Rosina Samadani
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Dr. Rosina Samadani is the founder of Truth On Call, which launched in January 2010. TOC polls healthcare practitioners (doctors, nurses, and the like) via text message. She has fifteen years of healthcare consulting experience, and leads the boutique healthcare consulting firm, Capella Advisors, which she founded in 2004. Prior to Capella she was with McKinsey & Company for six years, where she was a leader in the healthcare practice. She has her BS from MIT in Mechanical Engineering, her MS from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program in Mechanical Engineering, and her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Samadani was a National Science Foundation Fellow and a Helen Bernstein Health Sciences and Technology Fellow. She enjoys texting but never thought she’d text this many physicians at one time.

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Choosing the TEDMED 20 Great Challenges of Health Care

4 Comments | Posted April 3, 2012 | 10:14 AM

Next week TEDMED will hold its annual conference on health and medicine in Washington, D.C. 1,200 innovators, entrepreneurs, industry and government stakeholders, artists, and health care practitioners will attend in person at the Kennedy Center from April 10-13, and thousands of others around the world will...

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Is Michael Graves the James Dyson of Healthcare?

0 Comments | Posted February 14, 2012 | 1:02 PM

James Dyson came up with an idea for a better vacuum cleaner -- one that would not lose suction and would not require bags -- in the late 70s. It didn't get on to the market in the U.S. and U.K. for another 20 years. His eventual breakthrough...

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Big Pharma Is Innovating With Social Media -- Really

0 Comments | Posted January 31, 2012 | 11:41 AM

There's something exciting happening in the healthcare industry. In the past year there's been an uptick in big pharmaceutical (and other large healthcare) companies' encouragement of innovation that leverages technology, open data and -- wait for it -- social media. It's inspiring unusual collaborations, new companies, and -- most importantly...

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What All the Single Ladies Are Going to Do (in Corporate America)

0 Comments | Posted November 18, 2011 | 5:21 PM

Can you feel it? The single women are coming. The educated, capable, driven, single women. And most of them are wearing fabulous shoes.

This post is inspired by Kate Bolick's eloquent "All The Single Ladies," The Atlantic's November issue cover story. It resonated with me like no other...

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The 100-Day Plan That Isn't

0 Comments | Posted November 15, 2011 | 11:37 AM

Almost all new CEOs, presidents, and heads of business units develop a 100-day plan. In the context of a startup, a 100-day plan should have two aspects -- the hard and the soft. The hard are the three goals you want to achieve in 100 days. I won't bore you...

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