Elizabeth founded five previous companies in the US and the UK and brings exceptional clinical and healthcare business experience to Emerald Venture Partners. She has been the CEO, COO, and board member of several health and med tech start-ups and established businesses. After dividing and selling her first business to NASDAQ - and NYSE - listed companies in the mid-1990s, she continued as President of the wholly owned subsidiary and board member of the NASDAQ company.
She is considered a pioneer in the use of bedside electronic monitoring and electronic patient records, care and case management guidelines and protocols, and continuum of care/transition of care models. She is experienced in the design and development of evidence-based and patient-reported outcomes methods.
Since 2004, she has worked with digital health companies, specializing in connected health infrastructures, remote patient monitoring (RPM), virtual health and care management, data analytics and health informatics.
She received an outstanding service award in 1994 as co-author of the “Congressional Handbook on Self-Insurance” presented to US Senate and US House of Representatives congressional committee hearings on health care reform. The evidence-based presentation resulted in the preservation of the ERISA law for employer-sponsored health insurance benefit plans.
Prior to starting her first business in 1989, she was a clinical nurse specialist in open heart and cardiac transplant post-operative intensive care. She also specialized in the post-implantation care of left ventricular heart-assist devices (LVAD). She taught fourth-year medical students, first-year interns, and critical care nurses how to care for high-risk patients with implanted devices.
Elizabeth is a New York State licensed registered nurse. She earned an MHA in Healthcare Business Administration, and a MSc with Honors in Physiology from Long Island University. She also has a BSN in Nursing, and a BSc with Honors in Physiology from New York Stony Brook University. She attended the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, earning a Certificate of Completion in Medical Outcomes Design, Development, and Implementation Methods.