Z. Colette Edwards, MD MBA is the Founder and Chief Medical Officer of pausitive health, an holistic, one-stop digital health destination for women in all stages of the menopause journey. The company offers omnichannel education, access to menopause-trained clinicians, physician-vetted services and resources, and community. In 2025, she was recognized as one of WOW’s global “Top 50 Trailblazing Leaders in Menopause.”
Over the course of her career, Dr. Edwards has served in a variety of roles. They include being the associate medical director of a multispecialty group practice, a healthcare consultant, and serving in health plan medical director roles, with responsibilities which included the design of a hospitalist program, lead for a regional physician advisory council, programming to support physician health, well-being, and workplace satisfaction, collaborations with physician practices and health systems, and positions at two Fortune 50 companies, including as the national medical lead for health disparities, with an initiative that won a national innovation award, and as the national corporate medical executive for the health and well-being of 53,000 employes, with a multi-year record of national awards.
Dr. Edwards is a gastroenterologist and received a BA from Harvard University, an MD from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the Wharton School. She completed her GI fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, has a graduate certificate in health and wellness coaching from the Maryland University of Integrative Health, and is a graduate of the NIH Scholar Program in Translational Health Disparities.
Colette is the Managing Editor for the Wharton Healthcare Quarterly, has written a McGraw-Hill GI text, is the author of Be Less Stressed, was a contributing writer to Thrive Global, and provides COVID-19 updates and resources as part of the Harvard Alumni/ae Community Helps initiative. She is a board member of Bread for the City and an advisory board member for T1D Exchange.
Lastly, Dr. Edwards is the co-author of Navigating Your Healthcare Journey: Lessons Learned To Get the Care You Need and Deserve.
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