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| The Face of a Winner: Joel Selanikio |
After graduating from the Haverford class of 1986, Joel went to work in finance on Wall Street. Yet, making a great deal of money was apparently not fulfilling for Joel, so after a year he went to Brown Medical School and became a practicing pediatrician. Yet, saving the lives of children was still not enough for him, so he went on a 2-year fellowship with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
While at the CDC, he noticed that epidemic detection services in the developing world were horribly ineffective. He also noticed that cellphones were increasingly becoming prevalent. Logically, he created a cellphone app that helped aid workers track epidemics. This app, Episurveyor, soon became wildly successful and was soon declared to be the official software for tracking diseases by the World Health Organization (WHO). Clearly no slacker, Joel, through his non-profit Datadyne, made the app relevant beyond disease. For instance, it is now used to track election results and other governmental services prone to corruption across the world.
Joel's work has been amply recognized by the global community, as he has been named as one of the most powerful innovators by Forbes and Internet Evolution and he has won a 2009 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability and the 2009 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for Healthcare IT.
To put it simply... he is ridiculously awesome!!! :D
For more information about Joel and his organization:
http://www.datadyne.org/
http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-winners/a-selanikio.html
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