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Joseph Kvedar, MD

Professor, Harvard Medical School
Senior Advisor, Virtual Care, Partners HealthCare
President-elect, American Telemedicine Association
Editor, npj Digital Medicine

Dr. Joseph Kvedar has focused on driving innovation, creating the market and gaining acceptance for connected health for nearly three decades at Partners HealthCare. He is now applying his expertise, insights and influence to advancing adoption of telehealth and virtual care technologies at the national level.

He is a professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, president-elect of  The American Telemedicine Association (ATA), co-chair of the AMA’s Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group and editor-in-chief of npj Digital Medicine, a Nature Research journal.

He is the author of two books on digital health: The Internet of Healthy Things (2015) and The New Mobile Age: How Technology Will Extend the Healthspan and Optimize the Lifespan (2017). The cHealth Blog provides his insights and vision for digital health.

Dr. Kvedar is advisor to and serves on the board of a number of Venture Capital Firms and digital health companies.