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Sonny Kohli on the TechTO stage

Sonny Kohli

Co-founder & chief medical officer, Cloud DX

Digital healthOakvilleOn TechTO stages since 2017

Dr. Sonny Kohli co-founded Cloud DX in 2014 and is its chief medical officer. He is an internal medicine and critical care specialist who has practised at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital since 2005 and teaches at McMaster. Treating patients after the 2010 Haiti earthquake convinced him a portable diagnostic device was needed.

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2017. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Sonny

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Who is Sonny Kohli?

A practising internal medicine and critical care physician and a co-founder and chief medical officer of Cloud DX, the Kitchener remote patient monitoring company. He was also a Canadian Space Agency astronaut candidate who reached the final forty.

What is Cloud DX?

A remote patient monitoring company whose Connected Health Kit lets hospitals and clinics track vital signs at home. It was the only Canadian finalist in the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, a US$10 million competition to build a Star Trek-style handheld diagnostic device.

What did he speak about at TechTO?

Building a health startup while holding down a full-time medical job — what has to give, and why the small wins matter more than the funding headlines. Presented at HealthTO in January 2017.

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