Caitlynn
Barrows,
BS
Student
UTHealth Science Center
Caitlynn Barrows is a third year PhD student in the biochemistry and cell biology department at the MD Anderson Cancer Center UT Health Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. She is interested in translational research and scientific outreach to underserved communities. She was the treasurer for the 2021 Healthcare Innovation Challenge and is now a director for HIC. Additionally she serves as a coordinator for the Community Outreach Program.
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…