BeCareLink is proud to share that our co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Charisse Litchman, has been recognized as one of Women We Admire’s The Top 50 Women Leaders in Healthcare for 2026. This honor reflects her decades-long commitment to advancing neurology and her leadership in building BeCareLink’s AI-driven approach to objective, quantitative neurologic assessment. Through her work, Dr. Litchman continues to push the field toward more precise measurement, reduced bias, and better outcomes for people living with chronic neurologic disease. We’re excited to celebrate this well-deserved recognition and the impact it represents.
Charisse Litchman is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of BeCare Link, an AI-driven platform for quantitative assessment of neurologic function. Since its inception in 2017, Litchman has helped guide the company’s vision and goal of fundamentally changing the way patients and medical professionals understand and manage chronic neurologic diseases, removing biases, and finding new treatment options with better outcomes.
Trained at Yale School of Medicine and Cornell-New York Hospital, Litchman has had a successful neurology private practice for 25 years, was on the faculty of Yale School of Medicine, worked with a contract research organization, monitoring pharmaceutical trials, and created a migraine service at a telehealth company. As CMO of BeCare Link, Litchman addresses the need for more objective, sensitive measurement of neurologic function that often makes clinical trials and drug development for neurologic patients long, expensive, and yield low-quality data. Remote, ongoing monitoring enhanced by artificial intelligence empowers real-time detection of subtle changes in neurologic function. The result is improved patient outcomes. Studies at Yale School of Medicine and Weill Cornell provide empirical proof of the app’s convergent validity with traditional, in-clinic neurologic exams.
A former assistant professor of clinical neurology at Yale School of Medicine, Litchman has published articles on headaches and multiple sclerosis and served as an editor of the first textbook on a rare soft tissue tumor. She earned a Medical Editing and Writing certificate from the University of Chicago. Litchman earned an MD in Internal Medicine from Yale University School of Medicine and an undergraduate degree in biopsychology from Wesleyan University.