Health Innovation NW is hosting its Third Annual Health Innovator of the Year Awards on Dec 14th, 2017 from 5:30- 8:0pm at the Cambia Grove in Seattle. This event is a chance to celebrate the vibrant health innovation community that has formed in the greater Seattle area and to recognize the heroes among us who are making a difference in healthcare.
This event is an ideal holiday party for health innovation teams. Seattle is becoming an international health innovation hub, and it’s time to let the world know we’re here and that we support each other’s success. Over the past years, some companies sponsor their employees to attend this event so that they get to have a catered holiday event and enjoy the company of other health innovators. This is a cost-effective way to bring your entire team together and to build a supportive community.
The 2017 Seattle Health Innovator awards recognize individuals who by their imagination, customer focus, collaboration and perseverance demonstrate that improvements in access, delivery and quality of health care are possible and achievable. From our call for nominations to the public we have selected a group of 15 award finalists. This years’ cohort comes from across the healthcare industry, including care delivery, life science research, public health, patient advocacy and government.
The 2017 Health Innovator Finalists are as follows:
| Innovator | Title | Organization of innovator |
| Cassie Wallender | Chief Product Officer | Invio Inc. |
| Chris Wood | CEO | Clario Medical |
| Dellann Elliott Mydland | Founder and President | The EndBrainCancer Initiative (formerly the Chris Elliott Fund) |
| Dema Poppa | Founder | Invio Inc. |
| Hanna Oltean | Epidemiologist | Washington State Department of Health |
| Michael McClain, MHS, MS, PA-C | Executive Director | First Hill Surgery Center (Joint Venture of Swedish and The Polyclinic) |
| Shawn Swanson | CEO | MedsForAll |
| Suzanne Gwynn | Founder | Ladybug House |
| Tony Blau, MD | Founder | All4Cure |
| Tony Quang, MD, JD | Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology | VA and UW Medicine |
| Vincent Barrailler | CIO | Washington Health Benefit Exchange |
| Tonya Palermo, PhD | Professor at University of Washington School of Medicine | Seattle Children’s Research Institute / UW |
| Zachary Fisk, MD | Anesthesiologist | Acute Pain Therapies |
| Avadhut Joshi, PhD | Clinical Pharmacogenomics Lead | Translational Software |
| Mike Van Snellenberg Sugarpod Team | CTO | Wellpepper |
Space is limited. It is best to register early in case it sells out. Register for the 2017 Health Innovation NW Holiday Party and Awards Ceremony here. (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seattle-health-innovators-holiday-gathering-awards-gala-tickets-39530116643)
About the Health Innovator of the Year Awards:
In 2015, the Seattle Health Innovators decided to add recognition of local health innovators to their holiday meeting. A selection committee was formed, and the first cohort of nominees and winners was selected. 2017 is the 3rd year of the event. See a list of the past awardees here:
- 2016 Health Innovators of the Year (http://hinw.wpengine.com/?p=617)
- 2015 Health Innovators of the Year (http://hinw.wpengine.com/?p=451)
About Health Innovation NW:
Health Innovation NW is a Washington State non-profit organization dedicated to empowering individual change agents in health and life sciences to connect, to educate the community, and to directly advance health innovation. The group is run by volunteers and sponsors multiple Seattle Health Innovators meetups each year, a group with over 1600 members.
We are a grassroots organization formed because of the need to create deeper connections within the health innovation community in Seattle. We started by organizing the Seattle Health Innovation Forum in May 2013. After 3 years of organizing events together, in 2016 we founded Health Innovation NW, a Washington non-profit corporation, so that we can take our collaboration to new levels. There is so much more we can do together to make a positive impact locally and globally. Learn more at www.healthinnovator.org.
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