Hackathon Encourages Innovation

Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community, Rehab Medicine

Carrie Fuller, PT, left, of Mount Sinai West, won second place with teammates from other institutions, from left, Hanhao Zhang; Andrew Abdou, DO; Jacob Nye; and Bina Bansinath.

More than 200 people recently attended the inaugural NYC Grand Hack at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.The participants came from many institutions, in fields ranging from medicine to programming.

At the event, they tackled medical issues in three tracks: rehabilitation and human performance, public and mental health, and lung cancer.

The hackathon was organized by a team from the Icahn School of Medicine’s Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance, along with MIT Hacking Medicine, a group of students and community members from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that aims to energize and accelerate medical innovation.

“It was incredible to watch this extremely diverse group of talented people create innovations,” says an organizer of the event, Salman Hirani, MD, PGY-4, Rehabilitation and Human Performance, Icahn School of Medicine.

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