In 2012, the consensus was clear: zip codes determine health outcomes.
I didn’t fully buy it.
Not everyone in a traditionally “tough” zip code is unhealthy. Many are thriving — against the odds, with the same resources, in the same neighborhoods.
But could these positive outliers help others who were still struggling?
The answer to that question became InquisitHealth.
We trained patient outliers as Peers. Built one of the largest tech-enabled Peer/CHW workforces nationwide. Published peer-reviewed research on clinical efficacy.
Our goal was simple — democratize patient insights.
Two years ago, InquisitHealth was acquired by Pyx Health to build on this work.
I joined as the inaugural Chief Health Officer of the combined entity — merging teams, integrating technologies, and supporting 80+ health plans across our joint offerings. I also got to experience M&A from the other side when Pyx acquired FarmboxRx.
Each step was a master class. Sales strategy from Rachael Swan. Legal maverick-ing from Annie Harrington Weinig. Navigating existential ups and downs from Cindy Jordan. And many more. Thank you all!
(yes — peer-to-peer mentorship is a recurring theme in my life!)
While my full-time, hands-on work at Pyx is now coming to a close, I’ll continue supporting the team as an Advisor.
And for the first time in a long time, I’m thinking from scratch about what’s next.
/1/ Sharing what I’ve learned.
Co-founding, scaling, selling, acquiring, merging — each chapter taught me something, often the hard way. I’ve been using these lessons to advise both early-stage and scaled companies on what to do and what NOT to do — transforming healthcare in a bigger, better, faster way.
I want to help more builders avoid the mistakes I made.
/2/ Unlocking AI for healthcare.
I’ve become obsessed. I went from Claude Pro to Pro Max (5x) to Pro Max (20x) within weeks. Pulled my first all-nighter since med school building a platform to help health leaders stay ahead of the AI curve, and more.
Here’s what shifted: for years, I had ideas I couldn’t build fast enough.
The bottleneck was always engineering bandwidth, budget, time.
That bottleneck is gone.
And I haven’t felt this energized since the early days of InquisitHealth.
/3/ Build mode.
This is the greatest time to be building in healthcare.
With AI, we actually have a shot at delivering the triple aim.
But AI won’t build itself.
(at least not yet)
The tech doesn’t know what matters. It doesn’t know which problems are worth solving, which patients are falling through the cracks, which workflows are broken.
Someone has to translate the technology into trust. The algorithms into empathy. The efficiency into equity.
That’s the work ahead. And I can’t wait! 🚀