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| Thaddeus "Thad" Seymour Jr. Ph.D. | |
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Bio: Thad Seymour leads strategic planning and business development for Lake Nona’s new “medical city” in Orlando, Florida. Thad’s role includes all life sciences planning, new business ventures and corporate recruitment.
Prior to joining Lake Nona, Thad was a senior executive with biotech pharmacy and distributor CuraScript, Inc., a subsidiary of Express Scripts, Inc. He also has extensive experience in healthcare informatics, including co-founding and leading a venture-backed electronic medical records company.
Thad is a board member of Florida’s Blood Centers , the Florida Research Consortium, bioOrlando and BioFlorida and has served on the board of multiple healthcare technology businesses.
Thad holds a BA from Dartmouth College, an MA and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Thad and his wife Katie have three children.
Case Study: Creating a Cluster of Disruptive Innovation in Healthcare – Lake Nona’s “Medical City” in Orlando, Florida: Healthcare technology innovation will continue to occur in established research centers, but new concentrations of disruptive innovation are developing globally in unexpected places such as Singapore and Dubai. In the United States, the largest new life sciences cluster is coming out of the ground in Orlando, Florida. $2 billion in construction is under way there, including a new medical school, a large independent biomedical research institute, a state-of-the-art veterans medical center and an innovative new children’s hospital. In addition, several other university and independent research institutes are far along in preparing to build facilities at Lake Nona, with multiple clinical organizations also making plans to join the cluster.
How do such clusters get formed and what do they encompass? What unique value do they provide and how can they become centers for disruptive innovation in healthcare?
Useful Links: www.learnlakenona.comhttp://www.floridatrend.com/article.asp?aID=51804
http://www.floridatrend.com/article.asp?aID=51809&parentID=51804
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFOOJDNxq0U Thad Seymour from Lake Nona discusses Orlando's emerging "medical city" at Lake Nonawhere $2 billion worth of construction is currently underway.