Arlen D Meyers, MD, MBAUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine

Founding President and CEO, www.sopenet.org

•Rising health care costs•Access to capital•Uneven and falling quality•Stressed innovation pipeline•Disenfranchized and disempowered physicians•Globalization •Lack of bioentrepreneurship knowledge, skills and abilities

The Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (www.s0penet.org) and linkedin group, is a NFP global biomedical and healthcare innovation network . Members include healthcare entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, and industry representatives

The mission of SoPE is to help biomedical and healthcare entrepreneurs get their ideas, discoveries and inventions to market by providing them with education , connections to service providers and investors and offering value added products and services.

• 1500 global members on linkedin and website• Growing at 150 members/month• 14 Chapters around the world• SoPE Affinity Partners Program• SoPE Innovation Scholars Program with Acclarent

•SOPE promotes the program to members and co-manages the program•Industry partner hires Innovation Scholar for 6 months /1 year•Designed to expose IS to different aspects of life science technology commercialization•Expectation is that IS will pursue technology commercialization interest , teaching and research

•Regulatory reform•R/D investment and access to capital•Education with STEM emphasis•Entrepreneurial ecosystem•Immigration reform •Infrastructure

•Expand membership to 10K•Expand network of global chapters•NFP c(6) and c(3) SoPE Educational and Research Foundation•Accelerate global biomedical and healthcare innovation•Expand ISP program•Expand SoPE Affinity Partners Program•Enhance US global competitiveness in biomedical innovation•SoPE U

Arlen Meyers, MD, MBAceo@sopenet.net