2025 IDEATOR Competition
The 2025 IDEATOR competition took place on April 9-10, 2025. This year's event focused on the challenge of food insecurity in Northeast Ohio, with aims to develop solutions that will improve food access for the most vulnerable patients including mothers, infants, and children.
2024 Winners
1st Place: Team NutriSnap
- Coach: Sara Edwards, Director, Design Operations, Veale Initiative, UH
- Coach: James Ress, MBA, Program Manager, RadiCLE, UH
- Coach: Sara O’Brien, Patient Liaison, GI, Cutler Center, UH
- Team Captain: Genevieve Birkby, Program Manager, Social Needs Navigation, UH
- Jonathan Smith, JD, Manager, Government Relations, UH
- Sreeja Sathish, Sr. Project Manager, EPMO, UH
- Sam Stitzel, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, Manager of Clinical Education, Retail and Ambulatory Pharmacy, UH
- Ramy Ahmed, Pharmacy Student, NEOMED
2nd Place: Team GoWell
- Coach: Elyse Mulligan, MPH, Director, Government and Community Relations, UH
- Coach: Brian Nelson, RN, Program Lead, Veale Initiative, UH
- Coach: Tracy Plank, RN, BSN NE-BC, Clinical Market Manager- Eastern Market, UH
- Team Captain: Anne Leach, MS, RDN, LD, Director, Clinical and Community Nutrition, UH
- Noah Brooks, Manager of Analytics & Strategy, UH
- Sarah Ronis, Physician, UH
- Victoria Hoffman (Uram), Manager, Radiology Clinical Research, UH
- Kristen Baughman, Graduate Faculty III College of Graduate Studies, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, NEOMED
- Laila Almassri, Student, NEOMED
