Sharon co-founded Health Care Originals because she has a personal understanding of the need for significant change in respiratory monitoring and is confident that Health Care Originals’ technology can lead the way in ensuring health equity along the continuum of care for respiratory disease. Sharon is passionate about the level of freedom, depth of understanding, and personalized control that digital health solutions, medical wearables and the IoT environment offer the individual, and is excited to be a part of the ecosystem bringing that promise to reality.

Sharon was named TechRochester’s Technology Woman of the Year in 2020 and was named one of the Top 100 in Fem Tech and Health Tech in 2019 by Women of Wearables. She was recently honored, along with others like Jane Goodall, Katherine Blurr Blodgett, and Sheryl Sandberg, by being included in the Names Dress (www.namesdress.com ), a 3D-printed conceptual art piece that celebrates and brings awareness to the accomplishments of women in STEAM fields. The dress is made up of over 300 names of current and historic women in STEAM fields and was on display in Florence, Italy at the Ferragamo Museum’s Sustainable Thinking exhibition from April 12, 2019, through March 8, 2020. She was most recently chairperson at the World Conference Forum’s Population Health Management Conference.

Sharon has over 20 years of experience leading corporate innovation projects in health, sustainability, and manufacturing.