🚀 Day 16 of #ScaleBlack for #BlackHistoryMonth highlights Morgan Hewett, Co-Founder of Options MD, a health-tech innovator tackling treatment-resistant mental illness with AI-driven solutions. 💭 Imagine cycling through medications, therapists, and treatments—without any clear signs of progress. You would not be alone. 1 in 8 people (970M worldwide) face the same battle, yet with a shortage of 10,000+ mental health professionals, access to the right treatment is more about luck than science. 💡 Morgan Hewett knew technology could change that. After leading disease awareness campaigns at Facebook (now Meta), she teamed up with healthcare attorney Kyle Pierce to launch Options MD, a treatment-matching platform designed to connect people to the right care, faster—no more trial and error. 📈 Advancing Precision Mental Health at Scale 🔹 $4.2M raised to scale personalized mental health care 🔹 Backed by Google for Startups, Bread and Butter Ventures, and One Mind Accelerator 🔹 Acquired by Resilience Lab in October 2024, expanding access to precision treatment for millions trapped in a broken. 🗣️ As Hewett puts it, "The core of what we do at OptionsMD is treatment matching—building algorithms to predict the right treatment for you." 🔥 On Day 16 of #ScaleBlack, we celebrate Morgan Hewett for transforming the mental health industry from an outdated "wait and see" approach to one driven by scientific solutions. 🔗 Learn more at optionsmd.com