Women in Healthtech Leadership Lecture

Please join us for the fourth annual Women in Healthtech Leadership lecture, featuring Maria Berkman, MD, MBA, Head of Medtech of Broadview Ventures and Managing Director of Longview Ventures. This lecture series is hosted by UCLA Biodesign in partnership with MedtechWOMEN and AdvaMed Women's Executive Network.

Maria Berkman, MD, MBA, is a Director, and Head of the MedTech practice at Broadview Ventures where she manages the firm’s MedTech investment strategy and activity, from identification and screening of new opportunities through due diligence, negotiation of deal structure, portfolio company board involvement, and overall portfolio strategy. Maria currently serves on the boards of Alleviant Medical, Aria CV, AtaCor, FineHeart, RapidPulse, Vascular Graft Solutions, and Vectorious Medical Technologies, and previously served on the boards of Lyra Therapeutics (NSDQ:LYRA), Apama Medical (acquired), Remedy Therapeutics (acquired), and Capricor (NSDQ:CAPR).

Prior to joining Broadview Ventures, Maria was a management consultant at Monitor Group, where she specialized in life sciences with a focus on corporate, franchise, and asset-level commercial strategy and competitive strategic planning for BioPharma and MedTech clients. Prior to joining Monitor Group, Maria trained within the Partners HealthCare System at Newton Wellesley Hospital in General Surgery. Maria earned a concurrent MD from the UCLA School of Medicine and MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, graduating Alpha Omega Alpha.

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