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Daniel Kraft, M.D.        

Physician-Scientist, Inventor & Entrepreneur

Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and investor. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has served as faculty chair for Medicine at Singularity University since its inception in 2008 and is founder and chair of NextMed Health (the evolution of Exponential Medicine), a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. He is a General Partner with Continuum Health Ventures, funding and catalyzing early stage healthtech and healthspan focused startups.

Following undergraduate degrees from Brown University and medical school at Stanford, Kraft was Board Certified in both Internal Medicine & Pediatrics after completing a Harvard residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital & Boston Children's Hospital, and Stanford fellowships in hematology, oncology, and bone marrow transplantation.

He has multiple scientific publications (including in Nature and Science) and medical device, immunology, stem cell and digital health related patents through NIH-funded faculty positions with Stanford University School of Medicine and as clinical faculty for the pediatric bone marrow transplantation service at the University of California San Francisco.

Kraft is a member of the Inaugural class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship and is a member of the Kauffman Fellows Society. He is often called upon to speak to the future of health, medicine and technology and has given four TED and two TEDMED Talks and has delivered keynotes to a diverse array of organizations. He also serves as chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic & Health Alliance and Health Brain Trust.

He is heavily involved in healthtech, founded Digital.Health, and is on the board of several Fortune-50 and digital health-related startups. He is also the inventor of the MarrowMiner, an FDA-approved device for the minimally invasive harvest of bone marrow, and founded RegenMed Systems, a company developing technologies to enable adult stem cell-based regenerative therapies.

Kraft is an avid pilot and has served in the Massachusetts and California Air National Guard as an officer and flight surgeon with F-15 & F-16 fighter Squadrons. He has conducted research on aerospace medicine that was published with NASA, with whom he was a finalist for astronaut selection.

Speech Topics


The Future of Health & Medicine: Where Can Technology Take Us?

From the perspective of a leading physician, scientist, inventor and innovator this presentation examines rapidly emerging, game changing and convergent technology trends and how they are and will be leveraged to change the face of healthcare and the practice of medicine in the next decade.

Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring diagnostic information right to the patient’s bedside.

A deep dive into where emergent fields such as low cost personal genomics, the digitization of health records, crowd sourced data, molecular imaging, wearable devices & mobile health, synthetic biology, systems medicine, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, 3D printing and regenerative medicine are transforming healthcare, and have the potential to enable clinicians, empower patients, and deliver better care and outcomes at lower cost.

Medical Innovation & the Accelerating Future in the Time of COVID

How the pandemic is catalyzing

  • New approaches to diagnostics, from molecular to digital
  • Redesigning care on the front-lines. From the ER/ICU to primary care
  • Acceleration of virtualized care, from telemedicine to connected, data driven
  • Therapy acceleration: from drug discovery and clinical trials, to vaccine development
  • Public health/global health collaborations and emerging platforms that will impact the future of health and medicine, to prevention, detection and response of future pandemics.

From Hospital to Home

Prevention, diagnostics and care is increasingly moving out of the 4 walls of the clinic, ER and hospital

  • Understanding the accelerating use of connected health solutions, remote patient monitoring for high risk patients and standard care.
  • Cutting edge and future of telehealth
  • Future of the Hospital
  • The Virtualist: Role and abilities of the future clinician
  • Digital health on steroids. What’s coming next
  • Regulatory and reimbursement: Aligning incentives for the COVID and Post-COVID age.

Augmented, Virtual and Extended Reality

How VR/AR/XR are reshaping health and medicine. AR, VR and XR has a wide range of applications across healthcare and biomedicine, in this talk he explores many of the cutting edge use cases and future potential for AR & VR in medical education and simulation, to therapy, telemedicine and beyond.

  • AR/VR/XR in medical education (simulation, training)
  • Virtual Therapy (Pain Rx, Physical Therapy, Mental Health)
  • Virtual Collaboration Tool
  • Virtualized Healthcare

Exponential Technologies, Mindset and Innovation

  • Understanding Exponentials, Disruption and Pace of Change
  • A dive into accelerating and exponential technologies, from AI, Robotics, Big Data and Genomics, to VR, 3D Printing, Blockhain and beyond
  • Convergence: The role of Convergence exponential technologies in reshaping: Healthcare, Future of Work, Travel (Self-driving cars), Future of Home (entertainment, social), Business Models

News


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