Running Your Own Hail Mary

<p>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.</p><p><strong>Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:</strong></p><ul><li>Cassandra Hui’s childhood in Calgary, Alberta, and Toronto, ON</li><li>When she first fell in love with tech as a career</li><li>The impact Cassandra’s mother’s cancer diagnosis had on her family</li><li>The reality of clinical trials and how many are currently running</li><li>How to connect with clinical trials and why options are so important to patients</li><li>The memory of the first patient Cassandra was able to help</li><li>The KPIs that are useful in Heal Mary’s business model</li><li>Cassandra’s goals for her company’s future</li><li>How diversity metrics are underrepresented in clinical trials</li><li>The books Cassandra is drawing inspiration from this month</li></ul><p><strong>In this episode…</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>In