Anna Kamen is a dual degree MPA MBA candidate at Harvard Kennedy School and MIT Sloan School of Management, and a member of the 2021 Flare Capital Scholars Class. She previously worked as a health policy analyst at Acumen, LLC and advised the implementation of Medicare’s dialysis payment system.
Dan Gebremedhin, MD, MBA is a Partner at Flare Capital Partners, where he sits on the Board of Somatus, a Flare Capital portfolio company. Dan has also served on Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s Board of Nursing Home Administrators. Dan was a practicing Internal Medicine Physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital and had a Faculty appointment as Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School from 2010 until 2019. Prior to joining Flare Capital, Dan served as a Medical Director at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan, leading Population Health Analytics, Value-Based Purchasing, and General Strategy. Dan also spent time as an entrepreneur and operator in the Health IT Industry, cofounding and managing two separate businesses in the Electronic Health Records and Online Medical Education industries.
To combat challenges facing the industry, both policymakers and entrepreneurs have been working on complementary strategies to help primary care physicians, nephrologists and other care team members disrupt the status quo.