Patient Centered Health Make-A-Thon

The Patient-Centered Health Make-A-Thon invites interdisciplinary student teams to co-design innovative solutions with real patients. This hands-on event offers a unique opportunity to tackle real-world healthcare challenges through the design thinking process, guided by mentors and patient collaborators.

Each team will be paired with a patient co-designer with a complex or nuanced healthcare challenge. Teams will use empathic problem-solving grounded in the patient’s lived experience to identify an opportunity and develop an early-stage solution prototype. Teams will receive support from the Office of Research and Innovation (ORI) and access to The Shop at the Siebel Center for Design. All prototyping costs are fully sponsored by the Office of Research and Innovation.

The top three teams will receive seed funding from a $10,000 prize pool and the opportunity to advance their projects through the CI MED Innovation Curriculum and the Cozad New Venture Challenge. We hope every team identifies an impactful opportunity that inspires them to continue developing their idea, whether as a capstone project or through ongoing innovation work.