Niharika
Neela,
BA
Student
UTHealth Science Center, Houston, TX
Niharika Neela is a fourth year medical student at McGovern Medical School in Houston, TX, pursuing a career in internal medicine. She has particular interests in healthcare education, humanities including literature and writing, and health systems innovation. She 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…