Kirsten joined Imperative Care in October 2017 as Vice President Strategic Development, and in early 2020 founded the company’s Patient-at-Home initiative, the development program that served as the basis for the creation of Kandu. Previously, she spent a combined nearly 15 years in the Neurovascular Division of Stryker and Boston Scientific, where she held strategic development, planning, marketing, and product management positions. Kirsten holds several patents in the fields of stroke treatment and detection, and she is the author of several peer-reviewed papers in the field of stroke and access to care.