J Andrew Chacko MD, MSE, FAPA

Dr. J. Andrew Chacko is a leader in Healthcare Innovation, and a highly sought after public-speaker and consultant on topics ranging from Design Thinking, Leadership, Healthcare, Education, Digital Health, Mental Health and Wellness. He founded ChackoMD to advance his singular mission to help people and institutions transform the future of healthcare.

As the only practicing clinician to have graduated from the Stanford program that pioneered Design Thinking, he seamlessly knits together years of expertise in three seemingly disparate cultures - Healthcare through clinical experience as a psychiatrist, attending physician, medical director and clinic director, Designer and Innovator from study Product Design at Stanford, working at IDEO, and finally teaching, and Leadership from a career as a Naval Officer that started at the U.S. Naval Academy.