Jeff
Woods
Student
UTHealth Science Center, Houston, TX
Jeff Woods is a fourth year medical student at McGovern Medical School in Houston, TX pursuing a career in psychiatry. He has particular interests in philosophy, medical ethics, and health systems innovation and is pursuing a scholarly concentration in medical humanities. He is a founder of the Healthcare Innovation Collaborative and currently serves on the director team.
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…