Meet The Team

  • Missy Lavender

    CEO and Founder

    Missy is a successful entrepreneur and renowned patient advocate for pelvic health. Driven to increasing access to pelvic health…

  • Yufan “Brandon” Chen

    Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder

    Dr. Chen is a board-certified OBGYN subspecializing in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery. He joined Kern Medical…

Strategic Advisory Board

  • Dr. Tamara Bavendam MD, MS

    Member of Strategic Advisory Board

    Dr. Bavendam is a recognized expert in women’s urologic health. She served as Senior Scientific Officer at the National…

  • Joseph Dangelmaier

    Member of Strategic Advisory Board

    JD is an experienced technical manager with a demonstrated history of working on high impact integrated voice response applications.

  • Arthur Hiller

    Member of Strategic Advisory Board

    Arthur is a biotech, pharmaceutical and life sciences leader with broad functional experience that includes company creation

  • Tarah Knaresboro

    Member of Strategic Advisory Board

    Tarah provides consulting services in product design for text and voice-based conversational interfaces. She has ten years

  • Laurence Birch, MBA

    Member of Strategic Advisory Board

    Larry Birch has over 30 years of executive experience in variety of companies ranging in size from startup to Fortune…

  • Michael Seggev

    Member of Strategic Advisory Board

    Michael Seggev has 30+ years of commercial experience in digital health and biopharma.  At Merck he led the commercial team…

Clinical Advisory Team

  • Leslie Wooldridge

    Member of Clinical Advisory Team

    Leslie Saltzstein Wooldridge is a Certified Urologic Nurse Practitioner specializing in Geriatrics. She is a graduate of…

  • Yufan “Brandon” Chen

    Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder

    Dr. Chen is a board-certified OBGYN subspecializing in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery. He joined Kern Medical…

  • Kathe Wallace

    Member of Clinical Advisory Team

    Kathe Wallace, PT is an internationally recognized clinician, author, lecturer, and pioneer in physical therapy evaluation and treatment of male and female pelvic floor dysfunction…

  • Elizabeth Goettman Christopher

    Member of Clinical Advisory Team

    Elizabeth is a pelvic floor physical therapist. Since graduating from the Program in Physical Therapy at Washington University…

  • Jim Anfield

    Chief Privacy Officer

    Jim is a senior-level healthcare technology executive focused on technology and finance with specific expertise in healthcare data, technology development, and HIPAA privacy compliance.

Tech Team

  • Fares Bouchedid

    Chief Technology Officer

    Fares Bouchedid serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Renalis. He has over 15 years in technology leadership positions…

  • Jennifer Paluska Yakel

    Lead Product Designer

    Jennifer Paluska Yakel is a User Experience Strategist, Researcher and Designer based in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona with 18 years…

  • Austin Wilson

    Lead Software Architect

    Austin is a recognized Amazon Alexa Champion with deep knowledge of conversational technologies, such as Amazon's Alexa…