Daren Nicholson

About Daren Nicholson

I\'m a long-tenured digital health expert with wide experience leading software engineers, product managers, designers (both product and service designers) and data science teams. In recent years I\'ve helped a number of digital health startups define and execute their technology strategies and roadmaps, hire and manage their technology teams, while continuing to provide hands-on design, dev and product work. With an unconventional background in economics, medicine and teaching, I have spent many years bringing healthcare consumers and providers together with various online and mobile products. Due to my clinical experience (I am a non-practicing physician) and informatics background, most of my professional experience has been in digital healthcare. My approach to software development is to balance a solid user experience with data-informed product features. Beyond these applied skills, I enjoy developing my mentoring and team building abilities.

Experience

1. VP of Technology

   Breastcancer.Org

   Dec 2022 — Present

   Breastcancer.org is the worldwide leading digital resource for people with breast cancer. The organization provides patient advocacy, education and support to people with breast cancer and their loved ones. I lead the product, software engineering, IT, data analytics and clinical research functions.

Education

• Oregon Health & Science University

  MBMI, Medical Informatics

  2004 — 2006

• University of Notre Dame

  BA, French and economics

  1993 — 1997

• McGill University

  MD, CM, medicine

  2000 — 2004