Young Innovators Pitch Solutions for JHF Fellowship Finale

The inaugural Young Innovators Healthcare Fellowship, funded through grants from the Grable Foundation and the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, concluded in August 2021 with a virtual finale event. In a collaborative and creative...
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High Schoolers Design Tech Solutions in Young Innovators Healthcare Fellowship

On June 17th, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) launched its first-ever summer fellowship for high school students, the Young Innovators Healthcare Fellowship, funded through grants from the Grable Foundation and the Benedum Found...
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Jewish Healthcare Foundation and Pittsburgh Technology Council Launch “High Tech + High Touch Health Care” Series

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) is partnering with the Pittsburgh Technology Council to produce a new webinar series and companion podcast, "High Tech + High Touch Health Care." The webinar sessions highlight national and local ...
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JHF Healthcare Safety Challenge Funds Patient Safety Tech Startups with $60,000

To advance the most promising healthcare safety solutions from around the world, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) funded and conceived the JHF Healthcare Safety Challenge with partner Innovation Works (IW). On April 27th, the cha...
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Liftoff PGH Follows up with Young Innovators Healthcare Fellowship

 The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) is hosting its first-ever summer fellowship for high school students in the Pittsburgh region to explore healthcare careers and design technology solutions for a current healthcare problem. ...
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Karen Feinstein Interviewed on Business as Usual Program

On April 15, Jewish Healthcare Foundation President & CEO Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD was a guest on the Pittsburgh Technology Council's noontime program, Business as Usual. The Pittsburgh Technology Council launched the daily z...
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Liftoff PGH Announces Regional Agenda for Leadership in Health Technology

Liftoff PGH demonstrated that Pittsburgh has all the essential pieces to be an international leader in applying frontier technologies to healthcare safety, quality and effectiveness. But we must have the regional vision, commitment, co...
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Welcoming Back Liftoff PGH Intern Kaitlin Roderick

We are pleased to welcome back Kaitlin Roderick, a returning intern who worked with Liftoff PGH last year. Kaitlin is entering her final semester at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is pursuing a Master of Health Care Policy and M...
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Pittsburgh’s Future in Health Innovation is Bright – and It’s Female+

Beginning in the summer of 2020, Liftoff PGH 2020 embarked on an ongoing partnership with the Pittsburgh Technology Council and their widely popular Business as Usual webinar series. Together, Liftoff and the Tech Council launched "Gen...
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Together, Interns and Liftoff PGH Team Broaden Innovation Horizons

Behind the scenes, the Liftoff PGH team welcomed a group of students to their first ever virtual internship program. Although 2020 required a shift to remote interning, everyone rose to the challenge and collaborated to achieve Liftoff...
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Liftoff PGH: Activating Pittsburgh Innovation

As our region's first virtual healthcare innovation summit, Liftoff PGH's charge was to activate the leading disruptors across Pittsburgh's technology, health, education, and entrepreneurship sectors. Throughout the month of December, ...
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Local Entrepreneurs Win $50,000 in Ideathon Pitch Competition

Liftoff PGH has always believed in the power young innovators possess to chart a new future for health. To create a novel platform for undergraduate and graduate students in health innovation, Liftoff PGH launched the Ideathon Pitch co...
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Liftoff PGH Launches an Art Exhibit Downtown in the 7th Street Cultural Trust Park

Created in partnership with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, this is a collective visioning for the future of health and wellness in this region. Artists Alisha Wormsley and Ricardo Iamuuri Robinson transformed the 7th Street Trust Oasis...
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Liftoff PGH is In Flight

The wait is over: The fun at Liftoff PGH begins today! We are thrilled to share a jam-packed lineup of virtual panels, thought talks, networking sessions, and much more. From December 1-14, we've designed a schedule that will fit into ...
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Ideathon Pitch Competition Finalists Announced

On October 23, twenty-two semi-final Ideathon teams pitched live in the Ideathon Pitch competition, evaluated by an incredible cohort of judges from across the Pittsburgh innovation ecosystem. The semifinalists began their education in...
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Three Finalists Selected in Liftoff PGH Ideathon Pitch Competition

In its quest to reinvent Pittsburgh's vision of health care, Liftoff PGH believes in the power of young innovators. Of all industries, health and life sciences remain some of the thorniest to disrupt. Though startups abound with new de...
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Liftoff PGH Begins Countdown to December Summit

Oakland is a-buzz with Liftoff PGH's latest Liftodrop, after we landed on the University of Pittsburgh campus to bring some Liftoff PGH innovation on October 30. While our Early Adopter ticket purchasers dropped by to pick up their new...
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Automating Patient Safety with Michael McShea

During a special Liftoff in Motion virtual event on September 1, Liftoff PGH and the Health Activist Network welcomed Michael McShea to discuss Automating Patient Safety. McShea, the health system innovation lead of the Johns Hopkins A...
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A Renewed Mission: Liftoff PGH Coming December 2020

Three years ago, Liftoff PGH was just a conversation. No one foresaw the public health crisis we now face, nor how reality would collide with our vision. And yet, Liftoff PGH was designed for this very moment. Health care is at the cor...
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Liftoff PGH and Pittsburgh Tech Council Co-Host Women+ Innovation Series

Liftoff PGH is building a movement of innovators, and our strength derives from the diversity of voices. To showcase and elevate women+ in the innovation spaces of health care and entrepreneurship, Liftoff PGH created Generation Fempre...
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