The first-ever InnoFest team
In late 2024, we opened applications for AMSA’s first-ever Digital Health Innovation Festival. We were blown away by the responses and are proud to showcase the pioneers —the judges, student teams and partners — that piloted this with us in early 2025. Contact us if you’d like to learn more.
Meet the Finalists




A low-cost, portable urine-based test that enables real-time methotrexate monitoring via a digital app, ensuring safer, more effective pediatric cancer treatment in low-resource settings. Meet the team.

An affordable AI/ML-powered app that screens for Alzheimer’s in 30 seconds using speech analysis, providing cognitive scores, early alerts, and a Memory Bank for stored voice recordings. Meet the team.

Simplifies lipid panel results with personalized, multilingual AI-driven insights, offering clear risk assessments, explanations, and actionable heart health recommendations to improve cardiovascular awareness and outcomes. Meet the team.

An AI-driven platform that streamlines clinical trial recruitment, ensuring faster enrollment, improved diversity, and better patient-trial matching to accelerate medical research and reduce costs. Meet the team.

Meet the AMSA InnoFest Honorees! The student start-ups that stood out to us during the initial pitch phases — and we just knew had to be a part of the first-ever InnoFest event. Come get to know them — then join us in DC to learn more about each one.
Selection Committee Judges
Dr.Shuhan He (Advisor)
Physician, Mass General Hospital Institute Health Data Analytics. Faculty, Harvard Medical School. Entrepreneur & celebrated innovator. Meet Dr. Shuhan He.
Chris Martinez
Investor, Lead, BK XL Accelerator, powered by the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation’s Social Justice Fund. Meet Chris.
Derek Howard
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Digital Health Foundry Program Manager. Meet Derek.
“Technology belongs in the hands of those who understand patient care best. With AMSA’s Innovation Festival, we see a national sample of the talent and innovation from emerging physician student leaders. This allows us to bridge the gap between possibility and real-world impact.”
—Dr. Shuhan He
InnoFest Partners
Join us: Next InnoFest is in Dec 2026!
Were just getting warmed up. On the heels of our 2025 pilot, we’ll be going bigger and bolder in 2026 — and this action will heat up in the spring of 2025. Stay in the loop with our quarterly AMSA Digital Health news updates — good for students, partners, and faculty. And if you have specific questions of any kind: reach out to us via email, we’d love to hear from you.