Mentors

Mentors are experienced professionals who work with hackathon teams to provide guidance when needed.  Hackathon participants can ask mentors for help with include providing advice based on their skillset, guiding team brainstorming, helping a team to define the roles of each person, giving feedback and advise on final pitches and more!

 

 

CHOC-ZOT!-ZOOOM mentors include:

 

Mentor Areas of Expertise
  • Brittney K. Anderson, DNP, CPNP. Manager Patient Care Services Quality & Safety + Skin, Wound, Ostomy Team), CHOC Children's Hospital Orange County
 Nursing; data, extensive experience in navigating the hospital system LinkedIn Profile
  • Debra Beauregard, Director, MI-3, CHOC Children's Hospital Orange County
 Business Case Analysis LinkedIn Profile
  • Courtney Bott, Director innovation, Medline
Human centered innovation, healthcare change agent LinkedIn Profile
  • Ben Dadacay, Jr Industrial Design Contractor, Innovation Lab
 Industrial desigm, technical drawings, rapid visualization sketches, 3D Computer Modeling, Model making and Prototyping LinkedIn Profie
  • Louis Ehwerhemuepha, Sr. Data Scientist at CHOC Children's
 Statistical/Biostatistical Analyses, Application of machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms  LinkedIn Profile
  • Suzy Engwall, National Director, Innovation Lab
 Healthcare Innovation, Design Thinking, Business Case/Value Prop Formulation  LinkedIn Profile
  • Connor Feeney, Design Engineer, CSWP, Medline
 Healthcare Product Design Engineering  Linkedin Profie
  • Adam Gold, CTO, CHOC Children's Hospital Orange County
 Leadership, Network Administration, Computer Graphics, Database Design, Apps LinkedIn Profile
  • Jennifer Hayakawa,CNS, CHOC Children's Hospital Orange County
 Nursing; data, reserach, innovation, extensive experience in navigating the hospital system  LinkedIn Profile
  • Matt Keller, Client Engagement Executive, Innovation Lab
 Healthcare Innovation, Design Thinking, Business Case/Value Prop Formulation  LinkedIn Profile
  • Ryan Kelly, General Manager, Innovation Lab
 Healthcare Innovation, Research, Intellectual Property  LinkedIn Profile
  • Howard Lei, Sr. Data Scientist at CHOC Children's
Machine Learning, Software development. Python, Spark, Tensorflow, Pytorch, deep learning, speech processing, statistical algorithms, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, SQL, C/C++  LinkedIn Profie
  • Zack Muqtadir, Founder, ZL Technovation
 Founder (X2), Digital Health Strategist, Commercialization, Coaching for go to market strategies & Stakeholders Analysis. LinkedIn Profile
  • Matt Reilly-Crank, Client Engagement Executive, Innovation Lab
 Healthcare Innovation, Design Thinking, Business Case/Value Prop Formulation  LinkedIn Profile
  • Wendy Ross, Executive Director, IP & Market Strategy at The Innovation Institute

Intellectual Property, product licensing, patent prosecution LinkedIn Profile

  • Tyra Santangelo, Sales Rep Acute Care, Medline

Healthcare prodcut innovation and commercialization.  LinkedIn Profile
  • George Tolomiczenko,Director of Medical Innovations, UC Irvine School of Medicine

Healthcare Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Research
LinkedIn Profile