Rebecca Weintraub

Rebecca Weintraub, MD is a Managing Director at Draper Richard Kaplan, a venture philanthropy firm. Rebecca serves as an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and practices Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. As a Senior Institute Associate at Harvard Business School, she develops new strategies to design valued-based health care delivery.

Rebecca spearheaded a global network connecting health professionals from 140+ countries with vital evidence and expertise. In 2008, she launched the Cases in Global Health Delivery, a collection of case studies with Harvard Business Publishing, detailing strategies to generate value for patients and populations. The cases are taught at over 1000+ schools of medicine, public health, and business.

Her current research portfolio includes Better Evidence with Ariadne Labs to catalyze the integration of evidence-based clinical resources at the frontline of care delivery.

In 1992, Rebecca co-founded Jumpstart, the national AmeriCorps program. In 2014, Rebecca was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and she is currently an Aspen Health Innovator Fellow. In 2016 she was appointed to the Perspectives Advisory Board of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Dr. Weintraub graduated from Yale University, Stanford School of Medicine, and completed her medical training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.