Sanjana
Srinath,
BS, MSE
Clinical Innovation and Design Fellow
The University of Texas at Austin
Sanjana Srinath is an Associate Scientist at a Biotechnology Startup company after recently completing a Bachelor's of Science and Master's of Science in Engineering in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Her passions and career interests are in patient driven medical innovation to lower barriers in equitable and accessible health and medical care.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The problems facing healthcare today require interdisciplinary approaches. Recognizing this, the Dell Medical School, the Cockrell School of Engineering, and the Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease at UT Health Austin launched the Clinical Innovation and Design Program (CID). The CID fellows, a mixture of medical students and graduate level engineers, explore clinical needs and develop a solution as a team over the course of 10 months. The CID program educates students on the proper process of needs identification and solution development. The program is organized into…