The personal media brand of Sharon Rao — storytelling, a point of view, and a community at the intersection of healthcare, technology and entrepreneurship.
I am a former physician and clinical researcher, ex-COO at MedSchoolBro — the fastest growing medical education and technology platform for students. I previously built and exited an EdTech startup in Calgary, Canada. Based in New York, I am focused on impact-driven entrepreneurship — especially within healthcare and technology — and on connecting the founders and physicians building it.
I translate clinical credibility into operating leverage. I bridge two audiences that complement each other: physicians who understand outcomes, and founders who can build at scale. My longer arc is a real connection between the US, Canadian and Indian health ecosystems, and small, sponsored gatherings — dinners, matcha mornings, yoga, lunches, panels and fundathons — where those collaborations actually start.
From the pilot series with Base44 and Tavily — a hands-on AI workshop for healthcare professionals in NYC.
The room: private practice directors, healthtech founders, surgeons, nutritionists, longevity medicine physicians, dermatologists and emergency medicine doctors — all of whom built and shipped working apps and dashboards.
AI models ship new capabilities monthly, so the workshops recur: every edition, this community gets hands-on practice with what just landed. The bigger goal is to give clinicians the tools to feel empowered to build the next OpenEvidence or Oura — or something far more personal — by learning AI through community.
From Claude Build Day for Healthcare with Anthropic — I hosted one of the first rooms in the world building on Fable 5.1, the week it launched.
My audience was a mix of physicians, nurses, clinical researchers, healthtech founders and health system operators — nearly 80 builders who each arrived with one real problem from their work and left having shipped. Discharge coordination software, prescriber safety alerts, a dialysis scheduler, prior-auth agents, performance wellness tools — built by the people who live these problems daily.
I've always stated that healthcare doesn't have an interest problem with AI — it has an access problem. My intent is to put clinicians in a room with the right tools to build unique solutions that don't exist elsewhere.
The physician-to-operator path. What medicine teaches you about building, and what it quietly doesn't.
Operating, hiring, exits. The unglamorous middle of building a company — I've done it as a founder, and now as a COO.
What's being built, what's missing, and why women's health is still the most underbuilt market in medicine.
What the US, Canadian and Indian health ecosystems can learn from each other, and the South Asian women building across all three.
Sustainable ambition. Mindfulness and health for founders who build with high growth potential.
My convening franchise: small, sponsored dinners, matcha mornings, and mixers for founders and physicians. Community over reach.
Two formats I run on repeat — to build community, long-term connections, and build on shared interests in impact-driven work.
I bring together operators and founders interested in healthcare and technology for meaningful discussions, and document them in short featured conversations that spotlight their work and journeys. Editorial storytelling on my terms — and the engine that feeds my community event invite list.
I take one company, trend, or claim and give it a real second opinion: what's true, what's marketing, what the data actually says. What's credible — and do I personally resonate with it?
Essays and posts on healthcare, technology, entrepreneurship, women's health, and the people building as physician operators.
In person here in NYC, or virtually from anywhere. Book a slot that works best for you and it lands on both our calendars.
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My series of events targeted towards operators in healthcare and technology. Followed by a short-form interview series — your story, on your terms, from the people building the future of the field, one conversation at a time.
Interested in co-hosting, collaborating or sponsoring an event? Let's grab a coffee or connect!
IG: @raosharon · LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sharonrao