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Greg Segal

Gregory Lyons Segal (born June 13, 1984) is an American entrepreneur.

Greg Segal, 2014

Career

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Segal began his career at Rethink Education,[1] an education technology venture capital firm. In 2013 he co-founded the non-profit Organize to address the US organ donation shortage after his father waited five years for a heart transplant.

Segal's research has been heavily cited through three separate congressional investigations from the Senate Finance Committee,[2] the House Energy & Commerce Committee,[3] and the House Oversight Committee [4] into failures and abuses in the U.S. organ donation system, and has led to regulatory reforms projected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to save more than 7,200 lives every year, disproportionately patients of color.[5] In March 2023, the Biden administration announced it would break up the monopoly contract for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), which manages the U.S. organ donation system.[6] In July 2023, Congress unanimously passed legislation to support the break up of the OPTN monopoly,[7] and Segal was invited to a small bill signing ceremony in the Oval Office. Segal also provided expert and whistleblower testimony at a bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing in September 2024.[8]

For his work at Organize, Segal was named to the Inc Magazine 35 Under 35 List[9] and Oprah's 100 SuperSoul Influencers,[10][11] and was awarded a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award[12] and a 2016 Classy Award.[13] He was a keynote presenter at the 2015 Stanford MedX Conference, where Organize was honored with the Inaugural Stanford MedX Health Care Design Award.[14] Organize won the $1 Million 1st Prize in the 2014 Verizon Powerful Answers Award as the top healthcare start-up of the year[15] and was awarded the Innovator in Residence position at the Office of the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services. Inc Magazine called Segal one of the top 20 Disruptive Innovators of 2016.[16]

Segal has been covered by The New York Times,[17] which called Organize one of 2016's "Biggest Ideas in Social Change",[18] as well as the Washington Post,[19] Slate[20] and FastCompany,[21] and his work at Organize was highlighted on HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.[22] Segal graduated from Duke University and was a member of President Barack Obama’s National Finance Committee.[23] He is also a member of the board of directors at Bayes Impact[24] and the Board of Advocates at Human Rights First.[25]

References

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  1. ^ "Greg Segal". January 23, 2017.
  2. ^ "Finance Committee Members Probe U.S. Organ Transplant System | the United States Senate Committee on Finance". May 25, 2023.
  3. ^ https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/e-and-c-launches-bipartisan-oversight-inquiry-into-organ-transplant-contractor-and-implementation-of-bipartisan-reforms
  4. ^ "Oversight Subcommittee Launches Investigation into Poor Performance, Waste, and Mismanagement in Organ Transplant Industry". December 23, 2020.
  5. ^ "New Organ Donation Rule is a Win for Black Patients and Health Equity". 2020. doi:10.1377/forefront.20201211.229975. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ "Troubled U.S. organ transplant system targeted for overhaul". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 17, 2023.
  7. ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/07/27/organ-transplant-overhaul-approved/
  8. ^ https://www.wsj.com/us-news/organ-supply-group-accused-of-seeking-to-collect-organs-from-patient-who-was-still-alive-bc4f9bb9?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1
  9. ^ "Inc. 35 Under 35 2014: Organize on Ending the Organ Shortage in the U.S." June 24, 2014.
  10. ^ "Oprah's Super Soul Sunday - Episodes & Podcast | OWN".
  11. ^ "Meet the SuperSoul100: The World's Biggest Trailblazers in One Room". O Magazine. August 1, 2016. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  12. ^ "Tribeca 2016 & Disruptor Foundation Announce Honorees for 7th Annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards".
  13. ^ "Introducing the 10 Classy Awards Winners". June 24, 2016.
  14. ^ Medicine X 2015: Health Care Design Award Winner, Greg Segal. YouTube. Archived from the original on December 8, 2021.
  15. ^ "Introducing the Verizon Powerful Answers Award Winners for 2014". December 8, 2014.
  16. ^ "20 Most Disruptive Innovators of 2016". April 24, 2016.
  17. ^ Bornstein, David (May 10, 2016). "Opinion | Using Tweets and Posts to Speed up Organ Donation". The New York Times.
  18. ^ Rosenberg, Tina (December 6, 2016). "Opinion | A Year of Big Ideas in Social Change". The New York Times.
  19. ^ Lenny Bernstein (October 26, 2021) [2016-06-13]. "White House, private sector act to reduce organ transplant waiting list". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.[please check these dates]
  20. ^ Brogan, Jacob (June 29, 2016). "If You Want to Make Sure Your Family Knows You're an Organ Donor, Put It on Facebook". Slate.
  21. ^ "Can This New Startup End the Organ Donor Shortage Forever?". January 30, 2014.
  22. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Dialysis: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO). YouTube.
  23. ^ "Greg Segal". January 23, 2017.
  24. ^ "Bayes Impact - Empowering people at scale".
  25. ^ "Greg Segal".
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