Dartmouth Institute MPH Student Spotlight: Hema Karunakaram
As a client engagement leader at IBM, Hema Karunakaram supports sales of artificial intelligence (AI) products and services for the healthcare and life sciences industries. Having spent the past three years in a range of sales and marketing roles at IBM, Karunakaram has learned a lot about what drives decision making across the health ecosystem. And, this evolution has allowed her to combine her background in engineering with skills in communications to translate technical concepts into tangible value for IBM’s clients.
Areas of Interest:
- The roles, both potential and realized, of technology in increasing access to care
Dartmouth Institute Deliverables:
- A better perspective on the various factors that influence the industry + ideas and concepts to apply in her own client engagements
“The digital health industry is growing rapidly. I alone have nearly a dozen health and fitness-related apps on my phone. But access to technology doesn't seem to be correlated to access to care or to better health outcomes. I'm interested to learn more about the factors that do influence access and outcomes, and how technology can be optimized to meet these needs.”
POSTED 8/23/2018 AT 02:26 PM IN #mph online