About Me

An orthopaedic surgeon by background, Jarred Bressner, MD serves on the investment team at Activate Ventures, an early-staged venture capital fund focused largely on healthcare investments and with many notable companies continuing to make profound impact in the healthcare arena including Medidata, Access Health, Tabula Rasa Healthcare, Ultracision (the Harmonic Scalpel acquired by JnJ), CrowdHealth, RideHealth, and many others. 

It was during late nights in the operating room, working in the trenches of healthcare, that he realized his passion for patient care could be profoundly augmented by his interest in technology and innovation to maximize impact. He invented a novel joint replacement system, and has been named lead inventor on numerous pending patents and invention disclosures regarding orthopaedic surgery implants and surgical instruments. He has also co-developed multiple surgical devices with established industry companies and received grant funding from such sources as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) as a clinician-scientist. He has been invited as a Grand Rounds guest speaker at hospitals across the country, as well as invited guest orthopaedic journal article reviewer. His interest in entrepreneurship started as a teenager, when he authored a business plan for aircraft retrofits in the general aviation industry and presented it to the CEO of a publicly-traded aerospace company. This birthed a passion for identifying innovative ideas and driving them forward to maximize their potential for impact. More recently, he co-founded Unbreakable Nutrition, a venture that has developed protein bars geared towards comprehensive musculoskeletal health.

Jarred completed his engineering undergraduate education at the Johns Hopkins University, graduating first in class from his engineering department. He earned his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed residency training in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. While working as an Orthopaedic Surgeon at Hopkins, he was involved in parallel with the Clinical Innovation Program and held a dual appointment in the School of Engineering.

"I firmly believe that I will always be a physician, however I am currently operating in a different venue, finding pathways to healing on a grander scale. It takes someone with brains but also a heart to do so successfully."

Jarred Bressner, MD