Experience
Venture Partner
1984 Ventures · San Francisco Bay Area
Lecturer in Management and Entrepreneurship
Rice Business - Jones Graduate School of Business · Houston, Texas Area
Present
Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, Texas Area
Present
Diplomate of American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) Fellow of American Association of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, Texas, United States
Advisor, Tmcx Accelerator
Texas Medical Center · Houston, Texas Area
Present
The TMCx accelerator advances the development of health and medical technology companies by connecting visionary entrepreneurs to the abundant resources of the world's largest medical center.
Associate Director, Biodesign Fellowship Program
Texas Medical Center · Houston, Texas Area
• Founding co-director of one of the most competitive fellowship programs in medical device and digital health innovation and entrepreneurship. • Recruited and trained 30 fellows who have gone on to build 4 companies (Alleviant, Intuitap, VastBiome, and Ictero Medical), raise venture capital financing, win numerous awards (e.g., winner of MedTech Innovators 3 years in a row), and assume leadership roles at leading academic, investment, and corporate institutions.
Investor/Advisor
Various Companies
Present
Alleviant Medical - minimally invasive device to treat heart failure Blumio - Wearable, cuff-less, continuous blood pressure monitor Vios Medical (acquired by Murata)- IoT platform designed to automate clinical workflow and deliver virtual patient care services. Glidian - Improves efficiency by automating manual processing of prior authorizations Trusted Health - Makes it easy for nurses to connect with job opportunities IntuiTap Medical - Novel device for performing spinal punctures Dock Technologies - Streamlining clinical workflow in the most pressing cases Sage Senses - AI startup enabling semantic interpretation of outputs of various sensors for IoT devices on ordinary chips
Co-Founder and Ceo
eTherapi · Redwood City, CA
eTherapi was one of the earliest telemedicine companies that enabled delivery of mental health care services across the continuum of care.
Strategy and Business Development Officer
Hansen Medical · Mountain View, CA
• Formulated a business development and technology licensing deal with Philips Healthcare valued at $107 million • Played instrumental role in launching the Magellan™ Robotic Vascular Catheter System.
Venture Advisor
XSeed Capital Management · Menlo Park, CA
Founder and Ceo
Review2Buy · Palo Alto, CA
One of the earliest mobile services designed to deliver product reviews and price comparisons to customers at the point of purchase.
Education
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
M.B.A, Master's in Business Administration
Baylor College of Medicine
Emergency Medicine Residency Training
Stanford University School of Medicine
M.D., Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
M.S., Health Services Research
Stanford University
B.S., Chemistry
University of Oxford
Study abroad program
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