SurgiBox’s Founder and President Debbie Lin Teodorescu is a practicing physician, maker, and researcher passionate about patient-focused innovation. While still in medical school, she built a collaboration among MIT, Mass General Hospital, EssentialTech, and HealthNovations into SurgiBox, the operating room in a backpack system improving field surgery safety. She also co-founded Harvard’s Medical Makerspace Initiative and the Crimson Care Collaborative (CCC) Cambridge clinic. Currently a physician at Lifespan Healthcare, she runs an RCT on cardiac resynchronization therapy and spearheads a BWH-MIT IMES partnership to improve heart pumps. She completed a bachelor’s, master’s, and MD at Harvard; and MEng at Boston University. Her work has been recognized by AAAS’s Science and Human Rights Coalition, Humanitarian Grand Challenges, US Army, MassChallenge, and beyond; and featured in diverse settings like the WHO, WSJ, NEJM, and London’s Design Museum.