NextMed HEALTH Faculty
Our NextMed Health Faculty includes more than 70 leading thinkers, icons, and practitioners from around the globe. They provide examples and insight into the right-now landscape of converging technologies shaping the healthcare ecosystem and lessons on the ‘how-to’s to leverage new possibilities into meaningful scale and impact.
Mainstage programming is complemented by over 20 interactive breakout sessions and a hands-on Innovation Lab featuring over 60 transformational ventures. NextMed Health is fortunate to be guided by our amazing Vanguard, made up of leading innovators, clinicians, technologists, academics and beyond.
2025 NextMed Health Faculty
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Daniel Kraft, MD
Physician-Scientist. Founder & Chair, NextMed Health. Founder, Exponential Medicine
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Shawna Butler, RN MBA
Nurse Economist, NextMed Health. Host, See You Now Podcast
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Eric Topol, MD
Founder and Director, Scripps Research Translational Institute
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Dean Kamen
Founder, DEKA, Founder of FIRST Robotics
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Jennifer Garrison, PhD
Professor, Buck Institute. Co-Founder & Director, ProductiveHealth.org
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Ray Kurzweil
Futurist, inventor, author, author & entrepreneur. Founder, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc
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Catriona Jamieson, MD, Ph.D.
Director, Sanford Stem Cell Institute, Professor of Medicine & Chief, Div of Regenerative Medicine, UCSD
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Larry Brilliant MD, DSc, FACPM
CEO, PanDefense Advisors, Founder & CEO, Evity.AI
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David Rhew M.D.
Global Chief Medical Officer & VP of Healthcare, Microsoft
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Ami Bhatt, MD FACC
Chief Innovation Officer, American College of Cardiology (ACC)
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Max Hodak
CEO, Science Corp.
Co-founder, Neuralink
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Ken Dychtwald
Founder, AgeWave
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Joseph Betancourt, MD MPH
President, The Commonwealth Fund. Associate Professor Of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Sheila Nirenberg, PhD
Professor in Neurology and Neuroscience, Cornell Medical School. Founder, Bionic Sight
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Ed Boyden, PhD
Professor, Co-Director, MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering
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Bayo Curry-Winchell, MD
Founder, Beyond Clinical Walls. Urgent Care Medical Director, Saint Mary's Health Network
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Lucien Engelen
CEO of Transform Health, LaurentiusMC, Fellow Deloitte, Fellow Vodafone.
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Amir Dan Rubin, MBA
Prior CEO of One Medical. Founding Managing Partner, Healthier Capital
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Jamie Justice, PhD
EVP for Health, XPRIZE. Lead for Healthspan XPRIZE
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Adam Gazzaley, MD PhD
Professor in Neurology, Physiology & Psychiatry at UCSF, Director, Neuroscape Lab
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Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS
Chief Medical Officer, Chief Digital Officer & Associate Dean, UC San Diego School of Medicine
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Susan Kirsh, MD
Deputy Undersecretary for Health, Veterans Administration
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Robert C. Green, MD MPH
Professor of Medicine (Genetics), Harvard Medical School. Director Genomes2People (G2P) Research Program at Mass General Brigham.
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John Brownstein, PhD
Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital. Professor, Harvard Medical School
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Darshak Sanghavi , MD
Project Manager, ARPA-H
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Patrick Hines, MD PhD
Professor, Wayne State Univ. Critical Care Physician. Founder & CEO, Functional Fluidics
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Eleanor Green, DVM
Founding Dean, Lyon College School of Veterinary Medicine
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Chris Mason, PhD
Professor, Weill-Cornell Medicine
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Jennifer MacDonald, MD
COO, Advanced Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI)
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Hugh Herr, PhD
Professor, MIT Media Lab. Co-Founder, Dephy Inc
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Anthony Chang, MD MBA
Founder, AIMed. Chief Intelligence & Innovation Office, Children's Hospital of Orange County
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James Mault, MD
Founder & CEO, BioIntelliSense
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Caitlin Krause
Founder of the MindWise consultancy, Author of Digital Wellbeing
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Ken Trauner, MD
Chief Innovation Officer, The Permanente Medical Group
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Maddy Dychtwald
Co-founder, Age Wave. Author, Ageless Aging
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Rene Caissie
Stanford University School of Medicine.
Co-founder & CEO, Medeloop
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Hans Keirstead, PhD
Chairman of the Board, Immunis, Inc. Stem cell expert and regenerative medicine entrepreneur. CEO, The Human Immunome Project
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Moira Gunn, PhD
Host, Biotech Nation. Professor, USF
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Jamie Metzl
Founder & Chair OneShared.World, Technology & Healthcare Futurist
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Rafael Grossmann, MD, FACS
Surgeon, Educator, Healthcare Futurist
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Paul Grand
CEO, MedTech Innovator
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Parisa Vatanka, PharmD
Co-Founder & CEO, Digital.Health,
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Jared Conley, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor at Harvard Medical School. Associate Director of the MGH Healthcare Transformation Lab
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Leanne Pedante
Head of Fitness, Supernatural
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Jack Kreindler, MD
Physician, Researcher, Entrepreneur. Founder & CEO, WellFounded, Research Fellow, Imperial College
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Meredith Perry
Co-Founder & CEO at Elemind
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Sanjay Juneja, MD
TheOncDoc - Hematologist / Oncologist
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David Bray, PhD
Distinguished Chair of the Accelerator, Stimson Center & Principal/CEO LDA Ventures, Inc."
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Lee Sanders, MD MPH
Chair of General Pediatrics, Stanford Medical School
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Michael Gillam, MD FACEP
CEO of HealthLab
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Jonathan Ozeran
Vice President, Generative AI at Tempus AI
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Tjasa Zajc
Founder, Faces of Digital Health
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Ricky Mehra
Founder & Managing Partner, Continuum Health Ventures
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Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, MD PhD
Director, Center for Health and Strategic Health Initiatives, UCSD Design Lab
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Scott Summit
Designer, Founder at Ethereal Matter Inc and Bespoke Innovations
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Amelia Hay
VP, Startup Programming & Investments at AARP Innovation Labs
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Yan Fossat
SVP, Digital Health R&D, Klick Health
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Sam Glassenberg
Founder & CEO, Level Ex
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Yomi Jaye, MBBS, MBA
Special Advisor, Health Governor, Enugu State, Nigeria. CEO, Cecy Health
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Danica Vallone
CEO, Making Space. Designer In Residence, Bionics & Human Resilience, UCSD Design Lab
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Daniel Durand, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Prenuvo
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Catherine Liao
Chief Strategy & Commercial Officer, Cardiex
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Ryan Kerstein, FRCS MBBS
Royal College of Surgeons of England. Lead for Future of Surgery Hub.
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Brandon Staglin
Co-founder & President, One Mind
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Don Vaughn, PhD
Neuroscientist. Co-founder & CEO, Ampa
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Arman Zaribafiyan
Head of Strategic Alliances, AI Simulation, SandBoxAQ
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Robert Strong
Magician
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Steve Brown
Coder, founder, investor, filmmaker. CEO, Ignite Channel Inc.
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Harvey Castro, MD MBA
#DrGPT
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Michael Friebe
Professor, AGH University of Krakow, Chief HealthTEC Disruptor, IDTM GmbH
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Swami Ananda
Meditation Teacher
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Asa Mathat
Photographer, AsaMathat.com
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RIA
Mechani Robotics
2023 Faculty
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Daniel Kraft MD
Physician-Scientist. Founder & Chair, NextMed Health. Founder, Exponential Medicine
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Shawna Butler, RN MBA
Nurse Economist, NextMed Health. Host, See You Now Podcast
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Michael Snyder, PHD
Professor & Chair of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine. Director Stanford Innovation Lab
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Baroness Nicola Blackwood
Chair, Genomics England. Member of The House of Lords
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Aloe Blacc
Singer, songwriter and producer
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Leroy (Lee) Hood, MD PhD
Co-founder, Professor, & Chief Strategy Officer, Institute for Systems Biology. CEO, Phenome Health
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Lucien Engelen
CEO of Transform Health, LaurentiusMC, Fellow Deloitte, Fellow Vodafone.
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Catherine Mohr, MD
President, Intuitive Surgical Foundation
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Paul Stamets
Mycologist, Founder, Fantastic Fungi & MycoMedica
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Ran Balicer MD
Chief Innovation Officer at Clalit Health Services & Founding Director, Clalit Research Institute.
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Jennier Goldsack MA, MBA, OLY
CEO, Digital Medicine Society (DiMe)
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David Eagleman, PhD
Neuroscientist, Author, Technologist, Entrepreneur. Founder & CEO, Neosensory
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Sangita Reddy
Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group, Asia's largest healthcare group.
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Alister Martin, MD
CEO, A Healthier Democracy
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Rajeev Ronanki
Senior Vice President, Elevance Health & President, Carelon Digital Platforms
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Ken Dychtwald
Founder, AgeWave
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Daisy Robinton, PhD
Co-founder & CEO, Oviva Therapeutics
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Rasu Shrestha, MD MBA
Chief Innovation & Commercialization Officer, Executive Vice President at Advocate Health
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Esther Dyson
Executive Founder, Wellville Chairman, EDVenture Holdings
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Thomas Goetz, MPH
Co-founder, Building H, Chief of Research, GoodRx
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Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD
Founder & CEO, Insilico Medicine
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Nichol Bradford, MBA
Co-founder, Executive Director. The Transformative Technology Lab
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Tony Young, OBE
National Clinical Director for Innovation NHS England & Founder, NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme
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Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS
Chief Medical Officer, Chief Digital Officer & Associate Dean, UC San Diego School of Medicine
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Mary Lou Jepsen, PhD
Founder & CEO OpenWater
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Shafi Ahmed PhD FRCS
Surgeon, Futurist. Barts Health NHS, Founder, Medical Realities
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Anousheh Ansari
CEO, XPRIZE Foundation. Astronaut.
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Stacey Chang
Designer / Advisor of Complex Health Systems
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Jane Metcalfe
Founder, Neo.Life. Co-founder, WIRED. Board Chair, The Human Immunome Project
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David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA
Professor, Associate Director,University of Pennsylvania's Orphan Disease Center
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Salim Ismail
Founder, ExO Works. Author, Exponential Organizations
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Divya Chander MD, PhD
Anesthesiologist, Neuroscientist, Consciousness Researcher
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Kevin Sneed, Pharm D
Senior Associate VP, USF Health Dean, USF College of Pharmacy
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Seema Kumar
CEO, Cure
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Alex Jadad, MD
Physician, innovator, entrepreneur, and philosopher. Professor & Founder, Centre for Digital Therapeutics, University of Toronto
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Leerom Segal
Co-founder and Chairman Klick Health
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Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS
Professor of Medicine & Director of Cedars-Sinai's Health Services Research. Pioneer in Medical Virtual Reality
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Dave Albert MD
Founder, AliveCor. Physician, Scientist, Inventor, Entrepreneur.
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Nora LaTorre
CEO, Eat REAL
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Robert Masson, MD
CEO & Founder, eXpanded eXistence | Sports Spine Microneurosurgeon, Masson Spine Institute
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Jamie Metzl
Founder & Chair OneShared.World, Technology & Healthcare Futurist
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Mariya Filipova, MBA
Chief Innovation Officer, CareQuest Innovation Partners
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Jordan Shlain, MD
Founder, Private Medical
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Andrew Hessel
Chairman & Co-founder, Genome Project-write (GP-write), Author, “The Genesis Machine”
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Hans Keirstead, PhD
Stem cell pioneer, Founder & CEO, Immunis Biomedica
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Parisa Vatanka, PharmD
CEO, Digital Health, Former Senior Director at American Pharmacists Champion for Digital Health Integration
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Jack Kreindler, MD
Physician, Researcher, Entrepreneur. Co-Founder at Certific.co; Honorary Research Fellow, Imperial College
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Ramesh Raskar, PhD
Professor, MIT Media Lab. Founder, & Chairman, PathCheck Foundation
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Stefano Bini MD
Professor of Orthopedics, UCSF. Founder, Digital Orthopedics Conference (DOCSF)
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Paul Grand
Founder & CEO, MedTech Innovator
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Annamarie Saarinen
Co-founder | CEO | 3x Mom. Bloom Standard | Newborn Foundation
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John Mattison, MD
Former CMIO & Asst Medical Director, Kaiser Permanente, Arsenal Capital
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Ralph Simon, FRSA
Founder & Chief Executive, Mobilium Global
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Rafael Grossmann, MD, FACS
Surgeon, Educator, Healthcare Futurist
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Suraj Kapa, MD
Mayo Clinic, AI & Electrophysiology. Chief Medical Officer, TripleBlind
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Robert Strong
Magician
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Niamh O'Hara PhD
Co-founder & CEO, Biotia
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Raj Attariwala MD PhD
Radiologist. Co-Founder, Prenuvo
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Belen Fraile, MD MSc
Global Head Digital Medicine, Data & Digital Officer, Moderna
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Geoff Rutledge, MD PhD
Chief Medical Officer & Co-founder, HealthTap
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Dave Zaboski
Artist extraordinaire. Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Laetro.com. Former Senior Animator at Disney
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David Bolinsky
Pioneering Medical Animator, CEO & Creative Director at E.mersion Studios
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Ali Hashemi, MD
Co-founder and Chairman, GluCare Health
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Gautam Gulati MD
Founder, WellPlayed Health and The Well Home
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Andrea Kates
Partner, SUMA Ventures
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Ryan Douglas
Co-founder and CEO. DeepWell DTx
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Chris Wigley
CEO of Genomics England
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Ardy Arianpour
Founder & CEO, Seqster
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Tamen Jadad-Garcia
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Vivenxia
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Robert Gabbey, MD
Chief Medical Officer, American Diabetes Association
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Frank Fitzpatrick
Amplified Future, Head of Health & Happiness; Author, Grammy-Nominated Writer/Producer
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Joyce de Ruiter
Rare Disease Patient. Agility and resilience agent
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Guido Giunti MD PhD
Director, Centre for Health & Technology, Oulu. Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
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Boris Kheyn-Kheyfets
Digital Health Strategist, Deloitte
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Alfred Whitehead
EVP Applied Sciences at Klick Consulting and Klick Labs
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Herko Coomans
Digital health enthusiast, global interoperability advocate, HIMSS #Future50 Govt Leader. NL Rep. in EU eHealth Network, SNOMED GA, GDHP. Working hard to bring health data to your fingertips
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Emilian Popa
Co-Founder & CEO, ILARA Health (KENYA)
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Lee Sanders
Chair of general pediatrics, Stanford Medical School
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Lydia Alexander
Chief Medical Officer, ENARA HEALTH
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Swami Ananda
Meditation Teacher
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David Ewing Duncan
Journalist, Broadcaster, Author, Researcher, and Advisor
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Cori Lathan, PhD
Neuroscientist, technology pioneer, and social advocate. Co-founder, AnthroTronix
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Jim Harris
International Bestselling Author on Disruption & Digital Evangelist
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Ahmer Inam
Chief Data & AI Officer, Relanto.ai
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James Duez
CEO, Rainbird Technologies Official Member, Forbes Technology Council