Thomas Krummel

Dr. Krummel is the Surgeon-in-Chief at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Chairman of the Surgery Department at the Stanford University School of Medicine, He is the founder of the Surgical Innovation Program at Stanford, and Co-Director of the Stanford Biodesign Program which teaches innovation and implementation of new surgical technologies. The program has spawned 35 start-ups which have received more than $300 million in follow-on financing. Dr. Krummel has lectured throughout the world and is author or co-author of over 300 publications, chapters, abstracts and books. He is on the board of the Fogarty Innovation Institute and has served on the board of directors or scientific advisory boards of 15 medical device start-ups.