Seats for the Patient-Centered Health Make-A-Thon are going fast! Apply today to reserve your spot before teams are full.
Design with Empathy. Innovate with Purpose. Compete for $10,000.
The Inaugural Patient-Centered Health Make-A-Thon invites interdisciplinary student teams to co-design innovative solutions with real patients. This hands-on event offers a unique opportunity to tackle real healthcare challenges through the design thinking process, guided by mentors and patient collaborators.
Each team will be paired with a patient co-designer who has a complex or nuanced medical challenge and use empathic problem solving around their lived reality to develop an early-phase solution prototype with support from the Office of Research and Innovation (ORI), resources from CIMED Professor Deana McDonagh and the (dis)ability Design Studio, and access to the Siebel Center for Design Makerspace. All prototyping costs are fully sponsored by ORI.
The top three teams will be awarded seed funding from a $10,000 prize pool.
Teams will meet Saturday (Dec 6th) to understand the patient challenge and develop their solution concepts. Teams will present to the judging panel the following day, Sunday (Dec 7th).