Robert A. Connor

Robert A. Connor (B.A., Princeton; MHA, Duke; Ph.D, Wharton School) is the CEO of Medibotics and a University Professor Emeritus. Dr. Connor conducted research and taught courses in the health sector for over twenty years, including courses on product development (including prototyping) and medical technology (including assessing unmet clinical need and market potential). Dr. Connor serves on the Board of Advisors for Kinevision, whose mission is to analyze the products and training methods of the world's most elite athletes, has served on the Health Care Technology Decision Sciences Study Section of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and has been the Principal Investigator on competitive federally-funded research projects. He was honored as Inventor of the Year by the Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association and listed as a top inventor in Twin Cities Business Magazine. Recently with respect to wearable technology, he spoke on the panel "Quantifying Yourself: Do All Those Fitness Wearable Devices, Health Details and Graphs Really Make a Difference to Your Health?" in the Wearable Tech Conference, in Los Angeles on 12/9/2013. Bob founded Medibotics in 2008.