Joshua Forrest
Chief Executive Officer at Native Wound Therapy
Tulsa Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Forrest is a healthcare entrepreneur and CEO with eight years of operational leadership building mobile-first care models that bring clinical excellence to tribal, rural, and underserved communities. He founded and scaled multiple ventures—RapidCare, Advanced Wound Therapy, and Native Wound Therapy—focused on rapid in-home intervention and mobile wound care, blending practical technology with regulatory innovation. His background as a paramedic, flight medic, and disaster responder informs a leadership style marked by urgency, ethical rigor, and hands-on process design. Joshua combines frontline clinical credibility with business acumen in operations, risk mitigation, and training, having led everything from field teams to program architecture. He is driven to replace broken systems with culturally aligned, practical solutions that actually work in the field. Outside work he emphasizes servant leadership and team care as the foundation for better patient outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Paramedic, Pre-Hospital Paramedicine, Paramedic, Pre-Hospital Paramedicine at Cherokee Nation EMSEmergency Medical Technology/Technician (EMT Paramedic), Emergency Medical Technology/Technician (EMT Paramedic) at Tulsa Community College
English
Github Skills (35)
julia9
computational-biology8
systems-biology8
sbml8
dde8
differential-equations8
bioinformatics8
pde8
ode7
ordinary-differential-equations7
symbolic-computation7
nonlinear-programming7
graph-framework7
metabolic-models7
constraint7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jedforrest/BondGraphJulia
Mar 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 155 pushes, 21 branches in 8 months
jedforrest/BondGraphs.jl
Aug 2021 - Mar 2023
Julia implementation of the bond graph framework
Contributions:2 releases, 6 reviews, 181 commits in 1 year 7 months
graph-frameworkjulia
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