Jennifer Joe

Jennifer Joe, MD, is a Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) nephrology graduate turned physician entrepreneur CEO and Co-Founder of Medstro & MedTech Boston. Founded in 2013, Medstro & MedTech Boston were acquired in 2018 by the largest US private-owned healthcare communications company, at which time it had major recurring contracts with companies like the New England Journal of Medicine, American Medical Association, Boston Scientific, and Google.

Dr. Joe has been a leader in catalyzing the Boston and nationwide healthcare innovation ecosystem. She has led over 50 healthcare open innovation events with both the public and the private sector, including Google, Boston Scientific, Philips, the Brigham and Women’s Innovation Hub, the Massachusetts accelerator PULSE@MassChallenge, Healthbox, and Harvard Medical School’s Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, just to name a few.

Dr. Joe has been invited to speak, mentor, or judge at hundreds of local, national, and international events, including South by Southwest, Google, HIMSS, Partners HealthCare Innovation, the Massachusetts Medical Society, IN3 Medical Device 360, the International Society of Wearable Technology in Healthcare, MassTLC, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Market R&D Challenge, the Federation of State Medical Boards, Partners World Medical Innovation Forum, MATTER Chicago, and Health 2.0.

Dr. Joe teaches two regularly occurring Harvard Medical School course; and she is a practicing emergency room, urgent care, and hospitalist physician at 3 Boston hospitals where she also oversees students, residents, and fellows training.