Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician-scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. 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, a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. He is the founder of Digital.Health, co-founder and partner at Continuum Health Ventures (focused on seed-stage Digital Health and Longevity), and is serving as the Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic &Health Alliance Task Force, where he recently co-led the rapid Covid diagnostics XPRIZE. 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 fellowships in hematology, oncology, and bone marrow transplantation at Stanford where he completed a post-doc in the laboratory of Irving L Weissman.
Daniel is a member of the Inaugural class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship and is a member of the Kaufman 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 has multiple scientific publications (including in Nature and Science) and medical device, immunology, and stem cell-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.
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Thursday, April 27, 2023
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM