2023 Top Entrepreneur: Dr. Jacqueline Darna, founder of NoMo Nausea and Intellidoc, Tampa

Dr. Jacqueline Darna’s initial foray into medical entrepreneurship, a consumer product called NoMo Nausea, was a hit. Now she aims to disrupt telehealth.

By Brian Hartz
| 1:30 p.m. May 4, 2023

Dr. Jacqueline Darna's latest venture, Intellidoc, uses artificial intelligence to increase sales of over-the-counter drugs that are recommended during telehealth sessions.

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Behind the scenes

How many unread emails do you have right now? 286.

What app on your phone do you use the most? Notes. I’m obsessed with it.

How many hours of sleep do you need to get per night to not be cranky the next day? Darna says she routinely sleeps only four hours per night and still manages to “wake up like a songbird,” but she doesn’t recommend that habit to everyone.

“As a physician, I want you to sleep for eight hours. Most normal people need eight hours of sleep. That's the standard advice but there’s some variation in there. Like my son, who's a growing teenage boy, he needs eight to 10 hours.”

Darna says she uses one of her own products — NoMo Sleepless Nights, a bracelet she developed to a sleep-tracking device and it says she usually gets “98% quality sleep … I get prime sleep. Most of the time, during those eight hours, if you’re lucky you’ll get four to six of them as good, solid REM sleep.”