Ogan Gurel Md

Biography

 I am Distinguished Invited Professor at DGIST as well as Founder & CEO of NovumWaves, a new venture advancing biomedical terahertz applications, with additional academic appointments as Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Visiting Professor at the Libera Accademia Belle Arti (Brescia). I also serve as Chief Medical Officer (Acting) at Nessa Hearing (Singapore) and Advisory Board Chair for Posture360 (Seoul). Previously, I was Chief Innovation Officer at Campus D, a Seoul-based startup incubator/Fab Lab and served over four years as a Director in the CTO office (MOT & Open Innovation groups) at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT). Prior to that, I was VP & Medical Director at Sg2 and an Associate at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. My business experience spans the executive, marketing, clinical and R&D domains, with sector expertise in medical devices, digital health, medical imaging and biopharma while my academic research focuses on protein electrodynamics and terahertz medicine, as well as new models of organizational innovation for the 4th Industrial Revolution. I hold an MD (Alpha Omega Alpha) and MPhil (Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics) from Columbia University. Earning a BA (cum laude in Biochemical Sciences) at Harvard, I conducted research in molecular dynamics with Martin Karplus (2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry). My teaching experience includes cellular & molecular biology, neuroanatomy, bioinformatics, mathematical modeling and technology marketing at Columbia, Roosevelt, Harvard, SAIHST and DGIST. Along with peer-reviewed scientific publications, several patents, a novel (Waves), syndicated columns and newspaper contributions, I have presented invited talks and keynotes at leading institutions and conferences worldwide covering healthcare trends, digital & mobile health, protein electrodynamics, the future of medicine, healthcare market dynamics, and innovation in general.

Research Interest

 Biomedical