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title: 'Highlander Health Partners: Building Transformational Healthcare Companies'
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  Highlander Health Partners collaborates with exceptional management teams to
  build transformational healthcare companies. With decades of experience as
  oncologists, researchers, regulators, and investors, we focus on long-term
  value creation.
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Building transformational healthcare companies in partnership with exceptional management.

### Experience that counts

We bring deep and broad perspective from decades
of practice as oncologists, researchers, regulators, entrepreneurs, and investors.

### Focused growth mindset

We partner with a concentrated portfolio, and deploy our capital, counsel, and resources to achieve ambitious growth.

### Patient capital

We are an evergreen fund that invests our own capital. We do not have artificial constraints; our focus is long-term value creation.

### We invest in tech enablement across subsectors:

- ##### Pharmaceutical Services
- ##### Health Technology
- ##### Provider Services
- ##### Payer Services



### Our investments meet the following criteria:

- ##### Control or influential minority position
- ##### Growth and middle-market companies
- ##### $50-100 million equity investment
- ##### Economically aligned with management



## Who we are

### [Amy Abernethy, MD, PhD](/person/amy-abernethy/)

![Amy
Abernethy](https://images.ctfassets.net/bkkox68g99rn/5uwArjl2U3DkJtSLMJe0Vi/9252f2b08dbf5274c73dd439b430f25e/Amy_Abernethy_Portrait.jpg?w=2560&fm=webp&q=75)

Amy is cofounder of Highlander Health, with a healthcare career marked by changemaking in organizations ranging from Flatiron Health to Duke University School of Medicine and Verily. Prior to Verily, Amy served as the principal deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 2019-2021. Her board roles span public companies such as athenahealth and CareDx to private firms including insitro and Georgiamune. In addition to her standard setting and innovation work, Amy is a hematologist/oncologist, palliative medicine physician, and author of over 500 publications and counting. 



### [Brad Hirsch, MD](/person/brad-hirsch/)

![Bradford Hirsch](https://images.ctfassets.net/bkkox68g99rn/5cDTQiyMRiZGaP8Tj1QZh1/716b1b8d096c3d3976cfd7b5e99969d2/Brad_Hirsch_Portrait.jpg?w=2560&fm=webp&q=75)

Brad is cofounder of Highlander Health, and an oncologist, trialist, entrepreneur, and product leader dedicated to driving transformation at the intersection of research and care. He most recently led product at Verily, which he joined upon Verily’s acquisition of SignalPath, a clinical research technology company he founded and led as CEO. In addition to past roles at Flatiron Health, Texas Oncology, US Oncology, and Duke University, Brad gives his passion and leadership to a wide range of philanthropic organizations including the National Outdoor Leadership School.



### [Nick Julian](/person/nick-julian/)

![Nick
Julian](https://images.ctfassets.net/bkkox68g99rn/65LztoejA61aiD4nMCvvC0/64fa683e67ed457d327bc6c3c71a1a4e/Nick_Julian_Portrait.jpg?w=2560&fm=webp&q=75)

Nick is a Vice President and member of the investment team at Highlander Health. Previously, Nick was a member of the investment team at Parthenon Capital, where he focused on executing healthcare investments. He’s also held roles at Greenhill and Goldman Sachs, and brings investment and advising experience across a wide range of industries in addition to healthcare.



## Public Interest Platform

Highlander Health Institute develops learning labs in a wide range of settings, bringing together provider, regulatory, academic, tech, and life sciences collaborators to set the standard in next-gen evidence generation and care.

[Prismatic 01 12s-loop](https://videos.ctfassets.net/bkkox68g99rn/1XxxNCcW576h97SKCp7UKY/1cfdd91e0bf84f71dabed568f2d02e01/Prismatic_01_12s-loop-web.mp4)


- [Learn more](/highlander-health-institute/)