When second-year medical students Elliot Crooks and Yvette Zhu met each other at an MDplus chapter event focused on innovation and entrepreneurship in healthcare, they immediately bonded over a specific observation: Where were all the non-medical students?
The lack of disciplinary diversity didn’t necessarily come as a surprise—MDplus is a national student organization specifically for medical students and aspiring physician-innovators, after all—but seeing that group in a room talking about innovation seemed to shift something for Zhu. Within a week, the new friends got to work and co-founded HyperCase. Soon after, the founding team expanded to 12 like-minded and passionate medical students, a faculty advisor in Professor Joseph Jankowski, and a board of expert advisors.
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