MIT-Harvard Medical School
Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp & Trek*
Cambridge, MA | June 15 - 21, 2019
You will come out the other end armed with a comprehensive toolkit for healthcare innovation.
What’s more, you will join a global community of innovators passionate about solving healthcare related problems and other innovation challenges.
The MIT-HMS Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp is a new accelerated-learning program by Harvard Medical School’s Center for Primary Care and the MIT Bootcamps.
You will attend lectures on healthcare, innovation, and entrepreneurship from faculty at both universities, and work on project teams to start a new healthcare venture in one week.
In one week, the Bootcamp will provide you with experiences healthcare entrepreneurs face in the first 1-2 years of a new venture.
It’s time to innovate! Join our global innovation community. We are an inclusive meritocracy.
Check out these short videos on our past Bootcamps:
Final Application Deadline
April 15*
2019
*Submit Round 1 by April 15, 12 midnight ET (Boston Time)
Bootcamp Dates
June 15 - 21
2019
The Trek is tentatively scheduled Jun 12-14, 2019
Locations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
What's unique about attending the MIT-HMS Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp?
Receive immediate feedback and coaching from MIT-HMS instructors and coaches.
Accelerate your professional and personal development in an intensive, fun, and supportive environment.
Join a global community of innovators passionate about solving challenges through innovation.
Bootcampers are expected to be active learning partners with other Bootcampers and coaches. Lectures are interactive and project time is driven by the team.
Throughout the program, Bootcampers will learn and practice a variety of new skills related to entrepreneurship and innovation.
They will learn directly from MIT and Harvard Medical School’s Center for Primary Care instructors, coaches, and guest speakers as well as through their experiences in project teams.
Each Bootcamper has the opportunity to be CEO, leading the team through its project work for a day. Active learning is an experience, and in one week, the Bootcamp provides participants many experiences most entrepreneurs and innovators face in the first 1-2 years of a new venture.
Develop Innovation-Driven Venture Skills
- Identify, define, and characterize problems
- Spot opportunities for innovation
- Segment and analyze opportunities
- Evaluate and choose innovation diffusion pathways
- Evaluate and choose models of new ventures
- Conduct customer and market research both qualitatively and quantitatively
- Design customer journey
- Establish foundation of product development
- Evaluate and choose market strategy
- Develop an in depth understanding of your customer
- Identify and quantify sources of value
- Map and influence customer decision making process
Gain In-Depth Knowledge in Healthcare
- Learn the areas of opportunity in healthcare
- Develop a nuanced understanding of how healthcare is transforming
- How to pilot a medical innovation
- Understand the role of Institutional Review Boards for medical innovations
- Learn the legal and regulatory aspects of healthcare
- Understand current and future healthcare payment structures
- How to work with hospitals and clinics
- How to get the most out of patient engagement
- How to evaluate medical innovations
And much more from Harvard Medical School’s Center for Primary Care's healthcare expertise, MIT's innovation frameworks, world-class experts and innovators...
Trek Program (Optional Add-on)
Healthcare Innovation Trek
Tentative dates Jun 12-14, 2019
The Healthcare Innovation Trek is add-on program to the MIT-HMS Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp.
Trekkers will explore Boston's healthcare innovation ecosystem. The Trek will include company visits local to startups, hospitals, and feature experts in healthcare.
*Please note, accommodations are not included in the Healthcare Innovation Trek.
What to Expect at Bootcamp
Here's what past Bootcampers have said about their experience...
Read more about some of our alumni...
Who is the Bootcamp for?
Past Bootcampers have come from a diversity of backgrounds:
- Early stage entrepreneurs
- Serial entrepreneurs
- Individuals in transition or looking for a career change
- Doctors, lawyers, and other service based professionals
- Graduate students & researchers
- Innovation managers
- Family business owners
- Product managers
- NGO leaders
- Corporate professionals
- Designers & creatives
- Professors & educators
Speakers
Eric von Hippel
Eric von Hippel is T Wilson Professor of Innovation Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT. Von Hippel is known for his research into the sources of innovation. He and his colleagues find that innovation is shifting away from product and service producers to product and service…
Kim Serpico
Assistant Director IRB Operations, Harvard School of Public Health
As Assistant Director of IRB Operations, Kim is responsible for managing the convened IRB process at Harvard Longwood Medical Area (LMA) Schools, including Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Kim continues in her role as a member of the IRB Review Specialist team reviewing initial…
Gajen Sunthara
Co-Founder, 1upHealth
Gajen Sunthara is the Director of Innovation R&D at Boston Children’s Hospital and is the founder of 1upHealth. Prior to this, he helped tech-architect President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative at the White House, worked at The United States Digital Service (USDS), and served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow (PIF) at the U.S. Department of Health…
Ricky Sahu
CEO, 1upHealth
Ricky previously worked at Google on the Google Apps for Business team to automate support for customer issues and forecast demand to staff hundreds of employees around the globe. Afterward he built tools to improve search engine optimization and online marketing using machine learning at Promediacorp for companies like Sony, Microsoft, and Forever21. Prior to…
Claire Cecile Pierre
Chief of Quality and Medical Informatics, South End Community Health Center
Director, Program in Health Systems Strengthening and Social Change
Dr. Pierre is an instructor in global health and social medicine, director of the Program in Global Health Systems Strengthening and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, and instructor at Cambridge Health Alliance. Her research interests are health care workforce reinforcement through global partnerships; strengthening health systems across the post disaster periods (humanitarian, recovery, etc.);…
Krishna Yeshwant
Partner, Google Ventures
Dr. Krishna Yeshwant is a physician, programmer, and entrepreneur who has been working with GV since its inception. He first joined Google as part of the New Business Development team. Prior to Google, Krishna helped start an electronic data interchange company that was acquired by Hewlett-Packard and a network security company that was acquired by…
Ateev Mehrotra
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School and a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Mehrotra’s research focuses on interventions to decrease costs and improve quality of care. Much of his work has focused on innovations in delivery such as retail clinics…
Zirui Song
Assistant Professor of Healthcare Policy, Harvard Medical School
Zirui Song, MD, PhD is an assistant professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School and an internal medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Song’s research has focused on changes in health care spending and quality under global payment, the impact of Medicare fee policies on spending and physician behavior, and the economics…
Zach Malchano
VP, Product Development at Cognito Therapeutics
Zach Malchano has a background in engineering (MIT EE, Harvard/MIT BME) and medical device innovation (Stanford Biodesign Fellowship). He has helped build as a founder or early employee several medical device startup companies over the past 10 years including leading products into clinical studies and through regulatory approvals. He has also served as an entrepreneur…
Elaine Chen
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management Entrepreneur-in- Residence, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship Founder and Managing Director, ConceptSpring Elaine is a startup veteran and product strategy and innovation consultant who has brought numerous hardware and software products to market. As Founder and Managing Director of ConceptSpring, Elaine works with innovative teams to help…
Coaches
Vanessa Gurie
Vanessa Gurie spent 10 years leading Performance Medicine teams and the Global Performance Medicine Touring division at Cirque du Soleil across 48 countries. She also managed continuous operations on 5 continents with 21+ full time staff and provided medical services to 1200+ athletes from over 40 countries. She was instrumental in the implementation of the…
Nicky Agahari
Nicky Agahari is the founder of INCONFIDENCE, a discreet, non-invasive, and wearable medical device that helps patients suffering from incontinence. With a rapidly aging society globally and with over 70% of patients in aged care suffering from incontinence; INCONFIDENCE hopes to offer a solution to patients that treats the neurological core of incontinence through neuromodulation…
Jeff Sabados
Jeff Sabados is currently co-Founder of a drug development company for anxiety and trauma related disorders, Resilience Therapeutics, based in Boston, MA. Over 40 million Americans suffer from anxiety and an estimated 8 million Americans suffer from PTSD. In fact, PTSD is a major contributor to the suicides of approximately 20 Veterans everyday. Jeff is…
Ingrid Toppelberg
Ingrid began her career doing Private Equity in Argentina and she later moved into management consulting with McKinsey & Company. During her tenure at McKinsey, Ingrid worked across a broad range of industries, including retail, banking and telecommunications in North and South America as well as Europe. She specialized in transformational processes such as post-merger…
MIT-HMS Bootcamp Team
Caroline Barnaby
Marketing Coordinator, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
Jennifer Bourgoin
Program Coordinator, InciteHealth, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
Vimala Palaniswamy
Associate Director, MIT Bootcamps
Danielle Lebedevitch
Event Manager, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
Megan Lenneman
Education Program Coordinator, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
Erdin Beshimov
Lecturer & Co-Founder,
MIT Bootcamps
MIT Bootcamps
Paola Abello
InciteHealth Program Director, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
Erin Farren
Education Program Director, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
Thomas Bazerghi
Program Coordinator, MIT Bootcamps
The team at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Primary Care and MIT selects the best applicants to create a cohort of innovators with the potential to change the world. The application process consists of two rounds:
Round 1
Submit background information, resume, and 60-second video introduction
Round 2
Video Essays
Admissions Decision
After completing the Video Essays, you will receive an admissions decision for the Bootcamp
NOTE: admissions are conducted on a rolling basis! The sooner you apply to the Bootcamp, the sooner the team will process your application.
Early Bird Fee
$8500
Early bird pricing ends on March 1st, 2019
Standard Fee
$9500
Standard fee applies after Mar 1st, 2019
*USD. Covers program and food for the duration of the MIT-HMS Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp. Please note you will still be responsible for cost of travel and accommodation. Please don't worry about the cost to attend, just apply.
Fundraising - The Entrepreneurship Challenge
The MIT-HMS Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp journey does not start on the first day of the program but rather from the moment you begin your application. If you are unable to self-fund, sponsorship, crowdfunding, and other scholarships are potential sources of funding for tuition. Researching the appropriate sources and crafting your message to approach them and convince them to invest in your future are skills that you will practice often on your journey as a successful innovator. Instead of seeing raising funds for tuition as an obstacle or setback, see it as a challenge to overcome as an innovator. We are unable to provide financial assistance or scholarships for this program at this time.
Sponsorship Kit:
You can share the following documents with sponsors so they can understand more about the MIT-HMS Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp:
Visa Information
If you require a tourist visa to travel to the United States please apply as soon as possible. Please use your admissions letter to the Bootcamp as a supporting document if required.
How should you prepare for the Bootcamp?
Take the MIT Bootcamps MOOCs. MIT’s motto is mens et manus - minds and hands - theory plus practice or action learning. MIT Bootcamps are more than a semester’s worth of work in 6 days. To be best prepared to internalize and practice everything you learn during the program (action learning), we recommend you complete the four MIT Bootcamps MOOCs (theory) before the start of the program. Each course (6-8 modules each) can be completed over a couple days if that’s all you do (we don’t recommend this), or over two to three weeks at a more relaxed pace.
