Program model
Named programs that support physicians as inventors, founders, or clinical sponsors of new products and companies.
Physician innovation programs overlap with entrepreneurship and technology transfer. This page includes only programs that official sources describe as physician-focused.
The current directory includes physician-focused training where the official program describes that remit directly. Broader offices that merely mention clinician innovators are not relabeled as physician-specific programs.
These sourced records show how hospital innovation programs are organized through this particular function.
What the directory shows
52 profiles
Charlotte, North Carolina
Advocate Health Technology Transfer Office
The Advocate Health Technology Transfer Office converts research and novel concepts generated inside the system into practical products.
Nonprofit
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St. Louis, Missouri
Clinical Innovation Institute
The Clinical Innovation Institute is Ascension's clinician-led unit for vetting and deploying new technology across the system's multi-state footprint.
Nonprofit
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Miami, Florida
Baptist Health Innovation Fellowship
The Baptist Health Innovation Fellowship is a yearlong program created to attract, train and empower healthcare visionaries and entrepreneurs across South Florida, including Baptist Health physicians and clinicians.
Nonprofit
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Boston, Massachusetts
Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA)
The Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator is Boston Children's Hospital's internal startup accelerator, created to source and vet ideas from the hospital's own clinicians and to build them into products and companies.
Children's · Nonprofit
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Aurora, Colorado
The Center for Innovation
The Center for Innovation, established in 2016, is Children's Hospital Colorado's hub for education, incubation and acceleration of pediatric healthcare ideas from its faculty and staff.
Children's · Nonprofit
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Orange, California
Sharon Disney Lund Medical Intelligence, Information, Investigation and Innovation Institute (Mi4)
Mi4 is CHOC's institute-level innovation hub, created to accelerate innovation and insight that advances children's health through new diagnostic, treatment and care solutions.
Children's · Nonprofit
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Austin, Texas
Texas Health Catalyst
Texas Health Catalyst is Dell Medical School's health innovation accelerator, run out of the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which helps clinicians and researchers translate discoveries into commercial products.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Durham, North Carolina
Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI)
The Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI) is Duke Health's central innovation engine, created to catalyze transformative innovations in health and healthcare and to cultivate a community of innovation and entrepreneurship across Duke University and the health enterprise.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Atlanta, Georgia
Emory School of Medicine Innovation Center
The Emory School of Medicine Innovation Center is a physical and programmatic hub that gives Emory clinicians and researchers the tools to move ideas from bedside observation to prototype and company.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Atlanta, Georgia
Distinction in Medical Innovation
Distinction in Medical Innovation is a formal designation track inside Emory's Internal Medicine residency for residents who want to build and implement medical innovations during training.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Edison, New Jersey
Bear's Den
Bear's Den is Hackensack Meridian Health's innovation and investment program, launched in 2017, that convenes quarterly panels to evaluate healthcare ideas and inventions from entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, partners and the system's own 36,000 team members.
Nonprofit
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Boston, Massachusetts
HealthTech Fellowship
The HealthTech Fellowship, launched by Harvard Medical School in 2020 and facilitated through its Center for Primary Care, is a 10-month immersion that applies the biodesign framework to healthcare problems.
Nonprofit
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Detroit, Michigan
Davidson Fellowship for Innovation in Healthcare
The Davidson Fellowship is a nine-month professional development program at Henry Ford Health that equips clinicians and administrative leaders with innovation and entrepreneurship skills.
Nonprofit
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Detroit, Michigan
Henry Ford Innovations
Henry Ford Innovations advances inventions developed by Henry Ford Health clinicians and researchers while also sourcing external technologies for the system.
Nonprofit
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New York, New York
HSS Innovation Institute
The HSS Innovation Institute develops and commercializes musculoskeletal healthcare technologies originating from Hospital for Special Surgery clinicians and researchers.
Nonprofit
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jefferson Innovation
Jefferson Innovation is the entrepreneurial and commercialization organization spanning Jefferson Health and Thomas Jefferson University.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
JeffSolves MedTech / Health Design Lab
JeffSolves MedTech is a transdisciplinary medical device innovation program run through Jefferson's Health Design Lab that pairs medical students and clinicians with industrial design and textile design students.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Baltimore, Maryland
Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design (CBID)
Johns Hopkins CBID sits at the intersection of the Whiting School of Engineering and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and trains teams to invent, prototype and commercialize medical devices.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Washington, District of Columbia
Sibley Innovation Hub
The Sibley Innovation Hub is the in-house innovation team at Sibley Memorial Hospital, a Johns Hopkins Medicine community hospital in Washington, DC.
Nonprofit
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Oakland, California
Care Management Institute
The Care Management Institute is Kaiser Permanente's clinical knowledge and care-redesign body, established in 1997 and co-sponsored by the Permanente Medical Groups and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan.
Nonprofit
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Boston, Massachusetts
Brigham Digital Innovation Hub (iHub)
The Brigham Digital Innovation Hub, founded in 2013 at Brigham and Women's Hospital as the iHub, drives digital health innovation across Mass General Brigham and now operates as part of Mass General Brigham Emerging Technologies and Solutions.
Nonprofit
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Rochester, Minnesota
Mayo Clinic Ventures / Department of Business Development
Mayo Clinic's Department of Business Development, which includes Mayo Clinic Ventures, is described as Mayo Clinic's front door to business and is the route by which Mayo physicians and scientists commercialize their inventions.
Nonprofit
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Charleston, South Carolina
Zucker Institute for Innovation Commercialization
The Zucker Institute for Innovation Commercialization is an independent entity powered by MUSC that evaluates and manages the intellectual assets generated by MUSC faculty, physicians and staff.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Columbia, Maryland
MedStar Institute for Innovation (MI2)
The MedStar Institute for Innovation, known as MI2, was founded in 2009 as MedStar Health's system-wide innovation organization spanning Maryland and Washington, DC.
Nonprofit
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Washington, District of Columbia
Digital Health and Innovation Fellowship
This one-year physician fellowship is a joint effort of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, MedStar Washington Hospital Center and the MedStar Institute for Innovation (MI2), designed to prepare emergency physicians for clinical and operational leadership of health-system digital health programs.
Nonprofit
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Bronx, New York
Innovation Biodesign Training Program
The Montefiore Einstein Innovation Biodesign Training Program is a one-year fellowship-style experience designed to train clinician innovators inside the health system.
Nonprofit
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New York, New York
Mount Sinai BioDesign
Mount Sinai BioDesign is a medical device innovation incubator embedded in the Mount Sinai Health System that turns clinical insights from its physicians and surgeons into commercially viable medical technologies.
Nonprofit
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New York, New York
i3 Asset Accelerator
The i3 Asset Accelerator is Mount Sinai Innovation Partners' milestone-driven investment program for advancing discoveries by Mount Sinai faculty, physicians and researchers toward commercial viability.
Nonprofit
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Innovation Accelerator Program, Center for Health Care Transformation and Innovation
Penn Medicine's Innovation Accelerator Program supports faculty physicians and staff who want to design, test and scale new approaches to healthcare delivery.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Penn Health-Tech
Penn Health-Tech is a University of Pennsylvania center, established around 2017, that connects innovators across Penn Medicine and Penn's engineering and business schools to advance medical devices and healthcare technology.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Hershey, Pennsylvania
Center for Medical Innovation (CMI)
The Center for Medical Innovation supports Penn State College of Medicine faculty, researchers and learners in moving medical innovations toward commercialization.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Greenville, South Carolina
Innovation Maturation Fund (Health Sciences Center)
The Innovation Maturation Fund is a joint translational funding vehicle created in 2019 by Prisma Health, South Carolina's largest nonprofit health system, and Clemson University through the Health Sciences Center partnership and the Clemson University Research Foundation.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Sanford Innovation and Commercialization
Sanford Innovation and Commercialization is the innovation office of Sanford Health, the large rural health system serving the Upper Midwest.
Nonprofit
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Seattle, Washington
Office of Innovation and New Ventures
The Office of Innovation and New Ventures is Seattle Children's technology transfer and venture arm, partnering with the hospital's researchers, clinicians and staff innovators to move pediatric discoveries toward products and treatments.
Children's · Nonprofit
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Stanford, California
Innovation and Design Advanced Mentorship, Department of Emergency Medicine
Stanford Emergency Medicine's Innovation and Design Advanced Mentorship trains board-eligible or board-certified emergency physicians across three pillars: biodesign, design thinking and digital health.
Nonprofit
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Stanford, California
Stanford Medicine Catalyst
Stanford Medicine Catalyst is a joint strategic effort of the Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care and Stanford Medicine Children's Health that acts as the institutional hub for Stanford health care innovations.
Children's · Nonprofit
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Stanford, California
Biodesign Innovation Fellowship, Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign
The Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign (formerly the Byers Center for Biodesign) runs the field-defining Biodesign Innovation Fellowship, a nearly year-long, full-time, multidisciplinary program in which physicians, engineers, designers and business people work in teams on health-technology projects.
Nonprofit
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Houston, Texas
TMC Biodesign Fellowship
TMC Biodesign is a full-time, paid fellowship run by the Texas Medical Center Innovation Institute that assembles multidisciplinary teams of clinicians, engineers and business people to build healthcare startups.
Nonprofit
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Aurora, Colorado
CARE Innovation Center
The UCHealth CARE Innovation Center is a clinical-validation sandbox founded in 2016 that develops, validates and optimizes next-generation healthcare solutions across the UCHealth system.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Los Angeles, California
UCLA Health Innovation Challenge
The UCLA Health Innovation Challenge is an annual competition run by the UCLA Health Office of Innovation that invites faculty, staff, trainees, students, patients, caregivers, volunteers and community members to submit ideas that advance care delivery and health equity.
Nonprofit
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Los Angeles, California
UCLA Biodesign Innovation Fellowship
UCLA Biodesign is an early-stage health technology innovation program that runs a year-long, full-time fellowship for interdisciplinary teams drawn from medicine, engineering, design and business.
Academic · Nonprofit
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San Francisco, California
Acute Care Innovation Center and EM Innovation Fellowship
The Acute Care Innovation Center in UCSF's Department of Emergency Medicine develops, tests and scales acute care innovations across what it calls an acute care test bed made up of three distinct emergency departments.
Nonprofit
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San Francisco, California
Biodevice Innovation Pathway (UCSF Surgical Innovations)
The Biodevice Innovation Pathway is a dedicated research track within UCSF Surgical Innovations for surgery residents who want to build medical technology.
Nonprofit
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San Francisco, California
UCSF Rosenman Institute
The UCSF Rosenman Institute supports healthtech entrepreneurs, including UCSF clinicians, in moving medical device and digital health concepts toward commercialization.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Cleveland, Ohio
UH Ventures
UH Ventures is University Hospitals' combined innovation, technology transfer and venture investment organization, which it describes as the front door for innovation at the system.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
Innovation Fellows Program, Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center
The Earl E.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Salt Lake City, Utah
Center for Medical Innovation (Bench to Bedside and Innovation Fellowships)
The University of Utah Center for Medical Innovation, dedicated in 2026 as the James LeVoy Sorenson Center for Medical Innovation, gives clinicians, residents and students a structured path from clinical need to commercialized device.
Academic · Nonprofit
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Nashville, Tennessee
Medical Innovators Development Program and Innovation Catalyst Fund
Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University publish two connected innovation pathways in the health and biomedical research ecosystem.
Academic
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Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Wake Forest Innovations
Wake Forest Innovations manages intellectual property for Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the Wake Forest health system and Advocate Health, and its stated mission is to turn research into products.
Academic · Nonprofit
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New York, New York
Emergency Medicine Innovation Fellowship
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.
Nonprofit
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New York, New York
Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) Program, Enterprise Innovation
Weill Cornell Medicine's Entrepreneur-in-Residence program embeds experienced entrepreneurs and executives inside the institution to guide Weill Cornell inventors and startup teams through the commercialization process.
Nonprofit
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New Haven, Connecticut
Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology (CBIT)
Yale CBIT was established in 2014 to educate the next generation of biomedical innovators and support commercialization of biomedical technology discovered at Yale, with an explicit focus on data science, diagnostics and devices.
Academic · Nonprofit
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