In the healthcare world, everyone has 99 problems (yes, COVID-19 is one), and even more ideas to help solve them. It takes experts in all areas and industry to help us answer the questions: Why? How? When?
Join MaineHealth Innovation and The Roux Institute at Northeastern University as local innovators in the healthcare space share their latest novel ideas, and help brainstorm solutions to their project needs.
Come collide with MaineHealth pioneers, The Roux Institute community and local entrepreneurial talent as we collaborate to pave a healthier future forward – one healthcare opportunity at a time.
Note this event is part of the Innovation Blender series. In order to ensure productive sessions, the audience will be limited to a small, curated group. When it is safe to host large events in person we will increase the size of these events and hold them in person.
Obieze Nwanna-Nzewunwa, MD, MS
3rd Year Surgical Resident
Maine Medical Center
Dr. Obieze Nwanna-Nzewunwa is a physician and global health scientist with over 11 years of clinical, research, program design and implementation experience in Africa, Asia, and America. He is passionate about providing access to healthcare to vulnerable populations using innovation, He has won numerous awards for social innovation and public service including the 2016 D-prize social innovation, UCSF Chancellors award for public health and public service awards by the Nigerian government.
He is the inventor of Lediscan, a portable device to detect and treat cervical precancerous lesions
E. Vinny Seiverling, MD
Director of Dermatology
Maine Medical Center
Dr. Elizabeth (Vinny) Seiverling is the Dermatology Division Director for Maine Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is also the medical director for Maine Medical Partner’s Skin Oncology clinic. She has a special interest in noninvasive tools for the detection of skin cancer such as dermoscopy, reflectance confocal microscopy and total body photography. Her research focuses on studying the impact of dermoscopy training on residency programs and health systems. She has developed multiple dermoscopy curricula and is on the American Academy of Dermatology Basic Dermatology Curriculum Work Group to add dermoscopy to standard medical student education. She is also on the International Dermoscopedia Academy Work Group aimed at determining core competencies for dermoscopy for residents.
Dr. Seiverling will discuss the role of dermoscopy for skin cancer detection and the teledermoscopy distance learning platform we have developed.
MaineHealth Innovation Center:
Innovation: The connective tissue between research, education and care:
The Innovation Center is a startup within MaineHealth, one of the nation’s leading healthcare organizations, serving over 1 million people across Maine and New Hampshire. Innovation runs deep in MaineHealth’s history, and serves as the connective tissue of research, education and care. The Innovation Center leverages tomorrow’s creative solutions to solve today’s complex problems, addressing local unmet needs with scalable global relevance. Our philosophy is simple: We are passionate pioneers innovating with empathy and across all disciplines. We keep the best interest of our people, patients and community at the core of all we do. We believe that anything is possible and that we all are better together.
Contact us: innovation_center@mainehealth.org
The Roux Institute: Northeastern's Roux Institute is designed to spur innovation, build talent, and drive economic growth in Portland, the state of Maine, and the Northeast. Partnerships- with industry, academia, and government- set our education and research model apart.
Learn more by visiting roux.northeastern.edu.
The Innovation Blender is a program designed to mix practitioners, researchers, entrepreneurs, innovators from a variety of backgrounds togther to ideate on challenges. Each monthly event consists of 10 - 20 curated innovators who brainstorm around (2) presented challenges and proposed breakthrough technologies.
Our Goal: Increase collisions of incredible people trying to solve big challenges!
