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 & 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.

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Daniel chairs NextMed Health, the evolution of Exponential Medicine. NextMed Health brings together a diverse array of over 500 innovators from across the technology, healthcare ecosystem. Catch some of the NextMed Health 2023 talks and a highlight reel from NextMed Health 2023. NextMed Health 2024 will be held December 10-13th in San Diego.

Daniel’s newest TEDTalk (May 2021): On the future of medicine as catalyzed by Covid-19.  See Daniel’s 6 TED and TEDMED Talks here.

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 2019 National Geographic Magazine: A special issue focused on the ‘Future of Medicine’.

Daniel wrote the lead article for the January 2019 National Geographic Magazine: A 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.Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6                        Apple Podcasts  -  Google Podcasts  -  Spotify

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

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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.

 

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 from 2021.

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

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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, December 2020

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.)