Daniel Kraft M.D.
Physician-Scientist and Innovator
Daniel is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor and entrepreneur focused on accelerating much improved future of health and biomedicine at the convergence of accelerating technologies and human innovation. He is trained in Internal Medicine & Pediatrics as well as hematology/oncology, stem cell transplantation and in aerospace medicine. He is the founder of NextMed Health (coming up March 30-April 2, 2025) & Digital.Health, chairs the XPRIZE Health Alliance, and is a sought after speaker on the future of medicine, with 6 TED & TEDMED Talks. More about Daniel here, and some of his endeavors.
ABOUT DANIEL | Daniel in the news
PUBLIC SPEAKING | ENDEAVORS
Daniel chairs NextMed Health, the evolution of Exponential Medicine. NextMed Health brings together a diverse array of over 600 innovators from across the technology, healthcare ecosystem. Catch some of the NextMed Health talks and a highlight reel from NextMed Health 2023. NextMed Health 2025 will be held March 30-April 2 in San Diego.
Daniel featured on CNN’s ‘The Next Frontier’ series episode exploring the the future of health and wellness.
Daniel’s newest TEDTalk: On the future of medicine as catalyzed by Covid-19. See Daniel’s 6 TED and TEDMED Talks here.
Daniel is chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic & Health Alliance -Focused on enabling new and accelerating existing efforts to pave the way for new solutions to enhance health and address disease. Daniel helped launch the Rapid COVID Testing XPRIZE, in which over 700 teams competed to develop solutions for Fast, Frequent, Cheap & Easy Covid Testing
Daniel wrote the lead article for the January National Geographic Magazine: Special issue focused on the ‘Future of Medicine’.
Daniel with President Barack Obama, Rick Bright, and Shawna Butler after presenting at Klick Ideas Exchange, 2022.
Daniel is the host of Healthy Conversations (Video and Podcast.) 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
Daniel’s talk on the future of health and medicine featured on CNN.com.
Daniel is the founder and chair of NextMed Health (previously called Exponential Medicine.) NextMed Health each year gathers over 70 world-class Faculty and over 800 participants from 40+ countries for a 4 day Program. Watch talks from NextMed Health & Exponential Medicine here.
Daniel speaking at DLD 2025 in Munich on the Future of AI and Digitally Enabled Health
Medicine of the Future: Daniel Kraft • 2024
On this episode of Healthy Conversations, we take a look back to the future, revisiting some of our most impactful segments.
A deep dive interview on the future of medicine.
TEDTalk: Daniel unveiling his invention of a new approach for personalized, precise, on-demand medicine.
More of Daniel’s TEDTalks can be found here.
Larry Brilliant M.D. with Daniel Kraft M.D., Chair for Medicine, Singularity University discuss the future of pandemics
Daniel’s keynote at the 2023 CogX Festival, from the O2 Arena in London.
Daniel and Mayo Clinic’s Dr John Halamka on CXO Talk
Daniel recently founded Digital.Health, a platform to enable digital health and medicine.
The Future of Health & Medicine: Looking Ten Years Back & Ten Forward... (more writings by Daniel are here.)