Columbia Healthcare Ventures - CHV

Hello Everyone!

Below is the link to sign up for Executive Board Positions for the 2019-2020 Academic Year.

Positions for next year are as follows:
1. President
2. VP of Operations & Finance
3. VP of Programming
4. VP of External Affairs
5. VP of Communications

Link: https://forms.gle/hYU8fwGHo12uKgVf8

Reminder that applications are due by October 31. Contact us if you have any questions.

CHV Executive Board Interest Please complete this survey by October 31st at 11:59 PM

Check out the information session from our friends at Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs (CORE):

The Center for Advancing Innovation is running The Brain Race: the largest business plan and startup competition to launch 15+ startups around commercially viable inventions and solutions to improve outcomes for brain tumor patients.

Learn how you can access White House-recognized training, world-class mentors, de-risked inventions, funding grants, and an opportunity to launch your career through the Brain Race!

Speakers:
Rosemarie Truman, Founder & CEO; Cody Locke, Chief Innovation Officer at Center for Advancing Innovation

The Brain Race: Brain Tumor Venture Competition The Center for Advancing Innovation is running The Brain Race: the largest business plan and startup competition to launch 15+ startups around commercially viable inventions and solutions to improve outcomes for brain tumor patients. Learn how you can access White House-recognized training, world-cl...

Hey everyone! We are SOLD OUT for our ZocDoc event featuring the founder and former CEO, Cyrus Massoumi. Thank you all for your eager responses and enthusiasm, the support is great!

If you want to attend our event, please still register on the Eventbrite link as you will be added to the waitlist. If there's any availability that opens up, you will be given first priority to take that slot.

Keep an eye out for other events this month! A mixer with Columbia Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO), the business school organization, is in the works and being planned for next week :) Have a good weekend!

At the 2019 Columbia Business School Healthcare Conference, our board members, Elaine, Vivian, and Jacky, had the pleasure of learning from industry leaders, like Dr. Peter Fleischut, SVP and Chief Transformation Officer at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and meet with their new advisor, Deepak Mittal.

Do you ever think about starting your own company or becoming an industry influencer? Then LIKE our page and SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter on Engage or our website (columbiahealthcareventures.com) to stay updated on the latest healthcare entrepreneurial events. Your like will give you the chance to WIN A FREE CHV mug!

Respond to the question "What would YOU like CHV to do?" in the comments below to BOOST your chances of winning. Winners will be contacted next Saturday 3/2 via messenger :)

One of our VP's Ian Persaud put together a little write up of our previous event last month. If you missed out, some of that great energy we had going can be found here!

The original has also been posted on LinkedIn!

Happy Thursday! Just a little bit longer to Friday 👀

We're happy to introduce you to our new Industry advisor, Lona Vincent!

Here's a little bit of her bio:

"Lona works in strategy and innovation at Johnson & Johnson's design studio in New York City where she leads the business model innovation team. With roots in business strategy and human-centered design, she's interested in shaping the future of healthcare. She is active in the venture community serving as a mentor for the Yale, Cornell, and MIT health hackathons and is a Venture Fellow with FundRx, a healthcare venture capital firm. Lona is an alum of Mailman School of Public Health and received her master’s here from Columbia University where she was a fellow with Columbia Technology Ventures. She lives in New York City where she enjoys weekend brunch and plotting to launch her own start-up venture."

We're excited to collaborate with you Lona!

We were thrilled to see so many come out to our first event, with so many good questions!

Thank you to our guests, Shanna, Palmer, and Seth for coming out and sharing your experiences and wisdom with us.

Looking forward to seeing you all at our Student Innovator event tonight at 7pm!

More details here:

Student Innovator Panel Have you ever wanted to pursue an idea, but wasn't sure how?