Proxome Pitch.

  • Starts: 5:00 pm on Wednesday, April 29, 2015
  • Ends: 5:50 pm on Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Three SPH students—Jessica Autrey, Shauna Biggs, and Kerlyne Jean, also known at Team Proxome—will be pitching their award-winning idea at BU. The team met at the MIT Stop Ebola Hackathon and won first prize for their proposal of a high-tech/low-cost sensor that monitors the heart rate and temperature Ebola patients. Since winning the hackathon, they have been working with the MGH Center for Global Health, CAMTech, International Medical Corps, and Medtronic to develop the product and get it into the field. In February they entered Proxome into the Boston University Global Health and Engineering Meet-Up Competition, where they won first place in the “shark tank” pitch session and third place in the poster competition. On Thursday, April 23, they pitched their idea at the Google Wearables Challenge. Team Proxome also includes Adrian Gropper of Patient Privacy Rights; Sean Doyle, a software engineer at MGH; and Jim Wright, an electrical engineer with a background in developing wearable devices for military and medical applications.