NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Square Roots, a mission-driven company focused on defining and empowering healthy birth, announced today the addition of two new advisory board members: Dr. Lisa Saul, MD, the president of Allina Health’s Mother Baby Clinical Service Line and a perinatologist with Minnesota Perinatal Physicians; and Dr. Rachel R. Hardeman, PhD, MPH, an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota.
“Dr. Saul and Dr. Hardeman bring a wealth of experience and leadership in health care delivery, particularly for at risks populations,” said Morad Fareed, founder and CEO of Square Roots. “Expecting mothers in low-income and minority communities often receive the poorest care and have the worst outcomes. Square Roots is working to change that dynamic and ensure quality care for all mothers, in all communities. The insights and vision Dr. Saul and Dr. Hardeman will provide our work is incredibly valuable, and I am thrilled they are both joining other esteemed members of our Advisory Board.”
Dr. Lisa Saul has served as President of the Mother Baby Clinical Service Line of Allina Health since September 2014. She leads quality improvement, facilitated care model improvements for those patients at highest risk, and has been instrumental in crafting a compelling and forward thinking strategy, and program/service development that will further improve the health of our community and address care disparities. In addition to her role as president, Lisa works part-time as a perinatologist with Minnesota Perinatal Physicians. Her area of clinical focus is fetal cardiology.
“The challenges with maternal health care are intractable, but not insoluble,” said Dr. Lisa Saul. “Improving health outcomes for expectant mothers demands more cross-sector coordination. I look forward to providing guidance to Square Roots as the company works to develop new partnerships and deliver innovative solutions that couple non-clinical community-based health interventions with clinical care.”
Dr. Rachel R. Hardeman, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health and Consultant with Partners in Equity and Inclusion. Dr. Hardeman is a health inequities researcher whose work focuses on the provider contribution to equity and quality of health care delivery and the ways in which race impact health care delivery and the clinician-patient encounter.
“Too many expectant mothers in America, particularly those from minority communities, are not receiving the quality care they need and deserve,” said Dr. Rachel R. Hardeman. “Research and data help expose and elevate the problem and the need for action. I am thrilled to join a team of advisors that includes some of the nation’s leading maternal health researchers and to work with Square Roots to develop and distribute new research to inform and improve the quality of maternal health care.”
To view the full Square Roots Advisory Board, please visit http://www.squareroots.com/team.
About Dr. Lisa Saul
Dr. Lisa Saul has served as President of the Mother Baby Clinical Service Line since September 2014. She leads quality improvement, facilitated care model improvements for those patients at highest risk, and has been instrumental in crafting a compelling and forward thinking strategy, and program/service development that will further improve the health of our community and address care disparities.
In addition to her role as president, Lisa works part-time as a perinatologist with Minnesota Perinatal Physicians. Her area of clinical focus is fetal cardiology.
Lisa is a California native who received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in Molecular and Cell Biology. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California, San Diego, and her OB/GYN Residency at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. A fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of California, Irvine completed Lisa’s medical training. Lisa will complete the Business of Medicine MBA program at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in 2017.
Lisa is married with two young children. In her free time she enjoys traveling and spending time with her family.
About Dr. Rachel R. Hardeman
Rachel R. Hardeman, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health and Consultant with Partners in Equity and Inclusion.
Dr. Hardeman is a health inequities researcher whose work focuses on the provider contribution to equity and quality of health care delivery and the ways in which race (e.g. implicit bias, explicit bias, stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination institutional racism and the white racial frame) impact health care delivery and the clinician-patient encounter. She has a particular interest and focus on prenatal care delivery and persistent disparate birth outcomes for African American women. Dr. Hardeman is also a leading expert in medical education research focusing on the experiences of under-represented minority physician trainees.
Dr. Hardeman is passionate about moving the conversation around racism in public health forward and to that end, the overarching goal of her work is to contribute to a new body of knowledge that enriches how we understand the ways that institutional racism plays out in healthcare encounters.
Dr. Hardeman earned a PhD in Health Services Research, Policy and Administration and an MPH in Public Health Administration and Policy in the Division of Health Policy & Management and an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Spanish from Xavier University of Louisiana.
About Square Roots
Square Roots (www.squareroots.com) is a mission-driven company focused on defining and empowering healthy birth. By integrating new technology and scientific findings with intelligent partnerships from medicine to policy to maternal care takers, Square Roots brings needed solutions and resources to the most critical period of life: our beginning. We identify the highest impact programs and tools that have a proven health impact for mothers and coordinate the distribution of these programs and tools between academia, policy, public agencies, and private companies.
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