Jeanne Sauvé Fellow Jeeshan Chowdhury ( Sauvé Scholar 2011-12) received an Honourable Dr. Lois E. Hole Student Spirit Award on Thursday, September 18, 2014.
The Honourable Dr. Lois E. Hole Student Spirit Award recognizes undergraduate students who demonstrate a spirit of caring and community service.
The citation
Jeeshan Chowdhury, ’05 BMedSc, ’14 MD, is a Rhodes Scholar who studied health information technologies at Oxford and completed a master’s degree and PhD. He began his research training at NASA, where the challenge of human space flight sparked his interdisciplinary approach to developing innovative solutions. He has since worked across a breadth of technology, from the design of experimental hardware diagnostics to the implementation and assessment of commercial software platforms. As a Jeanne Sauvé Fellow, he founded Hacking Health in 2012, an international organization designed to improve health care by bringing together technology creators and health-care professionals to collaborate on realistic, human-centric solutions to frontline problems. Hacking Health has since grown to include a score of chapters around the globe. Most recently, he has launched Listrunnerapp.com, a digital health start-up that provides clinical teams with a point-of-care collaboration tool to manage patient lists and improve care.* He remains active at the U of A as an adjunct professor of computing science.
In June 2014, Jeeshan received his MD and PhD from the University of Alberta (Two for the Rhodes) and then entered a family medicine residency at the University of Calgary
Congratulations Jeeshan!