Physician-Scientist & Innovator
Dr. Daniel Kraft
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Dr. Daniel Kraft At A Glance:
Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Daniel Kraft explores the impact and potential of rapidly developing technologies as applied to health and medicine.
Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator. 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 the 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 has multiple scientific publications and medical device, immunology and stem cell related patents through faculty positions with Stanford University School of Medicine and as clinical faculty for the pediatric bone marrow transplantation service at University of California San Francisco.
Daniel is a member of the Kaufman Fellows Society (Class 13) and 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. Clinical work focuses 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 also implemented the first text-paging system at Stanford Hospital.
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 stem cell-based regenerative therapies. He is also the founder of IntelliMedicine, focused on data driven, precision medicine.
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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Medical Innovation & the Accelerating Future in the Time of COVID
a. New approaches to diagnostics, from molecular to digital
b. Redesigning care on the front-lines. From the ER/ICU to primary care
c. Acceleration of virtualized care, from telemedicine to connected, data driven
How the pandemic is catalyzing
d. Therapy acceleration: from drug discovery and clinical trials, to vaccine development
e. 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.
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From Hospital to Home*
Prevention, diagnostics and care is increasingly moving out of the 4 walls of the clinic, ER and hospital
a. Understanding the accelerating use of connected health solutions, remote patient monitoring for high risk patients and standard care.
b. Cutting edge and future of telehealth
c. Future of the Hospital
d. The Virtualist: Role and abilities of the future clinician
e. Digital health on steroids. What’s coming next
f. Regulatory and reimbursement: Aligning incentives for the COVID and Post-COVID age.
*(Daniel has co-chaired/co-developed the 2020 UCSF Health Hub Hospital to Home Series, and also participated/spoke in the 'Future of Hospital Summit' at Sheba medical center, with CEOs from several major hospitals. -
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.
a. AR/VR/XR in medical education (simulation, training)
b. Virtual Therapy (Pain Rx, Physical Therapy, Mental Health)
c. Virtual Collaboration Tool
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Exponential Technologies, Mindset and Innovation
a. Understanding Exponentials, Disruption and Pace of Change
b. A dive into accelerating and exponential technologies, from AI, Robotics, Big Data and Genomics, to VR, 3D Printing, Blockhain and beyond
c. Convergence: The role of Convergence exponential technologies in reshaping
· Healthcare
· Future of Work
· Travel (Self-driving cars)
· Future of Home (entertainment, social)
· Business Models
We’d like to take this opportunity to offer our sincere thanks for joining us in Basel and for presenting to our Novartis colleagues during the Global CSO Meeting last week. Your presentation provided vital insights into what the future of our industry might look like and allowed us to consider how we are going to ensure we are fully involved in a new era of digital medicine. We have had excellent feedback from the meeting delegates, who feel inspired and motivated by your presentation, and we are all looking forward to seeing how the future of digital medicine takes shape; and of course, our contributions towards it!— Novartis Pharma AG
What a treat. Thank you for your time and the energy you brought to The Nantucket Project. We were lucky to have you. I have received such incredible feedback. We are so lucky that people like you agree to come and give so much. The audience loved you and it was a great blend with other presenters and conversation throughout the weekend. I am very grateful. Voices like yours and the role you play in the world are vital.— The Nantucket Project
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Reshaping the whole spectrum of healthcare
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