Ragan Hart, Ph.D., is Senior Associate for Strategic Investments at Washington Research Foundation, where she focuses on investments in life sciences and healthtech. She joined WRF from MultiCare Capital Partners, the strategic investment arm of MultiCare Health System, where she focused on healthtech and AI/ML. She co-founded MDisrupt to connect companies with life-sciences experts to accelerate the development and clinical validation of healthcare products. She holds a doctorate in public health genetics with a concentration in health economics from the University of Washington and was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford’s Department of Biomedical Data Science.