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, now the current COO of 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.
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.
Notes from a night at Rockefeller with Dr. Artie Arumov of Qiming Venture Partners — why the same instinct that makes physicians cautious makes them relentless investors.
It's half the population and most of a lifetime, funded like an afterthought. The real opportunity is the unglamorous middle: menopause, fertility, maternal outcomes.
On the change in desire no one prepared women for, and no one took seriously. Building in one of the most common and least understood experiences women have.
Twelve people, one table, no name tags. The studies and co-founder matches happen at the small table — so that's what I'm building, across the USA, Canada and India.
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