VoyagerMed is proud to announce the keynote speaker for its 2016 Medical Innovation Summit will be Steven H Krein, CEO and Co-founder of StartUp Health. The topic of the conference is the conversion of medical innovation with the globalization of healthcare and how the intersection of these two trends can help bring health to the world’s population. The conference will be held in New York City on September 23, 2016 and Steven will deliver the keynote during speech to the conference panelists of over 25 of the top specialists in orthopedics, neurosurgery, oncology, cardiology, plastic surgery and fertility. The conference expects guests from over 20 countries to attend. Learn more at voyagermed.eventbrite.com.
As CEO and Co-founder of StartUp Health, Steven has led the charge toward innovation by direct involvement with the companies that are fostering an environment of change throughout the healthcare spectrum. The companies that Steve guides through the early stages of development in StartUp Health have gone on to achieve great things. And StartUp Health has also embarked on a strategy of focusing on “Moonshots” or in other words, game changing challenges that require long term dedication and vision to accomplish.
When Steven was interviewed by Fortune Magazine, he said, “There are two camps: those that are startup friendly, batteries included, energy-providing, idea-providing, helping the entrepreneurs figure out how to get their ideas — or product or prototype — to the market. Then there’s a whole camp of resisters; people that are ‘batteries not included.’ They take away all of the momentum of the ideas or concepts of the companies.”
He went on to say “There’s an intense amount of patience needed to be an entrepreneur in general, and in health care even more so,” Steven said. “You need to think of it as a five to 10 year minimum kind of initiative. You might get lucky, you might get taken out, you might IPO, but the reality is that it’s going to take a long time.”
In 2011, StartUp Health launched its mission to transform health by organizing and investing in a global army of thousands of entrepreneurs passionate about reinventing the future of health.
Today, StartUp Health has assembled the world’s largest community of Healthcare Transformers and built a worldwide network of over 30,000 innovators, industry leaders and investors committed to supporting the entrepreneurs reimagining health and wellness.
More about Steven Krein:
Steven Krein is the co-founder and CEO of StartUp Health, a global health innovation community leading the movement to transform health by organizing and investing in Health Transformers. With a family of more than 300 Healthcare Transformers and 160 companies, StartUp Health spans more than a dozen countries and 65 cities.
Prior to StartUp Health, Steven co-founded and led several technology companies including OrganizedWisdom, Promotions.com and Webstakes, a global online advertising, direct marketing, and technology company, which he took public on Nasdaq and grew to a $500M market cap before it was acquired by iVillage in 2002. Steven began his online career with Law Journal Extra!, now known as Law.com, the first online legal news and information website, which was acquired by American Lawyer Media.
Steven is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, investor, advisor and entrepreneurial coach. Steven has been a keynote speaker at events hosted by Children’s Hospital Colorado, Cleveland Clinic, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Lake Nona Institute, McKinsey, Slush and Wharton, among others and has been a guest on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, CNN, FOX Business and The Today Show.
Steven received his JD degree from Delaware Law School and BA degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. Steven is a member of YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization) Metro New York Chapter and lives in New York City with his wife and three daughters. Follow him on Twitter @stevenkrein.
About VoyagerMed
VoyagerMed is a medical tourism marketplace for traveling and international patients seeking high-quality medical care in the United States. We connect patients to a curated network of top medical specialists from leading institutions in the U.S. Through VoyagerMed, patients can connect directly with specialists for virtual consultations, second opinions and treatment. The company is based in New York City. For more information visit voyagermed.com, call 212-470-4559 or email info@voyagermed.com.
