Philip Edgcumbe
MD, PhD, Radiology Resident
Dr. Philip Edgcumbe (BASC, MD, PhD) is a UBC radiology resident and a fellow in the UBC Clinician Investigator Program. Philip's massively transformative purpose is to create healthcare abundance and deep medicine.
His previous experience includes inventing, patenting, and licensing an augmented-reality navigational aid for surgical navigations and co-founding two biomedical start-up companies. In 2017, he worked for the XPRIZE Foundation in Los Angeles where he led the development of the Alzheimer’s XPRIZE, a global, crowd-sourcing competition to end Alzheimer’s. In 2018-2019 he served as the Innovator-in-Residence for the Canadian Medical Association Innovation Lab. He is the co-founder and board member of the Collective Open Source Medical Innovations for COVID19 (COSMIC -
www.cosmicmedical.ca) and shares his experience as a healthcare innovator and his perspectives on the future of healthcare as a Singularity University faculty member.
His previous award include he Outstanding Young Scientist at the 2014 Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention Conference (MICCAI). More recently he received awards for leadership (Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, Canadian Medical Association (CMA) Young Leader; CFMS-MD Financial Management) and innovation (Joule Emerging Physician Innovator).
Learn more at
www.edgcumbe.ca,
www.cosmicmedical.ca, and follow Philip on Twitter/X via @Philip_Edgcumbe.