Daniel Kraft

  • Physician-Scientist, Inventor, Entrepreneur and Innovator
  • Medicine Track Faculty Chair, Singularity University
  • Founding Executive Director, Exponential Medicine

Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator. With over 20 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft serves as Faculty Chair for Medicine for Singularity University, and is founding Executive Director of Exponential Medicine, a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. He is board certified in Internal Medicine & Pediatrics with specialty training in hematology/ oncology and bone marrow transplantation, and has multiple patents and publications in major biomedical journals. His various TEDTalks talks have over 1 million views. He is founder of RegenMed Systems & Bioniq Health and advises many biomedical startups including Scanadu, Jointly Health, and others including the X-Prize and Qualcomm Life.

 

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Talks & Conversations with Daniel Kraft
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The Future of Health & Medicine, Where Can Technology Take Us?

A fast-paced look at the impact and potential of accelerating technologies (from AI, Big Data, Wearables, Digital Health, Personal Genomics, Synthetic Biology, to Virtual/Augmented Reality,, 3D printing and beyond), An update on what’s ‘Now, Near and Next’ across health and wellness, prevention, di ...

  • A fast-paced look at the impact and potential of accelerating technologies (from AI, Big Data, Wearables, Digital Health, Personal Genomics, Synthetic Biology, to Virtual/Augmented Reality,, 3D printing and beyond), 
  • An update on what’s ‘Now, Near and Next’ across health and wellness, prevention, diagnostics, therapeutics, healthspan and the future of healthcare and biomedicine.
  • Actionable steps that healthcare leaders, organizations, clinicians to consumers & patients can take to leverage many exponential technologies and to integrate novel solutions to address challenges across the healthcare continuum.

Catalyzing a New Health Age: The future of health, medicine & longevity

Covid acted as a catalyst for healthcare innovation, from the acceleration of mRNA vaccines to virtualized cared, novel home diagnostics to digitally enabled medicine and remote patient monitoring. This talk will explore the convergence of emerging and rapidly developing technologies beyond traditi ...

  • Covid acted as a catalyst for healthcare innovation, from the acceleration of mRNA vaccines to virtualized cared, novel home diagnostics to digitally enabled medicine and remote patient monitoring.  
  • This talk will explore the convergence of emerging and rapidly developing technologies beyond traditional ‘sick care’, to true ‘health’ care.
  • Ways that individuals to clinicians to health systems can provide more personalized, proactive care models to optimize for long, healthy lives (healthspan), including addressing and optimizing the social determinants of health. 
  • Explore the cutting edge of approaches to extending lifespan, from novel therapeutics to stem cell and regenerative medicine, emerging gene therapy and beyond. 

Generative Health: How A.I. and GPT is Reshaping Healthcare & Biomedicine

As GPT / LLMs and Big Data advance rapidly they are having profound implications on society, and especially on the practice of medicine, clinical care, self-care, to catalyzing drug discovery and exciting new approaches to address many grand challenges in health in medicine. This talk will highligh ...

  • As GPT / LLMs and Big Data advance rapidly they are having profound implications on society, and especially on the practice of medicine, clinical care, self-care, to catalyzing drug discovery and exciting new approaches to address many grand challenges in health in medicine. 
  • This talk will highlight a ‘101 on AI related to healthcare’ and  provide compelling examples of the state-of-the-art and ways to apply to prevention, public heatlh, diagnostic sand therapy.
  • Dramatic and disruptive implications for democratizing access to health data, insights and actionable information coming from wearables, to ‘digital twin’ models.
  • Share a view of the art of the possible and what’s coming next, and how clinicians, leaders and organizations can engage and prepare for the new AI enabled ‘Generative Health' age. 

The Digital, Data and AI Enabled Future of Prevention, Diagnostics and Therapy

As health and medicine becomes more data driven, leveraging everything from wearables and digital biomarkers, virtual reality to Internet of Medical Things, and the availability of low cost personal ‘omics’, new avenues open to help optimize health and prevention, diagnose disease at ‘Stage 0’ and ...

  • As health and medicine becomes more data driven, leveraging everything from wearables and digital biomarkers, virtual reality to Internet of Medical Things, and the availability of low cost personal ‘omics’, new avenues open to help optimize health and prevention, diagnose disease at ‘Stage 0’ and better integrate crowd-sourced knowledge to optimize wellness, therapy and outcomes.
  • This talk will explore emerging examples of next-gen wearables and ‘otherables’ in our increasingly mobile, connected, AI and digitally enabled world and how digital health and medicine has the potential to reshape almost every element of health(care), while improving access, equity and improving outcomes at lower costs.
  • Lessons from disruptions in other fields and how they apply to healthcare and medicine.
  • Tools and resources the audience can use today to uplevel their own health and ‘self-care’ and offerings of their organizations (whether healthcare focused) can begin to leverage today, and set themselves up for success and positive impact int he future. 

Medical Innovation & the Accelerating Future: Being proactive instead of reactive.

Themes covered: New approaches to diagnostics, from molecular to digital Redesigning care on the frontlines from the ER/ICU to primary care Acceleration of virtualized care, from telemedicine to connected, data driven Therapy acceleration: from drug discovery and clinical trials to vaccine developm ...

Themes covered:

  • New approaches to diagnostics, from molecular to digital
  • Redesigning care on the frontlines from the ER/ICU to primary care
  • Acceleration of virtualized care, from telemedicine to connected, data driven 
  • Therapy acceleration: from drug discovery and clinical trials to vaccine development
  • 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

From Hospital to Home: Prevention, diagnostics, and care is increasingly moving out of the 4 walls of the clinic, ER, and hospital.

Themes covered: Understanding the accelerating use of connected health solutions, remote patient monitoring for high-risk patients, and standard care Cutting edge and future of telehealth Future of the hospital The Virtualist: role and abilities of the future clinician Digital health on steroids an ...

Themes covered:

  • Understanding the accelerating use of connected health solutions, remote patient monitoring for high-risk patients, and standard care
  • Cutting edge and future of telehealth
  • Future of the hospital
  • The Virtualist: role and abilities of the future clinician
  • Digital health on steroids and what’s coming next
  • Regulatory and reimbursement: aligning incentives for the modern age

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. Themes covered: AR/VR/XR in medical educatio ...

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.

Themes covered:

  • AR/VR/XR in medical education (simulation, training)
  • Virtual therapy (pain Rx, physical therapy, mental health)
  • Virtual collaboration tool
  • Virtualized healthcare

Exponential Technologies, Mindset, and Innovation

Themes covered: Understanding exponentials, disruption, and pace of change A dive into accelerating and exponential technologies, from AI, robotics, Big Data, and genomics, to VR, 3D Printing, Blockchain, and beyond Convergence: the role of convergence exponential technologies in reshaping Healthc ...

Themes covered:

  • Understanding exponentials, disruption, and pace of change
  • A dive into accelerating and exponential technologies, from AI, robotics, Big Data, and genomics, to VR, 3D Printing, Blockchain, and beyond
  • Convergence: the role of convergence exponential technologies in reshaping
    • Healthcare
    • Future of work
    • Travel (self-driving cars)
    • Future of home (entertainment, social)
    • Business models

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Biography

Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur and innovator.

Dr. Kraft has over 20 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation. Daniel chairs the Medicine track for Singularity University and is Founding Executive Director for Exponential Medicine, a program which explores convergent, exponentially developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. His various TEDTalks have over 1 million views.

Following undergraduate degrees at Brown University and medical school at Stanford, Dr. Kraft was board certified in the Harvard combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency program at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. He went on to complete Stanford fellowships in hematology/oncology & bone marrow transplantation, and extensive research in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. He has multiple scientific publications (Nature and Science) 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.

Dr. Kraft is 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 an F-16 fighter Squadron. He has conducted research on aerospace medicine published with NASA, and was a finalist for astronaut selection.

Dr. Kraft named as one of the 40 Smartest People in Healthcare by Beckers’ Hospital Review.

InternetMedicine.com named Dr. Kraft one of The Top Ten Internet-Smart Doctors in the World 2013. 

Daniel Kraft was recognized as one of the most inspiring leaders in Life Sciences, as determined by the readers of Pharma Voice 100.