About
Katie Abbott is the founder and chief operating officer of MitoKhon and a third-generation, heart-centered entrepreneur on a mission to inspire more joy, health, and well-being in the world. A Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, she is a visionary upstreamist thinker dedicated to identifying and healing the root causes of broken processes and systems in health care.
With expertise in complex matrixed health care operations, strategic business planning, and multimillion-dollar program development and implementation, Katie creates holistic solutions that drive meaningful and sustainable change. Her career reflects a relentless drive to simplify complexity, empower teams, and transform health care systems to better serve all people, especially the most vulnerable.
Katie was a key leader in designing and operating Stanford Health Care's South Bay Cancer Center, which integrated academic medicine with community oncology. As the founding co-chair of the center's Patient and Family Advisory Council, she helped create a center recognized globally as the "cancer center designed by patients, for patients." Her career spans the health care continuum, with progressive leadership roles at Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Indiana University Health.
A certified yoga teacher and Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Katie teaches women leaders to build an empowered relationship with their stress so they can achieve (and be present for) what matters most without sacrificing their health, well-being, and authenticity. Rooted in a commitment to equity, innovation, and holistic care, she leads with a heart-centered approach focused on creating systems that work with and for the people they serve, and she holds a deep belief that health care can one day become a true sanctuary of healing.
Katie serves on the alumni board of Indiana University's Fairbanks School of Public Health and is a past president of Women Health Care Executives and a past board member of the California Association of Healthcare Leaders. She also volunteers with Kara Grief as a group facilitator for children and young adults who have experienced the death of someone special, giving them the opportunity to grieve in a supportive environment.
