Med AppJam 2016 Winners

Twenty-four teams competed in this year’s 5th Annual Med AppJam competition hosted by the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) and the School of Medicine. These teams were comprised of over 175 students from ICS and health sciences programs and collaborated over a two-week period to create innovative mobile health apps. This was the first year the competition was opened up to include both iOS and Android apps.

The apps were judged at the judging event on Nov. 22, 2016 where teams rotated to give short pitches to a panel of judges. Dr. Maxwell Jen, form the department of emergency medicine, represented the School of Medicine on this panel. The winning teams announced at the awards ceremony that day were as follows:

Overall Winner: Alzheimer’s Buddy

Alzheimer’s Buddy is an application that aims to help Alzheimer’s patients stay better connected with their families and friends. It uses facial recognition software to identify people in real time and display relevant information about them from their profile.

Team members: 

• Sasha Mirabi
• Pasha Khosravi
• Lucas Erb
• Akash Idnani
• Sharof Abdugapparov
• Jenny Tang, MS1

Most Start-Up Potential: MediPal

MediPal is an application that aims to familiarize children with medical practices such as getting vaccinations before they go in. This app was created as a solution to the problem of children seeing doctors and medical visits as scary situations.

Team members:

• Amanda Jiang
• Andrew Chio
• Carina Ma
• James Purpura
• Waitaya Krongapiradee
• Inbal Epstein, MS1 

Most Innovative: Face2Face

Face2Face is an application that uses facial recognition software to keep track of how much face time a doctor has with their patients. It hopes to use this information to create a higher quality patient experience.

Team members:

• Samuel Lin
• John Ko
• Xin Hu
• Wes Trevino
• Lidia Flores
• Thomas Vo, MS4 

Congratulations to all teams for their dedication during the competition!