A physician working to make healthcare better for everyone.
Michael T. Dent, M.D., is Founder, Chairman and CEO of HealthLynked Corp. (OTCQB: HLYK), a Naples, Florida healthcare technology company building one network for patients and providers.
From exam room to enterprise
A life in medicine, from a father’s example to the companies built on it.
Roots
Medicine runs back generations in the Dent family. In seventeenth-century Cambridge, his ancestor Peter Dent worked as a physician and naturalist alongside John Ray. His great-great-grandfather served as a surgeon during the Civil War, caring for the wounded in one of the hardest periods in American medicine. His father, an OB/GYN in a small South Georgia town, died at 38 when Dr. Dent was ten, and that example led him into medicine. He grew up partly overseas, in Saudi Arabia and South America, and spent two years at Asheville School in North Carolina before college.
Practice
In 1996 he opened a solo OB/GYN practice in Naples, Florida, later Naples Women’s Center [confirm: same entity], focused on high-risk obstetrics and minimally invasive surgery [confirm: surgery wording]. His surgical work spanned robotic, minimally invasive and pelvic reconstructive surgery, as well as operative obstetrics. The practice joined HealthLynked in 2014.
Ventures
He started NeoGenomics from scratch as the human genome was being mapped, beginning with three employees in Naples, and served as its founding chairman and CEO. The company went on to focus on cancer diagnostics. In 2014 he founded HealthLynked, where he serves as Chairman and CEO, building one connected network that brings patients and their doctors together.
Trained in medicine. Driven to improve it.
- UndergraduateB.S., Biology & Pre-Med — Davidson College [confirm: degree; sources say ‘Bachelor’s Degree’]
- Medical schoolM.D. — Medical University of South Carolina, 1992
- ResidencyObstetrics & Gynecology — University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, 1992–1996
- Executive educationBusiness Executive Education — Florida Gulf Coast University
[confirm: board certification in OB/GYN — omit unless confirmed] [confirm: Fellow, ACOG — listed on Doximity]
Companies built for patients
One brought cancer genomics to more patients. The other connects patients and their doctors.
NeoGenomics Laboratories
Founder; former Chairman & CEO; director 1998–July 2015. [confirm: use ‘Founder and former Chairman & CEO’?] [confirm: founding year 2001 vs. ‘early 2001’] [confirm: 1998 board start vs. 2000–2001 founding]
HealthLynked Corp.
A patient-controlled network: patients keep their health record and choose who sees it, whether family, doctors or caregivers.
InLight Capital Partners
Healthcare, IT and life-science investing. [confirm: still active?]
MedOfficeDirect
Online medical-supply distribution.
Producer of FOREVER: The End of Aging (2024), written and directed by Paul Castro.
“The technology we need to impact longevity at the genetic level is already here today.”Dr. Dent, in a 2021 interview [confirm: Michael approves the cleaned quotes]
Work with Dr. Dent
Dr. Dent is looking for people who want to change healthcare. If you’re a physician, partner or investor who shares his vision of simpler, connected care for every patient, he’d like to hear from you. He also speaks to healthcare leaders, investors and general audiences, and welcomes invitations to bring that message to your event.
Where the calling began.
