NextMed Faculty

Our NextMed Health Faculty includes more than 60 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.

2024 Faculty

(Many More to be announced)

Daniel Kraft MD

Physician-Scientist. Founder & Chair, NextMed Health. Founder, Exponential Medicine
Shawna Butler, RN MBA

Nurse Economist, NextMed Health. Host, See You Now Podcast
Eric Topol, MD

Founder and Director, Scripps Research Translational Institute
Michelle Williams, ScD

Former Dean, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Professor of Epidemiology & Public Health
Dean Kamen

Founder, DEKA, Founder of FIRST Robotics
Ed Boyden, PhD

Professor, Co-Director, MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering
Jennifer Garrison, PhD

Professor, Buck Institute. Co-Founder & Director, ProductiveHealth.org
Larry Brilliant MD, DSc, FACPM

CEO, PanDefense Advisors, Founder & CEO, Evity.AI
Rick Doblin, PhD

Founder & President, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
Catriona Jamieson, MD, Ph.D.

Director, Sanford Stem Cell Institute, Professor of Medicine & Chief, Division of Regenerative Medicine, UCSD
Hugh Herr, PhD

Professor, MIT Media Lab. Co-Founder, Dephy Inc
Susan Kirsh, MD

Deputy Undersecretary for Health, Veterans Administration
Adam Gazzaley, MD PhD

Professor in Neurology, Physiology & Psychiatry at UCSF, Director, Neuroscape Lab
Ami Bhatt, MD FACC

Chief Innovation Officer, American College of Cardiology (ACC)
Amir Dan Rubin, MBA

Prior CEO of One Medical. Founding Managing Partner, Healthier Capital
Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS

Chief Medical Officer, Chief Digital Officer & Associate Dean, UC San Diego School of Medicine
Jamie Justice, PhD

EVP for Health, XPRIZE. Lead for Healthspan XPRIZE
John Brownstein, PhD

Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital. Professor, Harvard Medical School
Patrick Hines, MD PhD

Professor, Wayne State Univ. Critical Care Physician. Founder & CEO, Functional Fluidics
Chris Mason, PhD

Professor, Weill-Cornell Medicine
Jane Metcalfe

Founder, Proto.Life. Co-founder, WIRED
Darshak Sanghavi , MD

Project Manager, ARPA-H
Robert C. Green, MD MPH

Professor of Medicine (Genetics), Harvard Medical School. Director Genomes2People (G2P) Research Program at Mass General Brigham.
Moira Gunn, PhD

Host, Biotech Nation. Professor, USF
William Li, MD PhD

CEO and President
CEO, The Angiogenesis Foundation
Lucien Engelen

CEO of Transform Health, LaurentiusMC, Fellow Deloitte, Fellow Vodafone.
Bayo Currey-Winchell, MD

Founder, Beyond Clinical Walls. Urgent Care Medical Director, Saint Mary's Health Network
Stephen Kotlar

Executive Director at the Flow Research Collective | Leading Expert in Peak-Performance
Ken Dychtwald

Founder, AgeWave
Eleanor Green, DVM

Founding Dean, Lyon College School of Veterinary Medicine
Jared Conley, MD, PhD, MPH

Ass Professor at Harvard Medical School. Associate Director of the Mass General Hospital Healthcare Transformation Lab
Maddy Dychtwald

Co-founder, Age Wave. Author, Ageless Aging
Jamie Metzl

Founder & Chair OneShared.World, Technology & Healthcare Futurist
Rafael Grossmann, MD, FACS

Surgeon, Educator, Healthcare Futurist
Yan Fossat

SVP, Digital Health R&D, Klick Health
Parisa Vatanka, PharmD

CEO, Digital Health, Former Senior Director at American Pharmacists Association
Jennifer MacDonald, MD

COO, Advanced Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI)
Hans Keirstead, PhD

Stem cell pioneer, Founder & CEO, Immunis Biomedica
Jack Kreindler, MD

Physician, Researcher, Entrepreneur. Founder & CEO, WellFounded, Honorary Research Fellow, Imperial College
Paul Grand

Founder & CEO, MedTech Innovator
David Bray, PhD

Distinguished Fellow, Simson Center. Forme CIO of the FCC
Lee Sanders, MD MPH

Chair of General Pediatrics, Stanford Medical School
Michael Gillam, MD FACEP

CEO of HealthLab
Meredith Perry

Co-Founder & CEO at Elemind
Jonathan FIsher, MD FACC

Cardio.ogist, Author of ”Just One Heart: A Cardiologist’s Guide to Healing, Health, & Happiness”
Scott Summit

Designer, Founder at Ethereal Matter Inc and Bespoke Innovations
Anna Yusim, MD

Psychiatrist, Clinical Assistant Professor, Yale Medical School
Aronoff-Spencer, MD PhD

Director, Center for Health and Strategic Health Initiatives, UC San Diego Design Lab
Sam Glassenberg

Founder & CEO, Level Ex
Yomi Jaye, MBBS, MBA

Special Advisor, Health Governor, Enugu State, Nigeria. CEO, Cecy Health
Ricky Mehra

Founder & Managing Partner, Continuum Health Ventures
Danica Vallone

CEO, Making Space. Designer In Residence, Bionics & Human Resilience, UCSD Design Lab
Brandon Staglin

Co-founder & President, One Mind
Ryan Kerstein, FRCS MBBS

Royal College of Surgeons of England. Lead for Future of Surgery Hub.
Mohan Nair

CEO, Emerge Inc. Edmund Hillary Fellow
Robert Strong

Magician
Swami Ananda

Meditation Teacher
Asa Mathat

Photographer, AsaMathat.com
More faculty to be announced

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