Hello students,
The University of Utah’s Bench-to-Bedside (B2B) Program is in the process of recruiting new leaders to serve on the B2B Executive Leadership Committee for the upcoming 2017-2018 school year.
B2B is a health innovation program that places students into interdisciplinary teams, provides them with a $500 budget, a clinician/industry mentor, and gives them six months to develop any solution to an existing healthcare problem (i.e. medical device, app, bio-material, business plan, etc.). These student teams compete for roughly $77,000 in awards and use that money to create their own start-up company from their idea.
B2B is looking for dedicated, hardworking students interested in expanding their leadership skills and accelerating the growth of B2B for the 2017-2018 school year. Working in the B2B Executive Leadership is a unique opportunity for students to expand their leadership capabilities, interpersonal skills, and their personal networks via constant interaction with top students/entrepreneurs/innovators/professionals of the University of Utah and the health-tech industry of Salt Lake City.
These top four B2B Executive Leadership positions are open for all graduate students with leadership experience and senior undergraduate students who have had previous B2B Committee experience:
B2B Student Director
B2B Engineering Co-President
B2B Medical Co-President
B2B Business Co-President
B2B Student Director:
The student director is typically a student who has previously served as a co-president; however, this position is open to students of all disciplines. This role is intended to help with the long term development of the program. Their primary responsibility is for the oversight and development of the program in collaboration with our faculty leadership. The Director also is responsible to organize Executive and Senior Committee meetings and work with the Co-Presidents to delegate tasks to the committee chairs and members.
B2B Medical Co-President
The Medical Co-President is typically a student who has previously served as a medical chair, however, open to all medical/health students. This position is responsible for program quality, events, and data acquisition. This includes overseeing the planning of events and workshops as well as the collection of participant information throughout the year. They are responsible to work with the marketing chair to market the program to the health sciences students.
B2B Engineering Co-President
The Engineering Co-President is typically a student who has previously served as a B2B Engineering Chair; however, this position is open to students of all disciplines. This position is primarily responsible for working with the engineering department to increase involvement of their students as well as overseeing teams through the B2B Ambassadors during the year. This involves ensuring that the individual needs of each team is met throughout the duration of the program. They are responsible for reporting each week to the executive committee on the progress of the teams and focus given to struggling teams.
B2B Business Co-President (New Position)
The Business Co-President is typically a student who has served as a B2B Business Chair; however, this position is open to students of all disciplines. The Business Co-President is primarily responsible for program growth, outreach, and club-to-club collaboration within the University. They will primarily work with the B2B Development Committee to execute these expectations. They are responsible for working with the B2B Business Chairs for more improved collaboration with the business/entrepreneur demographic of the University of Utah.
Lastly, the B2B Student Director, B2B Engineering Co-President, B2B Medical Co-President, and B2B Business Co-President will collectively be responsible for the development and execution of the B2B program. This B2B Executive Leadership will manage the 1) B2B Senior Committee (applications will be sent out soon) 2) B2B Ambassadors 3) B2B Development Committee.
Application Link (due next Thursday (4/20) at 11:59pm):
For more information about B2B, please visit our website:
http://healthsciences.utah.edu/center-for-medical-innovation/bench-2-bedside/
Contact us at b2b.uou@gmail.com or b2b@utah.edu
Social Media:
IG: @b2butah
Twitter: @b2butah
Facebook: @BenchToBedsideCompetition
Please feel free to email us with any questions/concerns that you may have. The application process closes next Thursday (4/20) at 11:59pm. An interview process will be conducted the following week. We look forward to hearing from you all soon.
Best Regards,
Kapil Sharma
B2B Engineering Co-President
