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Message from the President

Welcome to The Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE), a global biomedical and healthcare innovation network. We are now in our 4th year and continue to build our international network of members including healthcare and biomedical inventors, service providers, investors and industry members representing drugs, devices, diagnostic, healthcare IT products and services, scalable provider platforms and innovative business models.

Our goal at SoPE is to accelerate biomedical and healthcare innovation and get ideas to patients faster. We seek to empower doctors and other providers with the information, education, connections , experience and money they need to commercialize their ideas, inventions and discoveries.

This year will be an exciting one. We are planning a national meeting, building our website and online services, creating links to strategic partners, creating a business model that will sustain the organization and offering new products and services that add value to our members...all for free at our basic membership level. We now have over 1800 global members , 17 US and international chapters, and growing traffic on this website. In addition , we are creating partnerships with business schools, industry and other service providers to offer our members value added products and services. Our executive director, Jim Blakely, and your Board of Directors are working tirelessly to provide our members with the tools they need to succeed.

Please encourage others to join us in this journey and send me your comments and suggestions.

Arlen D. Meyers, MD, MBA
President and CEO, Society of Physician Entrepreneurs
www.sopenet.org