Carl Dahlberg, MD, MBA, started as a computer science graduate from the University of Michigan, worked in Silicon Valley, then Chicago's derivatives trading industry — until he looked around at a trillion dollars changing hands every day and realized he simply didn't care. "I wanted to solve important problems for real people," he says. "The movement of money just didn't do it for me."
So he went back to Michigan for medical school, found his people in the emergency department — where you never know what's coming next and hesitation isn't an option — and has spent nearly 20 years practicing clinical emergency medicine across Massachusetts and beyond. He worked overwhelmed ICUs in Texas during COVID. He was in Asheville within days of Hurricane Helene.
A few years ago he added an MBA from MIT Sloan to his toolkit, and has since coached dozens of early-stage health startups at MIT and Harvard. His consistent advice to all of them: list your assumptions, then set them aside and go listen. The most brilliant people are often the worst at that.
He brings that same discipline to Baby Halo Co. He will tell you plainly that the science on household EMF and infant health is unsettled — and that he won't claim otherwise. What he will tell you is that the market for EMF protection products is full of untested materials, unverifiable claims, and parents who deserve better. He co-founded this company to close that gap: rigorous engineering, independent lab testing, and a physician who puts his name on it because it does exactly what it says.
Solving important problems for real people. That's still the thread.