The CEO & Co-founder of Health Wildcatters, a top-ranked healthcare accelerator and fund in Dallas, TX. Health Wildcatters provides mentorship, capital, and guidance to up to 12 healthcare-related startups annually during an intensive 3-month program. The fund has invested in 109 healthcare startups, which have attracted over $320M in capital in 11 years. Dr. Zajicek has extensive experience with startups and is an active speaker, panelist, and thought leader on healthcare startups, entrepreneurship, financing & healthcare. He serves as an advisor, mentor, and board member of various organizations and startup companies.
Prior to Health Wildcatters, he was managing director – medical technology at NTEC (North Texas Enterprise Center), where he ran what eventually became the Southwest’s largest medtech investment conference, showcasing startups that attracted in excess of $300M. Prior, he was on faculty at UT Southwestern, as an NIH funded principal investigator, in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Cell Biology. He has an MD from the University of Vienna and an MBA from SMU. He lives in Dallas with his wife, Beth McNally Zajicek, MD and two daughters.