Kourosh Parsapour, MD MBA

Kourosh Parsapour, MD MBA

Dr. Parsapour has 15+ years of clinical experience, along with an academic & entrepreneurial background in digital health. He obtained his MBA after his first startup Telepeds was acquired by Specialists on Call within 1y of its inception.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kparsapour/
Twitter: @kparsapour
Hermosa Beach, California, United States
Accredited investor
Member since April 24, 2012
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Passionate about digital health and bringing disease to its knees! Quote_down
  • About
Investor interests
Type of investor Angel
Typical investment size $25,000 - $50,000
Typical investments in a year 2
Categories of interest
Credentials Accredited Investor
Activity
Investments made Tenex, 5Plus
Board seats 5Plus
Education
2012 University of California, Irvine , MBA , Healthcare Executive MBA
1998 St. George's University School of Medicine , MD , Medicine
1992 University of California, Davis , BS , Physiology
I am a(n):

Entrepreneur

Companies I've founded or co-founded:
personalRN
Companies I work or worked for:
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Achievements (products built, personal awards won):

•Board Certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care
•Telepeds (first startup) was developed as a private telemedicine company providing pediatric emergency & critical care to medical facilities that lacked access to specialists. It was acquired in its first year by Specialists On Call.
•Co-founder & Co-chair of the American Telemedicine Association's Pediatric Telehealth Discussion Group and the Pediatric Telehealth Colloquium
•Faculty positions held at UC Davis & UC Irvine School of Medicine
•"Family Link" program at UCD: 2008 recipient of the Family Centered Care Award by the Society of Critical Care Medicine
•First director of the Pediatric Critical Care Transport Team at Miller Children's Hospital, California's largest freestanding tertiary center for kids.
•Founded 5plus and developed the Motion & Function Assessment Tool (MFAsT) which provides physical therapists with Kinect-enabled software to reduce the time in measuring, reporting and billing functional range-of-motion from 30 to 2 minutes.

If you're an entrepreneur or corporate innovator, why?

I want to change the world.

My favorite startups:

Scanadu, Jintronix, Theme Dragon, AestheticLink, Seedchange, Pley

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?

Team building: Its incredibly frustrating to invest time and effort into a member that ultimately doesn't fit...and incredibly rewarding when a new member "gets it": the vision, the motivation, the purpose.

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs/innovators make?

Not being realistic about the time, cost, and difficulty in achieving an endpoint.

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

Integrity is currency.
There is always a period of learn and burn.
Hire slow, fire fast.

Full bio

Dr. Kourosh Parsapour has over 15 years of clinical experience in pediatrics, emergency medicine and critical care. His background in technology-enabled healthcare solutions started with his first faculty appointment at UC Davis in 2005.  His research and numerous publications in telemedicine culminated in his first startup, Telepeds.  Specialists on Call, the leading provider of tele-stroke services, acquired Telepeds within its first year.  Subsequent to his successful exit, he obtained his Healthcare Executive MBA from UC Irvine and remains very passionate about using innovative and relevant technology to improve the quality and accessibility to affordable healthcare.