HEALTH OUTCOMES RESEARCHER | ENTREPRENEUR | AUTHOR | KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Candace
Gunnarsson
Thirty years measuring what works in medicine, for the companies that make it. A statistics professor who built and sold a research firm, then returned to the university to build and teach its first HEOR program. At almost sixty, a marathon: the one health outcome she'd never measured was her own.
Owner
Gunnarsson Consulting, LLC
Founded and Sold
S² Statistical Solutions, Inc.
Article of the Year
Health Services Research
100+ Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journals
THE KEYNOTE
You can have it all.
You can't carry it all.
Drawn from the memoir 26.2: Running Toward Acceptance
A 45-minute keynote for leadership teams and women's networks in healthcare, life sciences, and beyond. I took help graciously and kept careful count of every bit of it, for thirty years. A marathon at midlife taught me what it costs to keep that ledger, and what happens when you close it.
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THE BOOK
26.2: Running Toward Acceptance
A memoir
I was almost sixty, with hearing aids, one bad eye, and a fair amount of metabolic syndrome, when my daughter suggested we run a half-marathon. I had never been athletic a day in my life. I said I'd think about it, which in my family means yes.
I'd spent thirty years as a statistician studying other people's health outcomes. It never occurred to me to examine my own. We ran the half, and then, when COVID shut the world down and there was nowhere to go, I kept running, until a neighbor said the thing nobody in my life had ever said to me: you could do a full. The miles gave me somewhere to put the questions: why I'd spent my whole life taking care of everyone and never made the list myself, and what it had cost to be useful instead of seen. Somewhere between the first wheezing mile and the marathon finish line, I figured out what made me me, and accepted her.
This isn't a self-help book. There's no training plan in the back.
COMING 2027
“She is a strong, powerful, and successful woman who has made it in what is still very much a man's world, and she inspires me to continue to rise to the challenge.”
CATHERINE RICHARDS, PHD
“There is no one more passionate, insightful, and effective in harnessing the power of big data to advance the science of medicine.” PETER McCULLOUGH, MD, MPH
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