Zen Chu
Senior Lecturer, Faculty Director for MIT HST.978 Healthcare Ventures + MIT Hacking Medicine at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, US
About
Zen Chu believes that now is the best time in history for healthcare entrepreneurs and engineers to create the data, systems and products to help medicine scale and serve more patients with higher quality at lower cost. He created and teaches the MIT Healthcare Ventures graduate courses within the pioneering Health Science & Technology (HST) program, a joint initiative between MIT, Harvard Medical School and the Boston academic hospitals. As faculty director for the HackingMedicine.MIT.edu health innovation leadership initiatives, Zen mentors physician entrepreneurs, early-stage startups and health corporations adapting to global digital healthcare transformation, changing healthcare incentives, growth in emerging markets, and new disruptive technologies that re-engineer medicine. As Managing Director of Accelerated Medical Ventures, Zen specializes in building early-stage medical technology and healthcare service companies, usually serving as co-founder and first investor. AMV’s po
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