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Past Forum 2025

Summary

The 11th Annual World Medical Innovation Forum brought together global leaders in healthcare innovation and investment. Attendees gained firsthand insights from top CEOs, investors, policymakers, and Mass General Brigham Harvard faculty on the breakthroughs reshaping science, technology, and patient care worldwide.

Hosted by Mass General Brigham at Encore Boston Harbor, the Forum offered unparalleled access to leaders shaping the future of medicine, , driving ideas and partnerships that extend well beyond the event.

Sponsored by Bank of America, a global leader in healthcare investment and community engagement.

Speakers

Cofounder, Highlander Health

Director of Gene Editing, Gene and Cell Therapy Institute, Mass General Brigham; – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Operating Partner, Berkshire Partners

Associate Surgeon, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

SMid-Cap Biotech Analyst, BofA Securities

CEO, Counsel

Chief Academic Officer, Mass General Brigham; – K. Frank Austen Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Lancer Endowed Chair of Dermatology; – Director, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Mass General Brigham; – Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School

Pharmaceutical Analyst, BofA Securities

Chief Marketing, Communication & Digital Officer, University of Miami

Co-Director, Center for Weight Management and Wellness, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

CEO, GE HealthCare

CEO, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Rullo Family Endowed Chair for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Assistant Scientist, Mass Eye and Ear; – Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

SVP, Chief Medical Officer and Head of Global Clinical Development, Merck

EVP, Clinical & Regulatory Affairs, Paradromics

CEO, PathAI

Interventional Cardiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Chief, Division of Motor Neuron Diseases; Director, MGH NCRI, Mass General Brigham; – Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Radiation Oncologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School

SVP, Chief Clinical Officer, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab; – Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine

President & CEO, HistoSonics

Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Medicine; Jerry S. Trier, MD, Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Mass General Brigham

Cardiologist, TIMI Study Group, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

President, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization; – Philip H. Cook Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Director of the Human Immunology Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Elizabeth Fay Brigham Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Washington Healthcare Policy Analyst, BofA Securities

Principal, BGR Group

Enterprise Chief, Radiology, Mass General Brigham; – Juan M. Taveras Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Chief Integration Officer & Executive Vice President, Mass General Brigham

President, Academic Medical Centers, Mass General Brigham; – Mass General Trustees Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Senior Policy Advisor, Holland & Knight

CEO, United Imaging Healthcare North America

Endocrinologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Instructor in Medicine, Duke University

Cisco Fellow, Cisco Systems

Principal, Novo Holdings Venture Investments

CEO, Janux Therapeutics

SVP, Product, Life Sciences, Ecosystem, and Public Sector, Datavant

President of Massachusetts, Bank of America

Breyer Capital

Director, HCTCT Program, Mass General Brigham; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Partner, Foresite Capital

Chief Innovation Officer, Mass General Brigham

Senior United States Senator from Maine

Program Director, Gillette Children’s Healthcare Press, Gillette Children’s Hospital

Executive Director, Neuroscience Institute, Massachusetts General Brigham; – Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

CEO, InnoCare

President & CEO, eGenesis

Chief, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Frank Baldino, Jr., PhD Professor of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Director, Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service, Mass Eye and Ear; – Claes H. Dohlman Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

Biomedical Communications

President, Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO); – Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School

Chair of Surgery, Mass General Brigham; – Moseley Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

CEO, Beacon Biosignals

CEO, Cordis

Vice Chair of Research, Department of Neurology, Mass General Brigham; – Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Clinical Psychologist, Pain Management Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School

Executive Director, Heart and Vascular Institute, Mass General Brigham; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

CEO, Rippl Care

Principal Investigator, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Mass General Brigham; – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Director, Leukemia Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Mass General Brigham; – Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Chairman & CEO, Genezen

Partner, Mass General Brigham Ventures

Director of Clinical Research, Mass General Cancer Center; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Partner, Atlas Venture

John and Ashley Ranelli Endowed Scholar in Cancer Innovation, – Clinical Director, Cellular Immunotherapy Program, Mass General Brigham; – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

CEO, Jade Biosciences

Program Director, Center for Thoracic Cancers, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

CFO & Treasurer, Mass General Brigham

Physician-Scientist, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Mass General Brigham; – Associate Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School

Specialty Pharma and SMid-Cap Biotech Analyst, BofA Securities

Chief Scientific Officer, Mass Eye and Ear; – Sir William Osler Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

Director of Image-guided Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Chief of Pediatric Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Surgeon-in-Chief, Mass General for Children; – Marshall K. Bartlett Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Chief, Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Theodore Bevier Bayles Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Chief, Metabolism Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

President & CEO, Biopharma Strategies and Insights

Managing Director, Sanofi Ventures

Associate Physician, Neuroendocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Founder & CEO, Mae Health

Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Chief Information Security Officer, Mass General Brigham

Associate Director of Clinical Research, Mass General Cancer Center; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Professor, MIT Media Lab Biomechatronics Group

Physician, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, Global Drug Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Director, Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Senior Lecturer on Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Global Healthcare Investment Banking, BofA Securities

Group Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, Eli Lilly and Company

Vice President & Scientific Medical Officer, Intuitive Surgical

Chief Investment Officer, Amherst College

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Portfolio Manager, Fidelity Investments

Head of Emerging Technologies, Mass General Brigham Digital

Head of Cell and Gene Therapy Research, Astellas Pharma

Chief Academic Officer and Senior Vice President of Research, Massachusetts General Hospital

Senior Vice President, Ventures and Business Development & Licensing, Mass General Brigham; – Managing Partner, Mass General Brigham Ventures

Investigator, Center for Genomic Medicine; Kayden-Lambert MGH Research Scholar 2023-2028, Mass General Brigham; – Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

President & CEO, Mass General Brigham; – Laurie Carrol Guthart Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Founder & Managing Partner, Enable Ventures

Director of Medicare & Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Partner, Bain Capital Life Sciences

President, The Kraft Group; – Vice Chair, Board of Directors, Mass General Brigham

CEO & Founder, The Kraft Group

President & CEO, ArrePath

Director of Clinical Operations, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard; – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Chief Growth Officer, Mae Health

Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

David H. Koch (1962) Institute Professor, MIT

Managing Partner, SV Health Investors

Phillip A. Sharp Chair, Department of Molecular Biology, Mass General Brigham; – Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Founder, CEO & Chairman, Royalty Pharma

Founder, Clairity; – Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Executive Vice Chair, Department of Medicine, Mass General Brigham; – Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic, Harvard Medical School

Data Networking and Networking Security Analyst, BofA Securities

Founder & CEO, ThriveLink

Principal Investigator, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Mass General Brigham; – Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School

Richard Merkin Professor; Director, Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute

Managing Director, Williams College Investment Office

Vice Chair for Scientific Innovation, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Global Head of Research, Philips

Partner, McKinsey & Company

Director, Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Paul S. Russell/Warner-Lambert Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Secretary of Health and Human Services, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

CEO, University of Pennsylvania Health System

Director of Clinical Innovation, Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Chairman & CEO, Parabilis Medicines

Associate Professor of Medicine, Mass General Cancer Center & Harvard Medical School; – Co-Director Tumor Immunotherapy Discovery Engine, Broad Institute

CEO, Viz.ai

Independent Consultant; – Former Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA

Co-founder & CEO, WellWithAll

Co-founder & CEO, Mammoth Biosciences

Associate Professor Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital

Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Cleveland Clinic

Global Healthcare Investment Banking, BofA Securities

CEO, Cleveland Clinic

Asset Lead, Astellas Pharma

CEO, Apnimed

Life Sciences and Drug Development; – Senior Strategic Advisor, LiquidCellDx; – Executive Chairman, Board of Directors, One Biosciences

Chief Medical Information Officer, Mass General Brigham; – Member of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CEO, Siemens Healthineers

Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America

Co-Director, Pediatric Stroke and Cerebrovascular Service, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Principal Investigator, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Mass General Brigham; – Associate Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School

Director of Preventive Cardiology, Paul & Phyllis Fireman Endowed Chair in Vascular Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Senior Vice President and Disease Area Executive for Pain, Vertex

Head of China Healthcare Investment Banking, BofA Securities

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EVP & CFO, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare

Co-Director, Neurological Clinical Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School

Program Director, Colorectal Cancer and Global Cancer Care, Mass General Brigham; – Chief Scientist and Co-Founder at Reversing Early Recurrence (RER); – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Director, Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, Mayo Clinic

SVP, Population Science, American Cancer Society

CEO, Protagonist Therapeutics

Chief Legal Officer, Mass General Brigham

CEO, Eikon Theraputics

Executive Vice President and President, Life Sciences, Diagnostics and Applied, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Massachusetts General Hospital; – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Co-Head of Public Markets, HighVista Strategies

CEO, Regor Therapeutics

Chief Scientific Officer, Global Head of Research, Sanofi

HMS MD-PhD Candidate, Harvard Medical School

CEO & Founder, Abridge

Executive Vice President, Innovation Medicine, R&D, Johnson & Johnson

EVP & Chief Technology Officer, Amgen

Chief Academic Officer, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Global Chief Medical Officer & VP Healthcare, Microsoft

VP, Head of Global Program Leadership, Hematology and Cell Therapy Drug Development, Bristol Myers Squibb

Medical Director of Kidney Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Harold and Ellen Danser Endowed Chair in Transplantation, Harvard Medical School

Founder, Global Brain Care Coalition; Director, Brain Care Labs, Mass General Brigham; – Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Director, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Mass General Brigham; – Laurence Lamson Robbins Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Investing Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

President, Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Co-Director, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Vincent and Stella Coates Professor of Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School

Senior Advisor, Former CSO, Intellia Therapeutics

Director, Cancer Early Detection and Diagnostics Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Landry Family Professor of Medicine in the Field of Medical Oncology, Harvard Medical School

Vice President, Strategic Innovation Leaders, Mass General Brigham Innovation

Chief of Infection Control, Mass General Brigham; – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Founder & CEO, Wells Therapeutics

Independent advisor and investor

Chair, Ophthalmology, Mass General Brigham

Global Healthcare Equity Capital Markets, BofA Securities

Chief Investment Officer, Mass General Brigham

CEO, Candid Therapeutics

Co-Founder & CEO, Layer Health

President, Caris Life Sciences

Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Hasso Plattner Institute

SMid-Cap Biotech Analyst, BofA Securities

Executive Director, MESH Incubator; – Associate Chair of Innovation & Commercialization, Mass General Brigham Radiology; – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Partner, Bain Capital

Founder & President, Oriane Consulting

Director, Center for Genomic Medicine, Mass General Brigham; – Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit, – McCance Center for Brain Health, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Chief Community Health & Health Equity Officer, Mass General Brigham; – Executive Director, Kraft Center for Community Health; – Conrad Taff Endowed Chair and Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Global Healthcare Investment Banking, BofA Securities

Founder, Sober Sidekick

Associate Clinical Director for Innovation, Mass General Cancer Center; – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Co-Founder, harrison.ai

Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Verily

Chief Information Security Officer, Abbott

Chief, Division of Sleep Neurology, Mass General Brigham; – Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

CEO, Biogen

Chief Operating Officer, Mass General Brigham; – Neskey Family Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Research Director, Division of Surgical Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Executive Director, Center for Pulmonary Heart Disease, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Co-Director, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Robert L. Kroc Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Director, Sleep Disordered Breathing Lab, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Managing Director, BlackRock

Thoracic Surgeon; Founding Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence & Innovation Research, Mass General Brigham; – Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Clinical Director, Center for Multiple Myeloma, Mass General Cancer Center, – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Global Healthcare Investment Banking, BofA Securities

Medical Director, Glaucoma Imaging, Mass Eye and Ear; – Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

SMid-Cap Biotech Analyst, BofA Securities

Founder & CEO, RiboX

Chief Scientific Officer, Protege

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