Anna Young works from a fundamental belief that, with the right tools, everyday people can use their ingenuity to create devices that heal. Applying years of global experience with the Maker Movement, Anna brings prototyping tools and makerspaces into hospitals enhance the natural problem solving abilities of clinicians and patients. Anna is the Co-Founder of MakerHealth | MakerNurse, an RWJF sponsored program to support inventive frontline clinicians. Anna’s roots come from MIT as researcher in the Little Devices Lab and lecturer in the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. She has spoken at TEDMED and WIRED UK on the role of the maker movement in health care. In 2015, Anna was recognized by LinkedIn as a top Health Innovator under 35 and in 2016 received Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business. Trained as economist at the University of Dayton and self-taught to be a medical device maker, Anna lives in Boston, MA.