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In this episode, Julie shares her winding path from studying biomedical ethics at Cornell

to getting her MBA at Columbia, to joining McKinsey as a health specialist, to her stint in

investment banking at Lazard as an associate.

Listen to hear about her triumphs and struggles as she navigated to move to London to join the venture arm of a large biopharmic company to her move back to the States five years later,

all will start a family. Enjoy. Julie, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Reuases podcast.

My pleasure.

I'd be good to put this together.

It'd be awesome if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Sure.

I consider myself a health care expert, business person, primarily,

but with a long interest in health care since before college.

Also known as not a doctor, but like to play one on TV and at home.

I had always had an interest in business and medicine and started at Cornell with a major in biomedical ethics,

then went on to work for companies that combined the two, went to business school at Columbia,

and then worked for McKinsey as a consultant really specializing in healthcare.

They had a specialist track and worked. I was very fortunate to work with a partner who had a lot of work in the healthcare space, particularly with pharmaceutical companies.

He left McKinsey to go to Luzard and start a healthcare practice or build upon a very nascent one.

So I went to work with him.

That was a great move for a variety of reasons.

And I think not everybody suits the sort of investment banking culture or the consulting

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