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Minneapolis, MN, US

Surgical operating unit.

Boston, MA, US

Providing human-centered design services to non-profits, start-ups, and innovation teams in large companies who are on a mission to improve health in U.S. or international communities. Spark Health Design can: (1) use human-centered design and human factors techniques to understand your complex set of healthcare stakeholders who must choose, use, and pay.

Needham, MA, US

Affordable Design and Entrepreneurship program, lead faculty advisor to the global health team working on affordable, accessible medical devices for under-resourced settings.Current student team is designing an affordable and intuitive hearing screening device for early detection of hearing loss to improve life outcomes in Guatemala, Massachusetts, and.

London, England, GB

Using human-centered design to enable design of more effective, affordable and appropriate equipment to support safe surgery in under-resourced operating theaters.Check out the target product profile we helped create for the upcoming Lifebox surgical headlight: https://www.lifebox.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Lifebox-Light-Target-Product-Profile.pdfThis.

Babson Park, MA, US

Lecturer and human centered design coach with the Babson Global Health Innovation Lab (GHIL). Through GHIL, Babson students work collaboratively with international students to design solutions to global health challenges. This program is part of the Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship at Babson.Spring 2023: a collaboration with the.

Seattle, Washington, US

Managed the product development effort and designed and executed the human-centered design strategy for a machine learning device for cervical cancer screening in low- and middle-income countries.Spark Health Design previously provided human-centered design and usability engineering services to design the Global Health Labs in-situ oxygen filling and.

Boston, MA, US

Led product design and development efforts for the MIMIX Flu vaccine microneedle array patch applicator. MIMIX promises to be the first shelf-stable vaccine that has the potential to be self-applied. The resulting early stage applicator was used in a successful phase 1 clinical trial in 2022.Led product design and development efforts for the SpeciMatrix.

Waltham, MA, US

Led human factors effort and closely collaborated with industrial design to develop user interface for acute care and home care devices. Human factors in-context formative evaluations and contextual inquiry for acute care and home care nitric oxide gas delivery devices following IEC 62366 and FDA Guidance. Selection and management of commercial IRB.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Using human-centered design strategy to improve the user experience across the Jana Care platform including rapid diagnostic test kits, smartphone-integrated hardware, and Habits lifestyle management app. This was a consulting position.Jana Care has launched in India; a mobile diagnostic platform that makes screening and monitoring of chronic disease.

Cambridge, MA, US

Led the ethnographic and strategic aspects of DFA's bovine Estrus test kit to increase smallholder dairy farmer income in East Africa. In addition, recruited and led a team to create an interactive prototype and video of a disposable molecular diagnostic concept for early infant diagnosis of HIV. About Diagnostics For AllDiagnostics For All (DFA) is a.

Redmond, WA, US

Director responsible for identifying, launching, and leading scalable medical technology projects that address the most critical challenges afflicting the poor in low- and middle-income countries. A relationship management lead who develops new products and services in partnership with domestic, international, nonprofit and private sector social.

San Francisco, California, US

Medical device and innovation with breadth of experience from design strategy to design for manufacturing. Clients included Eli Lilly, BriteSmile, Becton Dickinson, Pfizer, and Abbott Nutrition. Successful program lead managing nine projects over two years totaling $2 million revenue. Example product launches include the Target Itso modular storage system.

San Francisco, California, US

B.S., General Engineering

Engineering Semester Abroad