Victoria Ndoh
Vactraca – The Innovation Award is presented to the participant with the most creative approach of addressing a SDoH, which in Victoria’s case was creating a lightweight pendant that doubles as a vaccination tracker for infants. We look forward to seeing Victoria’s participation in Diversity Innovation Hub’s upcoming Incubator as she works alongside Mount Sinai mentors to move forward with Vactraca. Winner of the 2022 Pitch Day Innovation Award.

Calista Dominy and Niko Vlastos
3iUD – Calista Dominy and Joseph Vlastos were presented with this award for their creation of 3iUD, a 3D printed device that provides people with uteruses access to personalized contraception. Diversity Innovation Hub looks forward to seeing 3iUD’s vision come to life in our upcoming Incubator. Winners of the 2022 Women’s Impact Award.

Lisberma Peralta, Kazi Nur, Jocelynn Labossiere, and Maria C. Lopez
Opiod Free – The concept behind Opioid Free is an app aiming to provide social support and combat opioid related morbidity and mortality amongst recently released prisoners but increasing accessibility to resources and social programs. Winners of the 2022 Pitch Day Community Impact Award.

Candice Blacknall, MD, MBA
Founder – GABA Inc., a career development platform and online community providing personalized content and mentorship for STEM students and early professionals. Winner of DIH 2020 Pitch Day.

Hannibal Person, MD
Pitch – Breaking Through, a digital anti-racism platform for teams. Second Place, DIH 2020 Pitch Day.

Jay Sanghvi and Katie Link
Pitch – Scopic Health, a digital social determinants of health risk assessment tool to help aid better surgical outcomes. Third Place, DIH 2020 Pitch Day.

Jared Dashevsky, Brett Dashevsky, Harrison Kaplan, and Sitara Shirol
Founders – Healthcare Huddle, an end-to-end healthcare media education platform that simplifies complex healthcare issues.

RiskAverse
Founder: Kaushik Viswanathan
The RiskAverse platform is meant to create personalized outreach strategies for patients through any marketing channel. This platform segments outreach to any datapoint (i.e. demographic, risk level, diagnosis, etc.), allowing unique engagements to reach specific target populations.

3iUD
Founders: Calista Dominy and Niko Vlastos
3iUD is a 3D printed device that provides people with uteruses access to personalized contraception.

Vactraca
Founder: Victoria Ndoh
Vactraca is a necklace with a lightweight pendant which doubles as a vaccination tracker. It highlights infants’ routine immunization information from birth to completion. It complements hospital records and can be used when vaccination cards are not available, defaced or destroyed. It can also be used as the primary immunization recording tool in refugee and displaced persons communities.

Lasso Cauterizer
Founders: Benjamin Rodriguez, Frederika Rentzeperis
The lasso cauterizer is a loop cauterizer for use during neurosurgery for treatment of glioblastoma, the idea being that a minimally invasive approach in neurosurgery can limit costs and hospital stay times to provide equitable access to treatment.

Drawing Your Way Through Medicine
Founder: Rebecca Kellner
Addressing the health literacy gap through art. The program works with healthcare professionals to translate important medical instructions and information to user friendly illustrations.

Positive Medicine
Founder: Christina M. Blackburn
An online platform to help educate providers and frontline staff on issues of gender-based, intimate partner, and family violence.

HUED
Founder: Kimberly Wilson
A platform to connect diverse patients to culturally competent healthcare providers to increase quality of care.

I am supporting the Clinical Operations team at RubiconMD.

I currently work on the Clinical Operations team at RubiconMD where I have been working to analyze and characterize the educational benefits of RubiconMD’s electronic consultation platform for primary care providers. Additionally, I have been working with past datasets to assess the impact of electronic consultations on patient outcomes in a refugee clinic in Matamoros, Mexico where RubiconMD has a pro bono presence.

During my fellowship I had the opportunity to work to better understand the Medicaid population and how to create change in the ecosystem. I had t opportunity to meet and network with leaders and innovators in health and understand how I can eventually help contribute to helping vulnerable populations.

I contributed to various projects, all with the central aim of exploring strategies to center health equity within digital health innovation.

During my summer at RubiconMD, I worked with the clinical operations team to develop a quality framework for e-consults on the platform. We reviewed over 100 e-consult transcripts for content and clarity, and ultimately created a labeling tool to streamline the internal process of rating e-consults. During the process of reviewing transcripts, I also created one-pagers for the RubiconMD website that demonstrate how virtual specialists can be used in various clinical scenarios pertaining to cardiology and women’s health.

I performed an extensive literature review and analysis of research and surveys from private, public, and government entities about limited funding among underrepresented founders. Additionally, managed databases and held topic-focused meetings with health equity leaders and investment stakeholders and to develop platforms to bridge this gap.

I provided RockHealth.org with recommendations for a strategic approach to Equity Design by completing a literature review, landscape review, and expert interviews. Results were presented to the RockHealth.org team to help guide their future work. Also, I assisted with information gathering on a report about Underfunded Digital Health Innovators.

As an intern and DIH fellow sponsored by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, I coordinated event programming, including Restorative Healing Circles, and created engaging health promotional material for social media and news mediums. I continue to stay involved with the Radical Health mission through engagement in Radical Health programming via numerous platforms (Instagram Live).

At RubiconMD my work relied on my clinical experience and access to quality field experts to improve the ease of use, quality, and marketing of their e-consulting service. Operating during the height of the pandemic, I conducted research and interviews with field experts to provide and implement recommendations on site navigation and recruitment targets. Additionally, for marketing purposes, I performed qualitative research on their consult transcripts to empirically demonstrate their positive impact on the care of their user’s patients.

During my year with the DIH, I worked to scale-up implementation of my “health-system community school” model where hospitals and school districts partner to create one-stop-shops for all students healthcare and education needs. Through collaborative partnerships based off ongoing success in one Pittsburgh school used in Pittsburgh, we aim to expand this model to additional schools in Pittsburgh as well as New York.

I am currently on my DIH x global surgery scholarly year in rural Uganda. I am continuing my research in global cancer care and ENT/otolaryngology from my work last year as a global summer scholar. I am working on global surgery research, volunteering with Sudanese refugees, and finding innovative ways to make surgical care accessible to all people.

I was with Consumer Digital for a two year fellowship and was able to serve as both a Product and Engineering Operations Manager. The product work included the coordination, implementation, and maintenance of remote patient monitoring, voice over IP, SDoH chat bot, and video visit technologies across Mount Sinai Health Partners patient populations. The engineering work focused on agile workflows, software development life cycles, and business success tracking for the entire Consumer Digital Engineering team.

I spent the 2022-2023 academic year as an DIH Fellow based in Lima, Peru, investigating the burden of mental health disorders, chronic pain, and the effects of resiliency among people living with HIV (PLWH). My fellowship year was centered around creating a study quantifying the burden of mental health disorders, pain, and the mitigating effects of resiliency at the largest public HIV clinic in Lima. In order to create this project, I built connections to multiple public HIV clinics and private NGOs that serve the population of PLWH in Peru.

Through work with the leading digital healthcare venture capital firm, AlleyCorp, the thesis of my project is to explore what skills from physician training are transferrable to a career in venture capital and healthcare entrepreneurship. The findings from this project can serve as a roadmap for future “doctor-preneurs”, enabling a world in which physicians are at the helm of healthcare’s transformational change. 

At Consumer Digital I was able to serve as both a Product and Engineering Operations Manager. The product work included the coordination, implementation, and maintenance of remote patient monitoring, voice over IP, SDoH chat bot, and video visit technologies across Mount Sinai Health Partners patient populations. The engineering work focused on agile workflows, software development life cycles, and business success tracking for the entire Consumer Digital Engineering team.