UCLA CHM Case Competition Awards Reception
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center - 757 Westwood Plaza - Los Angeles, CA 90095For details, go here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ucla-chm-case-competition-awards-reception-tickets-229155218427
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VaxUp Challenge
The Innovation Studio at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is partnering with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on the VaxUp Challenge: a three-phase innovation challenge to generate, test and scale creative solutions that will increase COVID-19 vaccinations rates among children and teens in L.A. County, particularly in communities disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. There are three phases of the VaxUp Challenge. Organizations that are chosen in the first phase will advance to the next phase. Phase I:Idea- a-thon: Feb. 10 - 11, 2022, from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. PT Applicants will participate in a two-day virtual event featuring expert speakers who will present on topics related to the challenges of increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates among children and [...]
Vitals 2022 Solutions for All: The Path to Healthcare Equity – Pre-registration now open
Please join us at Vitals 2022 Solutions for All: The Path to Healthcare Equity on Friday, February 11, 2022 for a virtual conference that will bring together students, professionals, and academics to discuss leading topics in healthcare. This year’s conference will explore what it will take to move towards a future of equitable healthcare. As background, VITALS is the premier university-led event in the Southern California region for students, professionals, and academics focused on the healthcare industry. The conference offers ample opportunity for healthcare leaders throughout the UCLA community to collaborate with industry leaders and form lasting relationships. The day-long event will feature three keynote speakers and multiple interactive panel discussions exploring the most relevant aspects of healthcare [...]
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UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat with Cofounder & President of StartupHealth Unity Stoakes
UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat Monthly Series: With President, Co-founder & Managing Partner of StartupHealth Unity Stoakes Thursday, 2/17/2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PT About the Speaker: Unity Stoakes is on a life-long mission to achieve the impossible: to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in the world. By combining the power of moonshot thinking, a transformer mindset, and collaborative communities, he believes anything is possible. In 2011, Unity co-founded StartUp Health with Steven Krein, his business partner of more than 20 years, to invest in a global army of entrepreneurs, called Health Transformers, to embark on one extraordinary crusade: to achieve health moonshots, each of which can improve the lives of at least one billion people. [...]
UCLA CHM Case Competition Final Presentations
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center - 757 Westwood Plaza - Tamkin Auditorium - Los Angeles, CA 90095The Awards Reception follows the presentations of the final four teams. The top four teams will be presenting their ideas to a panel of UCLA Health executive judges on Friday afternoon, January 28. The winners will be announced at a celebratory reception. NOTE: Please refer to UCLA COVID-19 protocols to ensure compliance with the most up-to-date guidance.
Food Insecurity Design-a-Thon
Come put your unique ideas, perspective, and skills to the test to help us design a tech enabled solution to increase children and families’ access to healthy food in Los Angeles during this virtual design-a-thon challenge. Chance to win $5,000 in cash and other prizes TBA. Hackathon is taking place March 4th-6th. To sign-up, click here: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=HVNizmW2rkqhdQq1FBwZ2hsYomhv4VRImQj4wuS6QcVUMVhGMUI0STAxNTROSFRIWERQOFpDMzhZTS4u
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UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat with Venture Chair & Board Member at Redesign Health Missy Krasner
UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat Monthly Series: With Venture Chair & Board Member at Redesign Health Missy Krasner Thursday, 3/10/2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PT About the Speaker: Missy Krasner is a seasoned healthcare operator with 30+ years in the digital health industry. She has worked at large technology companies (Amazon, Google, Box), startups, foundations, the U.S. government and venture capital. She was a founding member of the Alexa Health & Wellness team at Amazon, led Box’s healthcare & life sciences division, and was the founding executive of Google Health. Missy worked under President George W. Bush in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where she helped start the inaugural Office the National Coordinator for [...]
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UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat with Amazon Pharmacy Chief Medical Officer Nworah Ayogu, MD, MBA
UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat Monthly Series: A Tale of Two Cities: Pros/Cons to Startups and Big Companies Thursday, 5/12/2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PT About the Speaker: Dr. Nworah Ayogu serves as the Chief Medical Officer for Amazon Pharmacy. Prior to Amazon, Nworah was the founding Medical Director for CityBlock Health – a company delivering team based virtual, in-home and clinic based medical, behavioral and social care to high cost, high social need populations. He has spent time working in the PBM space, at McKinsey working on payer strategy, co-founded a mobile health start-up in South Africa, and was part of the four-person team that launched state of Ohio’s first Office of Minority Health. He is a thought [...]
Fireside Chat with Nick Desai ’92, CEO & Co-Founder, HeyRenee
Come hear from Nick Desai '92, a UCLA alum and serial entrepreneur who has started and led four successful start-ups over the last 20 years. About this event Nick Desai is a UCLA alum and an accomplished entrepreneur who has started and led four successful start-ups over the last 20 years, including Heal – a company he co-founded to re-boot the U.S. healthcare system leveraging the transformative power of technology-enabled doctor house calls. He started his current company, HeyRenee, with his wife and co-founder Dr. Renee Dua, a UC San Diego and USC alum who also completed a residency in internal medicine at UCLA. Nick raised over $165 million in venture funding for Heal, from [...]
UCLA Biodesign Innovation Showcase & Graduation
Join UCLA Biodesign in celebrating the graduation of the 2021-2022 Biodesign Fellows. The session will showcase pitches from the UCLA Biodesign Fellows and a keynote address by Dr. Nick West, Chief Medical Officer and Divisional Vice President of Global Medical Affairs of Abbott Vascular. The program will feature innovative product solutions spanning digital health, diagnostics, interventional devices, and technology-enabled health services, as well as opening remarks by Johnese Spisso, President of UCLA Health and CEO of UCLA Hospitals and Clinics, Dr. Steve Dubinett, Interim Dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Antonio Bernardo, Dean of the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Members of the UCLA community and the public are welcome to join in [...]
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UCLA Biodesign’s 2nd Annual Women in Healthtech Leadership Lecture
Join Lisa Wipperman Heine for a conversation about her career journey and lessons learned across a cadre of roles at venture-backed startups to large, multinational companies to leading her first startup as CEO through to acquisition in less than four years. Lisa Wipperman Heine has served in the Medtech industry for over 30 years holding leadership roles in both large Medtech companies as well as venture-backed start-ups. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for 3 public medtech/biotech companies as well as 1 early-stage private company. Recently, Lisa was also President and Chief Executive Officer at preCARDIA, Inc., an early stage, heart failure focused medtech company which was acquired by Abiomed, Inc. in 2021. Ms. Heine also [...]
MedTech Strategist Innovation Summit San Francisco 2022
Innovation Summit San Francisco is MedTech’s must-attend investing and partnering conference, bringing together the greatest minds in the global medical device industry. UCLA Biodesign is excited to participate in this conference through the panel: "Driving Innovation by Improving Regulatory and Reimbursement: It's All About the Data" • Josh Makower, Director and Co-Founder, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign • Jennifer McCaney, Executive Director, UCLA Biodesign • Stephen Levin, Editor-in-Chief, Market Pathways (moderator) Learn more about Innovation Summit SF and apply to present, attend, and more here: bit.ly/3ynVzGA.