Dan Crenshaw Instagram – Thank you to the Texas Medical Center and their CEO Bill McKeon for hosting my 5th annual Healthcare Innovation Summit last night. Thank you to the speakers who flew in from across the country to share their cutting-edge work on the new frontiers of healthcare. And thank you to the hundreds of attendees who spent three hours on a Monday evening with us. Innovation is fundamentally the most important aspect of healthcare. If we don’t find the cures, build the breakthrough medical devices, or design the perfect therapies, then it doesn’t matter what kind of healthcare system we have. So the point of the Healthcare Innovation Summit is to highlight and honor some of the leading startups, entrepreneurs, and researchers in healthcare, and give them an audience of investors and medical professionals who can help take their work to the next level. The greatest problems we face –  from diabetes to cancer to Alzheimer’s – will be solved because a few smart people partnered with a few rich people and decided to change the world. This year’s honorees included Dr. Andrea Vidali ( @endometriosis_surgeon ), who received the Susan Carol Crenshaw Healthcare Innovation Award for his advancements in Robotic Excisional Endometriosis Surgery. Dr. Vidali’s research has given countless women the gift of motherhood, and my own daughter Suzy Crenshaw is here today because of him. We heard from Mike Ambrogi on how Novocure is using electric fields to treat cancer. Elizabeth Garner, MD-MPH talked about how @ferringpharmaceuticals is using artificial intelligence to assist with fertility technology. Dr. John Cassidy presented on @nexushealthsystems new multidisciplinary approaches to treating individuals suffering from traumatic brain injury. And finally, Tim Miller and Jacob George, PhD showed how Biologic Input Output Systems is harnessing the power of neural pathways to give amputees the feeling of responsive robotic limbs. It was a wildly educational evening thanks to these speakers. Thanks again to everyone who took the time to join us and to the Texas Medical Center staff who helped make this event a huge success. I can’t wait for next year’s summit.