Investing in Healthcare Innovation: Can Houston Be Competitive?
Houston's tremendous wealth has contributed to the success of world-renowned health care systems and academic medical centers in the Texas Medical Center and throughout the metropolitan area. Yet many other cities surpass Houston in fostering startup health IT, biotech and other health technology companies that will drive future progress in both human health and financial growth. At this event, Lisa Suennen, senior managing director at GE Ventures the firm's health care venture fund participates in a conversation with Vivian Ho, director of the Baker Institute Center for Health and Biosciences, to explore the economic benefits that investing in health care can bring to cities. They will discuss trends in health care venture capital and what lessons from Silicon Valley are transferable to other locations, as well as what strategies Houston needs to be successful in the rapidly growing sector of health care venture capital.
Featured Speaker
Fireside chat with Lisa Suennen, Senior Managing Director-Healthcare Ventures, GE Ventures, Palo Alto, CA
Lisa Suennen is the senior managing director at GE Ventures, leading General Electric's health care venture fund that invests in early-to-growth stage health care investments across health IT, health services and medical devices. She is also managing partner at Venture Valkyrie, LLC, a media and publishing firm, and founder of CSweetener, a not-for-profit company focused on matching women new to the health care C-suite with experienced mentors. She is on faculty at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches classes on health care venture capital. Previously, Suennen was a partner at Psilos Group, a health care venture capital firm, and an executive at Merit Behavioral Care Corporation from startup through an IPO and successful exit. Suennen is a board member of Evidation Health, Health Reveal, Gravie, the Dignity Health Foundation and Heart To Heart International. She is an advisor to the CHCF Innovation Fund, the American Heart Association Innovation Think Tank, HealthXL and NASA's Translational Research Institute. She is also an Aspen Institute Health Innovation Fellow and was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to the Advisory Council of State of California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine. Suennen writes a blog on health care and investing at http://venturevalkyrie.com and hosts the podcast Tech Tonics.
Wednesday May 16, 2018
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM CDT
May 16th, 2018
5:30 PM -7:30 PM
5:30 Reception
6:15 Program Begins
James A. Baker III Hall
Rice University - Baker Institute
6100 Main St.
Houston, TX 77005
Directions to the Baker Institute:
Parking is closest and easily accessible in the Central Campus Garage. Enter the campus through Entrance 20 from Rice Blvd.
Turn right at the second stop sign. Drive towards the end of the business school (a long building on your left) and turn left into the ramp underground for the Central Campus Garage. Press the button on the machine at the entrance to obtain a parking ticket. If that doesn’t work, you may need to insert a credit card.
Drive towards the other end of the garage and park. Take the elevator to your right up to the first floor. When you step out, you will see a fountain outside. Beyond the fountain is Baker Hall. The reception and check in area is in the foyer of Baker Hall.
Use 1902 Rice Blvd. at Kent in GPS to find Rice entrance 20.
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