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United States

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Champaign, Illinois, Us

Building the first Alumni Angel Group for the University of Illinois. A program of Illinois Ventures, Illini Angels draws talent, ideas, startups, and members from all three University of Illinois System campuses. Illinois Ventures, the venture capital arm of the university, is a premier seed and early-stage technology investment firm focused on research-derived companies in information technologies, physical sciences, and life sciences. It helps start and build businesses based on innovations from the University of Illinois.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

The Startup Engagement & Acceleration Coordinator, is the main point of contact, advocacy, and navigation for the community’s entrepreneurs. Focusing on business growth and product road mapping, I am the primary liaison to help startups navigate mHUB’s broad technical and entrepreneurial resources.

Western Springs, Illinois, Us

-Recognized a $2.1B gap within the healthcare industry that led to over 108M Americans not seeing adentist for their oral health needs. Raised Venture Capital and scaled a team from 3 to 7 to build an oraldisease detection solution and address the problem.-Managed customer relationships with key universities around the world for deployment and productdevelopment (UCSF, NYU, Harvard, Case Western, UVA, Manipal University).-Led small scale clinical trial, 3000 patients, in Bolivia by creating clinical trial protocol and coordinating operations.-Directed communications with key stakeholders and external partners by relaying companyperformance, financial metrics and models, as well as future objectives.-Conducted competitor & market analysis that ensured the platform stayed innovative; led to our teamwinning first place at the largest AI in medicine conference, AIMED, and being named a top tentelehealth startup by UCSF alongside companies like GoodRx.-Assembled prototype imaging devices and organized a supply chain by networking with factory ownersand part suppliers while living in Shenzhen, China.

The iVenture Accelerator enables student-led startups to create economic and social value by supporting student entrepreneurs with knowledge, funding, and access to world-class University of Illinois resources and alumni.Launched in Summer 2015, the iVenture Accelerator supports a class of the universities top student startup teams to spend the summer on campus with the time and support they need find product-market fit, build prototypes, pilot programs, build key partnerships, and scale.

Chicago, Il, Us

The Health Navigator platform is a comprehensive clinical vocabulary and decision-support system designed to support digital health and telemedicine encounters – from the presenting chief complaint to the final diagnosis. The platform includes a broad range of tools for capturing the chief complaint through natural language processing, presenting a documentation checklist to consumers and healthcare providers, generating a list of possible causes, and making recommendations for seeking care. These tools can be used to develop symptom checker, consumer engagement, and telehealth applications. All content is delivered via a well-documented application programming interface (API; RESTful web service). Health Navigator can provide solutions for eHealth, telemedicine, insurers, medical call centers, electronic health record companies, answering services, and healthcare systems.