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SHM Converge Shark Tank

Overview

Are you ready to swim with the sharks?

The Society of Hospital Medicine Research Committee is requesting submissions for participation in the 2025 Shark Tank Session at SHM Converge, to be held April 22-25, 2025 in Las Vegas, NV.

In this session, the top 3 applicants will pitch an innovative, hospital medicine-related idea to 3 “sharks” comprised of senior research and innovation leaders within hospital medicine, followed by moderated questions and feedback from the sharks and the audience. Presentations should be creative, interactive, and showcase any products (complete or incomplete) if applicable.

Sharks will have the opportunity to bid on projects, offering up to two hours of project mentorship. Sharks may arrange for additional consultation/mentorship on an individual basis. In the case of multiple bids, presenters will choose the shark that most closely aligns with their project and/or desired mentoring. The sharks will also select one winner, who will receive complimentary registration to SHM Converge 2026.

Submissions must be received by Monday, November 25, 2024 by 11:59 p.m. ET.

Guidelines

The goal of the SHM Shark Tank is to provide a venue to obtain targeted feedback from participants' peers and senior hospital medicine leaders on innovative projects in a highly visible, dynamic forum while competing for one-on-one in-person consultation from a shark and complimentary registration to SHM Converge 2026.

Submission Requirements:

  • Submissions may be focused on an innovative idea that targets an area critical to the practice of hospital medicine.
  • Submissions should be well-developed ideas (see submission components, below) with potential for commercialization or widespread dissemination.

Submissions will be judged by the selection committee on the following criteria:

  • Significance of the problem being addressed
  • Innovation of the proposed approach/solution
  • Short- and long-term impact of the proposed approach/solution
  • Planned implementation
  • Team organization and membership i.e. who’s on your team!
  • Creativity of presentation

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Submission Components

To apply to participate in the Shark Tank, please submit an Innovation Abstract and check the box for consideration in the Shark Tank session.

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The Sharks

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Luci Leykum, MD, MBA, MSc, FACP, SFHM
Professor of Medicine
Dell Medical School UT Austin, South Texas Veterans Health Care System

Luci K. Leykum, M.D., M.B.A., MSc, is the Chief Clinical Officer for Harbor Health, an innovative, team-based health system in Austin, Texas, and an Affiliate Professor of Medicine at Dell Medical School. She formerly served as Executive Associate Chair for the Department of Internal Medicine at Dell Medical School, and as Chief of the Divisions of General and Hospital Medicine and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Pallabi Sanyal-Dey, MD
Associate Clinical Professor at University of California San Francisco

Pallabi Sanyal-Dey is currently Director of Client Services for 'iQueue for Beds' Product at LeanTaaS. She is also a visiting Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF where she attends on Internal Medicine Inpatient Teaching Service and provide career mentorship to trainees.

Thomas W. Barrett, MD, MCR, SFHM
Hospitalist/Clinician educator/Scientist/Entrepreneur at the VA Portland Health Care System
Associate Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University

Thomas W. Barrett, MD, MCR, SFHM is a Hospitalist/Clinician educator/Scientist/Entrepreneur at the VA Portland Health Care System and Associate Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University. Tom spun out two biotech startups from research in the diagnostic space and runs an elective in biotechnology innovation and entrepreneurship for medical students.