Joseph Ferenbok, PhD

TeamExecutive Team

Mar. 11

**FOUNDER & DIRECTOR**
Ideation Clinic
**DIRECTOR**
Translational Research Program, University of Toronto
**ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR** Health Innovation Hub (H2I)

Dr. Joseph Ferenbok has an eclectic background that includes aspects of entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, design, english literature, philosophy, engineering, computer science, humanities, biology, art history, surgery, and psychiatry.

He is the founding Director of the Translational Research Program (TRP), Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. The TRP is a graduate program focused on training interdisciplinary trainees to systematically apply scientific knowledge to improve medicine, health & care.

Dr. Ferenbok is an unconventional academic who loves to generate ideas to solve complex unwieldy problems. He is a pioneer in the translational community as co-founder and Associate Director of the Health Innovation Hub, the Temerty Faculty of Medicine’s venture accelerator on health matters; and the Director of Education for Medical Innovations Toronto, a Eureka Translational Medicine Institute global HUB partner.

Dr. Ferenbok lives in Toronto with his family and dog Mikey.

“Failure is a lesson in methods, not a reason to stop trying.”

SOCRATES

What does your role at the Ideation Clinic™ entail?

To keep ideas flowing.

What drew you to the Ideation Clinic™?

I have always loved generating new ideas and realized that ideas alone are not enough to inspire positive change. People who generate ideas need a way of triaging good ideas from bad, and then developing the most promising ideas into designs that can be shared, validated and demonstrated to others.