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Daniel Kraft: The Digital, Data Driven, Intelligent Future of Health & Medicine
Daniel Kraft
Physician, Scientist, Entrepreneur, and Repeat TED Speaker
- Double board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
- Served as a flight surgeon in the Air National Guard
- Biomedical inventor using technology to revolutionize the way we practice medicine
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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, Daniel 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.
Daniel 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.
Daniel 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.
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Daniel Kraft: How COVID-19 Transformed the Future of Medicine
Dr. Daniel Kraft on CNN Inspirations: Body Smart
Re-Imagining Healthcare with Daniel Kraft
Technology's Impact on the Future of Health and Medicine
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Medicine 2064 with Daniel Kraft
Medical Innovation & the Accelerating Future: Being proactive instead of reactive.
Themes covered:
- New approaches to diagnostics, from molecular to digital
- Redesigning care on the frontlines 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.
Themes covered:
- 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 and what’s coming next
- Regulatory and reimbursement: aligning incentives for the modern 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.
Themes covered:
- 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
Themes covered:
- 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, Blockchain, 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
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