Mark Prather vs Deepak Nath

Mark Prather

CEO of DispatchHealth

BIO: Dr. Prather is an industry insider whose passion is to change healthcare delivery to benefit the consumer. He has over twenty years of experience as a board-certified emergency medicine specialist. He also has experience managing large provider groups and has most recently served as the managing partner for an outsourced emergency and pediatric staffing group in Denver, Colorado. He has been involved in multiple medical industry start-ups including iTriage where he served as medical director. Dr. Prather completed his undergraduate studies at Vanderbilt University. He attended medical school at UCLA where he graduated Alpha Omega Alpha. He went on to complete his residency training in emergency medicine at Denver Health and Hospitals where he served as Chief Resident. He obtained his MBA from the University of Colorado.

Deepak Nath

CEO of Smith & Nephew

BIO: Deepak Nath joined Smith+Nephew in April 2022 and has a track record of driving growth at major healthcare companies through delivering a significant improvement in execution and building a strong results-focused culture. He began his career as a scientist in computational physics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and holds a BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Theoretical Mechanics from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Siemens Healthineers, he held roles at both Amgen and McKinsey and spent 10 years at Abbott Laboratories, Inc. culminating in his appointment as President of Abbott Vascular. At Siemens Healthineers (2018–2022) he was President of the Diagnostics business responsible for $6 billion of revenue and 15,000 employees.