About Carey
Hi, I’m Carey.
I’ve spent much of my career working on problems that don’t fit neatly inside one discipline, team, or system.
My path has crossed technology and data systems, rare and chronic disease, clinical and research infrastructure, patient advocacy, health education, behavior change, coaching, public health, and the lived experience of navigating complex health with my own family.
Different settings. A surprisingly consistent challenge:
The pieces often exist. The connections don’t.
I started in supply chain technology and data systems, where I learned early that outcomes depend on a lot of moving parts staying connected. Products only get where they need to go when the data, logistics, inventory, people, and decisions line up.
That way of thinking followed me into health.
After losing my son Conor to primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), I left my corporate career and brought that systems background into rare disease. Over time, I helped launch and scale the PCD Foundation’s clinical and research centers network and the data infrastructure around it, working across clinicians, researchers, families, advocacy leaders, funders, and institutions.
We were building the infrastructure that did not yet exist.
In rare disease, I had spent years helping build stronger pathways to expertise, research, and treatment. But progress in research and care is only part of the job. We also have to ask who can reach it, afford it, and benefit from what comes next.
My own family’s experience trying to access mental health care made that hard to ignore. We had resources and still struggled. For many families, the barriers are much greater.
That is part of what drew me to Healthier Colorado and now Healthier United, where I serve as Board Chair. That work looks further upstream at the policies, systems, and resources that shape whether people can benefit from health and care in the first place.
What ties these experiences together is less about the titles and more about how I work.
I look for the connections. I ask what is missing. I try to understand what is getting in the way. And I stay close to what people and organizations can realistically act on.
As a collegiate and professional athlete, I learned that effort matters, but more is not always better. You have to pay attention, adjust, recover, and know when to push and when not to. Play smarter, not just harder.
I also learned that good teams are never static. Roles change. Different people matter at different moments. Knowing when to lead and when to make room for someone else is part of the work.
Today I work with both organizations and individuals, and I’m building Clarity360 at the intersection of those experiences.
Clarity360 is a health synthesis and engagement platform in development, shaped by what I’ve learned about fragmented health information, systems, education, behavior change, and what it is actually like to live inside complicated health.
I’m also interested in the questions that keep falling between conditions, disciplines, and traditional research structures, and in how WellSelf 360 can help define those gaps and bring the right partners together around them.
I don’t expect complexity to disappear. I do think we can become much better at making sense of it.
If you’re exploring Clarity360, working through a strategy challenge, or interested in broader collaboration, I’d be glad to hear what you’re working on.
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