Name
Designation/ Institution
Email
Expertise
Bio
Engineering Mentor
Ms. Priya Garg is an MIT 2015 S.B.
degree candidate in Mechanical
Engineering. She has had the
opportunity to intern at a Stanford
Biodesign-originating medical
device start-up; medical device
corporation Covidien; and the global
health-focused Consortium for
Affordable Medical Technologies
(CAMTech) in roles spanning
engineering, market analysis &
needs identification, and program
development. Ms. Priya Garg’s
interests lie in the improvement of
large-scale healthcare systems
through the incorporation of
technology, business, and medicine
innovations.
Priya Garg
Intern, CAMTech @ MGH
Co- Director Hacking Medicine
Engineering Mentor
Ms. Lina Colucci is a Doctoral
researcher at MIT, she's working on
the design, development, and
deployment of a portable device that
will measure people's hydration
levels.
Lina Colucci
HST Student
Co-Director, Hacking Medicine
Ms. Colucci’s area is health sciences
and technology including the
including different disciplines. Ms.
Colucci spent a year working on
tissue engineering in an orthopaedic
bio-engineering lab and before that
was working in India for four
months doing research about the
effects of internal migration on
poverty in urban slums. While in
Sweden she did research into touch
experiences and how people
associate the texture of a material
with its properties and performance.
Business Mentor
Prior to joining CAMTech, Ms.
Steel had worked in Research
Administration for research
contracts and post award
management. Ms. Steel has worked
with numerous nonprofit
organizations focusing on women
and children both locally and
globally including working with
several alternative education
programs in Honduras. Her primary
focus has been in global health and
education reform across Central and
South America. Additionally, Ms.
Steel has continued to work with
organizations focused on Human
Trafficking and Domestic Violence
education and awareness. Ms. Steel
earned a Bachelor’s Degree from
Trent University with a double
major in Global Studies and Culture
Studies with a focus on Latin
America.
Alexis Steel
Grants Administrator
Innovation Award Program Manager
CAMTech @ MGH
Center for Global Health
asteel@partners.org
Business Mentor
Elizabeth Bailey
Director, CAMTech @ MGH
Center for Global Health
ebailey5@mgh.harvard.edu
Ms. Alexis Steel is CAMTech's
Grant Administrator and is
responsible for all pre and post
award management of the
CAMTech grants and contracts.
Furthermore, Ms. Steel manages the
CAMTech Innovation Award
program and CAMtech Launch
Award Program.
In 2012, Ms. Elizabeth Bailey joined
MGH as the Director of the
Consortium for Affordable Medical
Technologies (CAMTech), which
catalyzes and accelerates medical
technology innovation to improve
health outcomes in low- and middleincome countries. Prior to MGH,
Ms. Bailey spent over a decade as an
investment partner at Commons
Capital, an impact venture capital
fund that invests in early-stage
technology companies. Ms. Bailey
managed the fund's health care and
education portfolios, and she led the
fund's global health initiative
supported by the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation. She is a strong
advocate for leveraging private
sector solutions to generate
sustainable and widespread public
health impact. Ms. Bailey earned a
Clinical, LMIC Mentor
Kris Olson
Clinician Educator at the
Massachusetts General Hospital
Internist & Pediatrician,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Medical Director, CAMTech, Center
for Global Health, MGH
krolson@partners.org
Clinical, LMIC Mentor
Data Santarino
Pediatrician, Mbarara Hospital
Uganda Country Manager,
CAMTech Uganda, MUST
boymukedata@gmail.com
Masters in Public Policy from the
Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University and a BA from
Brown University
Dr. Kris Olson is a Clinician
Educator at the Massachusetts
General Hospital in the Departments
of Medicine and Pediatrics. Since
2006, he has served as the Program
Leader of CIMIT’s Global Health
Initiative directed at developing
effective catalyst health technologies
for low-income countries. He
attended medical school at
Vanderbilt University as a Justin
Potter Scholar and was a US
Fulbright Scholar to Australia where
he completed a Masters of Public
Health Degree in Epidemiology and
International Health.
Dr. Olson was the first Thomas S.
Durant Fellow in Refugee Medicine
during which he obtained a Diploma
in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in
London before spending most of
2003 working in refugee camps
along the Thai-Burmese Border. He
has since worked in Darfur,
Indonesia, Cambodia, and Ethiopia.
He was named as one of the
Scientific American Top 10 Honor
Roll in June 2009 as an individual
who has demonstrated leadership in
applying new technologies and
biomedical discoveries for the
benefit of humanity. In Utne
Magazine (November 2009), he was
recognized
Dr. Santorino Data is a Ugandan
pediatrician and lecturer at Mbarara
University of Science and
Technology in the Department of
Pediatrics and Child Health. He is an
advocate, program implementer and
a national trainer for Ugandan
pediatric programs including:
Helping Babies Breathe (HBB),
Essential Newborn Care and Acute
Care of at Risk Newborns. His
research interests focus on
healthcare solutions that are
adaptable and resilient to the varied
technological barriers and
bottlenecks of developing nations.
Born in exile in South Sudan, Dr.
Data understands the complex
problems of childhood health in
developing nations firsthand. He
himself received his first childhood
immunizations in his third year of
medical school at Mbarara
University at age 23. He believes no
life should be left to chance and that
strong, low cost and sustainable
technologies developed in end-user
environments are pivotal for solving
healthcare problems in the
developing world
Clinical, LMIC
Mentor
David Bangsberg is the Director of
the Massachusetts General Hospital
Center for Global Health, Professor
of Medicine at Harvard School of
Medicine, Associate Member of the
Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and
Harvard, Associate Member in the
Division of Global Health Equity at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital,
and Visiting Professor at the
Mbarara University of Science and
Technology in Uganda.
David Bangsberg
Director, Center for Global Health
MGH
dbangsberg@partners.org
Engineering Mentor
Annabella Habinka
Lecturer and the Head of Computer
Science Department
Dr. Bangsberg received his medical
degree from Johns Hopkins
University and holds a Master of
Science from Kings College at the
University of London and a Master
of Public Health from the University
of California, Berkeley. Dr.
Bangsberg has researched and
published extensively on adherence
to antiretroviral medications in
treating HIV/AIDS and has
collaborations across sub-Saharan
Africa.
Dr. Annabella Habinka B. Ejiri is a
lecturer and the Head of Computer
Science Department in the Institute
of Computer Science at Mbarara
University of Science and
Technology at Mbarara, Uganda.
She currently handles quality
assurance issues at University and
Institute levels and heads the ICT4D
research group within the Institute of
Computer Science. She lectures
decision support systems and
information systems development.
annabinka@must.ac.ug
Engineering, Business Mentor
Smitha Gudapakkam
Business Development Manager,
CAMTech @ Center for Global
Health MGH
sgudapakkam@mgh.harvard.edu
Lydia Asiimwe
Uganda Administrative Manager
CAMTech Uganda, MUST
Ms. Smitha Gudapakkam is
CAMTech’s Business Development
Manager and focuses on growing the
CAMTech program both locally and
globally. Ms. Gudapakkam provides
an engineering and business lens to
CAMTech’s initiatives through her
background and experience in the
healthcare industry.Ms.
Gudapakkam has worked for large
medical device companies such as
Boston Scientific and Covidien and
has contributed in research and
development of new products as
well as setting and executing
strategy for division growth. Her
expertise includes project
management and implementation of
Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
software in several outpatient health
networks across the country. Ms.
Gudapakkam was born and brought
up in Southern India, where she
pursued her Bachelors in Biomedical
Engineering from Osmania
University. She moved to the United
States in pursuit of her Masters in
Biomedical Engineering from
Syracuse University, New York. Ms.
Gudapakkam also holds a Masters in
Business Administration from
Babson College, Wellesley MA with
Global Management as her
concentration.
Ms. Lydia Asiimwe is an
administrator with a masters degree
in public administration and
management and a bachelors in
education economics, currently
working with CAMTech as the
Administrative Manager based at
Mbarara University of Science and
Technology (MUST) in Uganda.
Before working with CAMTech,
Ms. Asiimwe started as a
Community Development Officer
(CDO) with Ankole Diocese in the
western part of Uganda in Eastern
Africa, for three years, she headed
all community based development
campaigns under the diocese and
was
directly
responsible
for
educating local communities about
the multiplier effect in income
generation at local family level, a
strategy to poverty eradication
targeting least developed regions of
Western Uganda.
Ms. Asiimwely also worked as
Projects Director with Compassion
International in Western Uganda,
Eastern Africa. She spearheaded and
coordinated all poverty eradication
campaigns through improved and
affordable government health
strategies. The campaign focused on
child health and nutrition, use of
local health facilities, water and
sanitation, adult education, income
generation and the fight against
HIV/Aids.
Engineering Mentor
Patrick Ssonko
Uganda Co-Creation Lab Manager
CAMTech Uganda, MUST
Patrick Ssonko is the Co-Creation
Lab Manger at CAMTech Uganda
based at Mbarara University of
Science and Technology. In 2009, he
joined Mbarara University of
Science and Technology and
pursued a bachelors degree in
Computer Engineering. Mr. Ssonko
has experience in electronics
systems design and embedded
software development. He has
worked on a number of projects
which include: Design and
Construction of a digital infusion
monitor and control device, an
automatic surgical suction pump
controller and a wireless
physiological monitor
(HR,SpO2,Temp) among others at
CAMTech.
Prior to CAMTech , Mr. Ssonko
worked as an electronics designs
engineer at WingerSoft
Technologies. During his stay at
WingerSoft, he helped the design
and construction of wireless
transformer voltage monitor,
computer based device controller,
bi-directional visitor counter with a
display and automatic lights
controller, and an automatic
orrigation controller among others.
He was also a senior electronics
designs trainer (embedded systems
design and embedded software
development) at Cordinex computers
a well known ICT firm in western
Uganda.
Clinical, LMIC Mentor
Ryan Carroll
Uganda Director
Pediatric Intensivist, MGH
rcarroll4@mgh.harvard.edu
Design, Business Mentor
Michael Wollowitz
Tangible Design Inc.
Ryan Carroll (MD, MPH) is a
faculty member with the division of
Pediatric Critical Care at the
MassGen for Children. He divides
his time between the pediatric
intensive care unit (PICU) and his
translational research in the
pathophysiology of cerebral malaria.
He works closely with our partners
at the Mbarara University of Science
and Technology and Medicins Sans
Frontieres' Epicentre research team,
and they are now completing a 3year phase II clinical trial in the
efficacy and safety of inhaled nitric
oxide in cerebral malaria in pediatric
patients in southwest Uganda. He is
a research fellow with the Center for
Global Health at MGH and leads an
affordable critical care device
development team.
Michael Wollowitz is a designer and
inventor whose work has ranged
from miniature wearable sensors
for medical devices to industrial
CAT-scan inspection of forty ton
rocket motors. After working for
General Electric, Design Continuum,
Organogenesis, and Audiological
Engineering, he formed his own
consulting and development
company, Tangible
Design Inc. in 1994.
Michael Wollowitz worked for three
months in 2014 in Mbarara, Uganda
in for the CAMTech of the MGH
Center for Global Health. He
assembled a laboratory and
resources for medical device
development at the Mbarara
University of Science and
Technology. He also researched the
development and manufacturing
capabilities of the area and
developed proposals for improving
mechanical fabrication facilities to
further both medical and
economic development. During his
stay in Mbarara Michael Wollowitz
mentored several students and
interns, lectured at the university,
and participated in an CAMTech sponsored “Hackathon.”
Engineering mentor
Theodora is a Senior Lecturer
and Dean of Faculty of Applied
Science and Technology at
MUST. She Holds a Degree of
Bachelor of Engineering in
Management with Mechanical
and Manufacturing Engineering
from the University of Leeds (UK)
and the degree of Master of
Science in Computer Science
from the University of
Birmingham UK. She is also
currently pursuing a PHD studies
Knowledge Management in
Organizations with specific focus
on Commercialization and
Innovation in Small Medium
Scale Enterprises in developing
Countries.
She had 4 (Four) years Industry
experience as a Mechanical and
Manufacturing Engineer with
over in the design, installation,
commissioning and operations
management of various
manufacturing systems and
Processes.Over the past 10 (Ten)
years she has been teaching
Decision Support Systems,
Software Engineering, Project
Planning and Management,
Ethics and Legal Issues in
Computing. I have also had
specific interests in technology
transfer and innovations,
affordable medical technologies,
academia-industry relations and
quality assurance.
As Dean, she is involved in
developing and overall
implementation of the strategic
objectives and plans, Grant
Proposal writing and Project
implementation, Finance
Planning and Implementation,
staff planning and development
of the Faculty.
Mentor, District Traffic officer
Mr. Lachen Otika Patrick is the
District traffic officer for
Mbarara District. He has
served in the Uganda police
force for 29 years, ten of
which he served in the traffic
department. Mr. Otika joined
the police as a police
constable, was raised the rank
of a corporal, was then raised
to the rank of sergeant, to
assistant inspector of police
and currently the inspector of
police. In the course of all
these rank promotions, Mr.
Otika underwent a number of
trainings such as Human
rights training, public order
management, traffic
induction, first aid training,
and computer training.
Among other things, he also
went on a peace keeping
mission in Durfur - Sudan
under the African Union.
Mr. Otika also served as a
team leader in the speed
control department before
being promoted to the District
traffic officer level. He has
served in a number of districts
like Mbale, and currently
Mbarara District
Michael Niyitegeka is an ICDL
Africa Accreditation
Consultant for Uganda. He is
an expert in Leadership
Development, IT Strategy,
Social Media Integration,
Communication, and Business
Process Strategic Alignment.
He holds an MBA from
MsM/ESAMI Business School
and is a Franklin Covey
Certified Facilitator.
He possesses 16 years of
working experience in both
the private and public sectors.
Michael worked with
Makerere University for 12
years in varied capacities as a
researcher, trainer and head
of Corporate Relations. He
also worked with coffee
exporting firm managing
supply side operations in
western Uganda.
He has extensive consulting
experience with government,
private, regional and
international institutions such
as Higher Education
Institutions in Uganda, Private
Sector Federation of Rwanda,
State University of Zanzibar,
National IT Authority of
Uganda, British Council
Uganda, and ICT Policy Center
for Eastern and Southern
Africa (CIPESA) among others.
Michael is an Adjunct Lecturer
with the ESAMI Business
School and a Board member
of the ICT Association of
Uganda, Uganda Youth Forum
and AIESEC Uganda. Michael
is a member of the ICT
Technical Working Group of
the Presidential Investor
Round Table. He is a member
of several technology
innovation review panels both
locally and internationally. He
is a Rotarian and is passionate
about mentoring the next
generation of technology
business leaders.
He has been listed among the
thought leaders, influential
people in the ICT Sector.