The Role of Physicians in the innovation economy

Physicians play a key role in healthcare. They are the scientific leaders and understand care delivery. They understand the problems and hurdles in delivering healthcare better than anyone else. They are intelligent and can evaluate or even come up with solutions to the problems. There are several obstacles for physicians to take this path: Lack of time, knowledge and resources are some, to bring innovation to market. We will discuss how to overcome these obstacles and play a key role in the healthcare innovation economy.

Instructor: Uli K. Chettipally, MD, MPH

Uli K. Chettipally is an emergency physician, researcher, author, and an innovator. He is the Founder of Sirica Therapeutics, developing a robotics/VR device for autism and InnovatorMD, the largest community for physician innovators.  He received the Pioneer Award for Innovation and Morris F. Collen Research Award from Kaiser Permanente. He is an Advisor and Investor at various healthcare start-ups. He is the author of "Punish the Machine! The Promise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare"