Designer, Founder and Engineer
Flourish started as an undergraduate design thesis project for ENGS 15: Senior Design Challenge. My teammates (Mira Ram, Callie Page, and Sia Peng) and I partnered with chronic illness activist Ari Paulsen and non-profit Suffering the Silence to design a tool for empowering people with complex chronic conditions to regain control of their health. We developed a platform to help patients monitor "flare ups" and leverage data analytics to identify what factors correlate to symptoms worsening or improving.
Following a comprehensive design process, we conducted deep research on chronic illness management and determined the solution for our application must be 1) data-driven, to facilitate communication with doctors; 2) customizable, to fit different patient profiles; and 3) frictionless, to ease the physical and mental stress of tracking.
The presentation was met with an overwhelmingly positive response from the Suffering the Silence and Mighty Well communities of 2k+ members, and so we received funding from the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship to build Flourish with the DALI Innovation Lab. As the only Junior in the thesis team and as a core member of the DALI leadership team heading into my senior year, I acted as director of the project alongside Ari, who originally brought us the project concept.
Throughout my senior year of undergrad and 1-year master's program, I raised over 100k in grants from the NSF iCorps program, Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship and individual impact philanthropists to continue leading the project and providing value for our users at Suffering the Silence and Mighty Well. As project manager, I led the DALI Lab team of designers and developers through the design and implementation of the second iteration of the Flourish App, handling much of the design and front-end engineering.
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As members of the Dartmouth nexus of expertise, we collaborated with medical, health tech and business experts from Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, the Geisel School of Medicine, the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and the Tuck School of Business.
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