E9: HLTH Series #1 - Interview with Edmondo Robinson, MD - Founder & CEO, Downeast Digital

Welcome to the first episode of our HLTH Series originating from discussions at the recent HLTH Conference in Las Vegas. In this series, we will feature entrepreneurs, industry champions, and investors who attended HLTH to demonstrate the lasting impact those meetings can have to shape healthcare innovation.

Leader, visionary, physician entrepreneur, ecosystem builder. Those are only a handful of descriptors for our guest. If you’re a founder who wants to know how to get revenue deals with health plans and provider groups, this is your episode. In this episode, we welcome Dr. Edmondo Robinson, Founder & CEO of Downeast Digital. If you’re an investor who wants to find top innovative companies and convene with other industry champions, this is your episode.

About the Guest

Edmondo Robinson, MD is the Founder and CEO of Downeast Digital and a national leader in digital health and innovation with over 25 years of experience in health care delivery, management, and leadership. A practicing academic hospitalist, Dr. Robinson cares for patients while teaching students and trainees as part of the Hospital Medicine service at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.

Previously, Dr. Robinson served as Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at Moffitt Cancer Center where he founded and led the Center for Digital Health as well as co-founding CancerX. Prior to that, Dr. Robinson was the Chief Transformation Officer and Senior Vice President of Consumerism at ChristianaCare, one of the largest health systems in the mid-Atlantic.

Dr. Robinson is a professor of Internal Medicine and Oncologic Science at the University of South Florida’s Morsani College of Medicine. He serves as a Director of the Boards of Ardent Health and Carriage Services, Trustee of the Board of the University of Vermont Health Network, and is former Chair of the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a senior fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine, and an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow. He holds a medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles; an MBA with an emphasis in health care management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania; and a master’s degree in health policy research from the University of Pennsylvania.