Terry R. Knapp

Dr. Knapp founded CareSpan in 2010 with the mission to transform how healthcare can be delivered with better accessibility, lower cost and better outcomes. He is a U.S. board-certified surgeon with a 40-year history of multinational care delivery and is an accomplished medical device and services entrepreneur. Dr. Knapp was previously co-founder of Collagen Corporation and served as the CEO of a publicly traded, diversified medical device and information technology company. While serving as Collagen’s first VP of Regulatory and Clinical Affairs, he submitted and received the first U.S. FDA product approval for a Class III medical device.

He has also served in executive roles at several other private and public companies, and has held numerous Board of Director positions. Dr. Knapp has authored 15 U.S.- issued and many foreign patents in the field of medical devices and medical information technology, and has written numerous peer-reviewed medical publications, editorials and book chapters. He was a founding member of the Board of the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship Development at the University of Colorado, Denver. Dr. Knapp completed his medical degree at the University of Florida at Gainesville, and went on to specialty training in Plastic Surgery at Stanford University.