Lisa McLaughlin is a social entrepreneur, pioneer in the field of health informatics, and Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Workit Health. As the leader of Workit’s business development efforts and clinical strategy, she drives Workit’s outcomes research and value based partnerships with health plans. As Principal Investigator on Workit’s translational research initiatives with the National Science Foundation and National Institute on Drug Abuse, Lisa keeps Workit’s model at the forefront of personalized care, predictive analytics and artificial intelligence for substance use recovery.

 

Lisa holds Masters of Social Work and Information Science from the University of Michigan and brings over two decades of experience in technology development and healthcare. She serves on the board of several economic empowerment initiatives, including Venture for America Detroit and The University of Michigan Accelerate Blue Fund. Lisa has been named a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year, a Crain’s Notable Woman in Health, and an Ernst and Young Midwest Entrepreneur of the Year. Her work has been featured in JAMA, NIDA News, WIRED, The Economist, and the New York Times. 

 

Daniel Siegal, MD, Co-Founder and CEO, Navv Systems

 

 

 

 

Margarita is the director of entrepreneurial services at Ann Arbor SPARK. After completing her BS degree in Microbiology and Immunology in 2009 from the University of Texas at San Antonio, she moved to Ann Arbor from her hometown of Austin. It was here that she earned a doctorate in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the University of Michigan in 2016.

 

Following graduate school, she joined Fast Forward Medical Innovation at the University of Michigan supporting healthcare commercialization education courses and mentoring biomedical innovation projects for medical students and clinicians. Later catching the entrepreneur bug, Margarita joined a budding medical device and software startup, Pathware, where she supported both clinical business development and later operations as the chief operations officer that was later acquired in summer of 2022. Additionally, she has been an advisor for a number of life science companies and ecosystem connector supporting the local med-tech ecosystem in Michigan.

 

Given her entrepreneur experiences and passion to mentor and work on critical problems, she now promotes growing startups through their milestones with the resources and services offered by SPARK.