What happens when an engineering major goes to medical school? You get someone like Dr. James Wall. Dr. Wall is a pediatric surgeon at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, but he’s also an innovator focusing on creating devices that solve health challenges faced by children and moms-to-be.

As Wall says during the show, children are 25% of the population, 100% of the future, but only a tiny percentage of medical patents. We talk about his work as a PI for the UCSF-Stanford Pediatric Device Consortium and how one team of innovators made their idea a reality.

We also talk about his work as a Program Director for the Byers Center for Biodesign Fellowship Program and a new opportunity for global health made possible by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.