University of Iowa Office of Innovation

11/06/2025

Are you ready to experience the impact of Nurse Innovators first-hand?

This free, two-day event spans Iowa with the goal of inspiring, celebrating, and empowering nurses who are transforming patient care.

Day one of the Nurse Innovators Roadshow is in Cherokee, IA, on Wednesday, Nov. 19. From 11:30 AM–2:00 PM, ignite your passion for innovation with a keynote, hands-on Spark Workshop, and networking!

Day two takes place in Iowa City on Thursday, Nov. 20, from 2:00–7:00 PM. Experience the impact of innovation live! Watch nurses pitch breakthrough solutions during the competition, get inspired by keynote speaker Judy Lenane, and take advantage of this networking opportunity.

Whether you’re a nurse, healthcare professional, or simply curious about how real innovation happens, this is your opportunity to be part of the future of healthcare.

Learn more & RSVP here: bit.ly/3KzbDxR

10/28/2025

Get ready, Iowa! The Nurse Innovators Roadshow is less than a month away.

Day 1: Cherokee, IA | Wednesday, Nov. 19 | 11:30 AM–2 PM
Ignite your passion for innovation with a keynote, hands-on spark workshop, and networking!

Day 2: Iowa City, IA | Thursday, Nov. 20 | 2–7 PM
Experience the impact of innovation live! Watch nurses pitch breakthrough solutions, celebrate award winners, and be inspired by keynote speaker Judy Lenane.

Whether you’re a nurse, healthcare professional, or curious about how real innovation happens at the bedside, this is your opportunity to witness the future of healthcare.

Learn more & RSVP here: bit.ly/3KzbDxR

10/21/2025

Are you curious about the Nurse Innovators Program and the upcoming Nurse Innovators Roadshow?

Join us for a 30-minute kickoff webinar to see how nurses are transforming challenges into change, and how you can be part of it.

Gain insight into the Nurse Innovators Program—its mission, structure, and goals—and learn how it helps nurses turn ideas into actionable solutions. Also, get a preview of the upcoming Nurse Innovators Roadshow, including format, locations, and opportunities for engagement.

Sign up for a session that fits your schedule:
1. Thursday, October 23, from 3 - 3:30 p.m.
2. Tuesday, October 28, from 11 - 11:30 a.m.

Can’t attend live? Register anyway and receive the recording afterward.

👉 Register here: bit.ly/NurseInnovatorsWebinar

10/17/2025

The Nurse Innovators Roadshow is hitting the road for two incredible days of ideas, inspiration, and impact, and you’re invited!

Day 1: Cherokee, IA | Wednesday, Nov. 19 | 11:30 AM–2 PM
Kick things off with a keynote, spark workshop, and networking designed to spark new ideas and fuel collaboration.

Day 2: Iowa City, IA | Thursday, Nov. 20 | 2–7 PM
See innovation in action with a live pitch competition, awards, and an inspiring keynote from Judy Lenane, a healthcare executive and entrepreneur with roots in nursing.

Whether you’re a nurse, healthcare professional, or simply curious about how innovation happens at the bedside and beyond — this event is for you.

✨ Don’t miss your chance to be part of the movement transforming healthcare in Iowa.

Learn more here: bit.ly/3KzbDxR

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10/17/2025

Gain insider perspective from a pioneering Silicon Valley law firm—without leaving Iowa and at no cost.

Join the Office of Innovation and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati—one of the nation’s leading legal partners for technology and life sciences ventures—for Structuring for Success: Legal Tools for Healthcare Inventors and Startups on Friday, November 7, in Iowa City.

This free half-day event is designed to help innovators, founders, and students understand the legal frameworks that support successful ventures in healthcare and biotech.

What you’ll gain:

1. Insight from Wilson Sonsini partners on IP strategy, technology transactions, corporate structure, and regulatory pathways.

2. Practical tools for protecting your innovations and preparing for investment.

3. A roundtable with serial medical device entrepreneur Steven Mickelsen, followed by a networking reception.

📅 Friday, November 7, 1:30–7:00 PM
📍 The Heights Rooftop Ballroom & Patio, Courtyard Marriott University Heights

RSVP and learn more:

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08/13/2024

The Office of Innovation has had the pleasure of supporting Robert Cargill, an Associate Professor in the Classics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa, on the development of the University of Iowa Bible & Archaeology YouTube channel.

In addition to creating his own content, Bob makes frequent appearances in documentaries on major networks such as CNN, Netflix, and most recently, the History Channel.

Read more about Bob's work and his latest documentary contribution, History’s Holy Marvels with Dennis Quaid, now streaming on the History Channel: https://lnkd.in/gPqFxtPq

07/16/2024

Last week, our Chief Innovation Officer Jon Darsee joined a panel representing entrepreneurial stakeholders from throughout Iowa for a conversation about the current environment and future potential of innovation in our state.

Watch the full conversation at the link below.

The state of innovation and entrepreneurship in Iowa depends on an ecosystem of stakeholders in corporate, risk capital, entrepreneurship, education and government. Innovation also often takes the form of continuous improvement — asking how an idea or approach that already works can be refined. Du...

06/18/2024

We're excited to have Alec Whitters Co-Founder and CEO of Higher Learning Technologies, join us as an AI Industry Pioneer at the AI in Healthcare Symposium this Thursday, June 20th.

HLT was sparked by paper flashcards that Alec and his peers were using to study for their dental boards. Wouldn’t it make better sense, he thought, to use their smartphones to study? When he didn’t find an effective mobile-learning solution, he decided to create it. HLT was born.

HLT's platform delivers what students want: the power to use their mobile devices to study anytime, anywhere for the most important exams and courses of their lives. Study areas include Nursing, Medical, Dental, Military and Civic, Professional, and College and Courses.

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Join the University of Iowa Office of Innovation and UI Ventures for the AI in Healthcare Symposium, where AI industry pioneers and national policy experts will delve into the challenges and opportunities presented by starting and scaling AI-powered healthcare startups. RSVP to attend: https://lnkd.in/gw5fSqr4

06/17/2024

From record-keeping in the exam room to autonomously diagnosing diseases, experts at University of Iowa Health Care are exploring the healing potential of advanced technologies in health care.

University of Iowa Health Care experts discuss AI’s promise and ethical questions.

06/13/2024

We're excited to have Angela Adams, CEO of Inflo Health, join us as an AI Industry Pioneer at the AI in Healthcare Symposium on Thursday, June 20th.

Angela Adams is a nurse and CEO for a healthcare technology company, Inflo Health. Angela started her career at Duke University Medical Center in cardiothoracic/transplant ICU and CCU. Her passion became improving care while decreasing staff mental workload. Her career continued into medical device where Angela began quality programs for educating clinicians on appropriate medical device selection and usage for ICU patients to prevent infection. During her time in medical device, Angela was a member of the critical care mergers and acquisitions team responsible for reviewing new technologies and devices. Her first intro into the world of healthcare AI came while reviewing a technology company focused on predicting negative outcomes early enough to prevent the outcome from occurring. Angela was part of the early start-up team of Jvion, an AI for healthcare company focused on combining SDOH purchased data with EHR clinical data to predict over 50+ different outcomes. With a successful exit in 2021, Angela was passionate about tackling another patient safety issue around missed radiology follow-ups leading to poor outcomes. Inflo Health developed an LLM and NLP focused identification system for tracking all radiology follow-ups combined with powerful care orchestration automation to ensure no patient falls through the cracks of our health systems.

06/11/2024

We're excited to have Tom DeLay – Chief Business Officer at RespondHealth and CEO of Healthspottr Capital — join us at the AI in Healthcare Symposium on Thursday, June 20th.

For more than 25 years, Tom has leveraged his legal and banking background to support the growth and commercial success of innovative and established firms in the tech, financial services and healthcare industries.

Early in his career, Tom served as General Counsel and head of exotic debt (pre-Brady debt) for New Capital Markets, a DC-based hedge fund focused on privatization in Russia and Eastern Europe. He later helped launch the family office business for Wells Fargo and served as Senior Vice President at U.S. Trust, where he managed a $2.5 billion portfolio for several ultra-high net worth families in the Bay Area.

In tech, Tom held senior business development roles at startups including Bang Networks and BeNotified Software. He entered healthcare by co-founding iHealth Analytics, a comparative analytics and resource utilization platform that sought to bring the same state-of-the art operating efficiencies long-used in finance to healthcare providers and payers for the first time.
Tom joined Healthspottr as COO in 2013 and most recently launched Healthspottr Capital, which provides capital raising and M&A services to large and small firms. Tom is a senior advisor to several companies including Axenic Health Solutions, which offers a novel, long-lasting sanitizing and disinfecting solutions for retail and healthcare settings, Care Angel, an AI-based nurse assistance provider, AIMO, a German startup leveraging motion analysis and AI to detect injury, pain and anxiety, and RespondHealth.

Tom earned his B.A from University of Iowa and a J.D. from Kansas University School of Law with a focus on international law and the impact on contracting in the oil and gas industry in Russia and Eastern Europe.

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Join the University of Iowa Office of Innovation and UI Ventures for the AI in Healthcare Symposium, where AI industry pioneers and national policy experts will delve into the challenges and opportunities presented by starting and scaling AI-powered healthcare startups. RSVP to attend: https://lnkd.in/gw5fSqr4

06/07/2024

We're excited to have Dr. Michael Main join us as a National Policy Expert at the AI in Healthcare Symposium on Thursday, June 20th!

Dr. Michael Main serves as Chief Executive Officer of Saint Luke’s Physician Group and as Chief Clinical Officer for BJC Health System (West Region). He is a practicing cardiologist at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, with clinical interests including valvular heart disease and echocardiography. A professor of medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, he is the author or co-author of more than 100 peer reviewed publications in medical journals.

He received his medical degree from the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in cardiovascular diseases at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, followed by an advanced cardiac imaging fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to his medical training, he completed a Master of Business Administration (MBA), a Master of Science (MS) in Healthcare Leadership and Management, and graduate certification in Health Informatics Leadership, all at the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas.

He formerly served as medical director of the echocardiography laboratory at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, as chair of the Saint Luke’s Physician Group Cardiovascular Division, and as Co-Executive Medical Director of Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute.

Dr. Main is an active member of multiple professional societies including the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) with previous service including the ASE Board of Directors, chair of the Scientific Sessions Planning Committee, chair of the Advocacy Committee, and member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. He served for ten years as the ASE advisor to the American Medical Association (AMA) Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) and as the ASE advisor to the AMA Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Editorial Panel. He has also served on the American College of Cardiology Board of Governors, the International Contrast Ultrasound Society Board of Directors, and the American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Board Cardiovascular Disease Exam Committee.