University of Pennsylvania

Graduate Student, School of Medicine

University of Cape Town, Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University, Biomedical Engineering

The Renaissance Scientist

Thesis Title: A Low-cost Digital X-ray for the Developing World

About

Michael C. Hoaglin is a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a Fellow at the Penn Center for Technology Transfer. Currently on sabbatical, he works on medical information dissemination via broadcast media. He has advised health technology reform at the US Department of Health and Human Services / Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT in Washington, DC.

Mike received dual Bachelor's degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering with Honors from Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering in 2006. While living in South Africa in 2006, Mike field-researched the feasibility of a low-cost digital x-ray system, thus laying the groundwork for World Health Imaging, Telemedicine and Informatics Alliance. He has experience in the medical device industry as an engineer for Ethicon Endosurgery, a Johnson & Johnson Company and worked in multidisciplinary clinical research at Northwestern and Scripps Clinics. As a consultant for Accenture, he focused on clinical transformation via electronic health records and content management of consumer-facing health information. Mike is a 2007 Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar and 2010 Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Foundation Scholar.

 

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