Community Clinical Trials
June 10th, 2026
Founders, Clinicians, Investors, and Regional Leaders:
Join us for an invitation-only event hosted at the DoubleTree by Hilton Pleasanton at The Club, presented by the Cities of Pleasanton and Dublin, Fremont Bank, and Visit Tri-Valley, focused on advancing community clinical trials in women’s health. This event aims to strengthen connections between women’s health innovators, health system leaders, investors, and regional partners — and to position the Tri-Valley as a destination for women’s health companies. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to be part of a growing ecosystem dedicated to closing the loop for women’s health innovation.
About the Event:
Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley is actively bringing clinical trials to our community, and the Tri-Valley is uniquely positioned to close the loop for women’s health innovators, offering access to clinical trials, health economics expertise, payer relationships, investor funding, and regional support all within one region.
The event will feature a panel of women’s health entrepreneurs and leaders, including:
- Moderator: Chiranjeevi Praveen Ikkurthy, IT Director, Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley
- Panelist: Katherine Wu, MS, Senior Clinical Research Manager, Stanford University
- Panelist: Mark Gannott, Chief Financial Officer, Suncoast Ventures
- Panelist: Genevieve LeMarchal, General Partner, Suncoast Ventures
- Panelist: Women’s Health MedTech Founder — To be announced
Event Agenda:
- 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM – Arrive and Mingle
- 12:00 – 2:30 PM – Event Program Kickoff & Introduction
- 12:30 – 1:15 PM – Lunch Buffet & Continued Networking
- 1:15 – 1:45 PM – Women’s Health Panel
- 1:45 – 2:30 PM – Open Discussion
Event Location:
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pleasanton at the Club
7050 Johnson Drive
Pleasanton, CA 94588
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Our Panelists & Moderator
Chiranjeevi Praveen Ikkurthy
IT Director for Stanford Health Care
Katherine Pangborn Wu
Senior Clinical Research Manager at Stanford University
Katherine Wu, MS, is a Clinical Research Operations Leader at Stanford Medicine with over 15 years of experience in academic medical centers supporting the execution of complex clinical trials across oncology, neurodegenerative disease, and neuroimaging. She oversees community-based clinical research operations at Stanford, focused on expanding access to clinical trials beyond traditional academic medical centers.
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Mark Gannott
Health Economist & HEOR Expert | Chief Financial Officer at Suncoast Ventures
Mark is a health economist, venture investor, and fractional CFO operating across life sciences and emerging therapeutics. As CFO of Suncoast Ventures, he oversees fund financial infrastructure, risk systems, and LP reporting. He holds an Adjunct Fellowship at the NICM Health Research Institute at Western Sydney University, where his work focuses on applied health economics and outcomes research, including national cost-of-illness studies and access strategies for diagnostics and condition-specific care. His core expertise is translating clinical and scientific complexity into economic narratives that help MedTech founders demonstrate value to payers, health systems, and investors, making invisible risk legible so capital can be deployed with precision.
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Panelist
Genevieve LeMarchal
General Partner at Suncoast Ventures
Genevieve LeMarchal is the Managing Partner of Suncoast Ventures which backs resilient early stage healthcare tech, digital health and medical device founders. Prior to Suncoast she launched and ran Expert Dojo’s healthcare program and ran 3 full cohorts of health tech and medtech companies, becoming one of the most prolific early stage vc investors in Southern California (Crunchbase, 2022) and winner of the 2022 Biocom Lifescience Catalyst Award. She is passionate about entrepreneurs, and advising an mentoring founders. She loves to innovate financial models and find better ways to structure and fund companies and do deals.
She previously served as Partner at a science focused advisory and fund in formation, was a General Partner at a small Oregon-based VC Fund, and she is co-founder of the Pacific NW based non-profit organization, XXcelerate. She is the host of the AdVentureous Podcast and often writes and delivers talks, keynotes and training to entrepreneurs and investors about venture capital and entrepreneurship, impact and equity investing and more.
She is a Pacific Northwest native and a new resident to the East Bay area and now resides in Walnut Creek.
Estelle Giraud, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO of Trellis Health
Dr Estelle Giraud is the founder and CEO of Trellis Health, a generational health AI company building personal intelligence for family health – starting with pregnancy, postpartum and infant health-at-home. She holds a PhD with distinction in population genomics, published dozens of scientific papers, and spent a decade leading commercial scientific teams at the forefront of precision medicine at Illumina, where she led a $400M business and built products used by more than 20 million people. She left to fix a problem she saw from inside the system: no one is building health infrastructure that treats the family as the unit of care – and vitality – and this starts with women’s health. Trellis reconstructs a decade-plus of medical history from 50,000+ provider sites nationwide in under a minute, and uses proprietary AI to deliver longevity guidance, at-home diagnostics, and ongoing support across generations.
Our Sponsors & Partners
About Startup Tri-Valley
Startup Tri-Valley is an initiative to grow and strengthen our region by helping more startups succeed. We do this by connecting founders and innovators to a tightly networked ecosystem of resources built specifically for science-based startups. The initiative is sponsored by the Tri-Valley cities of Dublin, Livermore, Pleasanton, and the Town of Danville and i-GATE Innovation Hub partners Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories. To learn more, visit startuptrivalley.org.
About i-GATE Innovation Hub
i-GATE Innovation Hub is a non-profit organization focused on increasing economic prosperity through entrepreneurship in the Tri-Valley. i-GATE provides startup incubation resources through Daybreaks Labs, https://daybreaklabs.org/ and connects the regional innovation ecosystem through the Startup Tri-Valley initiative. To learn more, visit https://igateihub.org.
City of Dublin, California
From a population of approximately 14,350 in 1982, the City of Dublin has become a highly diverse city with a resident population of nearly 73,000, and a thriving community with over 2,100 businesses. To learn more, visit us at https://www.dublin.ca.gov/
City of Pleasanton, California
Pleasanton is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. Located in the Amador Valley, it is an upscale suburb in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 79,871 at the 2020 census. To learn more, visit us at https://www.cityofpleasantonca.gov/
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Visit Ti-Valley
Visit Tri-Valley (formerly Tri-Valley CVB) is the official destination marketing organization for the California cities of Pleasanton, Livermore, Dublin, and the Town of Danville. The 501 (c)(6) non-profit organization attracts visitors to the region through creative marketing campaigns, community outreach, and sales initiatives. Our mission is to increase sustainable economic impact in the Tri-Valley by being recognized as a desired destination for overnight visitors. To learn more, visit us at https://visittrivalley.com/
Fremont Bank
Fremont Bank is a family-owned bank with a family-owned feel. We are deeply committed to contributing to our clients’ goals and empowering our community. To learn more, visit us at https://www.fremontbank.com/
Wente Family Vineyards
Founded in 1883, Wente Family Vineyards is the oldest continuously family-owned and operated winery in the United States. For over five generations, the Wente family has helped shape California’s wine industry through innovation, sustainability, and a deep-rooted passion for winemaking. To learn more, visit us at https://wentevineyards.com