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In episode 12 of CAMTech Chats, we'll hear from Nitesh Jangir, an electronics engineering and co-founder of Coeo Labs, a medical device company with a vision to prevent deaths in emergency and critical care. Nitesh shares his story of how he began innovating solutions to address challenges in neonatal health in India while iterating medical technologies with input from innovators outside of India, like Dr. Data Santorino, CAMTech Uganda’s Country Manager. We’ll learn from Nitesh about how South-South collaborations like this help to accelerate solutions from ideation towards commercialization and patient impact.

CAMTech Chats is moderated by Nicholas Diamond.

Dr. Donna Brezinski trained as a neonatologist at Yale and Harvard Medical Schools before she founded Little Sparrows Technologies and the bili-hut, the first ever line of portable, high-intensity jaundice therapy devices. In episode 11 of CAMTech Chats, Dr. Brezinski underscores the importance of commercializing solutions that improve health in high, low and middle-income countries. She also shares stories of challenges women face sourcing funding for medtech and explains how diversity in skillsets helps accelerate the bili-hut towards patient impact.

CAMTech Chats is moderated by Nicholas Diamond.

Lattice Innovations, CAMTech’s partner in India, sees the process of human-centered design as one that’s similar to building a lattice structure. It takes a bunch of building blocks to make a complete structure because multiple facets go into product design and development.

In episode 10 of CAMTech Chats, Sahil Mehta and Soura Bhattacharyya underscore the differences between markets in resource-limited settings, highlight gender gap trends in India’s medtech and startup ecosystem, and look back at how sharing a cab ride started their journey to building India’s design factory.

CAMTech Chats is hosted by Nicholas Diamond.

The CAMTech Uganda Co-Creation Lab at Mbarara University of Science and Technology is not your typically laboratory. Innovators there trade lab benches for desk space, white lab coats for CAMTech Uganda Medtech Hack-a-thon t-shirts, and microscopes for business models to accelerate affordable medical technologies towards commercialization and patient impact.

One of those low-cost solutions is SaniDrop, a locally-made hand sanitizer developed by experts in public health, clinical medicine, engineering, and business at the Co-Creation Lab. The National Bureau of Standards recently issued SaniDrop the Q-MARK, which is a product quality certification for customers purchasing products on the market in Uganda. In episode 9 of CAMTech Chats, we’ll hear from Hannington Kanyesigye, CAMTech Uganda’s Innovation and Productization Officer, about SaniDrop’s journey from ideation towards patient impact.

CAMTech Chats is moderated by Nicholas Diamond.

In episode 8 of CAMTech Chats, CAMTech’s Director, Dr. Kris Olson, chats with Jonathan Jackson, the Co-Founder and CEO of Dimagi, about the translational grant CAMTech awarded Dimagi six years ago, the growth of CommCare, engaging frontline health providers in human centered-design, and what he wishes all innovators in impact-oriented social enterprise would be laser focused on.

CAMTech Chats is moderated by Nicholas Diamond.

CAMTech uses a co-creation model to accelerate the cycle from idea to patient impact and commercialization by convening experts in clinical medicine, public health, engineering, design, business, and government.

In a way, Andrea Ippolito puts a face on CAMTech’s co-creation model. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Engineering Management Program at Cornell University, and she’s held positions at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and General Services Administration, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Boston Scientific. She’s also the co-founder of Smart Scheduling, which athenahealth acquired in 2016.

In episode 7 of CAMTech Chats, we’ll hear from Andrea about innovating in these different sectors, discuss the importance of failing fast, and learn about her challenges and successes as a woman working in innovation.

CAMTech Chats is moderated by Nicholas Diamond.