Schedule for 2015

The schedule for our upcoming is still a work in progress. Below is a general guideline. Register for more updates.

Thurs. – Jan 29, 2015

Innovation Night - We begin with an evening of fascinating talks across disciplines to inspire our participants. Optional, but highly recommended. We open this event up to all of the Tufts Health Campus as well as all who attend this event.

Fri. – Jan 30, 2015

The Innovation Challenge commences by participants discussing problems worth solving, forming teams and pitching solutions. Teams begin to collaborate with mentors and resources.

Sat. – Jan 31, 2015

Teams continue to work from morning to the evening with researching, building, experimenting, pivoting, and rebuilding their projects. We provide pitching practice sessions and guidance by mentors to help accelerate the process from idea to reality.

Sun. – Feb 1, 2015

Teams finish their projects and presentations by a morning deadline. Participants come together to watch each others presentations, delivered to a panel of esteemed judges. Winners are announced and we wrap-up one amazing weekend.

APPLY NOW

Our 2015 Application is finally here! Whether you’re looking to participate for the entire weekend or just catch some of the talks, we have an easy application process that won’t take more than a few minutes. Click here to find out more and apply.

Check Out the Prizes and Resources

We’ve searched far and wide to put together the best toolkit for participants, including hardware, software and open data sets. We also have over $4000+ of prizes and experiences aimed at helping the winning teams bring their ideas to life.

Speakers, Mentors and Organizers

Paul Beninger, MD

Mentor, MD/MBA Director, VP at Genzyme in Global Patient Safety, Pharmacovigilance, and Risk Management

Jon A Chilingerian, PhD

Mentor, Associate Professor of Human Services Management

Kate Donovan, PhDc, MBA, BS

Mentor, Co-founder of Hacking Pediatrics | entrepreneur | business owner | medical educator at Boston Children’s Hospital | quintessential technogeek | MIT

Joe Jabre, MD, MBA

Judge, Former MD/MBA Director at Tufts, Neurologist, CEO at TeleEMG

Lisa Gualtieri, PhD

Mentor; Assistant Professor of Public Health; Program Director, Digital Health Communications

Alisa Niksch, MD

Mentor, Pediatric Electrophysiologist, Medical Devices Investigator and Advisor

Dan Karlin, MD

Mentor, Academic Psychiatrist, Informatician, Human Experimental Biology Lead at Pfizer

Laura K Snydman, MD

Mentor, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Internist

Maria Blanco, Ed.D.

Judge, Associate Dean for Faculty Development; Associate Professor, Psychiatry

Rohit Khanna, MBA

Mentor, President of Catalytic Health

Tami Rich, MBA

Mentor; Hacking Peds Winning Family Advocate; Innovator in Pt Safety, Quality, Leadership

David Best, MD, MBA

Mentor, Co-Founder at The Doctor's Channel, Med.Ed. and Ad Industry Veteran

Chip Ach

Mentor, Senior Architect (MDP) at athenahealth

Mandira Singh

Judge, Senior Business Development Manager (MDP) at athenahealth

Michael Banks, MD

Mentor, Co-Founder at The Doctor's Channel, CME expert, former Internist

Neil Chheda

Judge, Co-Founder and Partner at Romulus Capital

Sandra Nagale, PhD

Judge, Principal Scientist at Boston Scientific

Jeffery Jacobson, Ph.D.

Mentor, Virtual Reality Guru at EnterpriseVR

Jeff Bail

Mentor; Senior Software Engineer, MAK Technologies; Speciality in VR

Nick Doughtery

Mentor, CEO and Co-Founder of Verbal Applications Inc., makers of VerbalCare

Jennifer Joe, MD

Mentor, CEO at Medstro, Emergency Physician at the VA

Andrew Richards

Mentor, Co-Founder and CTO at ReelDx.com

Ashley Gilmore Reid

Mentor, Co-founder at Wellist, Former strategist at Phillips and Bain and Co.

Michael Bookman

Mentor, Associate, Latham & Watkins LLP

Jim Ryan

Mentor, Founding Partner at Far Point Ventures, COO at Medstro

Shiv Gaglani

Mentor, CEO of Osmosis; MD, MBA Candidate

Rohan Jotwani

Organizer, MD/MBA Candidate

Mahima Vijay

Organizer, MD/MBA Candidate

Courtney Scanlon

Organizer, MD/MBA Candidate

Paran Yap, MBA

Organizer, MD Candidate

Monica Stadecker

Organizer, MD/MBA Candidate

Damien Lazar

Organizer, MD/MBA Candidate

Shernaz Dossabhoy

Organizer, MBS/MBA Candidate