Amber
Chen,
BS
Student
UTHealth Science Center, Houston, TX
Amber Chen is a third year medical student at McGovern Medical School in Houston, TX. She is pursuing a dual MD-MBA degree and has particular interests in internal medicine, gastroenterology, medical education, and healthcare administration. She previously served as a co-President for the Healthcare Innovation Challenge, and now serves on the director team for the Healthcare Innovation Collaborative.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
American healthcare is increasingly expensive and inefficient, making it ripe for innovation. Despite the interprofessional nature of healthcare, professional training in each field is mainly independent of other professions. Moreover, our current UTHealth curricula lack the opportunity for students from all six schools (medical, nursing, dentistry, biomedical science, biomedical informatics, and public health) to collaborate over an extended period. To bridge this gap, we created the Healthcare Innovation Challenge (HIC).
HIC is a student-founded and student-led annual competition that…