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Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator and is serving as the Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance Task Force. 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 Exponential Medicine, a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. 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.

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.

Daniel is a member of the Kaufman Fellows Society (Class 13) and a member of the Inaugural (2015) class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship.

Daniel’s academic research has focused on: stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, stem cell-derived immunotherapies for cancer, bioengineering human T-cell differentiation, and humanized animal models. His research has been published in journals that include Nature and Science. His clinical work has focused on: bone marrow/hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for malignant and non-malignant diseases in adults and children, medical devices to enable stem cell based regenerative medicine, including marrow derived stem cell harvesting, processing and delivery.

He is heavily involved in digital health, founded Digital.Health, and is on the board of Healthy.io and advises several Fortune-50 and digital health-related startups. Daniel recently founded IntelliMedicine, focused on personalized, data-driven, precision medicine. 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 and 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.

Other professional activities:

  • Founder RegenMed Systems and inventor of the FDA approved MarrowMiner

  • Adviser to the XPRIZE Foundation (Life Sciences): Helped develop the Medical Tricorder & Rapid Covid Testing Xprize

  • Board member, Healthy.io, investor and advisor to several leading life sciences and digital health companies.

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

From the perspective of a leading physician-scientist, inventor and innovator, Dr. Daniel Kraft will examine 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, crossing the healthcare continuum from health and prevention to diagnostics and therapy. A dive into where emergent fields such as low cost personal genomics, digital health, crowdsourced data, molecular imaging, wearable devices & mobile health, synthetic biology, robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D printing to gene therapy and regenerative medicine are transforming healthcare, and have the potential to enable clinicians, empower patients and payers and deliver better, more proactive care while improving outcomes at lower cost.

Testimonials

Your presentation was fascinating and achieved the highest presenter engagement score across the board in all three markets, when we surveyed our 500+ delegates. We are living in exciting times, and though this year has challenged us all, the energy and insights you brought to this topic, truly excited and engaged our audience. It was the talk of the post event briefing calls and sponsor cocktail hour!
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Super inspiring, clearly painted the picture of what the future of medicine could look like.
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He is absolutely amazing, and his passion and dedication is remarkable. Hope to be a tenth of what he is one day….
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Dr. Kraft is utterly awesome in his breadth and depth of knowledge. I would like his recommendations re: best websites to visit, to keep current with cutting edge healthcare technology.
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Thank you again for your presentation at WAVES 2020, it was a spiritual awakening with the near future of Medicine.
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Dr. Kraft is utterly awesome in his breadth and depth of knowledge. I would like his recommendations re: best websites to visit, to keep current with cutting edge healthcare technology.
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