Coe College to welcome Daniel Kraft, MD for the 2025 Contemporary Issues Forum
Cedar Rapids, IA (01/29/2025) — Coe College is pleased to announce physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur and investor Daniel Kraft, MD as the 2025 K. Raymond Clark Contemporary Issues Forum speaker. Kraft will be on Coe's campus Tuesday, February 18 at 7:30 p.m., and his speaking engagement in Sinclair Auditorium is open to the public.
Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard-trained doctor, and with over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has served as faculty chair for medicine at Singularity University since its inception in 2008 and is founder and chair of NextMed Health, a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and health care.
Following undergraduate degrees from Brown University and medical school at Stanford, Kraft earned board certification in internal medicine and pediatrics after completing a Harvard residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital. At Stanford, he completed fellowships in hematology, oncology and bone marrow transplantation. Kraft is a published researcher and holds medical device, immunology and stem cell-related patents through National Institute of Health-funded faculty positions. Kraft is also a partner with Continuum Health Ventures, investing in seed-stage digital health startups. He serves as chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic & Health Alliance.
Kraft frequently addresses the future of health, medicine and technology and has delivered four TED and two TEDMED Talks. He is the founder and board member of several Fortune 50 and digital health-related startups, and is the inventor of the MarrowMiner, an FDA-approved device for the minimally invasive harvest of bone marrow.
Also an avid pilot, Kraft has served in the Massachusetts and California Air National Guard as an officer and flight surgeon, and was a finalist for astronaut selection with NASA.
Kraft's appearance at the Contemporary Issues Forum is in partnership with the Corridor Business Journal, which is hosting him for its Health Care Symposium. Kraft's remarks at Coe will be on unique topics across the two events.
Tickets are available at Coe's online box office. The general public can purchase tickets for $10, while non-Coe students and seniors can purchase tickets for $5. Virtual tickets to view a livestream of the event are also available for $10.
Established by the late K. Raymond Clark '30, the Contemporary Issues Forum presents the views of distinguished leaders whose work has shaped and altered the course of world events.
The forum has featured former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, former Poland President Lech Walesa, deep-sea oceanographer Robert Ballard, civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, "Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry Trudeau, ecology expert Jared Diamond, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts, celebrated author Sir Salman Rushdie, former Senate Majority Leader and Special Envoy George Mitchell, Pulitzer Prize-winning global health expert Laurie Garrett, legendary soccer player Abby Wambach, leading commentator on race Jelani Cobb, environmentalists and social entrepreneurs Yvon Chouinard and Craig Mathews, pioneering astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, MIT AgeLab Director Dr. Joseph F. Coughlin, Vietnamese-American author Viet Thanh Nguyen, Negro Leagues Museum President Bob Kendrick and influential data scientist DJ Patil.
Coe College offers superb academics and exciting extracurricular activities in a thriving urban setting that promotes student growth and success. The college has the #8 Career Services and #22 Most Accessible Professors in the country, and is a Top 25 private school for internships across 6 of the last 7 years according to The Princeton Review. It is consistently ranked as a top college by national publications and offers more than 60 areas of study for its 1,300 students. Post-graduation, nearly 100 percent of reporting graduates are employed or in grad school within nine months.
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