Hacking Health: How to Make Money and Save Lives in the Healthtech World

Documents the roles and career priorities of key members of a typical eHealth team in order to improve understanding of each member’s role in the team
Features 4 case studies that exemplify successful and failed projects, explaining where each project went right or wrong
Examines the complex relationship between technology, entrepreneurship, and academics that are interwoven in any eHealth venture

David is physical therapist with a PhD in Neuroscience. He worked as a clinician in Australia, before moving to the United States to study computational neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, MIT and NYU. He has served as a faculty member at Weill-Cornell Medicine and Burke Medical Research Institute. He is currently the Director of Rehabilitation Innovation for the Mt Sinai Health System, and an Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai. He works to develop innovative technology solutions for individuals in need of better healthcare accessibility. He consults with the Red Bull’s High Performance division, using evidence-based technologies to study and improve athletic performance. In his spare time, he volunteers for Not Impossible Labs, a group that creates disruptive technological solutions for high-impact humanitarian problems. In addition to a number of academic publications, many of David’s projects have been featured on ABC, Sport’s Illustrated, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC, Time Magazine, Wired Magazine and the LA Times to name just a few. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and dog.