Alison Curfman, MD, MBA is a pediatric emergency physician and healthcare strategist who’s built clinical models and led companies at the intersection of innovation and impact.

After launching her first startup inside a private equity firm, she became founding Chief Medical Officer of Imagine Pediatrics, a value-based medical group for medically complex children on Medicaid. Under her leadership, the company grew to 300+ employees, serving over 35,000 patients and reaching a multi-9-figure valuation in less than two years.

Alison now leads Startup Physicians, a platform designed to help physicians apply their clinical expertise beyond the bedside as advisors, operators, founders, and investors. She advises early-stage companies and funds on clinical strategy, go-to-market planning, and physician engagement.

Her mission: empower physicians, especially women, to reclaim their creativity, autonomy, and leadership by stepping into healthcare innovation. She believes that doctors are not leaving medicine, they're redefining it.

Some of the topics we discussed were:

• Working as an advisor, consultant, and board member for early-stage and mid-stage companies in healthcare
• How to work with startups without experience or coming from a more traditional healthcare environment
• Dr. Curfman’s program training physicians on how to become consultants and advisors for startups
• Understanding the value of your own skill set and how transferrable they are
• Different roles you can take on in consulting and advising
• The high demand for medical expertise because companies need the clinical voice represented to get their contracts
• Being on advisory boards, working on product development, helping with the marketing/brand/spokesperson side of things
• Having the freedom to choose companies who you truly believe in
• How to identify a target market for the types of startups you want to work with
• Identifying what draws you and recognizing what transferrable skills you might already have
• How to start strategically networking

And more!

Learn more about me or schedule a FREE coaching call:
https://www.joyfulsuccessliving.com/

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Connect with Dr. Curfman:

Website:
www.alisoncurfmanmd.com

Startup Physicians Podcast:

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LinkedIn:
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