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Daniel Kraft

Physician-Scientist. Founder, NextMed Health & Digital.Health. Chair, XPRIZE Pandemic & Health Alliance. Entrepreneur & Investor, Continuum Health Ventures.

Stanford, California

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder & Chair

    2011

    NextMed Health (the evolution of the Exponential Medicine program) is a unique, interdisciplinary community and platform dedicated to catalyzing and accelerating the arrival of a new, human-centric, technology-enabled, and democratized health age. Join the community this coming December 10-13th at the historic Hotel del Coronado. The cutting edge and future of health and medicine will be realized at the convergence of diverse fields, accelerating technologies, new mindsets, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. We inspire participants to engage with the most exciting and important new ideas and innovators and empower them to build a better future. To enhance the NOW, Learn about the NEAR, and the HOW TO on Creating What’s NEXT. See http://NextMed.Health for more.

  • Founder

    2022

    Digital.Health is a platform to enable the field of digital health and medicine, and features a free searchable database of 2,800+ digital health companies and products to enable matching solutions to clinical needs as well as a wide array of resources for innovators, clinicians and healthcare entrepreneurs.

  • General Partner

    2021

    Continuum Health Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on improving human healthspan and democratizing healthcare. The focus is funding digital health companies that impact precision and preventative medicine and also startups that target the aging population and diseases of aging.

2020

  • Chair, XPRIZE Pandemic & Health Alliance

    2020

    Serve as lead for the XPRIZE Health Brain trust and Chair of the XPRIZE Global Health & Pandemic Alliance, which is committed to catalyzing critical solutions to improve health around the planet as well our ability to predict, prevent and respond to future pandemics. The alliance is powered by collaboration, competition, shared innovation, and scientific breakthroughs. The Alliance Task Force serves to help identify, connect, and catalyze ideas, people, resources and solutions to address the pandemic and prevent future ones. In 2020 we launched the Rapid COVID Testing XPRIZE, to catalyze Fast, Frequent, Cheap & Easy Testing. http://xprize.org/covidtesting, generating over 700 entries from 77 countries. The winning team's exemplified innovation which is enabling diagnostics for all.

  • Health Innovator Fellow

    2015

    Member of Aspen Institute 2015 Inaugural Class of Health Innovator Fellows and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. The goal of the Health Innovators Fellowship is to strengthen the leadership of innovators across the United States health care ecosystem, and to connect, inspire, and challenge these leaders to create new approaches that will improve the health and well-being of Americans. The Fellowship is designed for proven, highly successful entrepreneurs and innovators in the U.S. http://agln.aspeninstitute.org/fellowships/healthinnovators

  • Faculty Chair for Medicine & Neuroscience, Singularity University

    2009

    Founding Faculty and Chair for Medicine & Neuroscience at Singularity University (SU) since its inception. SU's mission is to educate, inspire and enable a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of rapidly advancing technologies in order to address humanity’s grand challenges. http://SingularityU.org. Founder and Chair of the Exponential Medicine program.

  • Board Of Directors

    2019

    Healthy.io offers the only FDA-cleared and CE-approved home urine test equivalent to lab-based devices as well as a FDA-cleared product that digitizes wound assessment. Named as one of the 'Top 50 Most Innovative Companies' by Fast Company- The Healthy.io multidisciplinary team specializes in computer vision, product design, and clinical practice. They balance cutting-edge technology, superior user centric design and regulatory knowledge to bring clinical innovation from the lab to the home.

Healthy Conversations Podcast

2020

  • Host

    2020

    Bringing experts together for an open discussion on timely topics in health care to uncover clinical insights and the emerging innovations that are transforming our industry in real time. Listen at http://HealthyConversations.health

Tech Nation Health / Biotech Nation

2016

  • Chief Correspondent

    2016

    Daniel serves as 'Chief Correspondent' on Tech Nation Health, a new weekly segment of on Biotech Nation, hosted by Dr. Moira Gunn. Listen on NPR stations and SiriusXM. Prior episodes can be heard on podcast versions https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/technationhealth

  • Trustee

    2020

    Unlocking the full potential of technology and data for the common good. Initiatives include CommonPass, CommonHealth & COVIDCheck