Sleep Week Medical Director
Stanford, Harvard, Singularity University, NextMed Health, XPRIZE
Summary
Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur and innovator. He has served as faculty chair for Medicine at Singularity University since its inception in 2008, and in 2011 founded NextMed Health (previously Exponential Medicine), a program and community exploring convergent technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare.
He is Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic & Health Alliance and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
For Sleep Week, that background shapes the measurement layer: which signals are worth capturing, how wearable and environmental data are interpreted, and where objective testing must hand off to formal sleep medicine.
25+
Years in clinical practice, research and health innovation
2
Board certifications, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
6
TED and TEDMED talks on the future of health and medicine
2008
Faculty chair for Medicine at Singularity University since inception
Education and training
Bachelor of Arts, Biochemistry
Brown University
Medical Doctor
Stanford University School of Medicine
Residency, Internal Medicine & Pediatrics
Harvard combined program, Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital
Fellowships, Hematology / Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation
Stanford University
Flight Surgeon Wings
US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine
Health Innovators Fellow, inaugural class
Aspen Institute
Six tracks
01
Board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Clinical work centered on bone marrow and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in adults and children, and on medical devices enabling stem cell based regenerative medicine.
02
Stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, stem cell derived immunotherapies for cancer, bioengineering of human T-cell differentiation and humanized animal models, with publications including Nature and Science.
03
Inventor of the MarrowMiner, an FDA-approved device for minimally invasive bone marrow harvest, and founder of RegenMed Systems. Holds medical device, immunology and stem cell related patents.
04
Founder of Digital.Health and IntelliMedicine, focused on personalized, data-driven precision medicine. Board member at Healthy.io and adviser to Fortune-50 and digital health companies.
05
Managing partner with Continuum Health Ventures, funding early stage health technology companies working on the democratization of health and improved healthspan.
06
An avid pilot who served in the Massachusetts and California Air National Guard as an officer and flight surgeon with F-15 and F-16 squadrons, published aerospace medicine research with NASA, and was a finalist for astronaut selection.
Role in Sleep Week
01
Oversees the medical logic of the four-day protocol and the order of measurement
02
Reviews which physiological and environmental signals are captured, and how they are read
03
Sets the boundary between screening, education and formal diagnosis
04
Directs referral pathways when findings suggest apnea or another condition needing a sleep study
05
Approves the language standards used across the site and the Sleep Blueprint
Affiliations
Awards and recognition
Biography summarized from danielkraftmd.net. Sleep Week is a proposed program concept, and nothing here states or implies endorsement by any institution named in this biography.