By Michael Wong, JD (Executive Director, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety)
Hacking for Health at Cornell
I had the honor and privilege of mentoring and judging Cornell’s Health Hackathon from March 8-10, 2024.
More than 200 students from Cornell and 26 other universities participated in the weekend-long wellness and healthcare competition which focused on five areas – Medication, Patient Care, Procedure/Surgery, Infection, and Diagnostic Error.
At stake was a grand prize of $3,000. This prize went to Current Care, who I had the privilege of mentoring as well as judging.
As reported by the Cornell Chronicle,
The top prize at this year’s Health Hackathon of $3,000 for most impactful patient care went to the Current Care team, who developed a patch bed-ridden patients could wear that issues electrical stimulation to areas prone to pressure ulcers, resulting in a reduced prevalence of the ulcers.
Members of that team included Johnson Liu ’26 (ENG), Antranig Baghdassarian ’27 (ENG), Andrew Lee MD ‘25, Brianna Leung ’25 (ENG, University of Pennsylvania), Justin Liu ’27 (CS, Northeastern University) and Leah Lackey PhD ’28 (ENG).
Congratulations, Current Care!