Speaking @St. Mary’s ND THRIVE: Engaging Women Conference
THRIVE: Engaging Women Conference to Be Held May 25, 2016 April 26, 2016 (Notre Dame, IN) — The Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative (WEI) at Saint Mary’s College is proud to present the 2nd annual “THRIVE: Engaging Women Conference” from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 25 in the Student Center on campus. WEI, 1st […]
2016 Women Tech Leaders: Dima Elissa, VisMed3D
2016 Women Tech Leaders: Dima Elissa, VisMed3D Dima Elissa, CEO of VisMed 3D, is bringing 3D modeling to healthcare and academic institutions for surgical treatments and training. With a business background and interest in medicine, Elissa is improving the lives and outcomes of patients using 3D replicas and related research. by Jennifer Smith Tapp June […]
3D-printed fingerprints could unlock dead man’s phone – Chicago Tribune Blue Sky
Is it possible to unlock a smartphone with a 3D-printed fingerprint? Michigan police hoping to get into a murder victim’s phone have enlisted Michigan State University computer science and engineering professor Anil Jain’s help. He’s working on replicating the victim’s fingerprints using scans the police had on file from a prior arrest. “We are still working […]
White House LGBTQ Tech & Innovation Briefing
Dima Elissa has once again been invited to attend the 3rd annual LGBTQ Tech & Innovation Briefing at the White House August 23rd, 2016. This briefing will bring together innovative and talented LGBT technology leaders to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges: learning about different issues and breaking out into teams to come up with […]
Northwestern Master of Science in Law Speaker Series
As part of the MSL Speaker Series, Dima Elissa and Neelum Aggarwal, MD gave a talk on the adverse impacts of gender biases in biomedical research. To see the full story, visit https://sites.northwestern.edu/mslprogram/2017/04/24/msl-speaker-series-dima-elissa-and-neelum-aggarwal/.
YWCA Chicago’s “New Look of Leadership”
On March 26th, 2017, YWCA Chicago’s 5th Annual New Look of Leadership Fashion Event spotlights some of Chicago’s top business leaders who, through their professional work and community impact, support racial equality and the advancement of women. Watch as these influencers help reinforce the YWCA’s mission while modeling some of the hottest trends in fashion. […]
TEDx Talk: “One Size Doesn’t Fit All”
[su_youtube url=”https://youtu.be/B-DF1tWp05c”] One size doesn’t fit all, personalizing medicine” considers the story of gender as an outlier in medical research and a call for change to those sitting at the healthcare table and represented in clinical, instrument and medical research. Dima Elissa shares her story as an outlier and “accidental entrepreneur” and how her experiences […]
Chicago Hack Night: Sex, Gender, and Innovation Gaps in Data and Design for Healthcare
[su_youtube url=”https://youtu.be/utgpFx-LhkU”] Hindsight has it’s benefits. Today’s innovation and research communities are recognizing that the approaches to designing drugs devices and treatment have to change. They way most innovation have come to be excludes the personalized and individualized variables which play out differently based on sex and gender. If we truly want better outcomes in […]
Interview with 3DHeals
Dima Elissa is a serial techpreneur currently CEO and founder of VisMed-3D, a biomedical design and consulting firm that uses Al to design and visualize 3D printed body parts. Dima was selected by Chicago magazine as one of the top Women in Tech, Chicago lnno’s 50 on Fire, MakeItBetter’s Top Chicago Women in Science and […]
Multiple Sclerosis: Collaborations for a Cure
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the leading cause of chronic neurological disability in the adult population, and the combination of biological and environment factors intertwine to make each clinical case one of a kind. This program brings together a panel of experts from different sectors – neurologists and research scientists specializing in MS and companies and […]
