“Doctors have too little time to help their patients navigate resources, and the Internet’s self-help offerings can be overwhelming” -ANDREW ROSENBERG, RESPONSUM
Sarah Iranpour
Sarah Davidson
PerSoN Clinic
Resility Health
Health Moonshot: Cancer
Health Moonshot: Mental Health & Happiness
At PerSoN Clinic, Iranpour’s aim is to unlock the hidden impact of environment and comorbidities on oncology treatment outcomes. The PerSoN Clinic platform is a healthcare delivery system that gives patients suffering from cancer, depression, and smoking addiction – three highly comorbid conditions – a voice in treating their illness and addiction. PerSoN houses a patient’s clinical and outcomes data, tracks their treatment progress, and allows them to collaborate with their care team and access information through a peer network. The app’s smoking cessation tool was designed in collaboration with the National Institute on Drug Abuse. PerSoN also features an NCI-compliant toxicity-related symptoms tracker for patients going through radiation therapy.
Resility was founded in 2016 after Davidson, who had suffered from chronic pain for years, realized the source of her pain was stress. “People have these health problems, and they try a lot of things that don’t help because they haven’t addressed the root cause,” says Davidson. The company takes proven stress management techniques like mindfulness, visualization, and breathing exercises and pairs them with biofeedback from wearable sensors to generate a Resility™ Score so that people can actually see what’s happening in their body and track changes over time. Using predictive analytics, they customize stress management programs to optimize their effectiveness for each person.
Andrew Rosenberg
Mylea Charvat, PhD
Responsum
Savonix
Health Moonshot: Access to Care
Health Moonshot: Brain Health
A former staff member for Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Rosenberg has been a DC-based healthcare policy expert for nearly two decades. At Responsum Health, he and his team have harnessed the power of the Internet to better inform patients suffering from rare diseases. Their flagship patient news service, Responsum for Pulmonary Fibrosis, replaces a patient’s own web search with a disease-specific, online experience that culls together content from legitimate news sources and is vetted by medical advisory teams. “Doctors have too little time to help their patients navigate resources, and the Internet’s self-help offerings can be overwhelming and inaccurate,” says Rosenberg. “Responsum’s vision is for a continuously curated and expertly-vetted news feed.”
In 2014, Dr. Charvat walked away from a path to professorship as a clinical psychologist and translational neuroscientist in order to answer this question: How do we assess the mental health of patients on a large scale? At Savonix, Dr. Charvat has assembled a community of leading scientists – Alzheimer’s researchers, learning sciences experts, the author of ‘The Female Brain’ – who’ve developed the world’s first app for neurocognitive assessments, Savonix Mobile. The app makes notoriously pricey brain health screenings available to the masses, improving prevention and treatment of dementias like Alzheimer’s. “At Savonix, we believe there is no mental health or physical health – there is just health,” says Charvat. The 30-minute assessment is available via a license from healthcare organizations and other third-party partners. Savonix recently raised a $9.6M extension round bringing their total Series A raise to $14.7M.
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Savonix Mobile is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Charvat’s efforts to revolutionize brain health. The company is embarking on a landmark population health study to collect cognitive and brain health data digitally from 400,000 individuals. The patient registry will offer new insights into risk factors for dementias like Alzheimer’s.
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