Jose Gomez-Marquez
José Gomez-Marquez (born 1976) is a Honduran inventor, researcher, and educator and is best known for empowering medical professionals with MEDIkits.[1] He currently serves on the European Union's Science Against Poverty Initiative Task Force.[2] He's dedicated to changing global health and advocates for healthcare professionals.[1]
Early life and education
Before entering the United States, Gomez-Marquez was a native of Honduras.[3] He is from a medical family, his grandfather was a surgeon who served in different hospitals in Tegucigalpa where Gomez was raised.[3] After entering the United States on a Rotary scholarship in 1997, Marquez attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, where he studied policy research covering international technology, transfer and small-team innovation.[2]
Career and research
Gomez-Marquez developed a way to extract parts from toys and use these to build medical instruments for children at low cost.[4] He also designed a way for people to build their own diagnostic devices that can be put together inexpensively.[5] The cofounder of the International Development Initiation at MIT, Amy B. Smith, hired him in 2007 to run Innovations in International Health.[4] Marquez is currently the co-director of Little Devices Lab at MIT.[1] He is one of the cofounders of MakerNurse, a community of inventive nurses creating solutions to improve patient care, established in 2013.[6] He is also cofounder of LDTC+ Labs, and serves on the European Union's Science Against Poverty Initiative Task Force.[2] One of his many inventions that won him awards are individual vaporizers that come already filled with the appropriate amount of vaccine.[3] These vaccines didn't need to be refrigerated and could be disposed of right after usage.[3]
Awards and honors
Gomez-Marquez is a three-time MIT IDEAS Competition winner including two Lemelson Awards for International Technology.[2] In 2009, he was named the Technology Review Humanitarian of the year and MIT Technology Review added him to the TR35 list of innovators under 35.[7] In 2011, Gomez-Marquez was chosen as a TedGlobal Fellow.[2] He won these awards for his designs of inexpensive practical medical devices for use in countries without the necessary monetary means to provide similar devices.[4]
Selected publications
- Marquez, Jose G. "Ampli: A Construction Set for Paperfluidic Systems" published 2018
- Innovations in International Health
References
- ^ a b c "Jose Gomez-Marquez Wants to Turn Doctors and Nurses into Makers". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- ^ a b c d e "José Gómez-Márquez | BMW Guggenheim Lab". www.bmwguggenheimlab.org. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
- ^ a b c d Singer, Emily (2009-08-18). "José Gómez-Márquez". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
- ^ a b c "How toys can save lives | CNN Business". CNN. 2012-03-27. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
- ^ Trafton, Anne (2018-05-16). "Plug-and-play diagnostic devices". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
- ^ Nuwer, Rachel (2016-04-14). "The First Makerspace In A Hospital". Popular Science. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
- ^ Singer, Emily. "José Gómez-Márquez | Innovators Under 35". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
