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Kristina Saffran: Leveraging Lived Experience as a Healthcare Entrepreneur
Jul 12, 2023
Kristina Saffran, CEO of Equip, discusses her personal experiences with anorexia, the industry inflections in healthcare, the importance of aligning incentives, the role of healthcare investors, and the impact of grit as an entrepreneur. She also shares advice for college students and talks about navigating mental health in college. Finally, she touches on turning anxiety into adrenaline and provides closing advice for aspiring entrepreneurs.
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- The importance of evidence-based treatment and leveraging family support in addressing eating disorders to make quality treatment more accessible.
- The need for innovative solutions to transform the broken eating disorder treatment system and ensure equitable access to evidence-based care.
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Importance of Evidence-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders
Christina Safran, co-founder and CEO of Equip Health, shares her personal journey of being diagnosed with an eating disorder at a young age and struggling with it throughout her adolescence. She emphasizes the importance of evidence-based treatment, specifically family-based treatment (FBT), which has been found to be the most effective for kids, adolescents, and young adults with eating disorders. FBT involves taking a holistic approach and leveraging the support of family members in structuring the home environment for pro-health behaviors. Christina's own recovery and experience with the lack of accessibility in the field led her to create solutions to make quality treatment more accessible.
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