Gabriela Cora, MD, DLFAPA, MHA, MBA
Dr. Gaby Cora is a digital health innovator, leadership and strategy consultant, and she has experience in biotech, healthcare, and mergers & acquisitions. Her experience across industries includes: clinical research and medical centers (National Institutes of Health & Cleveland Clinic), hospital administration (Geo Care), health insurance (Aetna/CVS & Magellan), PhRMA (Pfizer), military (USPHS, USAF & DoD), food & beverages (The Coca-Cola Company & Blue Bunny), insurance and finance (Universal Insurance), aviation (American Airlines & FAA), The World Bank, digital health start-ups (Phienx, HipaaChat & HealthTap), and her own startups (Executive Health & Wealth Institute and Florida Neuroscience). She has been a mass media evangelist and subject matter expert in neuroscience, psychiatry, mental health, and health & wellness on social media (fireside chats, hashtag Q&A series) and national television (FOX, CNN, Lifetime, Telemundo, and Univision). Dr. Cora identifies gaps, challenges, and opportunities in areas of unmet needs by successfully applying her leadership skills, strategic vision, critical thinking, strategic planning, crisis management, and cultural competency. She's at her best in novel situations, including succession planning and critical events. Dr. Cora is multilingual and holds MD/MHA/MBA degrees, is a licensed physician and Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, leadership coach, certified mediator, and university professor of organizational behavior and health administration & policy. She is an alumna of the prestigious Harvard Business School General Management Program, where she also obtained her Certificate in Women on Boards, Succeeding as a Corporate Director, and has a certificate in Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy from MIT. She's author of ExecutiveHealth.com's Leading Under Pressure: Strategies to Avoid Burnout, Increase Energy, and Improve Your Wellbeing, Career Press, 2010.
Dr. Cora is currently CEO & Founder of CoraLG, Inc., a corporate consulting firm focused on Health & Wellness Tech & AI ventures. She's Co-Founder, Chief Medical Officer, and Board Director at Phienx, Inc., launching E.M.A., an AI gamified app accompanying the user on their life journey by tracking their aligned emotional and life experiences.
Dr. Cora served on the APA Board of Trustees during the APA's CEO succession and was on the APF Board of Directors during the merger with APA and APA Publishing companies. She served on the hospital board as Chief Medical Officer at Geo Care where she led continued JCAHO accreditation. As a strategic leader at Pfizer, she led multiple global initiatives during Covid-19. She facilitated the CEO succession at Universal Insurance. She advised The Coca-Cola Company on their Goodwill vision during critical events in complex international situations, including post-kidnapping cases and violence in the workplace. She created a global and multicultural plan of action to address fear of retaliation at the World Bank with the goal to improve employee morale worldwide.
Dr. Cora's motto is Think, Say, Do Good. As a governance-focused board member, Dr. Gaby Cora is dedicated to guiding companies towards success through innovation, uncovering unmet needs across industries, and fostering a culture of goodwill for a lasting legacy.