Biography

Teo Forcht Dagi, MD, DMedSc, DHC, MBA, FRCSEd, is a neurosurgeon, educator, CEO, company chairman and director, venture capitalist and inventor. He is the Senior Managing Partner at Rosc Global, Inc. and most recently served as CEO of Boston Neurosciences, Inc., a clinical-stage company developing non-invasive neurodiagnostics.

Teo has served on multiple public and private company boards in UK, US and Canada. He is currently a director of Tharos, Ltd, Ateria, Ltd., Axial 3D, Ltd., and healthEgames, Inc. He has been involved in four Northern Irish companies.

Teo also serves as an advisor to NanoDx, Inc., The Health Data Exchange, Ltd., Broadview Ventures, Inc., The Innovacorp Crown Corporation, Ltd. (Canada), and Curam at the National University of Ireland (Galway). He served previously as chair of the SAB at DuPont Pharma, Inc., and an SAB member the Royal Bank of Canada, Montgomery Securities, and Lundbeck, USA.

He trained in neurosurgery and neurophysiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and at the Neurosurgical Unit of the Guy’s Maudsley and King’s College Hospitals in London. He holds Fellowships in the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh (ad hominem), the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the College of Critical Care Medicine (by election), and the American College of Surgeons. He was appointed the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Fellow at Harvard University, a Fellow of the Society for Health and Human Values, a Mendeleyeff Traveling Fellow, a Neuroresearch Foundation Fellow, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Georgetown University. He was conferred a DMedSc (hon) by Queen’s University Belfast and a DHC (hon) by the Technical University of Kaunas in Lithuania and nominated a Dixon Medalist in Belfast.

Teo has been involved in teaching innovation, entrepreneurship and business strategy. He developed the curriculum in translational science for the Georgia Institute of Technology and helped develop the biomedical entrepreneurship track at the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. He served as a Director at the Georgia Tech, the Goergen Entrepreneurship Center of the Wharton School, and the Harvard-MIT Program in Biomedical Entrepreneurship.

Teo served as chairman of the Committee on Perioperative Care of the American College of Surgeons, and of the (National) Council on Perioperative and Surgical Safety. He also served as President of the Georgia Neurosurgical Society, advisor to the Georgia Medicare Committee, and Director of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, the Georgia Entrepreneurs Foundation, the Georgia Biotechnology Alliance, the Georgia Venture Capital Association, the Massachusetts Medical Development Group, and the Beth Israel Lahey Hospital and Health System where he also directs the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research. He was recently elected to an unusual second term as a Section Chair and Director of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.

Teo has edited, authored, or co-authored seven books, over 250 articles and over 500 presentations. He is an editor of Neurosurgery, Numanities, and the Journal of Clinical Ethics. He has held several professorial appointments and serves currently as honorary professor at the William J. Clinton Leadership Institute and Queen’s University Belfast. He also teaches at the advanced course in venture capital for the National Venture Capital Association.