Daniel Palestrant is founder and CEO of Cambridge-based Sermo, Inc., the largest physician-only online community. As CEO, Daniel is responsible for the overall vision of the Sermo community and business, ensuring that Sermo is a valuable resource for physicians while also overseeing profitability through unique industry partnerships.

Daniel formed Sermo in 2005 and launched the community in 2006 with approximately 800 registered physicians. Today, Sermo has attracted over 100,000 doctors, who use Sermo to exchange the latest in medical thinking with colleagues nationwide. No stranger to the entrepreneurial side of medicine, Daniel founded his first company, Azygos, Inc., in 1998. During that time, he successfully raised $2.2 million in funding and deployed the company's first clinical application on schedule and on budget, before selling the company to BioNetrix in May of 2001.

After selling Azygos, Daniel joined BioNetrix (Now BNX Systems) as Director of Health Care. During his time at BNX Systems, Daniel helped numerous healthcare-focused businesses increase network security, improve patient privacy safeguards and comply with HIPAA. Daniel has done clinical and laboratory research in transplant immunology. He has a B.S. in biology from Johns Hopkins University, completed medical school at Duke University, and trained in General Surgery at Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital in Boston.

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