This is the first July I will not be moving onto another year of medical training. Instead, I’m excited to share: 👩🏻‍⚕️ I’m staying at @BrighamWomens as a general cardiologist 🚀 I’m founding my own business around exercise-as-medicine for chronic disease. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 to my people

🚨 Big update! After seeing so many women struggle to access care for their heart health, I decided to build a startup to address their challenges. Today, I’m excited to share that Systole (yes, I am a cardiology nerd 🤓) just closed a $2M pre-seed round—backed by investors including Tom X. Lee (founder of One Medical)—to bring group virtual care to women’s heart health. Our work was just featured in @FierceHealth by @emmabeavins yesterday (link in comments). The problem is massive: Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women but care for its risk factors fall into the “messy middle.” Women wait months to have all-too-short visits with their PCPs. Meanwhile, cardiologists are drowning in referrals and can’t see every patient in need of cardiometabolic optimization. This is why Systole helps bring group virtual care to health systems and practices. Our group visit model expands access by cutting wait times while improving outcomes by moving low-risk, high-need women into physician-led group care. If you’re a cardiologist or PCP bogged down with wait times and pressure to do more with less, I’d love to connect. In the meantime, wish us luck as we get started 🚀