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THE PROGRAM
Inspired in the prestigious Stanford University’s Biodesign Fellowship, d·HEALTH
Barcelona is a unique 9-month postgraduate program which provides disruptive
education, training and mentorship to turn graduates and PhD’s in Health, Bio, Tech,
Business, Engineering and Design into innovative entrepreneurs.
Enrolling in d·HEALTH Barcelona means enjoying a truly unique learning
opportunity and a one-in-a-lifetime experience because the program is:
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Oriented towards solving real problems.
An experiential learning program. You learn by doing.
Multidisciplinary and skills-oriented.
Team-based. Individuals work in teams from beginning to end.
Network oriented.
“Are you working on something that can change the world? Yes or no?
For 99% of the people on the planet, the answer is no, and the fact of the
matter is, we should be” - Larry Page, co-founder of Google
 DURATION: 9 month Full Time Program
 STARTING DATE: Mon, 18 January 2016
 PROFILES: Graduates and PhDs in Health, Bio, Tech, Business and Design
 LOCATIONS: Hospital Clinic - Institut Guttmann - Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Science Park
 LANGUAGES: English/Catalan/Spanish
 TUITION: 6.000 eur (10% early bird discount until 29th June)
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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES: ENTREPRENEURSHIP
d·HEALTH Barcelona actively promotes entrepreneurship as its objective is
for its Fellows to launch their own ventures by the end of the program.
“After finishing the program we founded our own company and a few months later
we completed the first capital round and launched a prototype” - Markus Wilhelms,
CEO at usMIMA, d·Health Fellow 2013-2014
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OTHER CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
d·HEALTH Barcelona can also give you access to fascinating careers in related
fields such as intrapreneurship, innovation management and entrepreneurial finance.
Here are examples of opportunities for d·HEALTH Barcelona Graduates:
 Joining the Innovation Department of a Tertiary University Hospital
 Joining the Innovation Department of a medtech company or pharma company
 Joining a big established medtech company or another SME medtech venture
 Joining a Venture Capital specialized in healthcare
 Joining a healthcare incubator
 Becoming a Business Angel specialized in medtech or one of its sub-sectors.
Job offers
Looking for the right opportunity? d·HEALTH Barcelona can connect you to the
most influent players of the biomedical sector in Spain, giving you access to a pool of
interesting entrepreneurship and employment opportunities
“The program provides you not only with specific knowledge but also with personal
skills that can be applied to any professional challenge”- Lalis Fontcuberta, Patient
Advocacy at Sanofi, d·Health Fellow 2013-2014
“Thanks to d·Health Barcelona I have fulfilled my dream of applying my engineering
background to healthcare and providing real solutions for real people’s needs” Arnau Valls, Innovation Manager at Hospital Sant Joan de Déu and co-founder of
Kocoon, d·Health Fellow 2013-2014
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ONE OF THE 4 BIODESIGN PROGRAMS
IN EUROPE
Sweden
Ireland
Denmark
Barcelona
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d·HEALTH BARCELONA:
disrupting the traditional educational model
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d·HEALTH BARCELONA:
joining successful methodologies to enrich medtech innovation
BIODESIGN
LEAN STARTUP
CREATIVE LEADERSHIP
A process to innovate
in med tech
A methodology to being
less wasteful and still
doing things that are big
An approach to leading
& soft skills
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d·HEALTH Barcelona::
THE LEARNING PROCESS
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BOOTCAMP
5 weeks intensive module, aiming to foster
team building and to provide a broad
introduction to the terms and basic
concepts of each discipline, allowing
participants to communiate with a common
and profesional language at the clinical
settings.
 35+ classes about Healthcare, Medicine,
MedTech and Entrepreneurship
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 Given by teachers from 12+ countries,
including Alfons Cornella and Mark
Bruzzi
“To me, the contribution of KaosPilot is
what makes d·HEALTH even better than the
Biodesign Fellowship from Stanford”
 Workshops from KaosPilot (Denmark)
on Team Building and Creative
Leadership
- Susan Feitoza, 2013 - 2014 Fellow (USA)
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IDENTIFY: CLINICAL IMMERSION
8 weeks of clinical immersion at a leading hospital to identify unmet clinical needs in
the chosen specialty area. Each team observes directly on an environment with
interaction with doctors, nurses and patients, and develops a list of unmet clinical
needs. This involves lectures on the single clinical area, review of surgery, interaction
with all caregivers and patients.
 1000+ unmet clinical needs identified
 Coached by designers Lekshmy Parameswaran and Mar Llinés, from Fuelfor, healthcare
innovation design and consulting (Barcelona + Singapore)
 And supervised by Fellowship director Luis Soenksen, medtech entrepreneur and
Biodesign teacher at Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) and Johns Hopkins University
(USA)
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INVENT: DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY
7 weeks of characterization of the unmet
needs into possible solutions. During the
process of building multiple prototypes
and proofs of concept, fellows interact
with physicians, industry representatives
and faculty to validate the clinical and
commercial impact of their inventions.
 Ideation using creativity and
brainstorming techniques such as
PRIZM
 Prototyping using rapid prototyping
technologies (3D Printing)
"d·HEALTH Barcelona brings the opportunity to build one's future, create
something relevant and improve people's life in a direct way.“
- Alfred Ramírez, 2013 - 2014 Fellow (Barcelona)
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IMPLEMENT: A VIABLE BUSINESS
12 weeks in which fellows are trained in business concepts that are key to success in
medtech, including intellectual property, medical device regulation, reimbursement,
and business plan development. Fellows engage with experts in industry through a
series of lectures and reviews that prepare them for translation of their innovation to
the market.
 225+ Interviews done to validate
their business models assumptions
 Mentored by
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José Antonio Mesa (Caixa Capital)
Marcel Prunera (Future
Companies)
Clara Campas (Kern Pharma)
 Actively growing their network of
entrepreneurs, innovators and
investors at Makers of Barcelona
and attending various events
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INVESTOR DAY
Fellows make the first presentation of their projects to a panel of advisors and mentors during
the Graduation Day.
The best project from the last edition participated in the European Biomedical Investor
Day (EBID) that gathers the main Biodesign programs currently run internationally. Teams
pitched their innovative solutions to a panel of international investors, entrepreneurs, business
managers, policy decision makers and healthcare professionals.
The goal of this last part of the process is to help the teams to make progress with their
fundraising conversations and customer relationships.
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THE FACULTY (1/2): More than 70 experts from all over the world
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THE FACULTY (2/2): More than 70 experts from all over the world
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THE FELLOWS 2013-2014
Mateu Pla,
Life Sciences
Alfred Ramírez,
Engineering/IT
Marc Rabaza,
Life Sciences
Mattia Bosio,
Engineering/IT
Markus Wilhelms,
Life Sciences
Àngel Calzada,
Engineering/IT
Lalis Fontcuberta,
Business
Roger Benet,
Design
Susan Feitoza,
Business
Arnau Valls,
Engineering/IT
Imma Herrero,
Life Sciences
Marc Benet,
Design
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THE FELLOWS 2014-2015
Marina Rincon Àlex Casadevall, Diana González, Mª Isabel Castellanos
Elena Medina, Hanna Martus, Laura Lagares, Ana Echegaray
d·HEALTH Barcelona,
making the difference
“Probably the most impressive accelerator/fellowship
program we’ve seen emerge in Europe”
- HealthStartup Europe
"Design Health Barcelona is one of the promising accelerators that
I know for young entrepreneurs that want to enter the health
industry.“
- Yossi Bahagon (CEO & Founder, Health Insight (Jerusalem)
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d·HEALTH BARCELONA 2013-2014, A REAL
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCE
More than 1400 needs identified
15%
Hospital improvement
reports needs
25%
Scientific discovery needs
20%
40%
Existing products
improvements or
high medtech needs
Business Needs
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d·HEALTH BARCELONA 2013-2014, A REAL
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCE
2 new companies from 3 projects accelerated
Peaceful beginnings
Automated
Colon Specific
Massage
Start-up created
Helping
support
a
newborn’s
natural
development through a
womb-like environment
Start-up created
Cardiac arrest
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d·HEALTH BARCELONA 2013-2014, A REAL
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCE
usMIMA: winner of the Bioemprenedor XXI program (2014)
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