Joe sat down live with Norma Bostarr in Long Beach for the seventh episode of BYOB: The Healthcare Podcast. The team speaks to Norma Bostarr on Healthcare and Crisis Management, Norma is the Senior Manager of Social Impact Operations and Implementation at Carbon Health. Throughout her career, Norma has had stops as a clinical researcher, venture capital and at a Health Tech Startup. She discusses how her experience in research, her personal life and experience at Carbon Health enhanced her focus on the need for change in healthcare and the importance of centering on the patient.
Norma shares the harsh realities of working on the COVID-19 response in San Francisco and Los Angeles counties for testing and vaccination campaigns. She provides a great perspective on what early careerists should think of when they are looking to pursue a new opportunity and how to work to scale their impact.
Norma Bostarr – Carbon Health
Norma envisions a world where healthcare is a tool to heal communities.
After leaving the VC and recruiting space in 2019, Nora wanted to give herself some space to find a pathway for working in healthcare. When COVID-19 arrived, she felt called to action. She is tremendously grateful for the opportunity to lead Carbon’s clinical teams and direct their public partner operations. Her teams delivered 1.5M vaccines and 1M tests throughout the pandemic.
Norma practices self-care through movement, playtime in nature, and reading. She is an advocate for caregiving and Alzheimer’s. She loves engaging in conversations around end-of-life care.
The crew asked Norma the following questions:
- Tell us a bit about yourself and your healthcare background?
- Can you talk about how your clinical research experience launched your career?
- You currently serve as Senior Manager of Social Impact Operations and Implementation at Carbon Health, what does your work entail?
- Can you speak to the great work that Carbon does and who they are?
- How did you and Carbon get involved in the COVID-19 pandemic?
Happy Thanksgiving – Good tidings to you!
The group talks about what they are doing for Thanksgiving and what they are thankful for in this Thanksgiving season. This has been a trying year for all of us, especially those providers and administrators who have been on the front lines of the pandemic. We are incredibly thankful for all of your efforts. We hope all of you have a Happy Thanksgiving and we’d be interested to know from our listeners how they envision the next year of the pandemic response will look like?
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