Jack Stockert, MD is the Managing Director at Health2047, the venture studio founded by the American Medical Association (AMA) to build, fund, and scale startups transforming healthcare from within. With a background that bridges medicine, consulting at McKinsey, and entrepreneurship, Jack brings a rare perspective on how to align medical insight with innovation and investment.

With years of experience helping founders tackle foundational healthcare challenges — from chronic disease and obesity to AI-driven diagnostics — Jack offers a deep look into how Health2047 is shaping the future of healthcare through system-level design and strategic venture building.

In this episode, he discusses his journey from practicing medicine to redefining it through entrepreneurship, how the AMA-backed studio chooses which problems to solve, and what the future of healthcare might look like by the year 2047.

In Today’s Episode We Discuss:

00:00 Early Medical Journey

03:18 Combining Medicine and Business

04:33 Lessons from McKinsey

05:35 Becoming a Founder

07:46 Moving to Silicon Valley

09:43 The Origin of Health2047

10:08 Why the AMA Created a Venture Studio

12:28 Identifying and Incubating Startups

13:16 The Four Strategic Pillars

14:36 Building Fewer, Deeper Companies

16:17 Problem Framing and Greenfield Innovation

18:11 Portfolio Highlights: Mineta, Hopper, Phenomics, Scalerax

20:09 The AMA’s Role and Mission Alignment

22:50 Why the Year 2047

24:00 Blind Spots in Digital Health

26:19 Healthcare in 2047

29:39 Balancing Investor Returns and Clinician Impact

31:57 AI and Wisdom in Medicine

33:09 The Human Element in Healthcare

35:38 The Smartest “No” Health2047 Ever Made

38:58 Policy Fast Track: GLP-1 Therapies

42:00 The Systemic Shift

43:18 Closing Reflections

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