About Me
Jason Hwang, M.D., M.B.A. is an internal medicine physician with deep expertise in health care innovation, both as a thought leader and as an entrepreneur. Currently, he is a co-founder and co-CEO at a stealth digital health company.
Previously, Dr. Hwang was a co-founder and chief medical officer of Icebreaker Health (also known as Lemonaid Health), a next-generation telemedicine company based in San Francisco. Prior to that, Dr. Hwang co-founded and was Executive Director of Healthcare at Innosight Institute (now renamed the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation), a non-profit social innovation think tank.
Together with Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School and Dr. Jerome Grossman of Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Dr. Hwang co-authored The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (McGraw-Hill, January 2009), the American College of Healthcare Executives 2010 Book of the Year and recipient of the 2011 Health Service Journal Circle Prize for Inspiring Innovation.
He also taught as chief resident and clinical instructor at the University of California, Irvine, where he received multiple recognitions for his clinical work. He has also served as a clinician with the Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Group and the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Long Beach, California. Dr. Hwang received his B.S. and M.D. from the University of Michigan and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
(McGraw-Hill, January 2009), the American College of Healthcare Executives 2010 Book of the Year and recipient of the 2011 Health Service Journal Circle Prize for Inspiring Innovation.