Dirk Schroeder Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

* I'm the Managing Director of the Advancing Health Innovation in Africa (AHIA) organization based at Emory University* AHIA, which was founded over 10 years ago, works to identify promising African biomedical scientists and innovators that have the potential to make a real difference for the continent.* We also facilitate collaborations between Emory faculty and students and African entrepreneurs through educational programs and workshops. * Please reach out if you are an African biomedical, digital health or technology sector and/or an investor seeking opportunities to accelerate health innovation in Africa.

Franklin, Tennessee, Us

Shepherd is a mobile platform that allows family caregivers to manage the care of their aging parents. The Shepherd system brings together essential communications, critical documents, and key resources into a single digital hub that is easily and securely accessed by family members, caregivers, and nurses. At Shepherd, our mission is to “turn caregiver chaos into caregiver calm.”I've been working with the two co-founders for the past couple years and we will launch the product in March 2023 through strategic partnerships with health insurance companies and self-insured employers. I see A LOT of startups and opportunities out there. With over 50 million unpaid caregivers in the U.S. and Shepherd's mission is to help each one, this company is going to explode. I'm honored to be a part of it.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

* I'm thrilled to receive an affiliated adjunct appointment at the Emory Goizueta Business School, alongside my long-standing appointment at Emory's Rollin's School of Public Health* I look forward to working more closely with business school students and faculty in the areas of social enterprise and entrepreneurship, impact investing, digital innovation, global business, consumerism, and digital health. * My goal is to develop and strengthen collaborations between Emory's Schools of Public Health and the Business School, as well as partnerships with other business & public health schools around the country and world seeking to accelerate the transformation of healthcare through digital innovation. * Inquires, ideas and opportunities for collaboration welcome!

* Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University* Teaching course on Social Entrepreneurship for Health to graduate students* Research Interests: Social enterprise and Innovation; International Digital Health, Hispanic & Multicultural Health* Received tenure in 1999, relinquished tenure to start HolaDoctor Inc

West Des Moines, Iowa, Us

I am honored to be serving as an outside director on Telligen's board. Telligen is an employee-owned (ESOP) company that provides health management, case management, wellness and prevention services to commercial clients and government programs at the federal, state and local level, improving health outcomes for millions of people nationwide.

Clarks Summit, Us

Loh Medical promote mobility & independence by helping people with physical disabilities through the application of appropriate Assistive Technology. For over 20 years, Loh Medical has been importing, building and selling wheel chairs and other mobility technologies throughout Latin America.

Updraft Health Innovation Advisors helps digital health companies commercialize. Speciality areas include: strategic guidance on product commercialization; investor (VC, private equity, angel) advisor and consulting on digital health companies; board and subject matter expert advisory services; consumer & patient research; marketing and sales; partnership development; design and implementation of pilot projects; develop and analysis of randomized trials; proposal and business plan writing; selling into health plans and healthcare systems.

* HolaDoctor was acquired by Pan American Life Insurance Group (PALIG) in July 2017. * Co-Founder of the leading online Hispanic health community serving over 3.5 million Spanish speakers globally.* HolaDoctor also provides Hispanic member acquisition, retention and health management solutions to major health plans* Directed HolaDoctor's Strategic Consulting and Research Division * Providing support and subject matter expertise on culturally appropriate, Spanish-language worksite wellness programs for Latin America * Executive Sales - Personally responsible for over $10M in sales to Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, Anthem (WellPoint), Florida Blue, Merck, Florida Dept of Chronic Disease, CDC, Tenet Healthcare, American Cancer Society, among others

New Orleans, Louisiana, Us

Pan-American Life Insurance Group (PALIG) acquired HolaDoctor, the company I co-founded nearly 18 years ago. PALIG is a billion dollar, 100 year old company based in New Orleans that is the preeminent life and health insurance carrier in Latin America, with a growing presence in the U.S. HolaDoctor will be a independent, wholly owned subsidiary of PALIG. The acquisition brings tremendous opportunities to grow our business with U.S. Hispanics, serve HolaDoctor's health plan and hospital clients and deploy our culturally optimized health and wellness programs with PALIG's many large, multinational clients in Latin America. All Great things to come! Press release here. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pan-american-life-insurance-group-announces-acquisition-of-holadoctor-633924573.html.

Strategic Consulting on Latino/Hispanic and Multicultural Health. Specialities include: growing Latino business and narrowing disparities under healthcare reform & through insurance exchanges; business guidance healthcare vendors going multilingual or International; tactical marketing and communication of healthcare to Hispanics, development and evaluation of culturally-appropriate health and wellness programs for Hispanics and other multicultural populations

Research Fellow - worked in Mayan village in Guatemala conducting research and directing programs for PAHO and WHO

Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Ph

Directed Field Research on household economics and health in Central Islands of Indonesia

Wrote best-selling book for travelers entitled "Staying Healthy in Asia, Africa, and Latin America". Book in fifth edition.

Doctor Of Science & Master In Public Health (Mph), International Health

B.A., Human Biology

Post-Doctoral Fellow, International Nutrition