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At this health care gathering, all the panelists and dealmakers are women

No manels here: At this health care conference, every speaker has been a woman.

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Health care is reckoning with the representation of women on its most prominent stages, where dark suits still dominate and all-male panels persist.

And yet here at the five-star Rosewood Sand Hill hotel, on venture capital’s Main Street, the conference panels this week looked different. Instead of men named Michael, there was Susan and Lynne and Stacey and Angela.

Most of the men present were serving refreshments or working the conference’s audio and visual systems.

The conference, known as , was familiar as far as health

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