Robert Lord, MD

Partner
LionBird Ventures

Dr. Robert Lord is a Partner at LionBird Ventures, an early-stage healthcare technology venture capital firm, and an Emergency Medicine resident physician at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland. Robert is also the Co-Founder and Chairman of Protenus, the world’s leading healthcare compliance analytics platform, which protects hospitals across the country from malicious actors in their electronic systems.

Robert is a widely-recognized expert in digital health, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and healthcare system innovation. His insights have been featured in Forbes, the Baltimore Sun, and many other publications, and he has briefed the U.S. Senate on the risks posed to our healthcare data by various cybersecurity threats. He is a Fellow at New America, where he is a leader in their healthcare cybersecurity thought leadership and the author of “Do No Harm 2.0.” He sits on a number of healthcare technology boards, providing strategic guidance to emerging leaders in digital health.

Robert has been named an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, as well as one of the Baltimore Business Journal’s “Tech 10,” the leaders who are defining Baltimore’s technology ecosystem.

Robert began his career as an Investment Associate at Bridgewater Associates. He received his AB from Harvard College,magna cum laude in Social Studies, and his MD from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.