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Daniel Kraft, MD
Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor and innovator who also speaks on healthcare trends.
Dr. Kraft has over 20 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation. Daniel chairs the Medicine track for
Dr. Kraft recently founded IntelliMedicine, focused on enabling connected, data driven, and integrated personalized medicine. He is also the inventor of the MarrowMiner, an FDA approved device for the minimally invasive harvest of bone marrow, and founded RegenMed Systems, a company developing technologies to enable adult stem cell based regenerative therapies. He is a Kauffman Fellow and Venture Partner, with Proteus Venture Partners.
Following undergraduate degrees at Brown and medical school at Stanford, Dr. Kraft was board certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics following residency at the Massachusetts General and Boston Children’s Hospital, and completed Stanford fellowships in hematology/oncology & bone marrow transplantation, and extensive research in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. He has multiple scientific publications (including in Nature and Science), medical device, immunology and stem cell related patents through faculty positions with Stanford University School of Medicine and as clinical faculty for the pediatric bone marrow transplantation service at
As Chairman of NEHEN he oversees clinical and administrative data exchange in Eastern Massachusetts. As co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee he facilitates the process of electronic standards harmonization among stakeholders nationwide. As co-Chair of the Massachusetts HIT Advisory Committee, he engages the stakeholders of the Commonwealth to guide the development of a statewide health information exchange.
Charles E. Christian, FCHIME, FHIMSS, CHCIO is the CIO of the Good Samaritan Hospital, a 103-year old free-standing, acute care, community hospital in southwest Indiana. Christian is responsible for all information technology activities throughout the enterprise. Christian is serving his 22th year in this role and his 40th year in healthcare. Christian is a Fellow of HIMSS and is a Past Chair of the Board of Directors for this organization. He is also is a Fellow and charter member of CHIME and served on the CHIME Board of Trustees from 2002 through 2004. He is a member of the Technology Advisory Committee for the Vincennes City Schools, and a member of the Curriculum Advisory Committee for Vincennes University.
Christian is serving on the KLAS Advisory Group and the McKesson Strategic Advisory Council, Symantec Senior Executive Advisory Council, as well as the Board of Directors of the Indiana Health Informatics Corporation by appointment of Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels. Christian was recently asked to join the AHA Strategic Development Advisory Committee as a charter member. He is also the Chair of the CHIME Policy Strategy Council and the 2010 recipient of the CHIME-HIMSS John E. Gall, CIO of the Year award. Christian was named as a member of the 2011 Information Healthcare’s top 25 CIOs in Healthcare.
