🎉 Venture Fellow Friday — Ishmael Qawiy PharmD, MBA
🙌 Ishmael Qawiy, PharmD, MBA, is a dedicated healthcare professional with over a decade of experience in public health and clinical pharmacy practice. His recent fellowships with Chicago Blend and HBCUvc underscore his unwavering commitment to health equity and social impact. Ishmael was a pivotal Technical Advisor and Pharmacist at Vital Strategies in New York. His role involved overseeing clinical trial supplies and managing pharmacy operations in 7 countries and 11 sites across Asia, Africa, and Europe, demonstrating his leadership and management skills. Now, as a managing partner at Collaborative Enterprises, he focuses on empowering founders to create meaningful social change.
🚀 At 2Flo Ventures, Ishmael supports the team with due diligence and community engagement efforts. He is keenly interested in early-stage life science companies that tackle healthcare disparities, with a particular focus on chronic disease management.
💡 For Ishmael, health equity is about guaranteeing that the most underserved communities receive quality care and necessary resources to thrive. Despite progress in healthcare, people of color frequently encounter substandard treatment, which intensifies disparities and diminishes their quality of life. Overcoming these inequities is not just a goal but a path to transformative change.
📚 He is a proud alumnus of Florida A&M University, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Rutgers Business School. In his free time, he enjoys reading, traveling, and spending quality time with family and friends.
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