Priorities:UVA University Student Priorities

The UVa 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 a emergant tech incubator, HackCville, and we will partner with their mission and culture of design, mentorship and self-starter ingenuity. Our investigation of UVa's innovation and entrepreneurial capacity indicated that there are a multitude of programs and accessible funding avaible on grounds. However, we have are not being used to their full potential 

Medical Hackathon

• Description: A short term goal of the UVa Leadership Circle is to host a medical hackathon to get hundreds of students involved in health care 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: 1) recruit young students of different backgrounds and majors to join EMTV and 2) have hackathon participants carry out projects that result from the hackathon.  A medical hackathon could serve as the spark for serious undegraduate 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:  Dasha Tyshlek, Rachel Smith, Kelly Thomas, Anish Dalal, Alex Zorychta, and David Chen (Director of UVA Coulter Foundation Program)
• Milestones:
• Attend a large scale and professional medical hackathon to determine optimal ways of hosting them
• Recruit at least five 1st or 2nd year students to help organize first hackathon and eventually lead EMT
• Obtain faculty advisors who have medicine, engineering, and/or business backgrounds to advise on design challenges for hackathons and provide additional mentorship to students who pursue projects after hackathons
• Have at least 3 hackathon projects within 2 years to place in the University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup or obtain some sort of competitive funding
• At least one startup formed within 5 years.