Top Influencers: 17 UK Medical Director's To Follow in 2022

Co-Founder, Medical Director play a crucial role in any startup. It takes an extraordinary person to fulfil the Co-Founder, Medical Director role. We have selected these Co-Founder, Medical Director’s for this list as they are inspiring for a variety of reasons – whether that’s pushing boundaries, creating groundbreaking products, or doing their bit to save the world.

Our analysts did their best to select be best, and most innovative Co-Founder, Medical Director’s. The list is in no particular order!

Suman Saha

Co-Founder, Medical Director @ Doctify

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Doctify provides a solution for the millions of patients who want to search, compare and book health services over the internet. Read more about Doctify on Crunchbase…

Patrick C Tapia

Medical Director @ Magnolia Creek

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Native Alabamian, Patrick Tapia, MD, graduated with honors from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received his medical degree from and completed his psychiatry residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. Dr. Tapia treats both children and adults with eating disorders, co-occurring mental conditions such as depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, among other illnesses. In his free time, Dr. Tapia enjoys spending time with his family who are also in the Birmingham area. Learn more about Patrick C Tapia on Crunchbase…

Mark Jenkins

UK Managing & Medical Director @ Oviva

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Co-founder at Oviva – a digital health company using technology to digitise the dietetic care pathway. Learn more about Mark Jenkins on Crunchbase…

Oviva digitizes the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity through a unique behavior change platform. Read more about Oviva on Crunchbase…

Tarlochan Toor

Medical Director & Co-founder @ MedicSpot

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MedicSpot gives patients convenient and quick access to healthcare using the latest advancements in telemedicine Read more about MedicSpot on Crunchbase…

Claire Royston

Group Medical Director @ Four Seasons Health Care

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Claire Royston is a Group Medical Director at Four Seasons Health Care Group. Learn more about Claire Royston on Crunchbase…

Four Seasons Health Care is a provider of nursing, residential, and dementia care services. Read more about Four Seasons Health Care on Crunchbase…

Julian Hamann

Medical Director @ Cupris Health

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Julian Hamann is the Consultant ENT & Thyroid Surgeon at Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. Learn more about Julian Hamann on Crunchbase…

Cupris Health develope communication software and smartphone-connected medical devices. Read more about Cupris Health on Crunchbase…

Oliver Kessler

Founder, Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer @ Orthox Ltd.

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Oliver Kessler is a practising knee surgeon based in Zurich with a strong track record of biomaterials research and a focus on meniscal and cartilage repair systems and joint kinematics. He spent 6 years at Stryker Orthopaedics as Director of Orthobiologics supervising a major meniscal tissue engineering programme. He has extensive contacts within both the orthopaedic industry and the surgical community and is responsible for overseeing clinical development of Orthox’s product pipeline. Learn more about Oliver Kessler on Crunchbase…

Orthox develops tissue regenerative implants that address large injuries to cartilage tissues in which early osteoarthritis may be present. Read more about Orthox Ltd. on Crunchbase…

Hendrik-Tobias Arkenau

Executive Medical Director @ Sarah Cannon

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Professor Tobias Arkenau joined Sarah Cannon Research Institute as Executive Medical Director in 2010. Learn more about Hendrik-Tobias Arkenau on Crunchbase…

Philip McCluskie

Medical Director @ Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability

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UK medical charity restoring choice and independence to adults with severe/complex neurological disability by providing specialist rehab. Read more about Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability on Crunchbase…

Adriano Boasso

Associate Medical Director @ Touch Independent Medical Education

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Sheraz Daya

Founder, Chairman & Medical Director @ Centre for Sight

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Leigh Neal

Medical Director @ Smart TMS

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Smart TMS offers Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) – a technological breakthrough in the treatment of depression. Read more about Smart TMS on Crunchbase…

Philip Beales

Medical Director @ Congenica

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Phil is a consultant physician and Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics at the UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH), an NIHR Senior Investigator, an Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and the lead on Personalised Medicine for UCL. He is an internationally recognized expert in the genetics and pathogenesis of ciliopathies and pioneering use of next generation sequencing in mapping disease genes in this area. Learn more about Philip Beales on Crunchbase…

Congenica is a biotechnology company that provides a diagnostic decision support platform. Read more about Congenica on Crunchbase…

Dr Andrew Weber

Medical Director & Lead Physician @ Bodyvie

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Founder, Medical Director and Lead Physician of Bodyvie Aesthetic & GP clinic in Richmond, London. Learn more about Dr Andrew Weber on Crunchbase…

A medical and aesthetic clinic in Greater London established since 1999. Read more about Bodyvie on Crunchbase…

Tony Steele

Medical Director @ Dr. Fox

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Felix Jackson

Founder and Medical Director @ medDigital

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Felix is a doctor and entrepreneur developing digital technology for the health and care sector. He trained as an Anaesthetist in the UK gaining his MRCP with the Royal College of Anaesthetists. Then, he left clinical practice to work in digital health. In 2008 he founded medDigital, a digital healthcare communications agency, with Paul Gardner to focus on revolutionising health and care with digital communications. In 2017, they launched medCrowd, a messaging technology for health and care, that keeps everyone in touch while protecting confidential information to the required standards. Learn more about Felix Jackson on Crunchbase…

medDigital is a revolutionising healthcare with digital communications Read more about medDigital on Crunchbase…

John Roberts

Medical Director @ Elastagen

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John Roberts is the Medical Director at Elastagen Pty Ltd. since May 2014. Having graduated in medicine from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, John chose to specialise in Pharmaceutical Medicine after spending several years practicing hospital-based medicine in the UK and working for the flying-doctor service in Kenya. Within the pharmaceutical industry, he has since gained significant development and business experience in a broad range of therapeutic areas including vaccination, immunotherapy, infectious disease, oncology, wound healing, aesthetics, regenerative medicine and addiction. John has first-hand experience of all phases of clinical development with a particular emphasis on practical design and fast track delivery of phase I and phase II proof-of-concept studies. John has a strong commercial awareness having held senior management and executive board positions in both private and public pharmaceutical companies including Merieux UK (now Sanofi-Pasteur MSD), Cantab Pharmaceuticals plc, Xenova Group plc, Microscience plc and Intercytex plc. John has been responsible for numerous clinical studies in Europe, North America, Australasia, India and Vietnam. Learn more about John Roberts on Crunchbase…