Dhrumil Shah, MD
dhrumil.shah@compassmedical.net
Marco Delazzo, MD
mdelazzo@hotmail.it
Martin Dauber, MD
daubersope@yahoo.com
Arlen Meyers, MD
ameyers@sopenet.org
Hubert Zajicek, MD
hzajicek@gmail.com
Sudhen Desai, MD
sudhen.desai@gmail.com
Daniel McChesney, MD
losangeles@sopenet.org
Julio Martinez Clark, MD
jmclark@interventionalconcepts.net
David Bigio, MD
Osvaldo Martinez Clark, MD
ozclark@interventionalconcepts.net
Pedro Martinez Clark, MD
pmclark@miamimedtech.com
Carlos Aparicio, PhD
Jeff Hausfeld, MD, MBA
jhausfeld@sopenet.org
Donn Duncan, MD
donnduncan@comcast.net
Steven Levine, MD
slevine@sopenet.org
Larry Kunstadt
Osvaldo Martinez Clark, MD
lkunstadt@sopenet.org.
Rania Nasis, MD
rnasis@sopenet.org
Gabi Hanna, MD
gabi.hanna@duke.edu
Anthony Chang, MD
achang@CHOC.org
Alfred Atanda, MD
Alfred.Atanda@nemours.org
Neil Warnock, MD
nwarnock@gmail.com
George Peoples, MD
georgepeoples2@hotmail.com
Dan Hargrove, JD
dhargrove@cancerinsight.com
Uli Chettipally, MD
uli.chettipally@gmail.com
Sridhar Prathikanti, MD
sridharp@fastmail.fm
Neil Warnock , MD
nwarnock@gmail.com
Christian Orejudos
corejudos@outlook.com
Gabi Hanna, MD
drmark@deleggemedical.com
Henry Randall, MD
Henry Henry@therandallgroup.co
Adel Eldin, MD
dr.eldin@gmail.com
Yavuz S. Silay, MD
drysilay@yahoo.com
Rashid AlAmeri
adeel@telniasoft.com
Joseph Nowoslawski, MD
jfn@novaventure.com
John Dayton, MD
drdayton@gmail.com
SoPE Members and Supporters,
I am pleased to bring you the re-launch of the SoPE Newsletter that Dr. Arlen Meyers began and managed for several years. The new SoPE Newsletter will be published quarterly and will have a new Guest Editor for each edition, first starting with the members of the Board of Directors of SoPE. We will then offer the opportunity for Chapter Leaders and Industry Luminaries to serve as Guest Editors of the Newsletter. Our hope is to allow our members to showcase the activities happening at the local level and to share your triumphs and challenges with like-minded professionals around the globe, in the expectation of accelerating your path to commercializing your innovation for patients.
When Drs. Arlen Meyers, Steven Levine, and I started this Society more than eight years ago, it was clear to us that physicians would not be the only members of the group. Yet because of our “end-user” status and our personal understanding of unmet needs in the marketplace, each Chapter of SoPE is led (or co-led) by a physician. But make no mistake about it, SoPE is a society promoting inclusiveness and we welcome and thrive on the diversity of professionals we have as members of this organization. It is through this coalition of innovators and entrepreneurs that we grow both personally and professionally, and create an ecosystem that can critically look at new ideas and help to nurture them from bench to bedside, through our connections, mentorship and resources. I have experienced this myself in my own journey of Biomedical, Biopharmaceutical and medical services entrepreneurship, and preach the value of the “Big SoPE Tent” to all those who will listen!
Recognizing that some of you want to keep your day jobs, but still come up with some brilliant ideas for our patients, SoPE has recently partnered with the Innovation Institute to form a process by which you can submit your ideas to a SoPE review team, which then goes on to the staff at the Innovation Institute if deemed potentially successful from a commercial standpoint. If the Innovation Institute accepts your idea, they will finance the project, take it through the regulatory process, and partner it with industry firms for distribution…leaving you with a healthy portion of the revenue stream! Here is a link to a webinar that we created in order to explain the procedure in greater detail.
Thanks to each of you for your contributions, your sponsorship of our meetings, and your dedication to bringing new healthcare innovations to life.
Here’s to your entrepreneurship and success, and to always envisioning a world where failure is not an option!
All the best.
Jeff Hausfeld
Following the recent successful launch of the The Innovation Institute and SoPE partnership, a webinar was held during the May SoPE Chapter Meeting to walk SoPE members step-by-step through the process of submitting an idea to the Innovation Lab for consideration. The full content of the webinar can be found on the SoPE website:
The Innovation Lab and SoPE partnership gives SoPE members the opportunity to work with Lab’s team of Ph.D.’s, M.D.’s, and tech transfer staff to commercialize and take their ideas to market. The Innovation Lab is part of the Innovation Institute, an independent, for-profit LLC owned by non-profit health systems for cultivating innovative solutions to transform healthcare delivery. This unique collaborative comprises over 23,000+ physicians and 170,000 healthcare workers from over 100+ hospitals and 500+ clinics, along with extensive industry business partners, to incubate and commercialize new medical products and ideas. See the Innovation Institute’s .
The Innovation Lab will help SoPE achieve our vision to empower physicians and other professionals to innovate ‘mind-to-market’ solutions, and connect similar forward-thinking individuals. Collaboration is key to success in healthcare innovation, and SoPE is excited for the potential that this relationship can offer to its registered members. For full details, please visit the SoPE – Innovation Lab webpages:
Please encourage others to join us in this journey and always feel free to send us your comments and suggestions.
Society of Physician Entrepreneurs