Sarah Doherty

Alumni, Chicago Hub

Sarah is an engineer and entrepreneur, adventure-seeker and music-maker, twin and neon-enthusiast hailing from Chicago, Illinois. She’s devoted to eliminating the world’s healthcare access crisis and passionate about growing the number of women educated and working in Science, Engineering, Technology, and Math (STEM), entrepreneurship, and healthcare.

Sarah co-founded and serves as CTO of TeleHealthRobotics, a company that has created a tele-robotic healthcare platform. The platform allows a doctor, nurse, or other medical professional stationed anywhere in the world to provide on-demand, direct-to-consumer, real-time medical services to a patient stationed with TeleHealthRobotics’ kiosk without the aid of onsite personnel. The company’s first product is called TRUDI (Tele-Robotic Ultrasound for Distance Imaging) with which a provider can execute remote ultrasound (a ubiquitous diagnostic tool used for prevention, detection, and diagnosis of disease as well as rehabilitation) for the heart, vascular system, brain, uterus, breast and abdomen. Eventually the company intends to provide remote primary, eye, and skin care as well as other diagnostic services on the same tele-robotic platform.

Sarah serves as a subject matter expert for commercial, non-profit and governmental organizations on a range of topics including medical technology, telemedicine and healthcare delivery, innovation and digitization, as well as entrepreneurship, product development and robotics. She and her work have been featured at TEDMED, the American Heart Association Innovation Forum, HIMSS, the Annual Meeting of New Champions and The Annual Meeting in Davos, as well as in The Financial Times, The Huffington Post and The Chicago Tribune, among other venues and publications. She is an ambassador for XX in Health (a division of Rock Health) and Disruptive Women in Healthcare, and has served on the World Economic Forum's Human-centric Health Steering Committee as well as the Dialogue Series on NonCommunicable Diseases. Sarah helped found Chicago’s healthcare incubator (MATTER Chicago). She served as President of the Penn Club of Chicago as well as Curator and Vice Curator for the Chicago Hub of Global Shapers.

Sarah is an alum of the University of Pennsylvania where she studied Biomedical Engineering and Entrepreneurship. She worked previously in healthcare strategy consulting.

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