Med AppJam Awards Ceremony
The 4th Annual Med AppJam kicked-off on Tuesday, November 3rd in collaboration with ICS and the Program in Nursing Science. Over 100 participants (including 23 medical students) assigned to 19 teams worked tirelessly to design and develop iOS apps for healthcare over a 2-week period. The apps ranged from personalized memory games to help dementia patients to mobile tracking of macular degeneration symptoms. To view videos of the final app submissions, visit: Team Videos.
The Judging Event and Awards Ceremony was held on November 16, 2015. The five judges representing the School of Medicine included Dr. Laura Fitzmaurice (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology), Dr. Randy Wei (Department of Radiation Oncology), Dr. Mohammad Subeh (Department of Emergency Medicine) and Drs. Warren Wiechmann and Julie Youm (Department of Emergency Medicine/Medical Education).
Prizes were awarded to the winning teams:
Most Innovative ($500 Prize): Precison Neuro
An app that is able to detect minute changes in a patient’s three-dimensional arm movements which can lead to the diagnosis of upper motor brain and spinal cord lesions.
ICS: Daniel Yang, David Diep
SOM: Cyrus Farzaneh, MS4, Mohammad Hajighasemi-Ossareh, MS4
Most Technical ($500 Prize): iPallor
An app that detects optic disk temporal pallor by analyzing a retinal image on your phone.
ICS: Van K. Nguyen, Max Paulus, John Francis III Collins, Pasha Khosravi, Lewis Liu
SOM: Matin Khoshnevis, MS4
Most Start-Up Potential ($500 Prize): TinniCure
An app that includes CBT therapy, customized sound therapy, meditation audio files and exercises to reinforce positive thinking habits.
ICS: Jiaqi Zhu, Deon Zhao, Mengtao Peng, Samir Ali Chaouche
SOM: Ronald Sahyouni, MS2
An additional $1000 Grand Prize will be awarded in the coming week.
We extend our congratulations to all teams who participated and contributed to an innovative and useful collection of mobile healthcare apps!
For more information on the Med AppJam, visit: http://www.medappjam.com/
Reminder: Workshop: Student Evaluation System
If you would like to learn more about the evaluation system used by students to evaluate courses and instructors, please attend our next workshop:
- Tuesday, December 1, 2015, 9am-10am, Conference Room A1000, Medical Education Building, Irvine
There will be no iMedEd Release Notes next Friday, November 27th.
We wish each of you a happy, safe and relaxing Thanksgiving Holiday!