetion, Wendy partnered with biopharma companies of all sizes on RWE and HEOR collaborations with Cardinal Health and DaVita. Prior to that, she held analytics and leadership positions across multiple settings: government, population health, hospital, payer, and provider organizations. She holds a BS from the University of Virginia and an MS in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Dr. Michelle Stephens, PhD, CPNP, RN is cofounder and chief nursing officer of Oath Care. Oath is a social platform delivering a healthcare experience anchored in relationships. Each member is matched with intimate community and a world-class medical team to provide comprehensive support through an entirely new kind of care. Oath’s goal is to guide everyone – not just mom –  through the motherhood journey, from fertility to pediatrics. Dr. Stephens’ early childhood stress research and her extensive pediatric clinical experience fundamentally informs how Oath is built. Stress experienced in early childhood is ubiquitous and has lifelong impacts on health and well-being but our current healthcare and medical education systems fall terribly short of addressing it. Knowing that the single most well understood antidote to childhood stress is for parents to be positive, consistent caregivers in their child’s life, Oath is using the lever of community to meaningfully improve health outcomes for the next generation and beyond. Michelle earned her undergraduate nursing degree from Georgetown University and completed her master’s degree as a pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) at The Johns Hopkins University. As a Robert Wood Johnson Future of Nursing Scholar at The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), she investigated how stress affects a young child’s autonomic nervous system (ANS) reactivity. After defending her PhD dissertation, Dr. Stephens began investigating mother-child dyad stress reactivity given a stress reduction intervention but left academia altogether to fully pursue building Oath Care to reimagine the way we deliver maternal and child healthcare. She currently lives in San Francisco with her loving family. Beyond Oath, she trains as a CrossFit athlete and enjoys building community with her church and kids’ school.

Ami Parekh sets Included Health's clinical vision and strategy to deliver value for clients and improve health outcomes for members. She leads the company’s Health Strategy and Insights Team including Analytics and Actuarial, Provider Strategy and Relations, Clinical Strategy & Outcomes Research, Clinical Market Initiatives, and Public Policy. Previously, she was Chief Medical Officer for Population Health and Clinical Integration at UCSF Health, and also worked at McKinsey. Ami serves on the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts board of directors. After Yale Medical School and Yale Law School, she completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Previously, Ami has been named one of 50 Healthcare Leaders Under 40 by Becker’s Hospital Review (2016), 32 Chief Population Health Officers to Know (2019), Fierce Healthcare Women of Influence (2020) and SF Business Times’ Most Influential Women in Business (2021).