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Emergency Medicine Innovation Fellowship

Weill Cornell Medicine / NewYork-Presbyterian

Last reviewed August 30, 2026

Intelligence summary

Program at a Glance

Program mandate
The Innovation Fellowship in Weill Cornell Medicine's Department of Emergency Medicine is a one-year, non-ACGME post-graduate program that prepares emergency physicians to work at the intersection of innovation, entrepreneurship and healthcare enterprise. Fellows work 940 clinical hours a year (about 20 hours weekly) with reduced clinical duties from September through November for intensive coursework.
Organizational model
Nonprofit
Location
New York, New York
Program types
Physician innovationEntrepreneurship
Commercialization pathways
InvestmentStrategic partnership
Focus areas
ClinicalDigitalOperational
Public scale or maturity signals

Documented successes: Built through a partnership between Weill Cornell's Center for Virtual Care and Cornell Tech; Places fellows in the Cornell Tech Jacobs Institute Runway Program alongside MBA and engineering students; Provides fellows a $4,000 annual conference reimbursement and PGY4/PGY5-rate salary, and requires at least one mentored project with publication or presentation

Official engagement route
Program website ↗Health system website ↗
Last reviewed
August 30, 2026

Mandate and remit

What This Program Does

The Innovation Fellowship in Weill Cornell Medicine's Department of Emergency Medicine is a one-year, non-ACGME post-graduate program that prepares emergency physicians to work at the intersection of innovation, entrepreneurship and healthcare enterprise. Fellows work 940 clinical hours a year (about 20 hours weekly) with reduced clinical duties from September through November for intensive coursework. The curriculum pairs the Jacobs Institute Runway Program at Cornell Tech, where fellows take startup strategy, customer development and entrepreneurship classes alongside MBA and engineering students, with the department's Healthcare Leadership and Management coursework on ED operations, informatics, coding and billing, compliance and hospital flow. Skills covered include design thinking, regulatory navigation, intellectual property, venture financing and clinical change management, and fellows get quarterly mentorship from emergency medicine leaders and Cornell Tech innovation experts. The program was developed through a partnership between Weill Cornell's Center for Virtual Care and Cornell Tech, which is also how fellows connect to outside startups and investors.

Areas of Focus

ClinicalDigitalOperational

Commercialization Pathways

These routes appear in the program's sourced public record.

Publicly Reported Outcomes

  • Documented successes

    Built through a partnership between Weill Cornell's Center for Virtual Care and Cornell Tech; Places fellows in the Cornell Tech Jacobs Institute Runway Program alongside MBA and engineering students; Provides fellows a $4,000 annual conference reimbursement and PGY4/PGY5-rate salary, and requires at least one mentored project with publication or presentation

Leadership and Structure

Organizational home: Emergency Medicine Innovation Fellowship, Weill Cornell Medicine / NewYork-Presbyterian

  • Alex FortenkoEmergency Medicine Director of Clinical Innovation

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Sources and Updates

Reviewed August 30, 2026. External source links open in a new tab.

  1. Emergency Medicine Innovation Fellowship official source emed.weill.cornell.edu. Accessed August 30, 2026.

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