“Thomas Jefferson University Hospital CEO Stephen Klasko is striking some surprising partnerships to advance a bold vision that disrupts care delivery and medical school, as well as the education of workers who will be critical a decade from now.”

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital now occupies America’s first Federal Reserve building. Within that downtown-Philadelphia address is a massive vault that, rather than locking away money, is a makerspace open to entrepreneurs and innovators.

“Our students hang out in a 100-year old vault working on 3D printing and virtual reality,” said CEO Stephen Klasko, MD.

And if Klasko fulfills one of his goals some of those students and others will have the opportunity to earn full professorship, not by winning NIH funding or conducting groundbreaking research on microbiology but, instead, via entrepreneurship and innovation.

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