Texas Health Catalyst Roundup & Rodeo Fall 2025

Join us for the Texas Health Catalyst Roundup & Rodeo

The Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Dell Med presents the Texas Health Catalyst Roundup & Rodeo, an exclusive showcase event of groundbreaking healthcare innovations from The University of Texas at Austin, where transformative solutions are revolutionizing how people get and stay healthy.

Agenda:

2 - 4pm: Texas Health Catalyst Roundup & Rodeo Event

4 - 6pm: Networking reception with food & beverages

Presenting Teams:

• A Dexterous Robot Enhanced with Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging for Placental Vascular Surgeries; Project Leads: Michael Kasman, Ann Fey, PhD, Andrew Dunn, PhD
• AI-Driven Written Exposure Therapy for patients with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Project leads: Alexander Rasgon, MD; Ying Ding, PhD
• Hygeia Touch: Toward a Contact-Based Cleaning Humanoid for the Operating Room; project Leads: Claire Sokas, MD; Ann Majewicz-Fey
• A Novel Active Therapeutic Robotic and Artificial Intelligence Platform for Complex Orthopedic Surgery Rehabilitation; Project Leads: Andrew Chang, Gurpreet Singh
• Automated Multilingual Tool for Phoneme Assessment in Dysarthric Speech Care; Project Leads: Eunjung Yeo, Jun Wang
• Robotic Waste Management for Operating Rooms; Project Leads: Roberto Martin-Martin, Deepak Agrawal
• Optimizing Diagnostic Cystoscopy to Increase Access and Improve Diagnostic Capabilities and Reduce Cost to the Healthcare System; Project Leads: Sarah Vij, MD, Farshid Alambeigi, PhD
• Expanding Equitable HIV Care Through a Bilingual AI Clinical Assistant; Project Leads: Anthony Lopez, Aliza Norwood, MD
• SUTR: Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease Surgical Training Tool; Project Leads: Charles Fraser III, MD

About the Event

Texas Health Catalyst (TxHC) is a collaborative program between Dell Medical School, Cockrell School of Engineering, College of Pharmacy, College of Natural Sciences, and Discovery to Impact that accelerates healthcare innovations from across UT Austin.

We invite you to The Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship’s Fall/Winter 2025 Texas Health Catalyst Roundup & Rodeo. This event brings together Austin’s innovation & entrepreneurship community to support our finalists from this fall's Texas Health Catalyst cohort along with several successful alumni to present their innovations and progress toward commercialization.

This fall, TxHC put out a call for proposals for a Robotics, Automation and Autonomous Care Challenge which aims to address critical gaps in health care delivery by leveraging robotic, autonomous and remote technologies to support clinical teams, extend care beyond hospital walls and empower patients.

View highlights from our past events here: Summer 2025, Winter 2025, Summer 2024.