C. R. Denham, II, MD
CEO, HCC Corporation
Chairman, TMIT
Dr. Denham is the developer of CareUniversity which is the delivery system for the Med Tac Certificate Program which his development team funded and produced. Together with Dr. Gregory Botz and Chief William Adcox of MD Anderson Cancer Center, he is developing and testing the Med Tac program and innovations. He is a 2018 Pete Conrad Global Patient Safety Award winner for co-founding Med Tac and his role in pioneering the program for schools, churches, and scout groups. He is an instructor for the American College of Surgeons Stop the Bleed Program, an American Heart Association CPR/AED instructor, and has advanced wilderness first aid training with the American Red Cross. He has advanced aviation certifications, having flown jets for more than a decade, owned an airplane manufacturing company, and operated a charter air ambulance service.
During his career spanning 35 years, he and his organizations have served hundreds of innovation teams in both academia and industry. While in practice as a radiation oncologist prior to retiring, he taught biomedical engineering and product development at the University of Texas.
He has been an adjunct Professor of Health Engineering at the Mayo Clinic Medical School and had teaching appointments as an Instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health and as a Lecturer with the faculty of Harvard Medical School. He was a Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow in 2009 and a Senior Fellow in 2010 and 2011. His work there led to the production of a series of global documentaries on the Discovery Channel. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the global Journal of Patient Safety, and has more than 100 works including peer-reviewed papers and multimedia productions. He has been ranked in the top 50 Most Influential Physician Executives by Modern Healthcare in multiple years, and he has served as a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal program The Experts: Journal Reports. He is an advisor to and collaborator with many Stanford University programs.
He founded HCC Corporation, a for-profit innovation incubator, and TMIT, a non-profit medical research organization, in the early ‘80s; the companies work collaboratively on common innovation programs. CareUniversity, focused on the continuing education of consumers and caregivers is the delivery system for Med Tac which is one of these global initiatives in development. His current research and development work is in the area of Threat Safety Science to reduce preventable harm to families, caregivers, and institutions. His focus in communities is bystander care through Med Tac. His focus in healthcare institutions is caregiver harm and patient safety including new insider threats such as administrative and academic fraud and outsider threats including workplace violence, cybercrime, and defamation. His family has funded the Med Tac program to date with no direct or indirect funding from the healthcare industry.