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Overcoming her own women’s health experience, Bethany understands first-hand the challenges women face navigating a healthcare system that consistently dismisses and diminishes their pain. She’s actively working to break down social taboos and stigmas that attach to women’s health while enhancing respect for women’s privacy and autonomy. Bethany’s passion and activism make her a leading voice on women’s health innovation, femtech, and data privacy.
Bethany is one of the leading voices in the women’s health community discussing reproductive health data privacy, telemedicine abortion, reproductive justice, abortion travel benefits, and more. Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade, she has become a go-to source for helping consumers understand their health data privacy rights and risks.
Bethany’s strategic insights and advice have been featured in top news outlets, including Forbes, Fortune, BBC, NPR, Buzzfeed, The Atlantic, VICE, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, Bustle, Washington Examiner, Fierce Healthcare, Rewire, Institutional Investor, Crunchbase News, MedCity News, and many more!
In addition, Bethany is a frequent speaker and presenter on women’s health innovation. From speeches and presentations to OB/GYN Grand Rounds to podcasts and webinars, Bethany enjoys presenting to national and international audiences and has accepted speaking engagements across the globe. She merges education with advocacy to drive meaningful change and help others enter the femtech space. You can check out some of her recent podcasts, show appearances, and speaking engagements below.
As a lawyer with a passion for writing, Bethany is thrilled to serve as Editor for the upcoming book, Innovating in Healthcare – Legal, Entrepreneurial, and Ethical Considerations (anticipated release 2024). She has also produced a body of articles and scholarship concerning the ethical implications of femtech, women’s health data privacy, maternal mortality, post-Dobbs legal challenges, and more. You can check out some of her recent articles below.
Community engagement and mentorship are essential for propelling women’s health into the 21st century. Bethany dedicates her time and expertise to helping early-stage founders understand and navigate the U.S. healthcare regulatory landscape to ensure they are building robust and scalable solutions that can lead the industry. She mentors startups in five accelerator programs:
Bethany also serves as an Advisory Board Member for Kisaco Research’s Women’s Health Innovation conference series.
She serves alongside recognized industry experts in women’s health – including experts from the National Institute of Health, Maven Clinic, Philips, McKinsey & Company, and Organon – to determine conference content and programming at some of the largest women’s health innovation events in the U.S.
In addition, Bethany hosts the FemInnovation Podcast, which is designed to break barriers in women’s health technology by facilitating the hard conversations necessary to chip away at the stigma and taboo surrounding women’s health.
She speaks about critical issues that impact female health and provides legal, practical, and ethical insights to women’s health founders and supporters. You can listen to the FemInnovation Podcast on major podcast channels and at www.feminnovation.com
For many entrepreneurs – especially those in women’s health – experiences with fear, disease, and disempowerment are the fuel for innovation. Many founders innovate to create the products they wish existed in their darkest hours. They innovate to find purpose and meaning from desperate circumstances. And most of all, they innovate to heal not only themselves but also others suffering from similar conditions and circumstances. Finding purpose and resiliency through fear is one of the most powerful ways to drive meaningful entrepreneurship and innovation; yet most people block and avoid their fear and discomfort rather than embracing these experiences to positively impact the world. Bethany understands first-hand the skills needed to push through the darkness and transform fear into purpose and entrepreneurship. And she’s helping others unlock their potential through her new motivational speaking keynote “Harnessing Fear.” Learn more here.
