Online special education and mental health services company eLuma has appointed Andy Myers as CEO.
eLuma, a Leeds Equity Partners company, provides mental health and behavioral support offerings, including speech-language teletherapy, for K-12 schools.
Myers brings expertise in scaling operations to eLuma and previously held positions at learning and mentoring nonprofit Waterford, SaaS learning...
RNA-focused digital therapeutics company Flamingo Therapeutics added a new member to its board of directors, Dr. Ezra Cohen.
Flamingo produces RNA therapies for oncology and is backed by investors such as Andera Partners, Bpifrance Large Venture, Perceptive Advisors, Sphera and VIB.
Dr. Cohen has a history in the development of pharmaceuticals, especially head and neck cancers.
"The science...
FireflyVR, a company that develops virtual reality software for mental healthcare, announced the appointment of Andy Mathis as its new chief business officer and Steve Howarth as its chief financial officer.
Mathis' previous roles include head of Android carrier partnerships in North America at Google, head of customer account management at Oculus, director of healthcare partnerships for the...
Healthcare technology company Loyal Health announced it appointed Lauren Struck as its first-ever chief people officer.
Struck will build a "strategic people operations infrastructure," the company said in a statement. She will focus on providing employees with clear professional development pathways, ensuring effective communication and strengthening employee experiences.
She previously served...
Edward Liu, a former head at Morgan Stanley, has joined medical-booking platform Zocdoc as its new chief financial officer.
Most recently, Liu served as Head of Americas Banking Technology at Morgan Stanley, where he advised CEOs, CFOs and boards on their strategic and financing decisions. He also previously spent time at McKinsey & Company and at Patricof & Co. Ventures.
In his new role...
Healthcare software company Commure appointed Dr. Saurabha Bhatnagar as its new chief health officer, the company shared last week in a blog post.
Bhatnagar was most recently the chief medical officer and head of digital and technology of UnitedHealth Group. He also brings experience as a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School.
As chief health...
Teletherapy company Talkspace has appointed Varun Choudhary, MD, MA DFAPA, as its new chief medical officer.
Choudhary brings over 17 years of behavioral health experience to the role. He most recently served as CMO at Magellan Health. At Talkspace, Choudhary will help scale the company’s clinical practice and provider network across the country.
In addition to his new role, Choudhary also serves...
Alphabet’s life sciences and healthcare subsidiary Verily has named Dr. Amy Abernethy as the new president of its clinical research business.
Abernethy will support Verily’s expansion into a full-scale clinical evidence generation platform by overseeing the overall product vision and Verily’s related clinical research portfolio.
"There is no one better positioned to catapult Verily's clinical...
San Francisco-based behavioral health startup Ginger (formerly Ginger.io) has made two noteworthy additions to its advisory board: former U.S. Representative for Massachusetts Joe Kennedy III and Myrna Soto, the chief strategy and trust officer for cybersecurity company Forcepoint.
"With a surge of people seeking care, and a growing shortage of those who provide it, our nation’s badly broken...
The Biden administration is continuing to lock in leadership at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with a handful of new appointments.
At the top of the list is the department's new administrator for the Senate's consideration, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. An Obama-era policy official, she was most recently managing director at Manatt Health where she provided policy analysis and...
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