Meet the Fellows

2026-2027 Fellows

Yige Cao, MPH

2026-27 HMS HealthTech Fellow

Yige Cao is a healthcare strategy leader passionate about advancing equitable access by bringing cutting-edge therapies into the hands of all patients.

She has built a career at the intersection of innovation, analytics, and collaboration. She believes that new technology, when operationalized effectively, can deliver better patient outcomes and financial sustainability. After earning her MPH from Boston University, Yige built a strong operational foundation from her role at Cambridge Health Alliance applying lean methodology to improve care delivery.

At Boston Medical Center, she strengthened her business acumen and focused on introducing advanced treatment in a safety-net setting. She played a central role in launching the hospital’s first CAR-T Cell Therapy program, removing barriers to precision cancer treatment for Medicaid patients. By developing business case, aligning stakeholders and coordinating multidisciplinary teams, she advanced equitable access to life-saving therapies including CAR-T and sickle cell gene therapy.

Inspired to scale this impact, Yige joined Clearway Health, partnering with 11 health systems nationwide. She developed prototype for predictive models to identify treatment gaps base on geolocation. She also co-led new programs in Hepatitis C and weight management, expanding drug access for thousands of patients across rural communities, pediatric populations, and academic hospitals—while generating meaningful revenue for health systems.

With experience across the healthcare ecosystem, Yige offers a unique vantage point on where solutions can make the greatest difference. Now, she hopes to connect with peers who share her passion for building solutions that address unmet needs and contribute toward a more equitable, patient-centered healthcare system. Beyond her professional work, she contributes to the breast cancer advocacy and enjoys time with family, hiking with her dog, and rowing on the Mystic River.

Grace Hatton, MD

2026-27 HMS HealthTech Fellow

Dr. Grace Hatton is a physician-scientist, healthcare entrepreneur, and strategic adviser whose career has focused on translating scientific innovation into meaningful patient impact. With more than 14 years of experience spanning medicine, academia, health technology, and the life sciences industry, she has built a multidisciplinary portfolio across clinical innovation, product development, regulatory strategy, and venture creation.

Through leadership and advisory roles across the healthcare and life sciences sectors, Grace has helped organizations navigate the intersection of science, technology, healthcare delivery, and commercialization. She is a Fellow of the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and the Aspen Institute, and her work reflects a commitment to advancing innovation at the convergence of healthcare, technology, and society. She has also published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and broader media, covering topics ranging from the gastrointestinal microbiome in liver disease to novel pharmaceutical applications of 3D printing.

Her commercial experience includes leading clinical development and product initiatives at various healthcare and life sciences organizations including Numan, Symprove, Arcturis Data, and Sensyne Health, working across clinical research, data science, and digital health, to translate complex scientific and clinical evidence into scalable, patient-centred products and services in areas from oncology to menopause. She was also selected as an inaugural Forbes Ignite Impact AI Fellow, where she explored applications of artificial intelligence in neglected tropical diseases in collaboration with the American Leprosy Association. 

Most recently, Grace serves as Senior Advisory Partner at Biolacuna, advising global life sciences and pharmaceutical organizations, and continuing to support the development, evaluation, and adoption of transformative treatments and health technologies with the potential to improve outcomes at population scale. 

Beyond her professional work, Grace teaches yoga and is an enthusiastic outdoor sportsperson. Having completed two World Major Marathons and recently qualified in yachting, she is currently learning to cross-country ski.

Anupama Shah, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering 

2026-27 HMS HealthTech Fellow

Anupama Shah is a biomedical engineer with a passion for solving challenges and improving women’s healthcare. As a POC and self-identifying woman herself, she has experienced firsthand the issues facing women in the healthcare space, and seen it reflected in the lives of women around her. Combining her love for biology with innovative design, she decided to pursue a Bachelor’s of Science degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Biomedical Engineering. While there, she developed a number of devices for pressing medical issues, including a novel implantable and removable device to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease for which she holds a provisional patent. After completing her undergraduate degree, she wanted to understand the medical device sphere in its entirety, so as to be more entrepreneurial. To do so, she attended the University of Pittsburgh and completed a dual degree, attaining both a MBA with a specialization in entrepreneurship from the Katz School of Business and a Master’s in Medical Product Engineering from the Swanson School of Engineering. Since then, Anupama has worked in industry as a product manager for an intra-ambulance stroke diagnostic device, a variety of orthopedic biologics and currently devices that create a continuity of care for breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. In her role as product manager, she has simultaneously worked on upstream product development and downstream marketing and business development. Her roles have exposed her to a variety of work, including financials, quality engineering, regulatory, and even modeling on occasion. In the future, Anupama wants to hone her career on entrepreneurship and specialize in the women’s healthcare industry, as she finds it ripe with possibility and patient impact potential. Outside of her scholarly pursuits, Anupama channels her aptitude for design into other creative outlets, from jewelry-making to crocheting to apparel design, and, most recently, learning 3D modeling.

Amanda Ward, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering

2026-27 HMS HealthTech Fellow

Amanda Ward is a mechanical engineer driven by a commitment to health equity and a passion for creating technologies that make a meaningful difference in people’s lives. She earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Northeastern University, focusing on product development and design. Over the past five years, she has developed medical devices across a range of clinical areas, with a primary focus on surgical robotics, and has contributed to all stages of product development from early concepts and prototyping, through FDA submission, to sustaining engineering.

Amanda led key aspects of new product development as part of a small team building a surgical robot for knee arthroplasties. She contributed across all phases of development from early concept generation and prototyping through design verification, FDA submission, and commercial launch. Working closely with cross-functional teams, she helped bring complex electromechanical systems from idea to implementation. Her role also included direct collaboration with surgeons through cadaver labs and clinical observations, experiences that deepened her understanding of procedural workflows and the real-world challenges physicians face in the operating room. These interactions helped shape her approach to engineering, which relies on strong teamwork and a holistic understanding of the problem, informed by feedback from everyone involved from the technicians building the devices, to the physicians using them, to the hospital staff maintaining them.

Outside of work, Amanda is dedicated to growth, exploration, and service. She volunteers as a youth snowboard instructor, is learning Spanish, and always seeks out new ways to stay active and engaged whether through rock climbing, hiking, or biking around the city.

Sophia Ye, B.S. in Economics

2026-27 HMS HealthTech Fellow

Sophia Ye is a cross-disciplinary product builder, designer, and entrepreneur who cares deeply about building equitable solutions across all facets of healthcare.

She is the co‑founder of Levra Labs, a digital consultancy that supports nonprofits and startups in the health and education space. As CTO of Levra Labs, Sophia partners with founders to develop software to address unmet needs in underserved populations, supporting 15+ social ventures to date. She has led product launches for behavioral health startups such as Sidekick Learning, a training platform for ABA practitioners and learners, and EmpathED, a 3D platform that uses VR to support students with learning disabilities.

Prior to Levra Labs, Sophia was an early engineer at Bayesian Health, a startup that leverages AI for early sepsis detection to reduce time-to-treatment and mortality. She developed deep expertise in healthcare software frameworks, including third-party EHR integrations, FHIR, and HL7. After stepping into a product manager role, she led the first major product launch of Bayesian’s AI-powered sepsis tool across a major hospital system.

Sophia’s experiences reflect her commitment to serving vulnerable communities. Working in partnership with local Philadelphia nonprofits, she was the first designer at Keep.id, a digital identification platform that helps individuals experiencing homelessness apply for insurance and employment services. Sophia also collaborated with psychiatrists at Penn’s Center for Treatment and Study of Anxiety to design a CBT-based mobile application to help students with GAD.

Sophia studied Business Analytics and Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Through this fellowship, Sophia is excited to collaborate with clinical experts to surface unmet needs and co-design impactful solutions. In her free time, Sophia runs a healthcare book club and enjoys writing, rock climbing, and traveling.

2025-2026 Fellows

Melinda Hu, B.S. in Economics

2025-26 HMS HealthTech Fellow

Melinda Hu (she/her) is a multi-passionate startup operator and healthcare innovator who brings an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens to her work. She’s excited about leveraging technology to improve healthcare equity, access, and delivery in overlooked areas. Most recently, she served as the 1st marketer at Photon Health, a seed-stage startup that enhances medication access and transparency. Prior to Photon, she drove growth at women's health startup Elix. Applying her skills in storytelling, analytics, and go-to-market strategy, she reached thousands who sought relief from debilitating hormone health symptoms. At Microsoft, she ran complex, cross-functional projects alongside engineers and researchers, expanding the impact of solutions like Microsoft Forms for health screenings & appointments and SMART Health Cards. Her strengths in communication, user empathy, and relationship-building pair well with her problem-solving, execution, and leadership abilities.
Melinda’s experiences showcase her passion for community health and focus on the social determinants of health. With non-profits and medical partners in Philadelphia, she started Bloom to address the gaps in mental health education and support for Asian American students. She also started Let’s Sync, a social media platform to educate young people on stigmatized gender and health topics. In pursuit of women’s health impact, she trained as a birth doula, facilitated health workshops for women at the Riverside Correctional Facility, helped implement group coaching for maternal health startup Vital Start, and offered contraception education for startup Twentyeight Health.
Melinda studied Business Analytics and Entrepreneurship at Wharton Business School (University of Pennsylvania). In this Fellowship, she is excited to partner with passionate innovators and clinicians to tackle unmet health needs with the biodesign framework. She is a former competitive figure skater, world traveler, amateur DJ, and lifelong learner.

Emily Huang, MD

2025-26 HMS HealthTech Fellow

Dr. Emily Huang is a urologic oncology fellow at Mass General Brigham. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she expressed an interest in STEM at a young age, enrolling in the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, an early college entrance program. Afterwards, she pursued her bachelor’s degree at Rice University in biochemistry and cellular biology with a minor in global health technologies. She then went on to obtain her medical degree from the UT Southwestern Medical School with a distinction in clinical research. There, she fell in love with urology as a specialty for its integration of cutting-edge technology and spirit of innovation.
She completed her urology residency training at Houston Methodist Hospital where she received numerous clinical awards for her dedication to patients as well as her surgical skills. In addition to a prolific record of peer-reviewed publications, textbook chapters, and conference presentations, Emilyhas championed several efforts to address clinical unmet needs, such as a low-cost device to standardize communication about post-operative hematuria and a reminder system for patients with ureteral stents integrated into the electronic medical record. Most recently, she is working with the medical students from the Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine to launch HomeScope, a device designed to expand access to cystoscopy for patients on surveillance for bladder cancer which has earned the recognition of the American Urological Association Innovation Nexus.
Through the Harvard HealthTech Fellowship, Emily hopes to hone her biodesign experience to carve a niche for herself at the intersection of device development and academic urology, leading a lab that combines translational research with engineering design.

Caitlyn Joy Loo, MB Bch BAO, LRCP & SI

2025-26 HMS HealthTech Fellow

Caitlyn Loo is a clinician, scientist, and healthtech innovator whose career spans clinical medicine, academic research, healthtech startups, venture capital, and government policy. She brings a multidisciplinary and international perspective, shaped by experiences in Singapore, Ireland, the United States, and Europe. Passionate about connecting siloed parts of the healthcare ecosystem, she focuses on leveraging technology, policy, and investment to drive scalable, patient-centered solutions.
Born and raised in Singapore, Caitlyn spent a decade as a National Team gymnast before pursuing medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Here, she held leadership roles and founded numerous initiatives including a university-wide Laboratory Skills Teaching Programme, which culminated in awards such as the Student Partnership Champion Award. Academically, Caitlyn maintains research collaborations and portfolios across the U.S. and Europe, while also contributing as a writer for Breakthrough Cancer Research.
Caitlyn has also worked extensively at the intersection of healthtech and policy. She served as Chief Data Policy Officer at Airpal, a telehealth startup, overseeing regulatory compliance and data governance. At the Ministry of Health Singapore, she worked in the Regulatory Policy and Legislation Division, contributing to national initiatives in AI in healthcare, precision medicine, and genetic testing. She also worked with Verge HealthTech Fund, conducting investment analysis on early-stage healthtech startups.
Caitlyn’s ambition is to take on leadership roles that bridge healthcare management, policy, and innovation, enabling her to shape strategy, build cross-sector collaborations, and drive meaningful change in healthcare delivery and impact.

Sabrina Ramnarine, PhD in Clinical and Molecular medicine

2025-26 HMS HealthTech Fellow

Dr. Sabrina Ramnarine is a physician–scientist and clinical research fellow (honorary) at Guy’s and St Thomas’ National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer and Adjunct Senior Lecturer (Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine) at King’s College London, United Kingdom.  
Sabrina graduated with a B.Sc. in Medical Science from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and received her medical degree (MBChB) from the University of Edinburgh. She pursued postgraduate medical education and training at Oxford, followed by a scholarship-funded PhD at the University of Edinburgh in cancer-treatment related neuropathic pain, for which Sabrina was awarded clinical and research fellowships. She is involved in clinical/translational research and innovation projects tackling challenging areas of unmet clinical need through cross-functional collaboration (clinical/academic/ industry) and exploring the clinical utility of novel assessment tools (non-invasive imaging) in diagnostic and management pathways. Her work has been supported by the National Institute of Health and Care Research, UK Research and Innovation, and the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme. Sabrina is also the recipient of The Oncologist’s Young Investigator Award.
Sabrina has engaged in medical education initiatives, demonstrating academic leadership and the ability to help support others on their learning journey through her teaching and mentoring roles across several institutions- The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Harvard Catalyst-The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (Harvard Medical School), and King’s College London. She actively contributes to editorial activities, including peer review and publications, technical and scientific programme committees, guest lectures, and presentations at international conferences. As a physician–scientist, Sabrina is committed to accelerating the translation of research into clinical practice and investigating how innovative strategies can support the adoption of patient-centred, efficient, co-ordinated models of care to improve patient outcomes and quality of life.

2024-2025 Fellows

Ryan Brewster, MD

2024-25 HMS HealthTech Fellow

Ryan Brewster is a pediatrician, health services researcher, and clinical entrepreneur with interests in developing technologies to advance child health equity. Ryan is completing his pediatrics training at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine as part of the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy Track. He graduated summa cum laude from Middlebury College and earned his medical degree at Stanford University, where he was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honors Society. In medical school, he worked at the intersection of technology and health-related social needs through the Stanford Byers Center Byers Center for Biodesign Innovation Fellowship and Bay Area Schweitzer Fellowship. Ryan launched a telemedicine-based clinic for lead poisoning prevention in residency, along with founding a trainee-led clinical informatics incubator program. He also directs a national conference series focused on addressing structural racism called Health Equity Rounds. His ongoing innovation work seeks to operationalize acute hospital at home care for children. Outside of the United States, Ryan is passionate about expanding and building capacity for virtual models of pediatric care in low resource settings. He serves as a research and strategy consultant for multiple non-governmental organizations, including Global Strategies and Cloudphysician, and helped develop a novel low-cost bubble continuous positive airway pressure device. Ryan has an extensive academic record studying technology initiatives and pediatric health inequities, among other topics, that have led to over 50 peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations. Additionally, he is a professional graphic designer, illustrator, and creative director with Little King Creative specializing in public health advocacy and scientific communication.

Kyle Murphy, MD

2024-25 HMS HealthTech Fellow

Kyle Murphy, MD is a general surgery resident and cofounder of AVA Surgical Technologies, a startup focusing on vascular access devices. Originally from Casper, Wyoming, Kyle has had a lifelong passion for design and innovation, first through sculpture and architecture as an undergraduate student at Notre Dame, before changing course to pre-medical studies with a minor in poverty studies. Kyle proceeded to the University of Kentucky College of Medicine where he graduated with honors in addition to taking extracurricular courses in medical innovation. He is currently finishing his general surgery residency at the University of Kentucky. He enjoys surgery, especially operations with minimally invasive techniques. Kyle is committed to balancing life as a surgeon and as an inventor. He has found success in both during residency. During his first year, he began developing prototypes with clay and glue, prior to buying and learning to use a 3D printer to improve his proofs of concepts. Kyle currently focuses his passion for design and innovation on vascular access devices through AVA Surgical Technologies. AVA is working to bring several of his inventions to market. During his time with AVA, Kyle has gained experience in prototyping, intellectual property, and fundraising. He is excited to join Harvard Healthtech and continue expanding his knowledge and experience.

Lois Onyeajam, MPH

2024-25 HMS HealthTech Fellow

Lois Onyeajam’s primary aim through her work is to improve the lives of older adults through innovative healthcare delivery to maximize their quality of life, while achieving the triple aim of better health, better care, at a lower price. She has over a decade of industry experience in the healthcare ecosystem, including working in public health implementation, payer operations, startup business development, and payer new business implementation. These experiences have equipped her with a strong understanding of the impact that payment models can have on access to, and delivery of, healthcare. She has strong skills in managing the full project life cycle, stakeholder cultivation and engagement, and sales enablement. She pairs this with a strong business acumen that has helped her build a company that in the last couple of years has helped hundreds of seniors find, evaluate, and decide on senior living options in the Charlotte Metropolitan area. Lois holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Public Health from the University of South Carolina. Prior to becoming a HMS HealthTech Fellow, she served as a program manager within the SWAT team of Humana’s Corporate Medicaid Implementation Team, managing aspects of new market implementation that have large scale impacts across functional areas.

Deborah Weidman, BS in Biomedical Engineering

2024-25 HMS HealthTech Fellow

Deborah Weidman works collaboratively to develop patient-focused solutions for unmet clinical needs. She is the co-founder of two Baltimore-based medical device start-ups, CraniUS and PneuTech. As CEO of PneuTech, Deborah built and led its team to design a device that improves safety and navigation of the current commercial biopsy system, in order to reduce the rate of lung collapse during lung biopsies. Prior to PneuTech, Deborah co-founded CraniUS with the mission to extend the lives of patients with brain cancer by developing the first implantable device to enable long-term medicine delivery directly across the blood-brain barrier. As CTO of CraniUS, she hired and led a diverse and interdisciplinary R&D team of mechanical, hardware, and software engineers, supported key milestones that enabled a $19.4M Series A raise, designed and executed four animal studies, and created the product vision for the company’s future first-in-human study. Prior to CraniUS and PneuTech, Deborah was a Johns Hopkins Presidential Management Fellow, where she developed an analytic method to guide the university Investment Office’s new investments in the healthcare sector. Deborah was a Bloomberg Scholar at Johns Hopkins University and graduated with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering with honors. While at Johns Hopkins, Deborah helped start the Center for Neuroplastic Surgery Research, where she was the lab manager for two years. Outside of healthcare innovation, Deborah enjoys playing the flute, volunteering for the Johns Hopkins alumni committee, and traveling with her family and friends. She looks forward to creating safer, more effective, and more equitable healthcare innovations.

2022-2023 Fellows

Please note, each fellow's bio was written at the beginning of their fellowship and will not be updated with new information.

Jessica Abreu

2022-23 HealthTech Innovation Fellow

Jessica Abreu received her PhD in neural engineering at Case Western Reserve University, where she developed cutting-edge neurotechnologies to reverse paralysis due to spinal cord injuries. She earned her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), one of the most competitive universities in Latin America, by creating computational models that guided surgical procedures to correct hand deformities caused by leprosy. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UFRJ. She is a skilled communicator, and she has received awards for her compelling pitches and for her excellence in graduate teaching. Throughout her career, Jessica has developed software and medical products in three different countries: Brazil, Germany, and the US. Her international background has shaped her into an adaptable and creative engineer with a broad understanding of healthcare innovation.  Most recently, Jessica served as a lecturer for the biomedical engineering postgraduate program at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, renowned as the premier hospital in her home country of Brazil, and considered one of the top medical institutions globally. Outside of her research, engineering, and teaching activities, Jessica is deeply involved in community service. She was the founding director of Núcleo de Programadores do Amanhã (NUPA), an initiative to teach programming to underprivileged students in Brazil.  In her free time, she enjoys reading books, hiking with her husband, and playing the piano. Jessica is eager to leverage the skills that she gained as a Harvard HealthTech Fellow to develop innovative medical technologies and ventures that tackle the most urgent unmet needs in healthcare.

Bharadwaj Chada

2022-23 HealthTech Innovation Fellow

Bharadwaj received his MBBS degree from King’s College London in 2019, following which he completed the Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) in Leadership & Management in the East Midlands. Prior to commencing the HealthTech fellowship, he undertook the prestigious Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM) National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow scheme within the Transformation Directorate of NHS England, the government body responsible for shaping technology, data, and digital health policy. Whilst an undergraduate at King’s, Bharadwaj obtained a First-Class Honours BSc in Healthcare Management, which offered an introduction to health policy and economics, and strategy and organisational change in healthcare. As an AFP trainee, he undertook an internship at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) within the Interventional Procedures Programme, appraising novel interventional techniques for implementation within NICE guidelines. Bharadwaj has a keen interest in healthtech and has provided commentary on a range of related topics, including the use of virtual consultations in primary care, and Electronic Health Record implementation. He is currently pursuing a Master of Studies in Healthcare Data and Informatics at the University of Cambridge, comprising modules such as data governance, healthcare systems improvement, and med-tech innovation and commercialisation. He had previously worked for a healthtech communications agency, working closely with a range of innovative and forward-thinking healthtech start-ups. Bharadwaj is keen to leverage the fellowship, together with his earlier experiences, to better understand the factors that determine successful introduction of a healthcare technology to market. In his spare time, Bharadwaj enjoys creative writing and narrative medicine, and has published his reflections as a junior doctor in the British Medical Journal blogs. He is also an avid cricket enthusiast, and enjoys exercising and keeping fit.

Angela Feldhaus

2022-23 HealthTech Innovation Fellow

Angela Feldhaus is an applied math PhD student at Harvard University. Angela studied transmembrane protein interactions at Johns Hopkins University and was also a Clarendon Fellow at the University of Oxford. She has been internationally recognized for her writing as a St. Gallen Symposium winner and published author. Angela has conducted research at both Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs where her research spanned bioengineering, mathematics, applied physics, and materials science. She has experience in designing, building, and prototyping devices as well as theoretical modeling and data analysis for both academic research and start-ups. As an undergraduate at the University of New Mexico she founded and sold a small digital health platform that lowered out-of-pocket costs for home healthcare for the elderly. Angela is passionate about making healthcare more efficient through technology and interdisciplinary innovation. Outside her professional life she enjoys traveling, carpentry, and research aimed at increasing longevity in humans. She is excited about the opportunity to work at the interface of innovation and research afforded by the Harvard HealthTech Fellowship and plans to use the opportunity to enter the start-up ecosystem full time.

Roger Flint

2022-23 HealthTech Innovation Fellow

Dr Roger Flint MB ChB is a physician and clinical entrepreneur, driven to use health technology and innovation to overcome health’s most pressing challenges; specifically safely managing pain during the global opioid crisis. He studied Marine and Environmental Biology at St Andrews University, Scotland. Whilst at St Andrews he competed in boxing and rugby, becoming the Scottish Universities Super-heavyweight boxing champion and represented his University Rugby First XV. Thereafter, he read a Masters of Science degree in Public Health Research at the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Prof Sir Aziz Sheikh. His published thesis explored the sensitivity and specificity of creating novel search terms to identify previously unknown patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis in a General Practice database. This sparked his interest in the power of data to improve health. Following his Masters degree he read Medicine at Dundee University, Captaining the boxing club, and commissioning into the British Army Reserve at The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Two weeks after graduating and starting his medical internship, Dr Flint had a challenging and distressing experience prescribing opioids for a patient in pain at the end of their life. This experience drove him to create SPOT, The Safer Prescription of Opioids Tool. SPOT is a novel digital health software as a medical device platform, distributed as software as a service. SPOT significantly improves the confidence of opioid prescribing and adherence to guidelines. SPOT is in commercial use supporting a population of over 110,000 prescribers and patients, and part of the Scottish Government’s COVID-19 palliative care toolkit. SPOT is able to predict whether an opioid prescription is likely to cause harm. Dr Flint has been featured on the BBC in TV, radio, news and print articles. He has published in academic journals and contributed to the Enhanced Palliative Care Handbook. Outside of work, Dr Flint enjoys forestry, fishing and spending time with friends. He has hung up his gloves and retired as an undefeated amateur boxer.

Stephanie Musinsky

2022-23 HealthTech Innovation Fellow

Stephanie Musinsky is an electrical engineer with an enduring interest in healthcare technology. She received an undergraduate degree in both Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University. Her core technical expertise revolves around PCB design and includes FPGA development and firmware. She has worked in industry, academia, and even at the intersection between. Stephanie has proven to impact every organization that she has worked in such as by creating an FPGA developers’ group at work to increase lab-wide collaboration and by being the first undergraduate to contribute to the core code of Dr. Randles’ lab at Duke. She has worked on complex electro-optical systems and various medical devices at all stages- from ideation to commercialization. Stephanie has experience with V&V and electrical safety testing necessary for FDA clearance. She has always been interested in entrepreneurship and spent time during the height of the pandemic volunteering on the hardware technology and various other aspects of work for RespiraWorks, a volunteer-composed nonprofit striving towards open-source medical devices. Stephanie has proven technical competence with medical devices and has sought out greater responsibilities and successfully grown into leadership roles. Outside of work, she enjoys long-distance running, various other outdoor activities including hiking and scuba diving, and reading about various topics.

Nitya Rajeshuni

2022-23 Leerink Innovation Fellow

Nitya Rajeshuni is a physician, epidemiologist, educator, and writer passionate about leveraging technology and innovation to promote global health equity. She trained in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania with specializations in global health and informatics. She completed her undergraduate and medical studies at Stanford University, where she also obtained a Master’s in Epidemiology and Clinical Research. Nitya’s interest in health technology stemmed from a passion for digital education.  As an undergraduate, she created digital curricula for underserved schools and clinics.  As an NIH intern, she collaborated with international partners using distance-learning to train healthcare providers in low- and middle-income countries.  As a Global Health Education Fellow with Stanford’s Digital Medical International Collaborative, she led a multidisciplinary team developing a digital anatomy curriculum for medical schools in India and Rwanda.  She most recently led a study in the Dominican Republic evaluating implementation of a digital application to record community health campaign data at the point-of-care. Nitya has a strong track record across clinical, health services, and global health research with numerous presentations and publications in top journals like Cancer and JAMA Ophthalmology.  She is an innovative leader with versatile experience including directing education nonprofit Splash.  Nitya is also passionate about the medical humanities and creative arts.  She has directed an arts collaborative on special needs, contributed as a journalist for ABC News, and writes for Synapsis and Two Peds in a Pod. Nitya has earned several awards including induction into Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford Cap and Gown Society for Women Leaders, Gold Humanism Honor Society, and the Nightingale Fellowship.  Outside of work, she is an avid performing artist and starred in the viral music video Dear Future Doctor, sang on the album Circle of Friends, and is currently writing a children’s book.

Bridget Slomka

2022-23 HealthTech Innovation Fellow

Bridget Slomka received her Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arizona working to transform cancer care with advanced imaging probes for detecting gastrointestinal tumors. In addition to years of diverse academic research and clinical experience, she also carries industry experience in R&D Engineering at Wallaby Medical, Inc., where she helped commercialize neurovascular implants and value segment medical devices for global healthtech markets. Equally an artist and an engineer, Bridget’s expertise in product sketching, CAD modeling, and rendering helped her earn the Voltaire Elegant Design Award for her patent-pending CycleSafe device, now moving forward to licensing with major US cycling companies. Building on her experience in the University of Arizona’s pilot Health Sciences Design program, as well as time spent teaching students how to translate basic research findings into successful medical products, she hopes to use the Harvard HealthTech Fellowship to begin building unforgettable products and innovative ventures of her own. When she’s not in the laboratory, you can find her tending to her garden, feeding her chickens, or painting landscapes from her last hike.

Ana Trapero Martin

2022-23 HealthTech Innovation Fellow

Ana Trapero is a biomedical and mechanical engineer who works in the intersection of healthcare and technology. She was most recently a Senior Product Design Engineer at the Trauma and Extremities Division at Stryker. In this position, she is actively involved in the research and development of surgical instruments. With an innovative and efficient approach to problem-solving, Ana thrives in the interface of arts and science to build creative, cutting-edge, and impactful solutions. Previously, Ana was the Director of Engineering at a stealth startup that develops wearable health monitoring devices and where she has authored over 10 patents in quick succession. During that time, she made key product and technical design decisions and helped pitch the product to potential partners across the US and Europe while also supporting the testing and strategy development. In addition to her work in the industry, Ana has been part of academic research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she worked closely with top-tier hospitals like the Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel in the development of medical devices. The projects were focused on improving health and wellness by delivering engineering solutions such as designing pneumatic actuators of soft robotics for minimally invasive procedures, developing drug delivery systems at the point of care, and controlling medical swarm robotics. She received first-class honours during her Masters in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London and was awarded a year-long scholarship at Boston University during her undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering from the Higher Technical School of Engineering of Comillas Pontifical University (ICAI). Besides her professional interests, Ana can be found in a concert, art exhibit, or hiking in the mountains.

2021-2022 Fellows

Please note, each fellow's bio was written at the beginning of their fellowship and will not be updated with new information.

Nicky Agahari

2021-22 HealthTech Innovation Fellow

Nicky Agahari was most recently Head of Innovation (Asia Pacific) and Business Development Manager (Australia & New Zealand) for global medical technology company Boston Scientific. Nicky’s interests and passion for healthcare began during his services as a combat medic in the Royal Australian Army; learning the skills to dispense live sustaining procedures to care for patients and the importance of working in teams to accomplish common goals. Professionally Nicky has spent the past 13 years holding multiple commercialization and strategic roles with the world’s leading med tech and pharmaceuticals companies including; Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly and Medtronic. Through the breadth of his roles Nicky has developed expertise into multiple disease specialties including; mental health, urology, gastro-enterology, neuromodulation and structural heart. Through these experiences Nicky has garnered a nuanced insight into how to scale innovation, bring products to market and accelerate patient ‘access’ to medical solutions; ‘access’ that is affordable, timely and of high quality. With in-country experiences in Australia, South East Asia, United States and Greater China; Nicky understands the intricate complexities of decision making in healthcare systems. He believes although there are barriers to each nation state’s healthcare system there are also ‘best practices’ from each that can be translated transnationally to improve delivery of care to patients globally. Away from his corporate career Nicky continues to pursue his interests in med-tech dedicating his personal time to developing a novel, wearable and minimally invasive neuromodulation device that minimizes patient symptoms of urinary and fecal incontinence.

Nancy Anoruo, MD

2021-22 Leerink Innovation Fellow

Nancy Anoruo is a physician and public health scientist with an interest in health technology innovation as a means of overcoming pervasive challenges in health care— namely improving care access to mitigate inequity. She studied microbiology and biomechanical engineering at the University of Florida, then obtained graduate degrees in medicine and public health at the George Washington University. Her clinical training was in internal medicine at the University of Massachusetts. She completed a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health where her notable work included development of a renal cell carcinoma blood screening test to facilitate early detection and reduce diagnostic racial inequities. While at NIH, she helped develop several grassroots community health projects and initiatives to reduce health disparities in minority, underserved, and marginalized populations. She was most recently faculty at Harvard Medical School, an attending physician at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and a journalist / medical contributor for ABC News. Her favorite things to do outside of work are spending time with her dog, traveling with her husband, and woodworking / completing home renovation projects as an aspiring builder and carpenter. She has also played the violin since age 8 and enjoys arranging and writing non-classical music.

Ricky Cordova

2021-22 Leerink Innovation Fellow

Ricky Cordova is a professional biomedical engineer and was most recently a researcher at the University of Arizona Tissue Optics Lab, where he developed multimodal endoscopes for the early detection of gynecologic cancers and other pathology affecting women’s health. Ricky is an outgoing leader, an award-winning writer, and a true multipotentialite with nearly a decade of eclectic research experience in synthetic biology, laboratory automation, medical devices, and more. He serves on the advisory board of the Keep Engaging Youth in Science (KEYS) Research Internship Program and is the cofounder of SonoArmor, an early-stage startup aimed at ruggedizing mobile ultrasound technology for use in the clinic and on the battlefield. He studied bioengineering as an undergraduate at Stanford University, and there became a practiced intersectional innovator through training at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. Outside of work and school, Ricky has volunteered with Planned Parenthood and community free clinics as a certified Spanish medical interpreter, trained as an emergency medical technician, performed for huge crowds as a touring jazz drummer and DJ, and worked to discover a new species of tardigrade. Now he looks to build a successful career as an entrepreneur, physician, and scientist with participation in the Harvard HealthTech Fellowship and future MD-PhD training.

M. Martin Jensen

2021-22 HealthTech Innovation Fellow

M. Martin Jensen is a biomedical engineer working at the interface of technology and medicine. He received departmental and university honors for his B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Utah. During his undergrad, he worked at Catheter Connections Inc. and was responsible for developing an FDA-cleared IV-line disinfecting system using the Dualcap® technology that was 6 times faster than competing products at the time and is still twice as fast as competing technologies. During his doctoral work at the University of Utah,  he received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship and a NSF INTERN award to pursue industry experience. His research focused on developing and translating innovative technologies including gels to protect soft tissues from radiation damage, embolics to treat cerebral aneurysms, markers to guide surgical resection of tumors, and delivery systems to improve the selectivity of herbicides. Most recently, he was a post-doctoral research fellow with Harvard Medical School mentored by Jeff Karp and Siam Oottamasathien where he developed a prize-winning body fluid management technology for the United States Airforce AFWERX Sky High Relief Challenge. In his free time, he enjoys playing with his daughters, fishing, and listening to audiobooks.

2020-2021 Fellows

Please note, each fellow's bio was written at the beginning of their fellowship and will not be updated with new information.

Yen-Po (Harvey) Chin, MD

2020-21 HealthTech Innovation Fellow

Yen-Po (Harvey) is a physician-scientist by training with technology commercialization experience. Harvey is the co-founder of two medical companies- AESOP Technology and DermAI Co. AESOP Technology has developed a machine learning-based prescription error prevention system and has been backed by Berkeley Skydeck (UC Berkeley). DermAI Co. is an AI-50-campaign-selected company that creates smartphone-compatible AI applications for skin screening and personalized skincare advice. Harvey is also a former physician and a mentor of MIT Hacking Medicine as well as the Harvard Lehmann Program on creativity and entrepreneurship. Harvey is on the Forbes 30 under 30 list (Healthcare & Science, 2020), and holds patents related to a medical AI application and a blockchain-based trading platform. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, working on machine learning and natural language processing projects. Harvey received his doctor of medicine degree from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, and his postdoctoral masters’ of biomedical informatics degree from Harvard Medical School. Outside of work, he enjoys watching NBA games (a die-hard Boston Celtics fan) and spending time with friends and family.

Manuel (Manny) Fanarjian, MD

2020-21 HealthTech Innovation Fellow

Manny is an engineer and physician with an interest in the evolving role of healthcare technology in the delivery of medicine. Prior to starting the HealthTech Fellowship, he completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied biomedical engineering as an undergraduate at Duke, focusing on bioinstrumentation and medical device design. After graduating he worked for St. Jude Medical (now Abbott) for three years in their cardiac rhythm management division before going back to medical school at UNC in Chapel Hill. Throughout his clinical training he has done part-time or contract work with a number of healthcare technology companies, including AliveCor, ElektraLabs, and Sketchy Medical. Outside of work he enjoys photography, rugby, basketball, and just about anything written by Aaron Sorkin.

Sim Kahlon

2020-21 HealthTech Innovation Fellow

Sim Kahlon is a seasoned Healthcare Product Manager based in the Boston area. He has years of progressive and successful leadership experiences in the fields of healthcare analytics, technology, consulting, product development and delivery. Sim is well-versed in carrying strategic business needs while implementing large analytical projects, forging business relationships, and advancing mission and vision of organizations. He is an invigorating leader bringing vision, initiative, innovation and interpersonal skills to make things happen. Sim is passionate about healthcare innovation and has worked in the healthcare analytics space for the larger part of the last decade. His most recent forays in this space include working for a startup with focus on value-based Healthcare and for a large New England based health plan. Sim has a computer engineering degree and an MBA from Northeastern University. He is an avid reader, an audible marathoner, and likes to play Tennis.

Bahar Rahsepar

2020-21 HealthTech Innovation Fellow

Bahar is a PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. She received her B.S. in the same field from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014. In her undergraduate research, she developed a real-time seizure detection algorithm for real-time optogenetics used for electrophysiological investigation of effects of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in mice models of epilepsy. Her dissertation project focuses on identifying effective stimulation strategies for modulation of stressful memories in rodent models with implications in anxiety disorders. Bahar is passionate about biotechnology innovation and constantly seeks opportunities for translation of basic science research to products improving patient lives. She is particularly attracted to novel efforts towards mental health and developing quantitative approaches for diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders. On her own time she enjoys long distance running, practicing yoga, and baking. Spending time with friends and family and traveling is her favorite pastime.