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David Klein on the TechTO stage

David Klein

Critical care physician and scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute

HealthcareTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2018

David Klein is a critical care physician at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and a scientist at the Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, where he heads business strategy for the Applied Health Research Centre. An MD with an MBA, he works on drug and device commercialisation.

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2018. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about David

In their words

when I got started in the business of health care the business of Canadian health care which is around 2000 I would have been talking in this room to myself

TechTO, Jan 2019 · watch at 0:18

I know that innovation in Canadian healthcare is not lagging because I look around the room and I see 250 people that are in a room that would have been empty 20 years ago

TechTO, Jan 2019 · watch at 0:30
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Quick answers

What does David Klein do?

He is a staff physician in critical care at St. Michael's Hospital, a scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute's Keenan Research Centre, and head of business strategy at the Applied Health Research Centre. He also teaches at the University of Toronto.

What was his TechTO talk about?

Clinical entrepreneurship, drawn from roughly twenty years in the business of Canadian healthcare. His point was that the field has stopped being lonely: a room of 250 people in 2018 would have been empty when he started around 2000.

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