MedTech UCL

Thank you for participating in Copenhagen MedTech Innovation Summit 2024 on 6th November! It was an amazing experience to host attendees and speakers from both Denmark and abroad 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🤝 🇩🇰 Thanks to Tuborgfondet, Medicoindustrien and DMTS - Dansk Medicoteknisk Selskab for making the event possible through their support, and MedTech UCL for bringing an entire delegation of students from London 🙌 Prior to the summit the networking between DK and Johns Hopkins started with a symposium by SURGiC, Surgical Ultrasound Research Group in Copenhagen. Then Medicoindustrien 💜 held their enticing MedTech Careers Fair with Novo Nordisk, Cook Medical, Ferrosan Medical Devices, GE HealthCare and Mermaid Medical Group. With MedTech start-ups from the ecosystem and Boston Scientific joining later as we opened the summit. The Innovation Summit itself was kicked-off by Jan Henrik Ardenkjaer-Larsen and Christina Kruuse, representing The Technical University Hospital of Greater Copenhagen (a partnership between Region Hovedstaden and DTU - Technical University of Denmark). 💜 We then hosted a panel with inspiring perspectives from Thomas Gabriel, CEO of Cook Medical, Rasmus Hother le Fevre, CEO of Ferrosan, Joachim Hee Rasmussen, Senior Manager of Urology at GE Healthcare, Martin Ebro, Head of Innovation Project Management & Partnerships at Novo Nordisk, and Marcus Kildegaard Nielsen, Sales Director at Mermaid Medical. Our following talks on how to empower the future of MedTech innovation and its ecosystem featured: Tobias Todsen (H&N Surgeon, Assc. Prof. and Chairman of Danish Ultrasound Diagnostics Society (DUDS)), Fatemeh Makouei (Biomedical Engineer, Assc. Proff) and Kyriakos Spartalis (from both their innovation team and Copenhagen MedTech 💙) Martin Lundsgaard Hansen, Head of Radiology at Rigshospitalet, who shared intriguing perspectives on both the potential and concerns of AI in medicine. 🏥 🤖 Leila Jean Mady Head & Neck Oncology Surgeon and Assc. Proff. from Johns Hopkins Medicine and Clinical Mentor at Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design. Dr. Mady shared insights from her work with engineering students working to solve clinical needs with her in the clinic and operating room. Tejs Jansen, Neuroanaesthesiologist at the RH Neuro ICU, Head of the Rigshospitalet Innovation Lab and Clinical Specialist at BETA.HEALTH® – An innovation platform sponsored by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. and Rigshospitalet Innovation 🧡 Lastly Dr. Mady and Dr. Jansen joined our Copenhagen MedTech PLUS+ panel with Grace Rachel Humphreys (President of MedTech UCL, Copenhagen MedTech Attaché), Arman Athwal (Treasurer of MedTech UCL, Copenhagen MedTech Attaché), Tristan Derry (medical student at Bart's and The London School of Medicine and Ambassador to London for Copenhagen MedTech), Ronnie Andersen (Board member of Copenhagen MedTech and Senior Treasury Manager at Export and Investment Fund of Denmark). Video credit: Orbion

Our annual Python series returns tomorrow 🐍. This 4-week programme is the perfect opportunity for our members to develop Python coding skills from the absolute basics to fundamental deep learning concepts, and apply them all in a medical context, with a special focus on medical imaging! 💻 The sessions will be generously delivered by Dr Halimat Afolabi a Machine Learning Scientist at Novo Nordisk (and the Founder of MedTech UCL!), as well as UCL's very own Dr Kevin Tsang, PhD who is Co-Director of the Health Data Science MSc degree. Safe to say, our attendees will be in the best of hands for these workshops! 🤩 Special thanks to our Technology Officer Lucy Porte for all her work in organising the workshop series this year, with support from our Corporate Relations Officer India Deans-Smith! There are 100+ sign-ups already! Register now to secure one of the final seats: 🎟️ https://lnkd.in/epZdPxUT As a further note - we are delighted to be partnering with DataCamp Donates this year to bring select members a free one-year DataCamp license to further supplement their learning of data science, AI, and machine learning skills during and after this programme! 🚀 Many thanks to our Vice-President Eva Hita Sogorb for establishing this partnership! See you all tomorrow 🩵

🇬🇧 Meet the London team 🇬🇧 The Copenhagen Medtech Innovation Summit is going ahead on the 6th November in Copenhagen. Here you can network with a community of professionals from a medical, technology and engineering background. Grace Rachel Humphreys, Yosha Pathak and Tristan Derry are part of the Copenhagen MedTech team, based in London. Hear why they'll be attending, and why you should too! If you’re a student or a healthcare professional with an interest in MedTech, click the link below to get your tickets: https://lnkd.in/ezaNUTAU Video production by Orbion

Earlier this week we hosted our annual 'Meet & Greet' night for all new and returning MedTech UCL members! We were delighted to be joined by over 150 students for an evening of inspiring discussions and forging new friendships. Highlights of the event included hearing from Professor Tom Carlson during his fascinating presentation on all things from smart wheelchairs to brain-computer interfaces, as well as from Dr Ahmed Abdulaal, who shared his expertise in applying machine learning to healthcare and gave invaluable career advice to our attendees. We were also joined virtually by Mads Bundgaard Nørløv, on behalf of Copenhagen MedTech, to outline all the wonderful opportunities on offer to both London- and Copenhagen- based students thanks to our collaboration with Copenhagen MedTech this year. London Ambassador for Copenhagen MedTech, Tristan Derry, was also in attendance to discuss this partnership further at the post-event networking and pizza session. This night concluded a fantastic freshers' period for our society. Between multiple freshers fairs, our highly popular Games Afternoon, and a sold-out Pub Quiz in collaboration with UCL Science Magazine, our committee has loved talking to so many highly-motivated students! We greatly look forward to engaging with you all over the coming year as we prepare to launch our annual Mentorship Programme and Python Coding Workshops, alongside our upcoming trip to attend Copenhagen MedTech's 2024 Innovation Summit on November 6th. Our warmest thanks again to our exceptional speakers, and also to all the attendees for their excellent questions and keen engagement!

We are very excited to host our annual Meet & Greet tomorrow evening! This event will kick-start our calendar of events and opportunities for 2024-2025 🚀 It promises to be a fantastic night thanks to our line-up of exceptional guest speakers who will share their insights from the world of MedTech with our new and returning members. We greatly look forward to hearing from our keynote speaker Tom Carlson with his talk entitled “From Smart Wheelchairs to Brain-Computer Interfaces”. We will also be joined by Ahmed Abdulaal, to learn about his inspiring career journey and cutting-edge PhD research, as well as Mads Bundgaard Nørløv, speaking to us on behalf of Copenhagen MedTech, whom we are delighted to be partnering with this academic year! The Ambassador to London for Copenhagen MedTech, Tristan Derry (a medical student at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry) will also be in attendance. With 150 tickets already gone this is a final call for UCL students to sign-up now! 🎟️ See you all there 🩵

We are delighted to announce our partnership with Copenhagen MedTech! 🎉 Our warmest thanks to Copenhagen MedTech for all their efforts in coordinating this agreement - with special thanks to Mads Bundgaard Nørløv, Founder of Copenhagen MedTech, and Tristan Derry, Ambassador to London for Copenhagen MedTech, for making this all possible. It was wonderful to welcome Anders Gjølbye M. to UCL this weekend to kick-start the partnership. Our team cannot wait to meet with more of Copenhagen's students in the coming months. We take great inspiration from the work being done by Copenhagen MedTech's team across the sea and greatly look forward to seeing the fruits this collaboration will provide to all those involved! 🩵

ARE YOU A STUDENT EAGER TO CONTRIBUTE TO MEDTECH INNOVATION - COME TO OUR OPEN MEETING ON MONDAY!🚀 As a voluntary nonprofit Copenhagen MedTech seeks to connect student and stakeholders with the tools to innovate life saving technology. We’re a fast growing team of over 30 university students ranging across engineering and medical fields, as well as business oriented degrees. WE WANT YOU TO GROW WITH OUR TEAM - our hackathons, conferences, international collaborations and courses all seek to provide you with unique insights and connections. As a team member you will be part of realising the Copenhagen MedTech Innovation Summit with leaders of academia and industry, from both Denmark and abroad, amongst many other opportunities with Rigshospitalet Innovation, DTU - Technical University of Denmark, BETA.HEALTH® – An innovation platform sponsored by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society, Medicoindustrien, DMTS - Dansk Medicoteknisk Selskab and many more. Our open meeting will also feature talks from international Copenhagen MedTech team members: MedTech UCL president Grace Rachel Humphreys and Dr. Anders Sideris from Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design who’ll break some exciting news at the meeting. REMEMBER to sign-up for the meeting through this link: https://lnkd.in/dzTj-DFd We hope to see you on Monday. Email hello@cphmedtech.dk if you have questions or wish to participate virtually. 🤖💙🏥 Kind regards, William Theodor Lehn-Schiøler, Katrine Bredvig Obel, Amalie Gao, Nina Zomorrodnia, Mads Bundgaard Nørløv, Jonathan Ulrich, Anna Bøgevang Ekner, Anders Gjølbye M., Ronnie Andersen, Frederik Espersen Knudsen, Andreas Lau Hansen, Mattis Hargreave, Jeremiah Mapendo, Kyriakos Spartalis, David Grundfest, Matthias Frederiksen many more👏

✨ Introducing MedTech UCL's Committee for the 2024-2025 Academic Year! 🚀 Our team is very excited to welcome all new and returning members into our dynamic community! You can learn more about the wonderful new committee by checking out our Instagram page. 🧬 We commit ourselves to offering a diverse range of high-quality events and opportunities over the year to make the rapidly evolving MedTech landscape more accessible to you all! To join us today, be sure to purchase your membership here: https://lnkd.in/e_y5ZmwQ

🌟 Last academic year, we achieved several milestones that highlight the vital role we play in connecting students with the ever-evolving field of medical technology. 🏆 Winning the “Opportunities Award” presented by Students' Union UCL is a testament to the diverse and valuable opportunities we provide our members with, from coding workshops to networking events and conferences. 📈 Being shortlisted for three other awards further fuels our commitment to enhancing the opportunities we provide. Stay tuned for more exciting events ahead!

Check out our most recent podcast! Big thank you to Manios Dimitrakakis for being our guest and Diya Asawa for presenting :)