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Fellow:Arnab Sarker

2015-10-22T21:34:28Z

Arnabsarker:

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Hailing from the great state of Maryland, Arnab Sarker is a third year medical student and business student at the UVA School of Medicine and Darden School of Business. He writes/thinks/breathes about how policy, technology, and medicine can work together to keep people healthy. He is a recognized student champion of entrepreneurship and innovation at the School of Medicine, and is currently serving as the student chair of the Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum. He is currently an independent consultant, advising healthcare focused tech companies, and also a regular health columnist for [http://www.1776.vc/insights 1776 Insights]. He is the former Director of Operations of [http://www.kstreet.vc K Street Capital] and member of the founding team of [http://www.1776.vc 1776 DC]. Prior, he was a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting LLP and the MITRE Center for Transforming Health, focusing on Meaningful Use policy and large electronic health record implementations. Arnab received his undergraduate degree ''magna cum laude'' in the Biology of Global Health from Georgetown University. When he is not at the hospital or reading young adult fiction books, he can likely be found at a Bhangra-related event. Or a Taylor Swift concert. Or both.
== Related LInks ==

[[University of Virginia]]

[[University of Virginia Student Priorities]]

[[Tarun kalakoti|Tarun Kalakoti]]

[[Justis Midura]]

'''Arnab Sarker'''

[[Keaton Wadzinski]]

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Priorities:UVA University Student Priorities

2015-10-20T01:24:54Z

Arnabsarker:

= 2015 UIF Leadership Circle =

== ''Fall 2015'' ==

Top priorites:

1. Increasing Health mentorship

2. ReinventED Lab

3. Crowdfunded Student Ventures
<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Health UnBound<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Description: Promote medical innovation and entrepreneurship at the University by centralizing resources in a student organization. Health UnBound has already been working this past year to accomplish these goals through various competitions and industry tours. For this year, we want to emphasize student team mentorship to encourage students to stick with projects and get hooked on medical entrepreneurship.</li>
<li>Goals: + Timeline:<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>We will host a medical design competition near the beginning of the semester that spawns project teams and offer money and mentorship as the main prize<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>This has already been completed</li>
</ol></li>
<li>Through the semester we will host “health community office hours” at a local community workspace to touch base with projects</li>
<li>We will help competitive projects apply for funding near the end of the semester.<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Our main goal for this stage will be to prep teams for University  entrepreneurship cup to gain $1000 in funding.</li>
</ol></li>
</ol></li>
</ol></li>
</ol>

<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>ReinventED Lab<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Description: ReinventED Lab aims to build a community of creative problem-solving in education. We do this by hosting signature programs (24 Hour Challenge and Startup Weekend EDU: Problem-solvathon Edition), developing a customizable creative problem-solving process (drawing on design thinking, lean startup tactics, and 4.0 Schools methodologies), and growing impact-driven education innovation projects. Recognizing the net potential of education innovation at UVA, in Albemarle County, and in the Charlottesville community, ReinventED Lab aims to convene stakeholders for productive ideation and collaboration. To this end, ReinventED Lab leverages student voices, design thinking, and community building best practices, with the objective of establishing the Charlottesville area’s pre-eminence as a leader in the national movement towards locally-grown, early-stage education innovation.</li>
<li>Goals:<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Attract a significant number of attendees to ReinventED events</li>
<li>Bring multiple stakeholder groups into conversation with one another</li>
<li>Support the growth of education innovation projects</li>
<li>Identify the needs for users engaged in early-stage education innovation</li>
<li>Establish strong testimonies and examples of ideas surfaced and supported by ReinventED programs</li>
<li>Develop strong relationships with Albemarle County Public Schools, UVA, and Charlottesville community members</li>
</ol></li>
<li>Timeline:<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>ReinventED Kickoff Party: August 2015</li>
<li>Co-create UVA (cocreateuva.com) proposed: September 2015</li>
<li>ReinventED 24 Hour Challenge: October 9-10, 2015</li>
<li>ReinventED joins Albemarle County Schools Team for XQ Super Schools (xqsuperschool.org) Challenge: Mid-October, 2015</li>
<li>National Policy Breakthrough Lab commences research on early-stage education innovation”: Mid-October, 2015</li>
<li>ReinventED Startup Weekend EDU: Problem-solvathon Edition: November 13-15, 2015</li>
<li>ReinventED Project Cohort: Spring 2016</li>
</ol></li>
</ol></li>
</ol>

<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Create crowd-funding source for student ventures<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Description: I will partner with Venture Fund at UVa to create a crowd-funding source that provides base-level funding to student ventures that are not ready to reach out to investors/compete for money. This will create more student ventures, thereby tackling a large problem facing the I&E community on Grounds which is that students don’t apply to UVa because of innovation. By having increased amounts of student ventures, the reasons people apply to UVa will hopefully be more and more about innovation. Additionally, student ventures are another vehicle by which experiential learning can be spread on Grounds, an educational style that many professors face institutional challenges in implementing. The crowd-funding will be piloted alongside a design course on Grounds that has semester-long projects, many of which can be translated easily (relatively speaking) into ventures.</li>
<li>Goals:<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Encourage creation of more student ventures</li>
<li>Provide base-level funding for student ventures that are not ready to reach out to investors/compete for money</li>
<li>Provide more ways for real experiential learning, the vehicle being student ventures</li>
</ol></li>
<li>Timeline<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Reach out to all stakeholders - Early October</li>
<li>Draft necessary resources, proposals - Late October</li>
<li>Secure course for pilot  - Early November</li>
<li>Finalize Initiatives with Venture Fund - Late November</li>
<li>Create crowd-funding source - End of February</li>
<li>Pitch to student projects in design course; offer draft of a pitch for crowd-funding medium - Mid March</li>
<li>Get feedback from ventures - Early April</li>
<li>Reflect/Improve system - Mid April/Early May</li>
</ol></li>
</ol></li>
</ol>

= ''Spring 2015'' =

== Top Priorities ==

*Design Team Nurturing
*Entrepreneurship Council
*Medical Bridge
*Entrepreneurship Educational Tract
*Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum at UVA School of Medicine

== Dream Team Program ==

Description: A way in which students can form a "dream" team of diverse skills and backgrounds to pursure their innovative ideas. Students would be able to offer themselves up as "free agents" and be able to contact other "free agents" from a pool of students into forming a team. Through this process, students would be able to form design teams that could give them the best chance at creating a synnergistic team.

'''Goals:'''

*Students with ideas can come to the program in hopes of finding a design team
*Students who want to join exciting projects can offer their skills in the pool 
*Students of all backgrounds and skills would join the pool
*Teams would have members with complimentary dynamics/personalities
*Teams would have a diversity of students other than Engineering and Business
*Teams would meet and use the newly created Innovation Space at UVa's Engineering School

== University Entrepreneurship Council ==

Description: A group of innovation minded students and faculty who raise awareness of, increase transparency between and encourage collaboration of entrepreneurial organizations and initiatives around grounds.  Regular meetings and discussions would strengthen ties between innovative groups and increase awareness of the opportunities available to students.  Comprising members from around the greater university community the council would encourage the cross pollination of ideas.

'''Goals:'''

*Improve communication between entrepreneurial initiatives on grounds
*Raise awareness within the university community of innovative endeavors
*Encourage collaborative events that bring together different student groups
*Discuss potential entrepreneurial ventures and see them to fruition
*Bridge the gap between disjoint groups: students, professors, administrators, alumni, community members
*The council would meet regularly in the newly created Innovation Space at UVa's Engineering School and play a role in its development

== Med-Bridge ==

Description: An online platform that serves two main purposes: 1. It is a network where people can discuss and identify problems associated with the medical system. 2. a community for students and professionals of different backgrounds to come together and formulate optimal solutions for these problems with their unique talents. This creates a platform for students who are interested in industrial design, business, project management or any other related disciplines a place to explore and find real life problems to work on.

'''Goals:'''

*Give medical professionals a platform to post problems they'd like help improving 
*Creates a question bank for student innovators to go to if they are looking for a problem to solve.
*Give innovative students a place to start brainstorming solutions for real problems 
*Encourages students to collaborate with each other and learn from professionals that have the same passion
*To build a strong a supportive network of communication between students, professors and professionals in the area

'''Potential ideas for expansion:'''

*The forum is regulated by a voting system
*The popular issues and solutions will be pushed to the top of the page
*If the votes exceed a certain number (ex. 300), a crowd-funding system can be started for it

== Introduce an Innovation and Entreprensurhip Educational Tract ==

*I believe this can be housed in the already existing Engineering business minor, which is extremely popular among current students
*By Spring 2016, introduce the first design class for the engineering business minor
**Capstone Venture-Lab course implementation in progress
*Encourage students to take their ideas and create products and companies around it. This may require restructuring the curriculum, so that the last capstone class, in which you create a product idea, is taken before a student's final year

== Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum at UVA School of Medicine ==

'''Description''': Develop and implement an unprecedented curriculum track at the School of Medicine focused on user-centered design and problem solving.

The following is a detailed proposal submitted to the UVA School of Medicine Curriculum Committee based on student feedback and survey:
<div>The practice of medicine is undergoing radical transformation in the United States. This shift is fueled by myriad inter-connected factors including highly disruptive advances in fields like genomics and a drive for more individualized, patient-centered care, as well as population-level needs for advances in areas such as preventive services to address sequelae of chronic disease. Innovative approaches to medical training are needed to prepare young physicians for these changes and position them to play leadership roles in their personal clinical teams and at a system level. Traditional 4-year medical training programs now include increasing emphasis on multi-disciplinary teams. However, they do not naturally cultivate opportunities for students to focus on unsolved problems and get hands-on experience creating new products or services to address those problems, skills that are essential to becoming successful and effective innovators. With its history of cultural transformation in inter-disciplinary translational research the University of Virginia (UVA) is well positioned for a leadership role in preparing future medical doctors for the new era of medical practice.</div><div> </div><div>We are proposing a ‘Medical Innovation & Human-Centered Design’ track to provide UVA medical students working knowledge of innovation and human centered design approaches – popularly referred to as design thinking. This track will complement the NexGen curriculum by offering three discrete phases of student training on this topic. The first phase will take place in the first two years prior clerkship, during which students will participate in workshops and seminars to build requisite knowledge in design and innovation. Because of busy schedules and the demands of clerkships, the second phase will consist primarily of student’s journaling their observations during their time in clinic. This will provide data that will be the seeds for the third and final phase, during their 4th year. This component will include an elective and Capstone project (similar to a thesis). For the purpose of developing this program, we request one year of support to pilot a certificate program that will feature 6 workshops/seminars for first year medical students entering the fall of 2016 and to build on theexisting 4th year s-elective taught by David Chen. The data gathered through the courses as well as through student and faculty focus groups, interviews, and surveys during the 2015-2016 year will optimize a 4-year track to be offered Fall of 2016.</div><div> </div><div>'''Goals:'''</div>
*Introduce the human-centered design methodology to medical students
*Utilize course materials and results from workshops to educate the medical school at-large about human-centered design principles
*Encourage application of skillsets in practial healthcare scenarios 
*Promote the use of human-centered design for medical education on a national scale

= 2014 UIF Leadership Circle =

The [http://universityinnovation.org/University%20of%20Virginia University of Virginia] UIF team will create a physical space for Health Innovation and Incubation as the centerpiece of our future plans. The space will be housed in an emergent tech incubator, HackCville, and we will partner with their mission and culture of design, mentorship and self-starter ingenuity. Our strategy addresses the gaps identified in our landscaping of UVA's I&E capacity; while there are a multitude of programs and accessible funding avaible on grounds, they are restricted by student organization transience and their lack of coordination and. We can develop the connectivity needed to field projects and support them fully from upstream to downstream by riding the exisiting momentum and experience in the tech-entrepreneurship field. The proximity to this work is helping to foster a healthy new culture at UVA; under the new physical location and presence we plan to build out new events and programing to create visibility on campus. These include the Lawn Innovation Invation, the Grit Challenge, the Medical Hackathon and IdeasEverwhere Walls- elaborated upon below.

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== Grit Challenge ==

In 2013, the [http://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/ MacAuthur Fellows Grant] was bestowed upon [http://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_the_key_to_success_grit Angela Lee Duckworth for defining the term "Grit" as the best metric of sucess].

This will be a challenge designed to counter the typical one-off nature of traditional buisness competions and pitches that focus on how well an idea is presented at one point in time. Wise speakers at NCIIA warned us about the dangers of extoling a singular idea instead of the people or process, and honestly, we see that play out when the winners of business competitions are more incentivised to dress-up an idea than to propel it forward. In order to shift these expectations, we propose to design a competition that measures the fearlessness and reckless abandon of true entrepreneurs on a mission - the tenacity to start scrappy, shoot high; allow oneself to fail in a productive way in which they are able to use it experientially to propel themselves further forward: true GRIT! We are experimenting with the idea of shaping the challenge into 1-month segments, starting with a low operational budget of $10 and incrementally increasing amounts of award money for those able to stay in the rounds. This also teaches an important lesson in establishing credibility for those starting with next-to-nothing, through incrementally growing steps and the quantification of sucess to show possible investors/supporters. 

== Medical Hackathon ==

'''Description: '''A short-term goal of the UVA Leaderhship Circle is to host a medical hackathon that will get hundreds of students involved in healthcare entrepreneurship at UVA in a fun, relaxing and engaging way. The student-run organization that will put the hackathon together will be a new student-run club called Emerging Medical Technology Ventures, or EMTV. The end goal of the hackathon is two-fold:

*One, to recruit young students of different backgrounds and majors to join EMTV

*And two, have hackathon participants carry out projets that result from the hackathon

 A medical hackathon could serve as the spark for serious undergraduate involvement in healthcare and medical technology innovation. The reason for emphasis on recruiting young students is to help ensure that the UVA community can continually become engaged in medical technology and healthcare innovation for at least 3 years, as demonstrated by additional hackathons and successful project grant applications.

'''Team Leaders: '''[http://universityinnovation.org/Dasha%20Tyshlek Dasha Tyshlek], [http://universityinnovation.org/Rachel%20Smith Rachel Smith], [http://universityinnovation.org/Kelly%20Thomas Kelly Thomas], [http://universityinnovation.org/Anish%20Dalal Anish Dalal], Alex Zorychta and David Chen (Director of UVA Coulter Foundation Program)

'''Milestones:'''

*Attend a large-scale, professional medical hackathon to determine optimal ways of hosting them
*Recruit at least 5 first to second year students to help organize the first hackathon and eventually lead EMTV
*Obtain faculty advisors who have medicine, engineering and/or business backgrounds to advise on design challenges for hackathons and provde additional mentoring to students who pursue projects after hackathons 
*Have at least 3 hackathon projects within 2 years place in the [http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup] or obtain some sort of competitive funding
*At least one startup formed within 5 years

= University of Virginia Wiki Page =

[[University of Virginia|University of Virginia]]

= Related Links =

Prior UIF Members:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Anish%20Dalal Anish Dalal]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Dasha%20Tyshlek Dasha Tyshlek]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Rachel%20Smith Rachel Smith]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Kelly%20Thomas Kelly Thomas]

[[Angela Liu|Angela Liu]]

[[Ben Matthews|Ben Matthews]]

[[Anthony Sung|Anthony Sung]]

[[Katie Yi Tong Kan|Katie Kan]]

Current UIF Candidates:

[[Tarun kalakoti|Tarun Kalakoti]]

[[Justis Midura|Justis Midura]]

[[Keaton Wadzinski|Keaton Wadzinski]]

[[Arnab_Sarker|Arnab Sarker]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:UVA University Student Priorities

2015-10-20T01:23:48Z

Arnabsarker:

= 2015 UIF Leadership Circle =

== ''Fall 2015'' ==

Top priorites:

1. Increasing Health mentorship

2. ReinventED Lab

3. Crowdfunded Student Ventures
<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Health UnBound<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Description: Promote medical innovation and entrepreneurship at the University by centralizing resources in a student organization. Health UnBound has already been working this past year to accomplish these goals through various competitions and industry tours. For this year, we want to emphasize student team mentorship to encourage students to stick with projects and get hooked on medical entrepreneurship.</li>
<li>Goals: + Timeline:<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>We will host a medical design competition near the beginning of the semester that spawns project teams and offer money and mentorship as the main prize<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>This has already been completed</li>
</ol></li>
<li>Through the semester we will host “health community office hours” at a local community workspace to touch base with projects</li>
<li>We will help competitive projects apply for funding near the end of the semester.<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Our main goal for this stage will be to prep teams for University  entrepreneurship cup to gain $1000 in funding.</li>
</ol></li>
</ol></li>
</ol></li>
</ol>

<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>ReinventED Lab<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Description: ReinventED Lab aims to build a community of creative problem-solving in education. We do this by hosting signature programs (24 Hour Challenge and Startup Weekend EDU: Problem-solvathon Edition), developing a customizable creative problem-solving process (drawing on design thinking, lean startup tactics, and 4.0 Schools methodologies), and growing impact-driven education innovation projects. Recognizing the net potential of education innovation at UVA, in Albemarle County, and in the Charlottesville community, ReinventED Lab aims to convene stakeholders for productive ideation and collaboration. To this end, ReinventED Lab leverages student voices, design thinking, and community building best practices, with the objective of establishing the Charlottesville area’s pre-eminence as a leader in the national movement towards locally-grown, early-stage education innovation.</li>
<li>Goals:<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Attract a significant number of attendees to ReinventED events</li>
<li>Bring multiple stakeholder groups into conversation with one another</li>
<li>Support the growth of education innovation projects</li>
<li>Identify the needs for users engaged in early-stage education innovation</li>
<li>Establish strong testimonies and examples of ideas surfaced and supported by ReinventED programs</li>
<li>Develop strong relationships with Albemarle County Public Schools, UVA, and Charlottesville community members</li>
</ol></li>
<li>Timeline:<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>ReinventED Kickoff Party: August 2015</li>
<li>Co-create UVA (cocreateuva.com) proposed: September 2015</li>
<li>ReinventED 24 Hour Challenge: October 9-10, 2015</li>
<li>ReinventED joins Albemarle County Schools Team for XQ Super Schools (xqsuperschool.org) Challenge: Mid-October, 2015</li>
<li>National Policy Breakthrough Lab commences research on early-stage education innovation”: Mid-October, 2015</li>
<li>ReinventED Startup Weekend EDU: Problem-solvathon Edition: November 13-15, 2015</li>
<li>ReinventED Project Cohort: Spring 2016</li>
</ol></li>
</ol></li>
</ol>

<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Create crowd-funding source for student ventures<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Description: I will partner with Venture Fund at UVa to create a crowd-funding source that provides base-level funding to student ventures that are not ready to reach out to investors/compete for money. This will create more student ventures, thereby tackling a large problem facing the I&E community on Grounds which is that students don’t apply to UVa because of innovation. By having increased amounts of student ventures, the reasons people apply to UVa will hopefully be more and more about innovation. Additionally, student ventures are another vehicle by which experiential learning can be spread on Grounds, an educational style that many professors face institutional challenges in implementing. The crowd-funding will be piloted alongside a design course on Grounds that has semester-long projects, many of which can be translated easily (relatively speaking) into ventures.</li>
<li>Goals:<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Encourage creation of more student ventures</li>
<li>Provide base-level funding for student ventures that are not ready to reach out to investors/compete for money</li>
<li>Provide more ways for real experiential learning, the vehicle being student ventures</li>
</ol></li>
<li>Timeline<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Reach out to all stakeholders - Early October</li>
<li>Draft necessary resources, proposals - Late October</li>
<li>Secure course for pilot  - Early November</li>
<li>Finalize Initiatives with Venture Fund - Late November</li>
<li>Create crowd-funding source - End of February</li>
<li>Pitch to student projects in design course; offer draft of a pitch for crowd-funding medium - Mid March</li>
<li>Get feedback from ventures - Early April</li>
<li>Reflect/Improve system - Mid April/Early May</li>
</ol></li>
</ol></li>
</ol>

= ''Spring 2015'' =

== Top Priorities ==

*Design Team Nurturing
*Entrepreneurship Council
*Medical Bridge
*Entrepreneurship Educational Tract
*Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum at UVA School of Medicine

== Dream Team Program ==

Description: A way in which students can form a "dream" team of diverse skills and backgrounds to pursure their innovative ideas. Students would be able to offer themselves up as "free agents" and be able to contact other "free agents" from a pool of students into forming a team. Through this process, students would be able to form design teams that could give them the best chance at creating a synnergistic team.

'''Goals:'''

*Students with ideas can come to the program in hopes of finding a design team
*Students who want to join exciting projects can offer their skills in the pool 
*Students of all backgrounds and skills would join the pool
*Teams would have members with complimentary dynamics/personalities
*Teams would have a diversity of students other than Engineering and Business
*Teams would meet and use the newly created Innovation Space at UVa's Engineering School

== University Entrepreneurship Council ==

Description: A group of innovation minded students and faculty who raise awareness of, increase transparency between and encourage collaboration of entrepreneurial organizations and initiatives around grounds.  Regular meetings and discussions would strengthen ties between innovative groups and increase awareness of the opportunities available to students.  Comprising members from around the greater university community the council would encourage the cross pollination of ideas.

'''Goals:'''

*Improve communication between entrepreneurial initiatives on grounds
*Raise awareness within the university community of innovative endeavors
*Encourage collaborative events that bring together different student groups
*Discuss potential entrepreneurial ventures and see them to fruition
*Bridge the gap between disjoint groups: students, professors, administrators, alumni, community members
*The council would meet regularly in the newly created Innovation Space at UVa's Engineering School and play a role in its development

== Med-Bridge ==

Description: An online platform that serves two main purposes: 1. It is a network where people can discuss and identify problems associated with the medical system. 2. a community for students and professionals of different backgrounds to come together and formulate optimal solutions for these problems with their unique talents. This creates a platform for students who are interested in industrial design, business, project management or any other related disciplines a place to explore and find real life problems to work on.

'''Goals:'''

*Give medical professionals a platform to post problems they'd like help improving 
*Creates a question bank for student innovators to go to if they are looking for a problem to solve.
*Give innovative students a place to start brainstorming solutions for real problems 
*Encourages students to collaborate with each other and learn from professionals that have the same passion
*To build a strong a supportive network of communication between students, professors and professionals in the area

'''Potential ideas for expansion:'''

*The forum is regulated by a voting system
*The popular issues and solutions will be pushed to the top of the page
*If the votes exceed a certain number (ex. 300), a crowd-funding system can be started for it

== Introduce an Innovation and Entreprensurhip Educational Tract ==

*I believe this can be housed in the already existing Engineering business minor, which is extremely popular among current students
*By Spring 2016, introduce the first design class for the engineering business minor
**Capstone Venture-Lab course implementation in progress
*Encourage students to take their ideas and create products and companies around it. This may require restructuring the curriculum, so that the last capstone class, in which you create a product idea, is taken before a student's final year

== Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum at UVA School of Medicine ==

'''Description''': Develop and implement an unprecedented curriculum track at the School of Medicine focused on user-centered design and problem solving.

The following is a detailed proposal submitted to the UVA School of Medicine Curriculum Committee based on student feedback and survey:
<div>The practice of medicine is undergoing radical transformation in the United States. This shift is fueled by myriad inter-connected factors including highly disruptive advances in fields like genomics and a drive for more individualized, patient-centered care, as well as population-level needs for advances in areas such as preventive services to address sequelae of chronic disease. Innovative approaches to medical training are needed to prepare young physicians for these changes and position them to play leadership roles in their personal clinical teams and at a system level. Traditional 4-year medical training programs now include increasing emphasis on multi-disciplinary teams. However, they do not naturally cultivate opportunities for students to focus on unsolved problems and get hands-on experience creating new products or services to address those problems, skills that are essential to becoming successful and effective innovators. With its history of cultural transformation in inter-disciplinary translational research the University of Virginia (UVA) is well positioned for a leadership role in preparing future medical doctors for the new era of medical practice.</div><div> </div><div>We are proposing a ‘Medical Innovation & Human-Centered Design’ track to provide UVA medical students working knowledge of innovation and human centered design approaches – popularly referred to as design thinking. This track will complement the NexGen curriculum by offering three discrete phases of student training on this topic. The first phase will take place in the first two years prior clerkship, during which students will participate in workshops and seminars to build requisite knowledge in design and innovation. Because of busy schedules and the demands of clerkships, the second phase will consist primarily of student’s journaling their observations during their time in clinic. This will provide data that will be the seeds for the third and final phase, during their 4th year. This component will include an elective and Capstone project (similar to a thesis). For the purpose of developing this program, we request one year of support to pilot a certificate program that will feature 6 workshops/seminars for first year medical students entering the fall of 2016 and to build on theexisting 4th year s-elective taught by David Chen. The data gathered through the courses as well as through student and faculty focus groups, interviews, and surveys during the 2015-2016 year will optimize a 4-year track to be offered Fall of 2016.</div><div> </div><div>'''Goals:'''</div>
*Introduce the human-centered design methodology to medical students
*Utilize course materials and results from workshops to educate the medical school at-large about human-centered design principles
*Encourage application of skillsets in practial healthcare scenarios 
*Promote the use of human-centered design for medical education on a national scale

= 2014 UIF Leadership Circle =

The [http://universityinnovation.org/University%20of%20Virginia University of Virginia] UIF team will create a physical space for Health Innovation and Incubation as the centerpiece of our future plans. The space will be housed in an emergent tech incubator, HackCville, and we will partner with their mission and culture of design, mentorship and self-starter ingenuity. Our strategy addresses the gaps identified in our landscaping of UVA's I&E capacity; while there are a multitude of programs and accessible funding avaible on grounds, they are restricted by student organization transience and their lack of coordination and. We can develop the connectivity needed to field projects and support them fully from upstream to downstream by riding the exisiting momentum and experience in the tech-entrepreneurship field. The proximity to this work is helping to foster a healthy new culture at UVA; under the new physical location and presence we plan to build out new events and programing to create visibility on campus. These include the Lawn Innovation Invation, the Grit Challenge, the Medical Hackathon and IdeasEverwhere Walls- elaborated upon below.

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== Grit Challenge ==

In 2013, the [http://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/ MacAuthur Fellows Grant] was bestowed upon [http://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_the_key_to_success_grit Angela Lee Duckworth for defining the term "Grit" as the best metric of sucess].

This will be a challenge designed to counter the typical one-off nature of traditional buisness competions and pitches that focus on how well an idea is presented at one point in time. Wise speakers at NCIIA warned us about the dangers of extoling a singular idea instead of the people or process, and honestly, we see that play out when the winners of business competitions are more incentivised to dress-up an idea than to propel it forward. In order to shift these expectations, we propose to design a competition that measures the fearlessness and reckless abandon of true entrepreneurs on a mission - the tenacity to start scrappy, shoot high; allow oneself to fail in a productive way in which they are able to use it experientially to propel themselves further forward: true GRIT! We are experimenting with the idea of shaping the challenge into 1-month segments, starting with a low operational budget of $10 and incrementally increasing amounts of award money for those able to stay in the rounds. This also teaches an important lesson in establishing credibility for those starting with next-to-nothing, through incrementally growing steps and the quantification of sucess to show possible investors/supporters. 

== Medical Hackathon ==

'''Description: '''A short-term goal of the UVA Leaderhship Circle is to host a medical hackathon that will get hundreds of students involved in healthcare entrepreneurship at UVA in a fun, relaxing and engaging way. The student-run organization that will put the hackathon together will be a new student-run club called Emerging Medical Technology Ventures, or EMTV. The end goal of the hackathon is two-fold:

*One, to recruit young students of different backgrounds and majors to join EMTV

*And two, have hackathon participants carry out projets that result from the hackathon

 A medical hackathon could serve as the spark for serious undergraduate involvement in healthcare and medical technology innovation. The reason for emphasis on recruiting young students is to help ensure that the UVA community can continually become engaged in medical technology and healthcare innovation for at least 3 years, as demonstrated by additional hackathons and successful project grant applications.

'''Team Leaders: '''[http://universityinnovation.org/Dasha%20Tyshlek Dasha Tyshlek], [http://universityinnovation.org/Rachel%20Smith Rachel Smith], [http://universityinnovation.org/Kelly%20Thomas Kelly Thomas], [http://universityinnovation.org/Anish%20Dalal Anish Dalal], Alex Zorychta and David Chen (Director of UVA Coulter Foundation Program)

'''Milestones:'''

*Attend a large-scale, professional medical hackathon to determine optimal ways of hosting them
*Recruit at least 5 first to second year students to help organize the first hackathon and eventually lead EMTV
*Obtain faculty advisors who have medicine, engineering and/or business backgrounds to advise on design challenges for hackathons and provde additional mentoring to students who pursue projects after hackathons 
*Have at least 3 hackathon projects within 2 years place in the [http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup] or obtain some sort of competitive funding
*At least one startup formed within 5 years

= University of Virginia Wiki Page =

[[University of Virginia|University of Virginia]]

= Related Links =

Prior UIF Members:

[http://universityinnovation.org/Anish%20Dalal Anish Dalal]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Dasha%20Tyshlek Dasha Tyshlek]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Rachel%20Smith Rachel Smith]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Kelly%20Thomas Kelly Thomas]

[[Angela Liu|Angela Liu]]

[[Ben Matthews|Ben Matthews]]

[[Anthony Sung|Anthony Sung]]

[[Katie Yi Tong Kan|Katie Kan]]

Current UIF Candidates:

[[Tarun kalakoti|Tarun Kalakoti]]

[[Justis Midura|Justis Midura]]

[[Keaton Wadzinski|Keaton Wadzinski]]

Arnab Sarker

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

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= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

== Virginia Venture Fund ==

The [http://virginiaventurefund.com/ Virginia Venture Fund ]is a student administered investment fund with the sole purpose to fund and mentor UVA student started business. They usually have $50,000 to $100,000 dollars to use for funding. Students who participate in the fund learn venture fund analysis techniques first hand, work with local venture funds to do due diligence and host Shark Tank events.

== Enactus ==
<div>[http://enactusatuva.org/ Enactus ]is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world.</div><div>ENtrepreneurial—having the perspective to see an opportunity and the talent to create value from that opportunity;</div><div>ACTion—the willingness to do something and the commitment to see it through even when the outcome is not guaranteed;</div><div>US —a group of people who see themselves connected in some important way; individuals that are part of a greater whole.</div><div>Their mission as a team is to empower individuals to construct their own wealth by enriching their minds with invaluable knowledge and skills that will stimulate and sustain a spirit of free enterprise, and inspire them to live an environmentally sustainable lifestyle, ultimately leading to the economic security and the betterment of their quality of life and standard of living.</div>
== The Inventor's Society ==
<div>The Inventor's Society at the University of Virginia was founded in 2013 with the goal of giving students real world hands on engineering experience while also innovating for the community. They strive to create solutions for challengeing problems within the UVA and Charlottesville communities. Projects that the considers come from its members and local organizations, businesses and individuals. The society also sponsors workshops that are meant to educate students on practical engineering topics like electronics and 3D printing. Guest speakers will also be invited to give talks about topics such as how to effectively lead a group of engineers, how to turn an idea into a real product, and how ideas invented by society can be protected. </div>
== Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) ==
<div>[http://www.seedatuva.com/ Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) ]is a passionate group of students committed to fostering sustainable development in communities around the world. They do this by giving free consulting services to NGOs and social entrepreneurs wherever they need them, with an emphasis on sound microfinance. By forging long-term relationships, they are able to increase the efficacy and efficiency of their partners, and intensify the positive social change in their communities. They also seek educational and personal development within the University of Virginia. Through working in teams to solve problems for their partners, students are able to broaden their knowledge horizons while actively practicing the skills they learn in class. By developing a partnership with the McIntire School of Commerce, SEED has been able to utilize the full resources offered to them, while still maintaining the UVA motto of student self-governance. With over 250+ members working on projects for NGOs around the world, SEED has now established itself in the University of Virginia community, attracting members from all schools and disciplines within the University.</div><div> </div><div>
== University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup ==
<div>
The [http://entrepreneurshipcup.com Entrepreneurship Cup] is a business-concept competition open to all U.Va. undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. This annual competition seeks to enrich the area's entrepreneurial community by encouraging new ventures with the potential to address unmet needs, solve social and economic problems, and do so in an interdisciplinary way. Participating teams and individuals develop their entrepreneurial chops by submitting formal business concepts to a selected track, with qualifying teams pitching their concepts at that track's semi-final competition. This year, the competition will be taking on a slightly different format with three seperate parts.

There will be the Concept phase of the competition where teams are encouraged to submit their concepts. This competition encourages students to come up with out-of-the-box ideas that can be translated into compelling projects. Submissions are not expected to have a full business plan,  a working prototype etc. 
</div><div></div><div>The Concept competition will be organized into five tracks:</div>
*Health Care
*Social Entrepeneurship
*Consumer/Business - to - Business
*Science/Engineering
*UVA Wise

The top five projects in each of the five tracks will be awarded $1000 each, for a total of $25,000 in awards. 

The Discovery stage will require teams to do more customer discovery.

The Launch stage will provide seed capital to the most compelling student ventures.
<div>
== BME Advanced Design       ==

BME Advanced Design is an undergraduate design course offered to BME majors though students of other majors may enroll by demonstrating strong interest. This class emphasizes the importance of finding unmet and specific clinical needs. More than half of the courses is devoted to sending students into clinics and shadowing physicians and nurses as well as performing extensive background research on a specific disease state. Additionally, the latter part of the course delves into rapid prototyping of possible solutions to the unmet clinical needs. Student in this course often continue to pursue their Advanced Design Project for their Capstone Projects. Some students projects have even resulted in the formation of startup companies!

== Health UnBound ==

Health Unbound was formed in the Summer of 2014 by the UIF Leadership Circle of 2014 to provide students interested in pursuing clinical innovations at the University of Virginia. We help students access resources such as space and project management for health innovation projects and sponsor students to attend workshops and conferences to build their skill sets. We also facilitate students to explore different career opportunities in health by facilitating networking between health fields and students via events such as medical hackathons and making connections between students and companies.

== ReinventED Lab ==

ReinventED Lab is a Charlottesville-based organization for creative problem-solving in education, supported by 4.0 Schools' Community Catalyst program. Charlottesville has been selected for the Community Catalyst program to join 5 other cities (New Orleans, New York, DC, Birmingham, and Austin) in a growing national network of education innovation organizations. 
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= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

== The E*Society  ==

The E*Society an organization that connects entrepreneurial students and faculty from all colleges of The University of Virginia, as well as like-minded members of the greater Charlottesville community. The group’s goal is to aggregate resources, people, and information from every corner of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and promote a culture of collaboration and action for new ventures. This is all about high energy, interdisciplinary thinking and initiative. The E*Society hosts a variety of events with the intention of bringing people with similar interests, but different areas of expertise together. These include guest speakers and speaker panels, networking events, competitions, educational workshops, and member presentations.

== Works-in-progress ==

A newly refurbished room in the school of engineering at the University of Virginia. The idea behind Works-in-progress is to build a community of entrepeneurial projects. The new program has so far hosted workshops with topics ranging from idea generation to marketing and beyond. Currently the program seeks to aid participants in applying to the annual Enterpenuership cup. After this competition, the program will provide active mentoring to the projects.

= Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship =

== Undergraduate Courses  ==

BME 2000 - Design and Discovery

BME 4550 - Advanced Design

STS 2500 - Business Fundamental Engineers

STS 2500 - Start Up Operations for Engineers

STS 2500 - Engineers as Entrepreneurs

STS 2500 - Presentations Strategies for Entrepreneurship

STS 2500 - Entrepreneurship and Financing

STS 4500 - Business of Product Development

SYS 2048 - Integrated Systems Design

COMM 2610 - Startup

PPOL 4735 - Experiential Social Entrepreneurship

ENGR 3580 - Entrpreneurship Seminar 

ENGR 4010 - Multidiciplinary Design and Development

== Graduate Courses (Darden School of Business)  ==

GBUS 7108 -Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Growth

GBUS 7609 - Entrepreneurial Thinking

GBUS 7613 - Sustainability, Thinking and Entrepreneurship

GBUS 7615 - Develop an Entrepreneur's Mindset

GBUS 7618 - Effectual Entrepreneurship

GBUS 8060 - Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship

GBUS 8306 - Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship

GBUS 8427 - Entrepreneur as Change Agent

GBUS 8469 - Entrepreneurs Taking Action

GBUS 8484 - Creativity and Design Thinking

GBUS 9340 - Seminar in Entrepreneurship II

= University Technology Transfer Function =

== Licensing & Ventures Group ==

The [http://www.innovation.virginia.edu/about/lvg Licensing & Ventures Group] researches patents, new inventions and discoveries in order to help faculty (and sometimes students) to bring their products to the marketplace through licenses with industry, new venture formation, and other available pathways. Faculty recieve 35% royalty from their inventions developed with significant UVA resources. They list all UVA inventions and discoveries available for licensing through[https://uva.flintbox.com/ flintbox.]

= University-Industry Collaboration =

== Rolls-Royce ==

Rolls-Royce funds 3 endowed professorships, 4 doctoral students, 4 undergraduate international student internships, and money for the Mechatronics Lab and Rapid-Prototyping Laboratory (only available to specific mechanical engineering courses.) Overall the partnership gives UVA $15 million for these programs and reserach funding. Through this program, internships are available to UVA students, and the McIntire School of Commerce students have a 3rd year Integrated Core Experience.

== Virginia Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program ==

Connects engineering students with paid internships in STEM companies in the state of Virginia. The program pre-screens students before sending the student applications to local companies, while the application is completely free for students.

== Volkswagen Global Ingenuity 21 Program ==

A summer multicultural think-tank experience with Volkswagen Group  and Braunchweig University in Germany. This program lasts two weeks and includes courserwork, speakers, think-tanking, cummulating in a final presentation and proposal to the client: Volkswagen Group. The program is currently exclusive and only available to Rodman Scholars (engineering honors program).

= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

== Tom Tom Founders Festival ==

The [http://www.tomtomfest.com/ Tom Tom Founder’s Festival (TTFF)] is an annual event in Charlottesville that makes the entire city aware of innovative works in areas ranging from technology to food.  TTFF connects people and new ideas to the future as various disciplines such as art, music, science, entrepreneurship, and design fuse together in this festival. This movement is representative of the innovation that takes place in Charlottesville and coincides with increasing activity of entrepreneurship and startups.

== HackCville ==

[http://www.hackcville.com/ HackCville] is a member supported, member run 501.c3 of designers, programmers, makers, creatives, and the just plain curious. No matter your skill, HackCville shares, learns, and does, in support of one another’s projects and the efforts of both UVA and Charlottesville organizations doing great work. If collisions is its mantra, then inclusivity is its ethos. HackCville members foster a culture that is unassuming, encouraging, and built on action. The group takes care in helping people at any skill level “hack” their projects, education, or careers. HackCville acts as a source to find direction and get started. Through scheduled events, classes, structured “office hours”, and workshops, HackCville aims to support both the entrepreneurs from both UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville community.

== Virginia Active Angels Network (VAAN) ==

The [http://www.virginiaactiveangelnetwork.com/ Virginia Active Angles Network  ]is a professional angels network based out of Charlottesville, VA but includes angel investors from Blacksburg, Roanoke, Richmond, New York, and Georgia. The investors meet for a monthly dinner, engage in early stage seed funding and organize or participate in the Startup Weekend Charlottesville.  Letitia Green, who currently heads the organization, is also a professor at UVA and active organizer of other UVA and Virginia state entrepreneurship events.

= UVA Innovation and Entrepreneurship Landscape Analysis =

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fHQYOFJzW7_KUyWBhZJfJjGnwXOQ91hFkKrns4aAFmE/edit#gid=0 Landscape Analysis]

= Student Priorities =

[[UVA_University_Student_Priorities|UVA Student Priorities]]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/UVA_University_Student_Priorities University of Virginia Student Priorities]

Prior UIF Members:

[[Anish Dalal|Anish Dalal]]

[[Dasha Tyshlek|Dasha Tyshlek]]

[[Rachel Smith|Rachel Smith]]

[[Kelly Thomas|Kelly Thomas]]

[[Angela Liu|Angela Liu]]

[[Ben Matthews|Ben Matthews]]

[[Anthony Sung|Anthony Sung]]

[[Katie Yi Tong Kan|Katie Kan]]

Current UIF Candidates:

[[Tarun kalakoti|Tarun Kalakoti]]

[[Justis Midura|Justis Midura]]

Keaton Wadzinski

[[Arnab_Sarker|Arnab Sarker]]

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Hailing from the great state of Maryland, Arnab Sarker is a third year medical student and business student at the UVA School of Medicine and Darden School of Business. He writes/thinks/breathes about how healthcare and how policy, technology, and medicine can work together to keep people healthy. He is a recognized student champion of entrepreneurship and innovation at the School of Medicine, and is currently serving as the student chair of the Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum. He is currently an independent consultant, advising healthcare focused tech companies, and also a regular health columnist for [http://www.1776.vc/insights 1776 Insights]. He is the former Director of Operations of [http://www.kstreet.vc K Street Capital] and member of the founding team of [http://www.1776.vc 1776 DC]. Prior, he was a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting LLP and the MITRE Center for Transforming Health, focusing on Meaningful Use policy and large electronic health record implementations. Arnab received his undergraduate degree ''magna cum laude'' in the Biology of Global Health from Georgetown University. When he is not at the hospital or reading young adult fiction books, he can likely be found at a Bhangra-related event. Or a Taylor Swift concert. Or both.
[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

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Hailing from the great state of Maryland, Arnab Sarker is a third year medical student and business student at the UVA School of Medicine and Darden School of Business. He writes/thinks/breathes about how healthcare and how policy, technology, and medicine can work together to keep people healthy. He is a recognized student champion of entrepreneurship and innovation at the School of Medicine, and is currently serving as the student chair of the Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum. He is currently an independent consultant, advising healthcare focused tech companies, and also a regular health columnist for [http://www.1776.vc/insights 1776 Insights]. He is the former Director of Operations of [http://www.kstreet.vc K Street Capital] and member of the founding team of [http://www.1776.vc 1776 DC]. Prior, he was a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting LLP and the MITRE Center for Transforming Health, focusing on Meaningful Use policy and large electronic health record implementations. Arnab received his undergraduate degree ''magna cum laude'' in the Biology of Global Health from Georgetown University. When he is not at the hospital or reading young adult fiction books, he can likely be found at a Bhangra-related event. Or a Taylor Swift concert. Or both.

[[Category: Student Contributors]]

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2015-10-20T00:37:37Z

Arnabsarker:

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Hailing from the great state of Maryland, Arnab Sarker is a third year medical student and business student at the UVA School of Medicine and Darden School of Business. He writes/thinks/breathes about how healthcare and how policy, technology, and medicine can work together to keep people healthy. He is a recognized student champion of entrepreneurship and innovation at the School of Medicine, and is currently serving as the student chair of the Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum. He is currently an independent consultant, advising healthcare focused tech companies, and also a regular health columnist for [http://www.1776.vc/insights 1776 Insights]. He is the former Director of Operations of [http://www.kstreet.vc K Street Capital] and member of the founding team of [http://www.1776.vc 1776 DC]. Prior, he was a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting LLP and the MITRE Center for Transforming Health, focusing on Meaningful Use policy and large electronic health record implementations. Arnab received his undergraduate degree ''magna cum laude'' in the Biology of Global Health from Georgetown University. When he is not at the hospital or reading young adult fiction books, he can likely be found at a Bhangra-related event. Or a Taylor Swift concert. Or both.

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Arnabsarker:

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2015-10-20T00:34:50Z

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Hailing from the great state of Maryland, Arnab Sarker is a third year medical student and business student at the UVA School of Medicine and Darden School of Business. He writes/thinks/breathes about how healthcare and how policy, technology, and medicine can work together to keep people healthy. He is a recognized student champion of entrepreneurship and innovation at the School of Medicine, and is currently serving as the student chair of the Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum. He is currently and independent consultant advising healthcare focused tech companies and a regular health columnist for [http://www.1776.vc/insights 1776 Insights]. He is the former Director of Operations of [http://www.kstreet.vc K Street Capital] and member of the founding team of [http://www.1776.vc 1776 DC]. Prior, he was a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting LLP and the MITRE Center for Transforming Health, focusing on Meaningful Use policy and large electronic health record implementations. Arnab received his undergraduate degree ''magna cum laude'' in the Biology of Global Health from Georgetown University. When he is not at the hospital or reading young adult fiction books, he can likely be found at a Bhangra-related event. Or a Taylor Swift concert. Or both.

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2015-10-20T00:32:41Z

Arnabsarker:

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Hailing from the great state of Maryland, Arnab Sarker is a third year medical student and business student at the UVA School of Medicine and Darden School of Business. He writes/thinks/breathes about how healthcare and how policy, technology, and medicine can work together to keep people healthy. He is a recognized student champion of entrepreneurship and innovation at the School of Medicine, and is currently serving as the student chair of the Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum. He is currently and independent consultant advising healthcare focused tech companies and a regular health columnist for [http://www.1776.vc/insights 1776 Insights]. He is the former Director of Operations of[http://www.kstreet.vc K Street Capital] and member of the founding team of [http://www.1776.vc 1776 DC]. Prior, he was a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting LLP and the MITRE Center for Transforming Health, focusing on Meaningful Use policy and large electronic health record implementations. Arnab received his undergraduate degree ''magna cum laude'' in the Biology of Global Health from Georgetown University. When he is not at the hospital or reading young adult fiction books, he can likely be found at a Bhangra-related event. Or a Taylor Swift concert. Or both.

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2015-10-20T00:30:28Z

Arnabsarker:

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Hailing from the great state of Maryland, Arnab Sarker is a third year medical student and business student at the UVA School of Medicine and Darden School of Business. He writes/thinks/breathes about how healthcare and how policy, technology, and medicine can work together to keep people healthy. He is a recognized student champion of entrepreneurship and innovation at the School of Medicine, and is currently serving as the student chair of the Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum. 
He is currently and independent consultant advising healthcare focused tech companies and a regular <a href="[http://www.1776.vc/profile/arnab-sarker/ http://www.1776.vc/profile/arnab-sarker/]">health columnist</a> for <a href="[http://www.1776.vc/insights http://www.1776.vc/insights]">1776 Insights</a>. He is the former Director of Operations of <a href="[http://www.kstreet.vc http://www.kstreet.vc]">K Street Capital</a> and member of the founding team of <a href="[http://www.1776.vc http://www.1776.vc]">1776 DC</a>. Prior, he was a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting LLP and the MITRE Center for Transforming Health, focusing on Meaningful Use policy and large electronic health record implementations. Arnab received his undergraduate degree ''magna cum laude'' in the Biology of Global Health from Georgetown University. When he is not at the hospital or reading young adult fiction books, he can likely be found at a Bhangra-related event. Or a Taylor Swift concert. Or both.

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2015-10-20T00:27:26Z

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Hailing from the great state of Maryland, Arnab Sarker is a third year medical student and business student at the UVA School of Medicine and Darden School of Business. He writes/thinks/breathes about how healthcare and how policy, technology, and medicine can work together to keep people healthy. He is a recognized student champion of entrepreneurship and innovation at the School of Medicine, and is currently serving as the student chair of the Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum. 
He is currently and independent consultant advising healthcare focused tech companies and a regular <a href="[http://www.1776.vc/profile/arnab-sarker/ http://www.1776.vc/profile/arnab-sarker/]">health columnist</a> for <a href="[http://www.1776.vc/insights http://www.1776.vc/insights]">1776 Insights</a>. He is the former Director of Operations of <a href="[http://www.kstreet.vc http://www.kstreet.vc]">K Street Capital</a> and member of the founding team of <a href="[http://www.1776.vc http://www.1776.vc]">1776 DC</a>. Prior, he was a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting LLP and the MITRE Center for Transforming Health, focusing on Meaningful Use policy and large electronic health record implementations. Arnab received his undergraduate degree ''magna cum laude'' in the Biology of Global Health from Georgetown University. When he is not at the hospital or reading young adult fiction books, he can likely be found at a Bhangra-related event. Or a Taylor Swift concert. Or both.

Fellow:Arnab Sarker

2015-10-20T00:21:48Z

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Hailing from the great state of Maryland, Arnab Sarker is a third year medical student and business student at the UVA School of Medicine and Darden School of Business. He writes/thinks/breathes about how healthcare and how policy, technology, and medicine can work together to keep people healthy. He is a recognized student champion of entrepreneurship and innovation at the School of Medicine, and is currently serving as the student chair of the Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum. He is currently and independent consultant advising healthcare focused tech companies and a regular [http://www.1776.vc/profile/arnab-sarker/ health columnist] for [http://www.1776.vc/insights 1776 Insights]. He is the former Director of Operations of [http://www.kstreet.vc K Street Capital] and member of the founding team of [http://www.1776.vc 1776 DC]. Prior, he was a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting LLP and the MITRE Center for Transforming Health, focusing on Meaningful Use policy and large electronic health record implementations. Arnab received his undergraduate degree ''magna cum laude'' in the Biology of Global Health from Georgetown University. When he is not at the hospital or reading young adult fiction books, he can likely be found at a Bhangra-related event. Or a Taylor Swift concert. Or both.

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Hailing from the great state of Maryland, Arnab Sarker is a third year medical student and business student at the UVA School of Medicine and Darden School of Business. He writes/thinks/breathes about how healthcare and how policy, technology, and medicine can work together to keep people healthy. He is a recognized student champion of entrepreneurship and innovation at the School of Medicine, and is currently serving as the student chair of the Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum. 

He is currently and independent consultant advising healthcare focused tech companies and a regular [http://www.1776.vc/profile/arnab-sarker/ health columnist] for [http://www.1776.vc/insights 1776 Insights]. He is the former Director of Operations of [http://www.kstreet.vc K Street Capital] and member of the founding team of [http://www.1776.vc 1776 DC]. Prior, he was a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting LLP and the MITRE Center for Transforming Health, focusing on Meaningful Use policy and large electronic health record implementations. 

Arnab received his undergraduate degree ''magna cum laude'' in the Biology of Global Health from Georgetown University. When he is not at the hospital or reading young adult fiction books, he can likely be found at a Bhangra-related event. Or a Taylor Swift concert. Or both.