Feeling Seen: A Medtech Intern’s Summer Program Experience
Angela Rivelli is a mechanical engineering student at San Francisco State University and an intern at Myra Vision, which develops innovative glaucoma therapies. After actively participating in the two-day DxD Healthtech Innovation Workshop, Angela shared her...
Summer Healthtech Intern Shares the Top 3 Lessons She Learned from Speed Mentors
Andrea Rodriguez-Cruz participated in the DxD Healthtech Exploration Workshop, July 8-9, 2024, through her summer internship. Here, she shares the biggest insights she gained from the experienced healthtech professionals she met through the Speed Mentorship portion of...
Diversity by Doing HealthTech Celebrates Five Years of DOING
This article was originally published by Fogarty Innovation. It’s well known that the most successful innovations start with a deep understanding of a problem and take the needs of all stakeholders into account when developing a solution....
Diversity by Doing HealthTech Celebrates Five Years of DOING
It’s well known that the most successful innovations start with a deep understanding of a problem and take the needs of all stakeholders into account when developing a solution. With this as a foundation and a sustained lift from healthtech industry volunteers...
A Personal Tragedy Inspires Samantha Rogers to Pursue Health Technology
Samantha Rogers is a Los Medaños College graduate who has participated in several programs offered by Diversity by Doing HealthTech. In this post, she shares her inspiration for pursuing medical research and health technology, and the experiences that have shaped her...
What is Healthtech?
One of the most common questions we hear from young people at DxD is “what exactly is healthtech?” While there are some nuances, we broadly define health technology, or healthtech, as any medical device, including those that have a digital component....
DxD Continues to Transform Healthtech Industry with Multiple Exciting Initiatives
This article was originally published by Fogarty Innovation. While the climate around diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives has chilled in the last year, Diversity by Doing HealthTech (DxD) continues to advocate for diversity in the medtech innovation ecosystem...
DxD Pathways Graduate Offers Advice for Students Exploring HealthTech
Kirsten Takeshima participated in DxD’s inaugural cohort of Pathways in Health Technology program in 2023. Now a Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology major at UCLA, Kirsten shares insights from how DxD influenced her journey, and offers advice for others...