Champions of Change Spotlight: Viz.ai’s Angela Lim on LGBTQ+ Advocacy and Health Equity
Second up in our Champions of Change spotlight series is a conversation with the remarkable Angela Lim, vice president and deputy general counsel at Viz.ai. In the past 25+ years, Angela has bridged her intersectional Asian LGBTQ identity and her board service work to create an impact on health equity. Her work is expansive. She currently serves on the board of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) and on the board of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, which advocates for civil rights of the LGBTQ community.
I sat down with Angela to learn more about her work with Viz.ai, a company at the forefront of harnessing artificial intelligence to improve patient outcomes. Viz.ai's enterprise AI disease detection platform improves visibility for care teams at critical moments in patient care. Stroke is the fifth-leading cause of death and disability and pulmonary embolism is the third-leading cause of cardiovascular death in the U.S. but these affect communities differently. According to the CDC, the Black community has twice the risk of having a first stroke, and the highest rate of death by stroke. And although the stroke death rate has declined overall, the Hispanic community has seen an increase in stroke deaths since 2013.
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