Howard Krein

Howard Krein

Howard David Krein is an American otolaryngologist, plastic surgeon, and business executive. He is the husband of Ashley Biden, the daughter of United States President-Elect Joe Biden. Krein has advised the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign on its COVID-19 pandemic response in an unofficial role.

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Summary Howard KreinHoward David Krein is an American otolaryngologist, plastic surgeon, and business executive. He is the husband of Ashley Biden, the daughter of United States President-Elect Joe Biden. Krein has advised the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign on its COVID-19 pandemic response in an unofficial role. Since 2011 he has served as a Chief Medical Officer at StartUp Health, a venture capital and health technology firm. The firm, whose Chief Executive Officer is Krein’s brother, lobbied the government on health industry technology regulations in 2018.

He has volunteered at the International Hospital for Children, operating on children with facial deformities in Belize. In 2018 Krein was an invited speaker at the Pontifical Council for Culture and Roman Curia Foundation’s Fourth International Conference In An Effort To Unite To Cure at the Vatican, hosting the panel 10 Health Moonshots: How a Global Army of Health Transformers is Accomplishing One Impossible Dream.