---
title: 'Episode 131: Dr Brittany Barreto - Women’s Health, Diagnostic Testing, and the FemTech Focus Podcast'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/episode-131-dr-brittany-barreto-womens-health-diagnostic-testing-and-the-femtech-focus-podcast'
show: 'People of Pathology Podcast'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/people-of-pathology-podcast'
published: '2022-10-10'
audio: 'https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/gqrr4c/Dr_Brittany_Barreto_-_10_9_22_746_PM9qiib.mp3'
---

# Episode 131: Dr Brittany Barreto - Women’s Health, Diagnostic Testing, and the FemTech Focus Podcast

Today my guest is Dr Brittany Barreto What we discuss with Dr Barreto: How she became interested in biology and genetics Her internship at Luminostics during her PhD program, and what she learned from that experience Her path as an entrepreneur, includin...

## Summary

Today my guest is Dr Brittany Barreto

What we discuss with Dr Barreto:

- How she became interested in biology and genetics

- Her internship at Luminostics during her PhD program, and what she learned from that experience

- Her path as an entrepreneur, including founding Pheramor

- FemTech and what this means

- Women's health and diagnostics as it relates to cervical cancer screening, breast cancer screening, and endometriosis

- Medical gaslighting, and how to differentiate that from unnecessary testing

- The FemTech Focus Podcast, it's purpose, and target audience

Links for this episode:

[Health Podcast Network](https://healthpodcastnetwork.com/)

[ LabVine Learning](http://bit.ly/labvine)

[The ConfLab from LabVine](https://www.labvinelearning.com/TheConflab)

[Dress A Med scrubs](https://dressamed.com/?rfsn=5044297.cb03eb&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=5044297.cb03eb)

Dr Brittany Barreto [Website](https://drbrittanybarreto.com/)

Dr Barreto on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/drbrittb)

Femtech Focus on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/femtech_focus)

[FemTech Focus Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/4VaXz14V5DVVA0ASpo3fqD)

People of Pathology Podcast:

[Website](https://peopleofpathology.com/)

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/peopleofpath)