Diane Hayes

Diane is a 1983 Stetson graduate who spent four years on a basketball scholarship, enjoying every minute on campus. She then attended graduate school and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1988, followed by a three-year post-doctoral fellowship at Roswell Park/University of Buffalo in epidemiology. While working on her post-doc, Diane explored lifestyles and behaviors as they relate to health and well-being. This led to participation in a couple of clinical trials as either project director or co-investigator, including the Women’s Health Initiative and the Polyp Prevention Trial.

Diane then moved into the business world and started working for a company that evaluated new and emerging medical technologies for payers and hospitals in order to best identify treatments most effective for patients. Following this, she completed her career conducting market research and insights in the life science space. First worked for a company doing online qualitative research and then, smitten with the entrepreneurial bug, co-founded an organization that conducted quantitative research through innovative applications of technology.