Allison founded Watkins-Conti Products, Inc. in 2016 to pioneer solutions for women’s pelvic health. Following the birth of her children, she experienced stress urinary incontinence (SUI), the involuntary leakage of urine when exerting pressure on the bladder during physical activity. Frustrated by the limited options, she engineered, patented, and manufactured Yōni.Fit, a comfortable and convenient device for the management of SUI. Yōni.Fit is pending FDA approval following completion of a national clinical trial by Urogynecologists at Stanford, NYU, and Jefferson Health.

Allison has raised funds from private investors to create quality management systems, a robust intellectual property portfolio, secure contract manufacturing, conduct clinical trials, and expand her executive team and expert advisers.

An engaging speaker, Allison challenges social taboos around women’s health and well-being. She is passionate about developing treatments that benefit women, and funding for women-led healthcare companies. Allison was recognized in Business Times’ Top 20 under 40, Disrupt magazine’s Top Ten Influential Women, and the Journal Record’s Achievers Under 40.

Amber brings to Watkins-Conti Products more than 15 years’ experience in quality compliance for medical device manufacturing. As the former Director of Operations for a consulting firm focused on medical device quality, regulatory, and microbiology, she has led dozens of clients of all sizes through various aspects of managing quality systems and providing quality support for regulatory submissions and audits both domestic and international. Amber manages the effort to ensure the safety and effectiveness of Watkins-Conti products through quality system implementation and maintenance and premarket and postmarket activities including verification/validation, supplier management, management controls, corrective and preventive action, etc. Amber has a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans, and an M.S.E. in Engineering Management from the University of Texas at Austin. Amber holds certifications as an ASQ Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) and an ASQ Certified Quality Technician (CQT).

Dr. Karolynn Echols is Associate Professor, section chief of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and co-director of the Jefferson Comprehensive Urogynecology and Female Pelvic Medicine program. She earned her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University, most recently completed a fellowship in Integrative Medicine and is board certified in the field. She is currently the only board-certified Urogynecologist that is board certified in Integrative Medicine in the world. She is also certified in Japanese acupuncture and incorporates this into her unique practice. She is recognized as an expert in all aspects of Urogynecology including the conventional, surgical, and complementary management of pelvic organ prolapse, urinary incontinence, menopause, sexual health, and pelvic pain and takes an integrative approach to all patients. She is widely published and currently concentrating her research on Integrative Urogynecology and Regenerative Medicine as it applies to women’s health, more specifically urinary incontinence, pelvic reconstructive surgery, perimenopause, sexual health, and pain and has patents pending in this arena. She was one of the principal investigators of the successful clinical trial of the Yoni-Fit device developed for stress urinary incontinence that has just been FDA approved for prescription. She is also an expert in the integrative treatment of menopause and perimenopause and was recently interviewed on FOX 29 Philadelphia on the subject.

Dr. Echols also has vast experience doing philanthropic work in obstetrical fistula, urogynecologic surgery and gynecology in Cameroon, Niger, Kenya, Rwanda, and Jamaica. She has been a board member of the International Organization of Women and Development and a genitourinary fistula mission Team Lead to Niger and Rwanda for several years. Currently, she is the president and co-founder of Medicine in Action, a non-profit organization that continues to enhance women and children’s health in Jamaica since 2005. Dr. Echols has been an honorary consultant for the University of West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica where she teaches residents, faculty and students and continues to lead Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery (Urogynecology) surgical missions biannually. She has received numerous teaching awards and has been frequently awarded “Top Doc” in SJ, South Jersey Magazine since 2007 and most recently Philadelphia Magazine by Castle Connolly annually since 2018.

During the pandemic, she successfully helped establish some important DEI initiatives for the department of OB/Gyn at Jefferson and currently serves as Award Committee liaison of the DEI Committee of the American Urogynecologic Society. She is the first Urogynecologist to serve on the written board committee of the American Board of Integrative Medicine and was recently nominated and elected to volunteer on the Board itself.