Arlen Meyers
Empaneled Consultant and Expert – Healthcare Academics and Leadership
Professional Experience
Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado School of Medicine, instructor at University of Colorado Denver Business School, President and CEO, Society of Physician Entrepreneurs. He is a professor emeritus of otolaryngology, dentistry, and engineering at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs.
He help people get their biomedical ideas to patients by teaching, working with entrepreneurs and leading a global not for profit biomedical and clinical innovation and entrepreneurship network. He has created several medical devices and digital health companies. His primary research centres around biomedical and health innovation and entrepreneurship and life science technology commercialization. He teaches at the University of Colorado-Denver, consult, and speak to companies, governments, colleges, and universities around the world who need his expertise and contacts in the areas of bio entrepreneurship, bioscience, healthcare, healthcare IT, medical tourism — nationally and internationally, new product development, product design, and financing new ventures. He is a former Harvard-Macy fellow and in 2010, I completed a Fulbright Fellowship at Kings Business, the commercialization office of technology transfer at Kings College in London. Publications include “Building the Case for Biotechnology.” “Optical Detection of Cancer”, and ” The Life Science Innovation Roadmap”
and “Digital Health Entrepreneurship”. I am the Editor-in-Chief of Medscape Reference: Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. and am a faculty member at the University of Colorado Denver Graduate School, School of Medicine, and Business School where I teach entrepreneurship.
I have authored many books. blogs and articles and am the editor of the second edition of “Digital Health Entrepreneurship“
Selected Clients and Employers
- Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospitals, including 10 years as Director, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
- Regional training in quality management tools and techniques, Tuscany, Italy
- University of Nice Medical School
- Management Training, Quality, and Risk Management throughout India
- Hygeia Hospital, largest private hospital in Athens, Greece
- DHCC, Dubai, design of quality systems for hospital and office practices
Areas of Expertise
- Healthcare Innovations
- Entrepreneurship
- Thought Leader
- Industry Consultant
Industry Expertise
- Drug Discovery
- Digital Health
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Medical Education
- Dissemination and Implementation of digital health and analytics
- AI/products & Services
Former Employer
- University of Colorado
- Denver VA
- Denver General Hospital
- Self employed private practice
- Self employed consultant at Comstock and Meyers, LLC
Education
- Dickinson College, BS
- Jefferson Medical College, MD
- University of Colorado, MBA