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Emory Innovators with Dirk Schroeder Emory Innovators
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Emory Innovators, brought to you by The Hatchery, Emory Center for Innovation, showcases conversations with Emory faculty, staff, and alumni who work in innovation and entrepreneurship, or have taken innovative approaches to design their careers and disrupting their industries. Join us from 3:30-4:30pm EST on Friday, October 29, to speak with Dr. Dirk Schroeder, Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health at Emory, with appointments at Rollins SPH and Goizueta Business Schools.
Dr. Schroeder is also the Managing Director of the Advancing Health Innovation in Africa (or AHIA) Program, also based at Emory. He is an “accidental entrepreneur” who in 1999 co-founded and helped build HolaDoctor Inc into the largest Spanish-language digital health company on the Internet; HolaDoctor was acquired in full by Pan American Life Insurance Group (PALIG) in 2017. Fluent in Spanish and Indonesia, he has lived and worked in 30 countries. Dr. Schroeder has Doctoral and Masters degrees in International Health from Johns Hopkins University and a post-doc from Cornell. He completed his undergraduate work, with honors and distinction, at Stanford University.
Emory Innovators, brought to you by The Hatchery, Emory Center for Innovation, showcases conversations with Emory faculty, staff, and alumni who work in innovation and entrepreneurship, or have taken innovative approaches to design their careers and disrupting their industries. Join us from 3:30-4:30pm EST on Friday, October 29, to speak with Dr. Dirk Schroeder, Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health at Emory, with appointments at Rollins SPH and Goizueta Business Schools.
Dr. Schroeder is also the Managing Director of the Advancing Health Innovation in Africa (or AHIA) Program, also based at Emory. He is an “accidental entrepreneur” who in 1999 co-founded and helped build HolaDoctor Inc into the largest Spanish-language digital health company on the Internet; HolaDoctor was acquired in full by Pan American Life Insurance Group (PALIG) in 2017. Fluent in Spanish and Indonesia, he has lived and worked in 30 countries. Dr. Schroeder has Doctoral and Masters degrees in International Health from Johns Hopkins University and a post-doc from Cornell. He completed his undergraduate work, with honors and distinction, at Stanford University.
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