Society of Physician Entrepreneurs Launches Orange County/San Diego Chapter
Kickoff Meeting to Be Held at Innovation Lab in Newport Beach
Newport Beach, Calif. – The Innovation Institute announced today that it will host the kickoff meeting of the newly established Orange County/San Diego Chapter of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE) at its Innovation Lab in Newport Beach, Calif. on November 1, 2016 from 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Register here.
SoPE, an alliance partner of The Innovaton Institute, is a biomedical and health care innovation network of over 25,000 international members. With the addition of the Orange County/San Diego Chapter, SoPE now has 22 chapters worldwide.
Anthony Chang, M.D., Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer for the Medical Intelligence and Innovation Institute at Children’s Hospital of Orange County, has been selected to lead the Orange County/San Diego Chapter. Jeffrey Hausfeld, M.D., M.B.A., chairman and co-founder of SoPE, will fly in from Maryland to participate in this first meeting.
“SoPE is a great organization that provides entrepreneurial physicians with the contacts and resources they need to take their ideas to the next level,” said Dr. Chang. “I am honored to lead this chapter, and I feel that we will accomplish great things together.”
“Working together with The Innovation Institute and local chapter members will help us achieve our vision to empower physicians and other healthcare/life science professionals to innovate ‘mind-to-market’ solutions, and connect similar forward-thinking individuals,” said Dr. Hausfeld.
“As partners of The Innovation Institute, SoPE members have the opportunity to work with our team of Ph.D.’s, M.D.’s, and commercialization staff to develop and take their ideas to market,” said Larry Stofko, executive vice president of The Innovation Institute and Innovation Lab. “We look forward to working with the local chapters, as well as chapters worldwide.” The SoPE network of physicians can tap into The Innovation Institute through software set up to facilitate the submission and commercialization of ideas.
About SoPE
The Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE) is a global biomedical and healthcare innovation network with membership open to all healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs and industry stakeholders. SoPE was founded in 2011 by three physicians who shared a common vision – to empower physicians and other professionals to innovate healthcare through entrepreneurship. Five years later, SoPE continues to gain momentum with twenty two chapters across the United States, Turkey, China and the United Arab Emirates, as well as industry partners who directly support our members’ efforts. Members include doctors, nurses, dentists, healthcare entrepreneurs, investors, engineers, academics, students, IT professionals and industry representatives.
Their community members share a common focus – working at the crossroads of innovation and commercialization to make a difference in healthcare. SoPE provides a platform for members to accelerate and catalyze innovation, as well as a separate supporting 501(c)(3) tax-exempt Foundation for scholarship and philanthropic endeavors to advance healthcare. For more information, visit www.sopenet.org.
About SoPE Orange County/San Diego Chapter Leader
Anthony Chang, MD, MBA, MPH, MS is a pediatric cardiologist and Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer at CHOC Children’s Orange County. He is passionate about the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare and has his Masters in Bioinformatics/Artificial Intelligence from Stanford. He is the founder and medical director of the Medical Intelligence and Innovation Institute (MI3) at CHOC Children’s that is supported by the Sharon Disney Lund Foundation.
He is known for several innovations in pediatric cardiac care, including introducing the cardiac drug milrinone and co-designing (with Dr. Michael DeBakey) an axial-type ventricular assist device in children. He has helped to build a successful cardiology practice as a company and was able to complete a deal on Wall Street. He is a committee member of the National Institute of Health pediatric grant review committee.
In 2013 Dr. Chang has started a pediatric innovation leadership group whose bi-annual symposium Pediatrics2040: Emerging Trends and Future Innovations became a catalyst for the international Society for Pediatric Innovation (iSPI).
About The Innovation Institute
The Innovation Institute is 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. For more information, visit lab.ii4change.com
