Entrepreneurship wasn’t the original plan. I’m a scientist first.

While I was getting my master’s in public health, I serendipitously found myself in one of the busiest cardiac catheterization labs in the country at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. There, I was exposed to cardiovascular disease at its most serious and saw firsthand what happens when heart disease reaches the point of intervention. Somewhere along the way, I fell in love with cardiology.

But I also kept noticing things that bothered me — especially how often the frameworks we used to understand cardiovascular disease did not seem to fit women particularly well.

Epidemiology became my way of asking bigger questions. It allowed me to take what I was seeing one patient at a time and examine it across populations. My doctoral research eventually brought those worlds together through the Women’s Health Initiative, where I learned both the rigor of studying women’s health at scale and the value of translating evidence into questions that matter in the real world.

But the more research I encountered, the more one question stayed with me:

How does that evidence become a better tool, a better product, a better decision — something that actually changes what happens for women?

Then AI took off, and the stakes became even clearer. If women are missing from the evidence, they can be missed by the technologies built from it too — at scale.

Women cannot be an afterthought in what gets built next.

That became the vision: better health innovation for women.

Not simply more research. Not innovation for innovation’s sake. But taking better evidence beyond the paper and using it to shape the products, tools, and decisions that ultimately reach women.

One night, while working on my dissertation, it clicked:

Oh. I have to do it.

Suddenly, a path that had once felt nonlinear made sense. The bedside, the data, the research, the population, the tools — each had taught me to see a different part of the same problem.

Maybe I hadn’t been directionless at all.

Dasnovate is where those pieces come together — and how I’m working toward better health innovation for women.