A Leadership Toolbox for Operationalizing Innovation at Your Institution
Abstract
In today’s challenging healthcare environment, the importance of innovation has never been greater. Every healthcare institution anduniversity strive to be innovative, but successful innovative cultures and programs are difficult to create and sustain especially in the busy and fast-paced healthcare settings. Creating an innovative culture requires having a structured process and framework that educates, trains and rewards individuals who engage in innovation.
The “Magic Wand Initiative” was created at Massachusetts General Hospital to empowers and engages healthcare professional in problembased innovation. It is designed to bring innovation directly to clinicians, reduce the barriers to engagement and provide necessary resourcesm for clinicial and research faculty to work collaboratively to solve unmet needs and generate outcomes. Over the last several years I have lectured about this revolutionary and impactful national and international curriculum called the “Magic Wand Initiative and Virtual Magic Wand program” http://www.magicwandinitiative.org/ to teach leaders and clinicians how to leverage innovation for outcomes. In this talk we will aim to:
• Describe the importance of innovation in healthcare
• Identify common barriers to innovation
• Develop strategies that individuals and institutions can use to implement innovation
Biography
Dr. Lilit Garibyan MD, PhD is a physician-scientist at Wellman Center for Photomedicine, board certified dermatologist and faculty member at Harvard Medical School Department of Dermatology. She is listed as an inventor on 15 pending and granted patents in fields of medical devices, immunology, dermatology, cardiology, and medical innovation. Her research focuses on innovative biomedical translational discoveries aimed at identifying unmet medical needs and working with multidisciplinary teams to develop novel treatments. She used this same approach to pioneer injectable cooling devices for aesthetic and medical application since 2012. Several of her inventions have been licensed and led to venture-backed startup companies. She is the co-founder of two startup biotech companies which have resulted from her research discoveries. She serves on several scientific advisory boards for startup companies.
Dr. Garibyan is the co-founder and the Director of the “Magic Wand Initiative” and the Virtual Magic Wand programs, which teach the process of innovation. These internationally recognized programs empower, engage, and teach professionals on how to identify unmet needs and collaborate to identify and implement solutions to problems.
As a humanitarian, Dr. Garibyan has pioneered and established sustainable, medical laser clinics in Armenia for effective treatments of scars and vascular anomalies. Her team has taken several lasers to Armenia and has trained Armenian physicians on the use of laser technology to treat life altering skin diseases. Dr. Garibyan recently founded and serves as the President of a nonprofit organization called “Face of Angel” to continue the mission of this humanitarian work.
Dr. Garibyan received her B.S. summa cum laude from University of California Los Angeles, her M.D. from Harvard Medical School and her
Ph.D. from Harvard University in Experimental Pathology/Immunology.
