Tom Barrett

Tom Barrett, MD, MCR, is a Hospitalist physician and entrepreneur, currently President of Sympano, a diagnostic biotech startup company, with over 20 years of clinical experience and over 10 years of collaboration with engineers. The application of technology to improve patients’ lives is Tom’s passion. Tom is a charter member of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), founded the Oregon Chapter of SHM, and was active at the national level with SHM for many years. Tom also teaches life science entrepreneurship with an Oregon Health & Science University medical student elective, and an internship program for PhDs and post docs at the Oregon Bioscience Incubator. Tom recently started the Portland Chapter of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE) to connect all clinicians – those that care for patients – to technology people to help patients.