Futurizing healthcare by leveraging digital technologies, data, artificial intelligence, and mixed reality to address the cost, access, disparities, and quality challenges that we face in healthcare.
Despite its reputation of excellence, the health care sector in the United States is plagued with high costs, unequal access, and poor quality of care. This predicament continues to significantly impact our economy as productivity in our health care system drops. To change this downward trajectory, the pace of innovation and entrepreneurship in health care must dramatically increase.
To achieve this, The Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation must alter how we educate future health care providers and leaders. Catalyzing the health, health care, and social and economic development of our communities begins with competence development. Our impact on the economic development of the communities we serve is enabled by our institute’s capability to foster creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship within tomorrow’s visionaries. We will achieve this through our novel NQ360 approach.
We’re creating new processes, systems, and organizational structures to solve problems and implement solutions across a range of business models.
We’re building partnerships and reinforcing a reputation to strengthen our reach.
We’re integrating programs and opportunities to deliver training to current and future health care providers in health care transformation and economic development.
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The Heersink Innovation Fellows Program is a core component of the university-wide innovation initiative, where the entrepreneurial mindset, concepts, and core innovation are applied to disciplines across the campus. The program offers a unique opportunity for entrepreneurial faculty from any discipline or academic area to be jointly appointed to the Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation.
Heersink Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) Scholars
The CIE Scholars program is an initiative developed to recognize and engage the top graduate students at UAB. Selection criteria include academic performance and achievements, leadership experiences, extracurricular or community engagement, and unique life accomplishments. CIE scholars develop a commercialization plan for research performed on campus or other technical ideas. Students on interdisciplinary teams will use the NSF Innovation Corps Process.
Leadership
Rubin Pillay, M.D., Ph.D.
Director
Assistant Dean for Global Health Innovation
Chief Innovation Officer, Health System
rpillay@uab.edu
Christy Harris Lemak, Ph.D., FACHE
Deputy Director
Professor, Department of Health Services Administration
lemak@uab.edu
Rama Rudraraju, Ph.D.
Program Manager for Academic Programs
Director of Research and Development, Kirklin Institute for Research in Surgical Outcomes
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences
rrudraraju@uabmc.edu
Andrew Smith, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Director of AI
Professor and Vice Chair of Innovation, Department of Radiology
andrewdennissmith@uabmc.edu
Melissa Mancini
Associate Vice President, Strategy and Business Development; Associate Chief Innovation Officer, UAB Medicine
mmancini@uabmc.edu
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Megann Bates Cain, MPPM Chief Development Officer UAB Heersink School of Medicine P: 205.934.7408 M: 205.613.1985 meganncain@uabmc.edu