UL Lafayette Students & Faculty-- Be a Shark!

We invite you to join us for an interactive forum & pitch competition that will bring together some of the best and brightest minds from around the country. This shark tank-style event, the 4th annual Get Started Medical pitch will feature the country’s hottest business ideas in the medical industry, and you can be a part of the excitement!

Watch as 7 companies pitch their healthcare innovations and compete for up to $40,000 in cash prizes.

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Schedule Overview
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM CST

Get Started Medical powered by Cox Business
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST

State of Venture Capital in Louisiana with Mark Graffagnini, Partner with Callais Capital Management
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Our Moderator
Monte Danos, Field Marketing Director, Cox Business Southeast Region

2021 Judges Panel

• Mike Dozier, Chief Information Officer, Ochsner Lafayette General
• Charles Edwards, CEO/ Advance Telehealth Consulting Solutions L.L.C. and One Telemed, LLC
• Bruce D. Greenstein, LHC Group EVP, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer
• Trivia Frazier-Wiltz, PhD, MBA, Obatala Sciences Inc, President and CEO
• Josh Sommer, Cox Communications, Vice President of New Growth

Meet Our Finalists

• Crosscope (Mountain View, CA) is a medical artificial intelligence (AI) software company building flexible digital pathology workflows and AI-based clinical decision support tools for automating histopathology analysis for more accurate and efficient cancer diagnosis
• General Genomics (Midland, TX) is a bioinformatics company harnessing the power of AI and machine learning (ML) to build a platform (Curo46) using algorithms on genetic markers, healthy history, and medical information to determine an individual’s health risks, appropriate preventative measures, customized treatment programs and more.
• Kinnos’ (Brooklyn, NY) colorizing platform, Highlight®, colors bleach and bleach wipes a vivid blue to let us see our disinfection, instantly improving users' ability to correctly cover the entire surface being disinfected.
• NEVAP (San Jose, CA) makes breathing tubes that remove pathogens during mechanical ventilation, reducing time on mechanical ventilation, the cost of treatment, and mortality in critically ill patients.
• Prep Tech (Lafayette, LA) is a Louisiana-based medical device company with two product lines — ULTRAPREP streamlines/reduces OR time and ISOCUBE protects healthcare professionals and hospital visitors from COVID contamination.
• Protean BioDiagnostics (Orlando, FL) is an innovative precision medicine diagnostic company with a focus on accelerating access to precision cancer treatments through its Oncology MAPS™ system.
• SafeBVM (Chesterfield, MO) minimizes unsafe manual ventilation with resuscitation bags and its subsequent complications with near-ventilator precision, making emergency ventilation patient-centric.

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Thank you to our partners for making the 4th annual Get Started Medical Pitch Competition possible!

Partners: Cox Business, Ochsner Lafayette General, and Opportunity Machine

Healthcare Partners: Louisiana Center for Health Innovation, The Advocate, Homebank, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, Cox Media, VieMed, and CGI

Supporting Partners: LHC Group, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Tides Medical, Louisiana Economic Development (LED), Innovation Ochsner, Acadian Companies, and Lafayette Economic Development Authority (LEDA)

To Be a Virtual Shark Judge - Sign up here - https://live.remo.co/e/get-started-medical-pitch-compet/register?mc_cid=e518f7c8a2&mc_eid=3770ff7429