Design Thinking: Approaches for Chronic Disease Management – Virtual

Overview

Course Overview

This workshop will bring together young professionals and students to learn and apply state-of-the-art design thinking techniques. Over the course of three days small interdisciplinary teams will co-create innovative healthcare solutions for chronic disease management. Each team will take on a specific pre-defined challenge from the fields of precision health and data driven medicine. Engaging keynote speakers and experienced mentors will guide participants through the process of ideation, prototyping and business planning. At the end of the workshop, each team will pitch their solution idea to share the results and learnings with the group of participants and experts. Apart from learning new design thinking skills, participants will also have the opportunity to build networks with their peers as well as professionals with diverse backgrounds.

The event will be co-delivered by the EMBL | Stanford Life Science Alliance, Roche Diabetes Care, EIT Health and SOMMERRUST.

Topic Areas of Design Challenges

• Improving lifestyle
• Contributing to medical databases
• Empowering citizens

Audience

This course is aimed at Master’s and PhD students as well as postdocs with diverse backgrounds ranging from life sciences, engineering and medicine to entrepreneurship, business, marketing and public health.

Modules/Resources

• Keynote lectures
• Defining the problem
• Ideation
• Initial prototyping
• Pitching solutions

Learning Outcomes

Learners will be able to apply design thinking processes.

This course is organised in cooperation with Roche.

Speakers, Trainers and Organisers

Keynote Speakers and Panellists

Matthias Essenpreis

Roche Diagnostics,

Switzerland

Kirstin Kohler

Hochschule Mannheim,

Germany

Katharina Ladewig

EIT Health,

Germany

Gregor Obernosterer

RoX Health,

Germany

Michael Snyder

Stanford University,

USA

Challenge Owners

Claus Cramer-Petersen

Technical University of Denmark,

Denmark

Dagmar Kownatka

Roche Diabetes Care,

Germany

Andrew McCarthy

EMBL Grenoble,

France

Marvin Neckermann

Schwarz Digital,

Germany

Coaches

Allan Jones

Roche Diabetes Care,

Germany

Eva-Maria Markutzik

SOMMERRUST,

Germany

Frank Rust

SOMMERRUST,

Germany

Marius Schmidt

SOMMERRUST

Germany

Lisa Trinh

EMBL Heidelberg,

Germany

Katie Zeier

EMBL | Stanford Life Science Alliance,

Germany

Elisabeth Zielonka

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Scientific Organisers

Allan Jones

Roche Diabetes Care,

Germany

Eva-Maria Markutzik

SOMMERRUST,

Germany

Katie Zeier

EMBL | Stanford Life Science Alliance,

Germany

Elisabeth Zielonka

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Course Organiser

Lisa Trinh

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

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