Dr. Butler has been a member of Renovia’s Board since July 2018. Dr. Butler is Managing Director at Ascension Ventures, which she joined in 2002. She primarily focuses on investments in the medical device and diagnostics sector. Dr. Butler has been a board member or observer at several other Ascension Ventures portfolio companies, including Apama Medical, Augmenix, Cardionomics, CHF Solutions, Confluent Surgical, CSA Medical, EBR Systems, HemoSphere, Imperative Care, Instylla, Interventional Spine, ISTO Technologies, Ivantis, MindFrame, Neurolutions, Novasys, Ocular Therapeutix (Nasdaq: OCUL), OptiScan Biomedical, PathoGenetix, Stereotaxis (Nasdaq: STXS) and TomoTherapy (Nasdaq: TOMO).
Before joining Ascension Ventures, Dr. Butler completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Washington University School of Medicine. Prior to that, Dr. Butler held positions in business development at Medtronic, in finance at Honeywell, as a laboratory research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She holds a BS in Economics and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
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