Desert Horse-Grant Named Modern Healthcare Top 25 Innovator
Desert Horse-Grant, senior director of UCLA Health Research and Innovation, and co-executive director of UCLA Biodesign, has been recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of this year’s Top 25 Innovators. The program recognizes leaders who are instituting innovation and leading transformative programs that measurably improve patient-centered care through advances in technology.
Horse-Grant launched the UCLA Health Innovation Challenge, which links patient-centered technology ideas with funding sources. More than 300 team submissions have been evaluated and over $1.1 million and in-kind resources have been awarded to 37 patient-centered technologies and programs. She also co-created the UCLA Biodesign Program, a fellowship that brings care providers, engineers and business executives together to develop new technologies.