IMAGINE

the future

of health + medicine

NextMED HEalth

MARCH 30-APRIL 2, 2025, Hotel Del Coronado | San Diego

*New Dates due to Unscheduled Hotel Del Coronado Repairs

THE FUTURE OF HEALTH & MEDICINE

NextMed Health is a unique interdisciplinary community dedicated to catalyzing and accelerating the arrival of a new, human-centric, technology-enabled health age. NextMed Health is the evolution of Exponential Medicine, and is chaired by Dr. Daniel Kraft, bringing together a global cross-disciplinary mix of leading health(care) and biomedical innovators

NextMed Health 2025 is being held MARCH 30-APRIL 2 2025 in San Diego at the iconic Hotel del Coronado with an incredible array of faculty and a global community of innovators. Join us!

Watch a summary from NextMed Health 2023

Join THE NextMed health COMMUNITY

Faculty, Visionaries + Activators

Our 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 30 interactive breakout sessions and a hands-on Innovation Lab featuring over 60 transformational ventures.

  • Patients on stage! Nurses Included! Citizen Scientists! Doctors Online! Big Pharma calling for disruption! Machines speaking in Chinese! Bean bag chairs, drumming circles, virtual reality, robotic surgery, morning runs with Navy Seals, and fireside chats (with real fire)...like...where else can you find this provocation of promise, possibility and optimism?

    Claudia Perez, RN, MIH, Seton Healthcare, Innovation & Commercialization Team

  • A must for everyone involved in health: feet grounded in the here and now and an eye in the future.

    Gabriela Cora, MD, MBA, Medical Director, Magellan Health

  • Most inspiring and eye opening conference I’ve ever attended. Must go for every healthcare professional who wants to be the change that is needed.

    Stefanie van den Bosch Oral- & Maxillofacial Surgeon Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands

  • I came to a little skeptical, but leave with my head exploding with thoughts, ideas and inspirations, the result of of an intriguing collection of brilliant colleagues, aspirational startups, engaging and diverse presenters organized in a truly unique experience.

    Ed MacBean, Sr. Manager, Market Development, Population Sequencing Illumina

  • Been attending conferences of all kinds for years and this was the best four days I have ever spent. The world class faculty, diverse backgrounds and topics were amazing. Any health executive should want to come.

    Steven Lafar, CEO, Applied Pathways

  • We found the conference to be one of the most (if not the most) valuable conferences we’ve ever attended.

    Breanne Everett, MD, MBACEO Orpyx Medical Technologies Inc

  • There are people who inspire you, there are crowds that inspire you, but this is probably the only conference that has ever inspired me to think big and be fearless. A lifetime memory and a moment that will probably take me to new heights.

    Vijay Ivaturi, PhD, Professor, University of Maryland

  • I have never been so inspired, so many times, in such a short period of time.

    Brad Youngren, MD, US Army Chief Medical Officer, Mobisante

  • Mind-expanding, futuristic, welcoming and fun.

    Alistair Quinn, The University of Queensland

  • Exponential is the theme, but Transformational is the feeling.

    John Mattison MD. Chief Medical Information Officer and Assistant Medical Director at Kaiser Permanente

  • A place where people who want to change the world can meet the people who currently are.

    Jeffrey Rousseau, Cofounder, LeanOn

  • I saw the future of Medicine. And I liked it.

    Getúlio Morato, MD, Medical Professor, Brazil

  • Easily the most fascinating, insightful, inspirational, and best run conference I have ever been to. I've been able to meet and network with speakers and participants and have gained new business for my fledgling company. Strong work. I'll be back.

    David Corteville, MD, Cardiologist

  • All I can say is "mind expanding", if you want to be on the cutting edge of where and how the medical industry is moving, this is the place to be!

    VP of Drug Development

  • An outstanding event that certainly changed the way I think about future of science and future of the world. Exponential Medicine is one of three best events I ever attended in 43 years since my graduation, I strongly recommend this event to young and "old" physicians.

    Rui Haddad, MD, Cardiothoracic Surgeon

  • Just wanted to say a huge thanks for putting on an amazing event. Our chairman, who has been in the industry for many years, said it was by far the best conference he's ever attended and I feel the same way.

    Jeremy Howard, Founder, Enlitic

  • This was the BEST healthcare conference I have attended. All of the participants and presenters were fantastic! I learned incredible things about the growth of our industry, heard heartfelt stories that nspired me, and have been reinvigorated to innovate and change healthcare for the better!

    David Schuster, Managing Director, Galt Strategy LLC

  • This is a dynamic and intellectually energizing event. It changes the way you view medicine and life in general.

    Farzad Massoudi, Medical Director, Neuroscience and Spine Institute

  • I've organized a few conferences before, but the level of execution I witnessed here was phenomenal and world class. Everything from the content of lectures to venue were well planned.

    William Jin, MSII, University of South Florida

  • I came a little skeptical, but leave with my head exploding with thoughts, ideas and inspirations, the result of of an intriguing collection of brilliant colleagues, aspirational startups, engaging and diverse presenters organized in a truly unique experience.

    Ed MacBean, Senior Manager Market Development – Population Sequencing, Illumina Inc

  • The most inspiring week ever. My head is full to bursting with inspired ideas.

    Ryan Kerstein, FRCS. Medical Director for Innovation, NHS

  • Game Changing experience designed to trigger curiosity and the right questions, even for nonmedical professionals and simply for those who want to create change.

    Nikolaus Weil, Managing Partner, Alphabridge Capital

  • Worth every dime we invested.

    Guidewell CFO (partner)

  • This was a life changing experience. Excited to come back and turn these ides into reality.

    Donna Gibson, VP,Associate Benefits. Anthem

  • What an extraordinary week! Met so many amazing people. I'm inspired and fired up to help create the future of medicine!

    Alex Romero, GSK

  • Easily the most fascinating, insightful, inspirational, and best run confernece I have ever been to. I've been able to meet and network with speakers and participants and have gained new business for my fledgling company. Strong work. I'll be back.

    David Corteville MD, Private Practice

  • A fantastic exposure to what will shape the future of medicine.

    Ashika Pillay M.D. Private Practice

  • An exceptionally organized event that was at the same time very informative, very social, very commercial and very Exponential.

    Rui Haddad, MD. Academia Nacional de Medicina (Brazil)

  • An eye-and mind-opener. Have fun, get inspired and enjoy loads of new ideas. Rx: at least once in a life-time, but repeat 4-day dose of concentrated inspiration whenever your mind needs “dusting-off”

    Andreas Voss, MD,PhD Prof & Chair, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands

Explore THE SUPER CONVERGENCE OF TECHNOLOGIES & HOW TO EVOLVE FROM NOW TO NEXT

Happy participants celebrating on the hotel lawn.

Experience Nextmed AT The Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego

A unique blend of science, technology and medicine meets art, creativity, and human spirit. Taking place beachside at the magical and historic Hotel del Coronado. The event will include mainstage sessions, interactive breakouts, beachside bonfires, bonding, a silent disco, an interactive Innovation Lab, the MEDy Award startup competition… and much more.

  • Larry Brilliant, MD MPH

    Skoll Global Threats, Evity.ai

  • Michelle Williams, MS, ScD

    Former Dean, Harvard School of PUblic Health.

  • Dean Kamen

    Inventor Extraordinaire. Founder, DEKA & FIRST Robotics

  • Rick Doblin, PhD

    Rick Doblin, PhD

    Founder, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

  • Jennifer Garrison, PhD

    Buck Institute, Women’s Health & Longevity

  • Hugh Herr, PhD

    Professor, MIT Media Lab, Bionics Pioneer

  • Bayo Curry-Winchell MD

    Founder, Beyond Clinical Walls

  • Amir Dan Rubin, MBA, MHSA

    Former CEO, One Medical

  • Shawna Butler RN MBA

    NextMed Health, Nurse Economist.

  • Chris Mason, PhD

    Professor, Weill Cornell Medica School

  • Susan Kirsh, MD MPH

    Deputy Undersecretary for Health, V.A.

  • John Brownstein, PhD

    Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s

  • Lucien Engelen

    Transform.Health

  • Jamie Justice, PhD

    EVP Health Domain, XPRIZE Foundation

  • MORE MORE WORLD-CLASS FACULTY

    To Be Announced..

Touch the future at our Healthcare Innovation Lab

Our Healthcare Innovation Lab is a showcase and expo(nential) lab for the most promising companies and innovations that are set to revolutionize the practice of medicine and radically transform healthcare and the biomedical industry.

The Medy awards: recognizing industry-changing Startups

Startups are eligible to win one of the following four MEDy Awards in the following categories: Convergence, One to Watch, Outstanding Pitch, Most Disruptive, and Most Likely to Scale. Each MEDy Award winner will also demo their product from the main stage.

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