Voices of Healthcare · #30
Bijan Salehizadeh
Managing Director
NaviMed Capital
Bijan Salehizadeh is a managing director and co-founder of NaviMed Capital, a Washington-area firm that invests in healthcare providers and pharmaceutical services. He is a physician who trained in molecular biology at Princeton and in health policy at Columbia, and he previously was a general partner at Highland Capital Partners.
An MD from Columbia
He earned an AB in molecular biology from Princeton, an MD and a master's degree in health policy from Columbia, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is also a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program.
Investing at Highland Capital
He has about 25 years of operating and investing experience. He sits on the firm's investment committee and leads investments in healthcare providers and pharmaceutical services. Before co-founding NaviMed he was a general partner at Highland Capital Partners, which he joined in 2004, focused on growth-stage healthcare. Before Highland he held operating roles at public and younger healthcare companies.
Boards include Advantage Surgical & Wound Care, BrentCare Behavioral Health, Citrus Health Group, and OPN Healthcare. Earlier boards included CenterPointe Behavioral Health, The CM Group, Lighthouse Lab Services, and Velocity Clinical Research. The firm is based in Rosslyn, Virginia, across the Potomac from Washington.
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