EP 55: Designing for Labor and Delivery | Jules Sherman

Jules Sherman is the Director of a new Biodesign Program with
Innovation Ventures at Children's National Hospital. In this role,
she teaches innovation and design methods to clinicians and
co-creates novel medical products in collaboration with doctors and
nurses at CNH with the intent to commercialize the inventions. She
lectures at The University of Maryland’s Bioengineering Dept.
Previously, she designed and co-taught original curricula with
Stanford Children's Hospital physicians focused on healthcare
design (products/services) at The Hasso Plattner Institute of
Design at Stanford University. She also worked as a product
designer for The Safety Learning Lab for Neonatal and Maternal Care
at Stanford Medicine for several years. As the founder of Maternal
Life, LLC, Jules co-invented and developed medical products that
improve healthcare outcomes for women and children.  Her first
product Primo-Lacto: A closed system for colostrum collection, was
acquired by Lansinoh in 2018. She is currently working on a product
called "NOOMA" with colleagues from Stanford Medicine to help
facilitate delayed cord clamping for the preterm infant population,
and "Kangarobe," a patent-pending garment that makes skin-to-skin
care in the neonatal ICU safer and easier. Her professional
background is in consumer products, like kitchen housewares,
architectural hardware and personal electronic response systems.
Bon and Jules talk about creating safe spaces in hospitals for
sharing needs, making labor and delivery safer and why healthcare
is incredibly creative.