Lebanese m-health entrepreneur meets President Obama

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Lebanon’s Ziad Sankari, founder of m-health startup CardioDiagnostics, was yesterday a guest speaker at the White House.

As one of five speakers from around the world, Sankari joined a panel that included ‘Shark Tank’ entrepreneurs Mark Cuban, Daymond John, and Barbara Corcoran, to talk about their startups.

Among founders from Colombia and Nigeria, the now San Francisco-based founder was selected by the Obama administration as a representative of innovative solutions to some of the world’s toughest challenges, including poverty, climate change, extremism, as well as access to education and healthcare.

Sankari told Wamda that meeting with President Barack Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden, was inspiring. He commended their work on cardiac monitoring and “encouraged us to do more in service of healthcare.”

Original article by Lucy Knight

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