Benefits of Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association Membership

A healthcare business leader focused on market penetration, financial performance, and organizational transformation, Stacy Chick is on the board of directors of OurBrainBank. Committed to mentoring women in their professional development journeys, Stacy Chick is a member of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) Atlanta Chapter.

If you are passionate about advancing women’s impact in healthcare, then you may want to consider an HBA membership. HBA’s core purpose is to promote gender parity in healthcare. Joining HBA will put you in a community of over 10,000 women from around the world who are focused on furthering this purpose through various initiatives. For example, HBA has partnered with more than 150 leading corporations to ensure gender parity is one of their top priorities, and regularly invites healthcare CEOs to its events to reinforce the importance of gender parity.

Furthermore, HBA organizes events like the ACE Awards, which set the diversity standards upon which those in the industry should be judged. It also sponsors research on pertinent issues such as the gender pay gap and promotes best practices sharing among senior executives and administrators in the industry.

Finally, HBA membership is also beneficial on an individual level. HBA members have numerous opportunities to advance their careers through education, networking, mentoring, and recognition.

Commercial life sciences leader

Stacy Chick has more than 30 years’ experience in US healthcare leading the commercial implementation of novel therapeutics and diagnostic tools for chronic diseases. A resident of Atlanta, Stacy Chick most recently served as the chief commercial officer of Inivata, a leader in liquid biopsy testing. She helped the company transition from a research-stage entity and led commercialization efforts for the company’s InVisionFirst ctDNA Lung Liquid Biopsy Test for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Stacy is a solution-focused and transformational life sciences executive who builds teams, develops markets, and drives financial performance for startup, high-growth, and established life sciences and new technology companies. Sheis an agile business builder and leader adept at synthesizing complex issues quickly and creating action-based strategies that deliver on aggressive top- and bottom-line targets. Stacy is skilled in cultivating trust and vision to unify, engage, and inspire teams. She blends deep ‘business of healthcare’ expertise, creative problem solving and commercial insight with intense focus, unwavering integrity, collaborative approach, and engaging interpersonal style to deliver results.

LLS Advocates for Beneficial Public Policies

A graduate of Rutgers University with an MBA in finance, Stacy Chick joined Inivata Inc., as chief commercial officer in 2018. Committed to supporting patient advocacy and other health care-related causes, Stacy Chick has served as a volunteer speaker and liaison for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

The largest volunteer health organization in the world, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) funds lifesaving research on blood cancers such as leukemia. Additionally, LLS advocates for public policy that address the enormous financial burdens that diseases such as blood cancer create for patients and their families.

The LLS Office of Public Policy encourages members to engage with elected officials to advocate in areas such as access to medication, sharing their personal stories to illustrate the importance of affordable, accessible prescription drugs. Advocates also work to ensure cancer patients have access to private insurance or Medicaid without being disqualified by preexisting conditions. Additional areas of advocacy include improving cancer care for pediatric patients and directing funds to accelerate blood cancer research.

OurBrainBank Empowers Patients to Contribute to Brain Cancer Research

Health sciences executive Stacy Chick is the CCO of Inivata, Inc. Deeply involved in research on brain cancer and other rare cancers, Stacy Chick is a board member of OurBrainBank.

A nonprofit organization based in London, OurBrainBank was established by Jessica Morris, a communications expert who was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a malignant tumor that affects the brain or spine. Despite the severity of the disease, Ms. Morris applied the frustration she was feeling to something positive – she launched OurBrainBank, a free app that tracks symptoms and shares the data with clinicians, contributing to medical research.

The OurBrainBank platform puts patients at the center of clinical research, enabling them to play a much bigger role in the advancement of new treatments. Currently, the application is available to patients in the United Kingdom and the United States. However, the app’s team is working to make it available around the world. Patients in the UK and US who want the OurBrainBank app can download it from major app stores, such as Google Play.