Dr. Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur 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 chaired the Medicine for 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. He has given five TED and TEDMED talks.
Dr. Daniel Kraft’s Speech Topics:
From Hospital to Home*: Prevention, diagnostics and care is increasingly moving out of the 4 walls of the clinic, ER and hospital
- 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. What’s coming next
- 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.
- 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
- 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
Dr. Daniel Kraft’s Bio:
Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur 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 chaired the Medicine for 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 5 TED and TEDMED Talks.
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. His research has been published in journals that include Nature and Science. His clinical work has 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 heavily involved in digital health, founded Digital.Health, and is on the board of Healthy.io and advises several digital health related startups. Daniel 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 & 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.
