REGISTER: The 2025 Shkreli Awards
Welcome to the Shkreli Awards, the Lown Institute’s top ten list of the worst examples of greed and dysfunction in health care, named for the infamous “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli. Join us and our esteemed guests to find out which bad actors will take home the dubious honor of a Shkreli Award. Previous winners include:
- A doctor who gave chemotherapy to patients who did NOT have cancer
- A $2 billion Medicare scheme to bill for urinary catheters that were neither needed nor received by patients
- A CEO who caused the collapse of multiple hospitals across the nation in his private-equity-backed pursuit of profits over patients
The 2025 Shkreli Awards
The worst in healthcare profiteering and dysfunction
Thursday, December 11, 2025
1 PM ET
(held online via Zoom)
Hosted by:
Bayo Curry-Winchell, MD, MS
Founder and CEO, Beyond Clinic Walls
Dr. Bayo Curry-Winchell, MD, MS, known as Dr. Bayo (“Bye-Oh”), is a board-certified family medicine physician and nationally recognized health advocate transforming how people navigate healthcare. As the medical director of urgent care clinics at Saint Mary’s Health Network and the Sexual Assault Response Team in Reno, NV, she empowers patients through practical advocacy strategies featured on her Beyond Clinical Walls Podcast and across social media.
As founder of CliniciansWhoCare.com, she’s connecting people with clinicians known for listening to and believing their patients. A sought-after media contributor for NBC, ABC, SheKnows, and Katie Couric Media, she translates complex medical information to help people advocate for their health. Her TEDx talk “Do No Harm” has garnered over 2 million views, sparking conversations about the maternal health crisis in the US.
Eli Rushbanks
General Counsel and Director of Policy & Advocacy
Eli is an attorney who works at the intersection of medical debt and consumer protection. He currently is the General Counsel and Director of Policy & Advocacy at Dollar For, a patient advocacy non-profit that helps patients apply for hospital financial assistance. In that capacity he works with patients, advocacy groups, lawyers, state and federal regulators, and hospital leaders to improve patient access to and experience with financial assistance. He helped build Dollar For from the ground up which, so far, has helped relieve over $80 million in debt for nearly 30,000 patients.
His work has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR. His reports on charity care policy have been cited by the CFPB and have been the basis for class action lawsuits for charity care violations.
Vikas Saini, MD
President, Lown Institute
Vikas Saini, MD, is president of the Lown Institute, a nonpartisan think tank advancing a more affordable, effective, and fair healthcare system. A clinical cardiologist and former Harvard Medical School faculty member, he oversees the Institute’s research into medical overuse, patient medical debt, and hospital social responsibility, including the annual publication of the Lown Hospitals Index. Dr. Saini was also a founder of Massachusetts’ largest independent primary care physician network and the co-founder of a ground-breaking medical device company.