David Ellis

David Ellis is a futurist author, speaker, and consultant. His main, but not his sole, focus is healthcare.

A former "China watcher" for the British government, he emigrated to the United States in 1983 and became managing editor of a demographic journal. He subsequently founded a successful US regional Internet service provider, won the 2000 HIMSS Book of the Year award for “Technology and The Future of Health Care,” founded the monthly online publication “Health Futures Digest” (www.hfdigest.com), co-founded MEMRI (www.memri.us), the Michigan Electronic Medical Record Initiative, and for six years served as corporate director of planning and future studies at the Detroit Medical Center.

He was educated in England, Hong Kong, and the United States, and holds degrees in business studies, Chinese, and the information and communication sciences.