Dorothea Koh , MS

Director
Business Model Innovation
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Shanghai,

Henkens Biodesign Fellow, 07-08
Dorothea Koh is the Director of Business Model Innovation at Baxter China. In her current role, she is responsible for leading a multidisciplinary team to create and implement disruptive new business models to address the needs of 120 million Chronic Kidney Disease patients and to impact the safety of 13.5 billion intravenous infusions in China.

Dorothea joined Baxter in 2012 as Senior Program Leader, International where she served as the Chief-of-Staff to the President of Baxter International. In this role, she helped lead several strategic and business development initiatives across multiple Baxter Franchises to shape Baxter’s international growth strategy for emerging markets including the development of a framework for public-private partnerships in Asia.

Prior to her role at Baxter, Dorothea was the Senior Manager of Business Development and Strategy at Medtronic where she was focused on driving accelerated patient access in emerging markets. She began her career as a Senior Officer in the Singapore Economic Development Board where she was responsible for attracting over US$150 million in foreign investments into Singapore’s Biomedical Sciences industry.

Dorothea graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Economics from Northwestern University, and received her M.S. in Bioengineering from Stanford University. She is the youngest fellow to be awarded the Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellowship where she helped to innovate new medical technologies for the critical care and electrophysiology fields. Upon her return to Singapore, Dorothea co-founded the Stanford-Singapore Biodesign program to train the next generation of Asian medical device innovators.

Dorothea is the lead inventor on six published and pending patents and was part of the founding team for Niveus Medical, a medical device company spun out of the Stanford Biodesign program. In her spare time, she enjoys listening to classical and jazz music as well as running, swimming and golf. Dorothea draws significant pleasure from brainstorming how next to change the world. She considers one of her biggest accomplishments to date to have been winning the Biggest Failure Award during the 2008 Stanford I-Challenge week.