Physician · Entrepreneur · Investor · Educator · Speaker

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Julien L. Pham helps healthcare, life sciences, and innovation leaders see complex systems more clearly, make better decisions under uncertainty, and turn insight into action through keynotes, workshops, and strategic advisory.

Julien L. Pham in conversation on a panel
Julien L. Pham, MD, MPHIdeas become useful when people can test them against lived experience.

Selected experience

Across the system, not beside it.

01

Built and led healthcare companies

Co-founder & Chief Medical Officer, RubiconMD
President & COO, Genprex (NASDAQ: GNPX)

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Invests in healthcare innovation

Founder & Managing Partner, Third Culture Capital

03

Educates founders and executives

Senior Advisor for Healthcare + Life Sciences at Harvard Innovation Labs. Entrepreneurship education through Harvard Innovation Labs and HMS Executive Education.

04

Connects innovation ecosystems

More than a decade working across Boston healthcare, life sciences, entrepreneurship, and venture.

01 / PERSPECTIVE

What Julien brings

A perspective shaped by operating across the system.

Julien has made consequential decisions from multiple positions inside the same system: physician, operator, founder, investor, educator, and advisor. That range gives him unusual pattern recognition and the ability to connect people, incentives, evidence, and ideas that are often considered separately.

Healthcare is complex because every move travels through an interconnected system. Julien helps leaders see those connections, question familiar assumptions, and identify opportunities without losing rigor. The aim is better judgment, stronger questions, and action grounded in evidence.

“Expertise should sharpen judgment without narrowing opportunities.”

Julien L. Pham, MD, MPH
Julien L. Pham speaking during a panel conversation
For leaders navigating complex, interconnected systems across healthcare, science, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Speaking & workshops

Ideas people can put to work.

Keynotes, executive workshops, lectures, leadership retreats, and multi-session educational programs for organizations navigating complexity and change.

Physicians & healthcare professionals

Healer + Builder

For clinicians exploring how clinical judgment and entrepreneurial action can strengthen one another.

Participants learn to:

  • Expand their builder identity without leaving medicine behind
  • Recognize assumptions that limit action
  • Define a practical first experiment

Lecture · Workshop · Clinician innovation course · Professional development

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02 / ADVISORY

Strategic & ecosystem advisory

Understand the system before trying to change it.

Julien advises leaders, founders, institutions, and regional ecosystems working across healthcare and life sciences. His work connects strategy to the realities of incentives, stakeholders, clinical evidence, capital, and implementation.

Strategic advisory

Selective, high-level counsel for founders and leadership teams navigating complex decisions, market dynamics, organizational growth, and healthcare innovation.

Ecosystem strategy

For regions, universities, governments, health systems, and investors building stronger founder-support infrastructure. Julien helps identify gaps, overlooked assets, and lessons that can be adapted from Boston without attempting to copy it wholesale.

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03 / BETWEEN WORLDS

About Julien

A career built across disciplines, institutions, and points of view.

Julien L. Pham, MD, MPH, is a physician, entrepreneur, investor, educator, and speaker who has spent his career working across the boundaries of healthcare, business, technology, and innovation.

He co-founded RubiconMD and served as its Chief Medical Officer, later becoming President and Chief Operating Officer of Genprex, a publicly traded biotechnology company. Today, he is Founder and Managing Partner of Third Culture Capital, Senior Advisor for Healthcare + Life Sciences at the Harvard Innovation Labs, and an educator through entrepreneurship programs at the Harvard Innovation Labs and HMS Executive Education.

Julien’s perspective comes from more than the range of roles he has held. It comes from making consequential decisions at different points within the same interconnected system. He has worked as a physician, operator, founder, investor, advisor, and ecosystem leader. This allows him to see how incentives, evidence, institutions, and people interact, and to connect dots that are often examined separately.

A third culture kid, Julien has spent much of his life translating between cultures, disciplines, and ways of thinking. That experience shapes his work with leaders navigating complexity, uncertainty, and change. Through speaking, workshops, and strategic advisory, he helps people challenge familiar assumptions, widen the field of possibility, and act with greater clarity.

Writing

Ideas in public. A book underway.

Forthcoming book

A book about identity and belonging

Julien is writing a book about living between identities, roles, and cultures, and how the friction of not fitting neatly into one can become a source of clarity, connection, and possibility.

AI Toolkit

Use the tool. Keep the judgment.

Practical AI prompts and resources for founders and innovation leaders. They offer a starting point. Deeper frameworks, facilitated exercises, and additional tools are available through Julien’s workshops and educational programs.

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01Assumption Stress Test

02The Differential Diagnosis

03Who Pays, Who Decides, Who Benefits

Inquiries

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For keynotes, workshops, lectures, executive education, strategic advisory, and ecosystem strategy.

inquiries@julienpham.com
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