Daniel Kraft

Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained Physician, the Executive Director of FutureMed and Chair of the MEdicine track for Singularity University. Also he is the founder of IntelliMedicine, a company focused on the development of high-tech and personalized approaches to patient care. In his lecture, Daniel illustrated how the continuing development of digital technology improves the practice of medicine.

On January 18, Dr. Daniel Kraft gave a lecture via teleconference entitled "Digital Doctor in Your Pocket". During his lecture Dr. Kraft discussed the variety of ways in which the exponential development of technology can improve medicine. Some examples of these innovations and changes include: why physicians may increasingly require the use of smart phone technology in diagnostics; how to extract bone marrow in a minimally invasive procedure and the ramifications of this new procedure for stem cell research; how a computer chip can analyze one's urine; how technologies like the Microsoft Kinect can be used diagnose a stroke; and how various organs can be "printed" in the lab using regenerative medicine.

Following Dr. Kraft's lecture, Digital October's conference hosted a meeting of Russian specialists in the field of medicine and digital technology: Evgeny Flerov – head of the Laboratory for Telemedicine and Computer Monitoring at the Russian Research Center of Surgery, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Candidate of Medical Sciences, winner of the award of the USSR Council of Ministers; Iliya Kupriyanov – expert in the field of promotion of pharmaceutical companies on the Internet, Development Director of Doctor At Work social networking site; Danila Medvedev – member of the coordination council of the Russian Transhumanist Movement, futurologist, host of TV program For the Future on Nauka 2.0 TV channel; Azamat Ulbashev – CEO of VitaPortal; Natalia Ushakova – President of autonomous non-profit organization "Opora Zdorovie", Vice-President of National Medical Board.