Ignite VC: Dr. Jack Stockert on Transforming Medicine Through Venture Innovation | Ep203

Ignite: Conversations on Startups, Venture Capital, Tech, Future, and Society

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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