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Daniel Kraft, MD

Founder & Chair

Stanford, California, United States · 1 connection

NextMed Health

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About

I’m a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician–scientist, investor, innovator, and (sometimes) futurist working at the intersection of medicine, AI, digital health, biotech, & emerging technologies. For over 25 years, I’ve focused on how convergent tools from AI, multi-omics, sensors, robotics, XR, & techbio—can transform health and help shift care from reactive to proactive, personalized, and data-driven. My foundation is clinical and academic. After Stanford medical school, I completed the Harvard Combined Internal Medicine & Pediatrics Residency at MGH & Boston Children’s, followed by Stanford fellowships in hematology/oncology and bone marrow transplantation. My stem cell & immunology research (in Irv Weissman’s lab) has been published in Nature, Science, and other leading journals. I later served on the faculty at Stanford and as clinical faculty at UCSF, am a Fellow of the Aspen Institute’s Health Innovators Fellowship, and am founding faculty & Chair of Medicine for Singularity University. I founded NextMed Health (formerly Exponential Medicine) in 2011 to build a global, cross-disciplinary community advancing the future of health. Our annual gathering brings together innovato

Experience

Founder & ChairNextMed Health
Jan 2011
FounderDigital.Health
Jun 2022
General PartnerContinuum Health Ventures
Jan 2021
Chair, XPRIZE Pandemic & Health AllianceXPRIZE
Mar 2020
Board MemberImmunis, Inc.
Feb 2023
Health Innovator FellowThe Aspen Institute
Jan 2015
Faculty Chair for Medicine & Neuroscience, Singularity UniversitySingularity University
Jan 2009
Board Of DirectorsHealthy.io
Apr 2019
FounderRegenMed Systems
Jan 2010
Bold Innovator - Cancer XPRIZECancer XPRIZE Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jun 2016 to Aug 2017
Officer, Flight Surgeon, F-15 and F-16 Fighter Squadrons, 102nd FW and 144th Fighter WingCalifornia Air National Guard
May 1999 to Jan 2014
Founder and Executive DirectorFutureMed Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jan 2011 to Mar 2013
Steven Hawking's Brave New World - Segment Host on Discovery Channel/National GeographicDiscovery Channel & National Geographic Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jan 2013 to Jan 2013
Physician-Scientist - FacultyStanford University
Jan 2005 to Jan 2013
Fellow, Class 13Kauffman Fellows
Jun 2008 to Jul 2011
Clinical FacultyUniversity of California, San Francisco
Jan 2003 to Jan 2011
Resident PhysicianMassachusetts General Hospital
Jan 1996 to Jan 2000
Student / Life SciencesInternational Space University
Jan 1990 to Jan 1991

Education

Stanford University School of Medicine
Fellowship, Hematology/Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplantation
2000 to 2005
Harvard Medical School
Board Certified, Harvard Combined Residency in Internal Medicine & Pediatrics
1996 to 2000
Stanford University School of Medicine
M.D., Medicine
Brown University
Bachelor’s Degree, Biochemistry, cum laude
Montgomery Blair High School
High School Diploma
USAF School of Aerospace Medicine
Flight Surgeon Wings, Aerospace Medicine
1999 to 1999