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David Feinberg of Google Health @ 2020 StartUp Health Festival



Vice President of Google Health, Dr. David Feinberg, talks with StartUp Health Chief Medial Officer, Howard Krein, MD, PhD, on the main stage of the StartUP Health Festival in San Francisco. January 14, 2020.

Dr. David Feinberg has spent his entire career caring for people’s health and wellbeing. And after years in the healthcare system, he now leads Google Health, which brings together groups from across Google and Alphabet that are using AI, product expertise and hardware to take on big healthcare challenges. (https://www.blog.google/technology/he…)

Dr. Howard Krein is the Chief Medical Officer of StartUp Health, which was founded in 2011 to invest in a global army of entrepreneurs, called Health Transformers, committed to achieving health moonshots.

Dr. Krein is also an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University and a founding partner and co-director of Jefferson’s Facial Aesthetic and Reconstructive Center. Additionally, he is the Senior Director of Health Policy & Innovation at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center. From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Krein served on the Biden Cancer Initiative’s Board of Directors.

Dr. Krein is part of an exclusive group of physicians with two doctorates, receiving his MD from Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and a PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology from UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Krein completed internships in both Emergency Medicine and General Surgery, a residency in Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and a Fellowship in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Medical College of Virginia in Richmond Virginia. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Biology and a Master’s degree in Neuroscience from Rutgers University. Dr. Krein lives in Philadelphia, PA.

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Why the Founders of athenahealth and Devoted Health Joined StartUp Health’s Global Army of Health Transformers



At last year’s StartUp Health Festival Todd & Ed Park, co-founders of Devoted Health shared how they’re building a Medicare Advantage company that provides the kind of streamlined care they’d want for their own parents. Tune into the 2020 Festival Jan 13-14 from startuphealth.com!

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Nigam Shah MBBS, PhD, Stanford University



Nigam Shah, MBBS, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and Co-founder of Cardinal Analytx, chats with StartUp Health’s Unity Stoakes about the importance of making data actionable.

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#232: Fireside Chat with Steven Krein & Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health & Esther Dyson, Wellville



Steven Krein & Unity Stoakes, Co-founders, StartUp Health,
chat with Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Wellville, on “Bringing Hope to 7.5 Billion: The Impact of Moonshots, Mindsets and Health Transformers” at the 2019 StartUp Health Festival in San Francisco, California.

Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/
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#233: Bozidar Jovicevic, Sanofi



Bozidar Jovicevic, Vice President, Global Head of Digital Therapeutics at Sanofi, discusses how pharma needs to be more holistic with StartUp Health’s Logan Plaster at the 2019 StartUp Health Festival.

Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/
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#230: Fireside Chat with Sondra Tucker, Guidewell/Florida Blue



In this Fireside Chat, Sondra Tucker, VP of Corporate Development & Strategic Initiatives, Guidewell/Florida Blue, chats with Steven Krein, CEO & Co-founder, StartUp Health, about “Working with Health Transformers to Shape The Future of Healthcare” the 2019 StartUp Health Festival in San Francisco, California.

Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/
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#225: Fireside Chat Dr. Nick Turkal, CEO & President, Advocate Aurora Health



Nick Turkal, MD, CEO & President, Advocate Aurora Health,
chats with Howard Krein, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer, StartUp Health, on “The Collaboration Mindset” at the 2019 StartUp Health Festival in San Francisco, California.

Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/
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#223: Fireside Chat with Dr. Sandra Hernández, California Health Care Foundation



Dr. Sandra Hernández, President & CEO, California Health Care Foundation, chats with Jaimy Lee, LinkedIn, News Editor, Healthcare, on “The Access to Care Moonshot: Rethinking How We Serve the Underserved” at the 2019 StartUp Health Festival in San Francisco, California.

Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/
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#220: Todd Park & Ed Park, Co-founders, Devoted Health



Todd Park & Ed Park, Co-founders, Devoted Health chat with Steven Krein, CEO & Co-founder, StartUp Health and Dr. Howard Krein, Chief Medical Officer, StartUp Health on “Creating a New Care Model that Treats Members Like Family” at the 2019 StartUp Health Festival in San Francisco, California

Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/
Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots http://www.healthmoonshots.com

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#208: Jack Barrette, WEGO Health



Jack Barrette, the CEO and Founder of WEGO Health, talks about the evolution of social media and user-generated content, the importance of patient leaders becoming trusted voices, and the opportunity for digital health to pair empathy and information.

Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health https://www.startuphealth.com/
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