• Dr. Somi Javaid dedicated her life and her career to improving women’s health after her mom was diagnosed with a cardiovascular condition. Javaid is now the founder of HerMD, which focuses on treating women in areas such as gynecology, sexual health, and menopause.

When a health scare affected her mother, Dr. Somi Javaid knew that she would dedicate her career to improving women’s health.

While her mom’s health condition improved, she could have died because of undiagnosed cardiovascular disease. At the time, Javaid made a promise to herself that she would not let what happened to her mom happen to others.

“I was pre-med at Northwestern at the time, 21 years old, and made a promise to her and to myself that this was never going to happen again and that I was going to change the world,

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