Nine interdisciplinary student teams will present their progress on healthcare challenges through lightning pitches, posters, and live demos.
2025 EIH Spring Symposium featuring Dr. Samuel Browd
Tuesday, June 3 | 4-6 p.m.
HUB 160: Lyceum
4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195
We are pleased to invite you to the 2025 Engineering Innovation in Health Spring Symposium, featuring keynote speaker Dr. Samuel R. Browd, M.D., Ph.D., founder of Proprio, UW professor of neurological surgery, director of The Sports Institute at UW Medicine, and attending pediatric neurosurgeon at Seattle Children's. Nine interdisciplinary student teams are collaborating with clinical and industry partners to define and address unmet challenges in healthcare. Please join us for an evening of lightning pitches, poster presentations and live demos to see the teams' progress over the past year.
- BRUSH: Eliminating Sonicare toothbrush defects (partner affiliations: Philips)
- NeoFlourish: Affordable, hybrid breastpump for low-resource settings (partner affiliations: UW Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology)
- HemoLight: Rapid blood in stool detection (partner affiliations: UW Medicine Division of Gastroenterology)
- NeoDream: Active noise suppression for neonatal transport and care (partner affiliations: Valor Health)
- Lymphatix: Minimally invasive device to restore normal function for heart failure patients (partner affiliations: UW Bioengineering, UW Medicine Division of Cardiology)
- Root Sense: Rapid and reliable feedback for ensuring canal cleanliness in root canal procedures (partner affiliations: UW School of Dentistry)
- VitreaClear: Non-invasive eye floater treatment (partner affiliations: UW Mechanical Engineering)
- On-Air: Compact, handheld device for quantitative diagnosis of nasal obstruction (partner affiliations: Seattle Children's Hospital)
- PracIV: High-fidelity intravenous catheter insertion trainer (partner affiliations: CREST)
Lightning pitches will start at 4:30 p.m. Free food and beverages will be provided at the event. Please feel free to share event details and invite others who may be interested in this event. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Best,
The EIH Teaching Team
Per Reinhall, Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Shawn Swanson, Teaching Faculty in Mechanical Engineering
Michael Malone, Ph.D student in Mechanical Engineering
Originally published April 23, 2025