Anna Young — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

CEO and Co-Founder of MakerHealth since 2013.
Co-Founder of MakerHealth | MakerNurse, an RWJF sponsored program.
CEO and Co-Founder of Pop Up Labs since 2015.
Brings prototyping tools and makerspaces into hospitals to enhance problem-solving abilities of clinicians and patients.
Lecturer in the Little Devices Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 2010.
Recognized by LinkedIn as a top Health Innovator under 35 (2015) and Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business (2016).
Trained as an economist at the University of Dayton and self-taught medical device maker.

Biography

Anna Young is the CEO and Co-Founder of MakerHealth, a company she co-founded in 2013, and also serves as CEO and Co-Founder of Pop Up Labs since 2015. She operates from the belief that individuals can use their ingenuity to create devices that heal, applying her global experience with the Maker Movement to bring prototyping tools and makerspaces into hospitals. Her work with MakerHealth | MakerNurse, an RWJF sponsored program, supports inventive frontline clinicians.