Physician Entrepreneur and Founder: Leading Innovation with Vision, Building with Strategy

Do you want to start a new venture that provides an innovative solution to an essential healthcare problem?

This one-hour webinar will show you how to get started. We will talk about what drives physicians to create new ventures, and present a case study from a successful physician entrepreneur. We will discuss the difference in mindset between being an executive in an established organization and a founder of a new venture. Then we will provide practical suggestions about how to identify a problem and generate ideas for solutions with long-term impact. We will highlight some of the legal considerations for physician entrepreneurs, including how to protect your intellectual property. Finally, we will consider how to build your team and structure a company, and provide time to answer your questions.

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognize unmet needs or inefficiencies within your area of practice that represent potential opportunities for an innovative venture.

2. Describe the key early steps in developing a new venture, including validating an idea and assessing market fit.

3. Formulate a personal action step to explore or advance a business idea within 30 days of the session.

Resources:

• Healthcare Innovation In-Person Accelerator: An Entrepreneur Bootcamp | Tampa, FL | Feb. 20-21, 2026

• Mindset by Carol Dweck

• See, Solve, Scale: How Anyone Can Turn an Unsolved Problem into a Breakthrough Success by Danny Warshay

• Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All by Tom Kelley & David Kelley