Name: Two Kenyans Unite to Bridge Medicine's Most Dangerous Gap With Amee Devani
Uploaded: 2025-06-24T08:08:00.000Z
Duration: 1450
Description: When Amee Devani watched her mother battle colorectal cancer in Kenya, she witnessed firsthand what gaps in healthcare meant. Cancer sucks, as the saying goes....

When Amee Devani watched her mother battle colorectal cancer in Kenya, she witnessed firsthand what gaps in healthcare meant. Cancer sucks, as the saying goes. Watching your mom battle, feeling helpless when you don’t have the information when you go to the next doctor, knowing you don’t have all the information that could be the difference in having the best treatment plan or not. Cancer sucks. Gaps in healthcare suck, too. And for Amee, that experience would reshape her career trajectory—from investment banking at UBS, working hard and doing well, to founding a digital health startup to tackle a meaningful problem that impacts people’s lives.

"I faint when they take my blood," Amee admits with characteristic candor. Yet today, as CEO and Co-founder of WellBeam, she's tackling one of healthcare's most persistent problems: the black box of care that swallows patients after hospital discharge.

Host Laurie McGraw digs into that chance meeting of Amee and her co-founder Pascal. Two Kenyans, on a Stanford cycling training ride, thousands of miles from home with an even stronger bond, both with mothers fighting cancer. And that led to doing something more; a determination to fix a broken system.

Ideas turned into meetings and several bad ideas rejected by various Stanford surgeons until one crucial conversation with pancreatic surgeon Dr. Brendan Visser. His frustration was clear: exceptional inpatient care followed by total blindness once patients left the hospital. Fax machines. Phone tag. Patients bouncing back to the ER before anyone knew there was a problem. And with this, WellBeam was born.

Today, WellBeam serves as the critical infrastructure connecting hospital EMRs with home health, hospice, and skilled nursing facilities. The result? A 20-30% reduction in readmissions and millions in recovered revenue for physicians doing work they couldn't previously bill.

In this episode of Inspiring Women with Laurie McGraw, Amee also discusses:

✔ The unexpected value of "having too much fun" at Cambridge and how it shaped her leadership approach
✔ Why she left the prestige of investment banking and consulting to work out of a shoebox office in London
✔ How catching the "startup bug" at Pavegen prepared her for the healthcare innovation journey
✔ The importance of building a village of mentors, especially as a female founder in healthcare
✔ Why healthcare's biggest problems aren't glamorous—and why that's exactly where innovation is needed
✔ Navigating slow healthcare sales cycles while maintaining startup momentum
✔ Leading as a new mother and CEO: ruthless prioritization and trusting your team

Chapters:

00:54 - Introduction & Background
04:17 - The Stanford Connection & Finding a Co-founder
07:13 - WellBeam's Origin & Solution
11:28 - Business Model & Market Approach
14:06 - Leadership as a Female CEO & New Mother
21:39 - Advice for Aspiring Female Founders

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