Running Your Own Hail Mary
Cassandra Hui, founder, and CEO of Heal Mary, has a background in data science and 10+ years in marketing and community building, Cassandra was also part of the Scotiabank financial hackathon winning team in 2016. Heal Mary, a digital health platform using AI to close the gap in clinical trial participation was started after Cassandra began looking into treatment options when her mom and two sisters were diagnosed with cancer.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
Cassandra Hui’s childhood in Calgary, Alberta, and Toronto, ON
When she first fell in love with tech as a career
The impact Cassandra’s mother’s cancer diagnosis had on her family
The reality of clinical trials and how many are currently running
How to connect with clinical trials and why options are so important to patients
The memory of the first patient Cassandra was able to help
The KPIs that are useful in Heal Mary’s business model
Cassandra’s goals for her company’s future
How diversity metrics are underrepresented in clinical trials
The books Cassandra is drawing inspiration from this month
In this episode…
Cassandra Hui was inspired to found her company, Heal Mary, after her mother and two sisters were diagnosed with cancer. Her mother’s diagnosis with stage four breast cancer came when Cassandra was just ten years old. Then in 2017, two sisters were diagnosed with cancer within months of each other, right around the age their mother had been, and Cassandra decided there had to be a better way to approach options and maintain optimism.
Cassandra founded Heal Mary to make clinical trials available to patients. She explains that more than 370,000 clinical trials are happening globally today and to expect doctors to be versed in all of them is impossible. She wants to provide options for patients to find potential trials themselves that they can then bring to their health care practitioners.
In this episode of What CEOs Talk About, host Martin Hunter and Cassandra Hui discuss the reality of how short life is and what matters most to you in using the time you’re given. They address how what you fear can answer the question of what you should focus on, and they dig into the details of KPI on Heal Mary, what qualifies as outstanding success for Cassandra’s app, pursuing studies and scientific breakthroughs, and how the company is set up to be compensated. This is both an emotional and detailed conversation you won’t want to miss.
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