Healthcare at Kellogg

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Forum

SAVE THE DATE

Date 

Friday, April 16, 2027
1:30 pm to 5:00 pm CST 
Reception, 5:00 to 6:30 pm 
 

Location

Kellogg Global Hub
2211 Campus Drive, 4101 & 5101
Evanston, Illinois 
 

How to Register

Registration will open in Spring 2027. 



Supporting Kellogg Healthcare Entrepreneurs

The Kellogg Healthcare Entrepreneurship Initiative is a new effort to further strengthen Kellogg's leadership position in healthcare combining the strength of Healthcare at Kellogg (HCAK) and the Levy Institute for Entrepreneurial Practice. The forum will connect and nurture Kellogg alumni with interested students, through a series of panels on the entrepreneurial challenges in biopharma, med-tech and digital health, along with in-depth discussions about founding, financing and building a healthcare company. Networking and dinner will follow. 

2026 Panels and speakers 

Welcome and introduction:

Pete McNerney, Director of Kellogg Healthcare Entrepreneurship Initiative & Adjunct Professor and Katie Arnold, `02 MBA, Founder & CEO, SPRIG Consulting & Adjunct Faculty

Panel discussion:

Digital Health - Impact of AI: Provider efficiency, medical documentation, back-office, RCM

Featuring Kaveh Safavi, `82 MBA, Senior Managing Director, Global Healthcare, Accenture; Martha Wofford, `01 MBA, President & CEO, BCBS of Rhode Island; Robbie Tindall, VP, Provider Process Network Operations, Humana

Moderated by Connor Workman, ’27 MD/MBA

Panel discussion:

How to Position your Company for Acquisition 

Featuring Lisa Earnhardt, `96 MBA, Executive Vice President and Group President, Medical Devices, Abbott; , Chief Science Officer, Exact Sciences; Whit Bernard, MBA `13, CEO, Metsera; Alexei Mlodinow, `16 MBA, MD, Venture Partner, SPRIG Equity

Moderated by Josh Engel, `26 MBA

Panel discussion:

Medtech - Impact of AI: Challenges of Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) 

Panelists include Sean Salmon, `00 MBA, Advior, PwC; Ben Andrew, Vice President of Strategy, Intuitive; Samir Abboud, Chief of Emergency Radiology, Northwestern Medicine

Moderated by Nithya Sridhar, `27 MBA

Panel discussion:

State of the Healthcare Venture Capital Market

Featuring Steven Elms, Managing Partner, Aisling Capital; Marc Galletti, `97 MBA, Managing Director & Founder, Longitude Capital; Scott Minick, `81 MBA, Former Venture Partner, ARCH Venture Partner;  Liridon Rrushaj, Director of Venture Investing, OSF Ventures

Moderated by Patrick Passatempo, `26 MBA

Panel discussion:

BioPharma: Impact of AI: Drug Discovery and Development 

Panelists include Maneesh Arora, MBA `00, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Elephas Martin Babler, `98 cKSM, Founder & CEO, Alumis; Barbara Goodman, President & CEO, Cures Within Reach 

Moderated by Nathan Buchwald, '26 MBA 

Panel discussion:

Impact of Social Media

Featuring Tim Calkins, Associate Chair of Marketing, Clinical Professor of Marketing at Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management; Tyler Wanke, `15 MBA, CEO and Co-founder, Madison Scientific; Adwaiy Manerikar, MD, Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident, Northwestern University and Founder, Primed Health

Moderated by Bella Maramica, `26 MBA



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Contact us about Healthcare at Kellogg

GET IN TOUCH
Craig Garthwaite
Faculty Director, Healthcare at Kellogg
c-garthwaite@kellogg.northwestern.edu
847.491.2509
Paul Campbell
Executive Director, Healthcare at Kellogg
paul.campbell@kellogg.northwestern.edu
847.308.4586
Pete McNerney
Director, Healthcare Entrepreneurship Initiative, Healthcare at Kellogg
peter.mcnerney@kellogg.northwestern.edu
847.491.3838
Karen Larkin Young
Senior Program Development Manager, Assistant Director
karen.larkin@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Mary Novak
Project Coordinator
mary.novak@kellogg.northwestern.edu
847.000.0000