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"It sounds a bit like a reality TV show, but that was the whole point," Michael Harris tells Oregon Live.
Harris, a pediatrics professor at Oregon Health & Science University, was one of six finalists in the American Diabetes Association's first-ever Innovation Challenge, in which applicants had just five minutes to pitch an idea to three judges, who would then make a one-on-one decision as to whether or not the idea got the funding it needed.
Harris' idea was Novel Interventions in Children's Healthcare, a program he co-developed in 2011 with a colleague that sends team members into communities to help young people with complex health conditions, including Type 1 diabetes, navigate social issues such as unemployment, houselessness, and underemployment.
The program has 17 interventionists in Oregon, in cities such as Portland, Bend, Salem, Eugene, and Coos Bay, and Harris says they're "impacting the most vulnerable who, to no fault of their own, are buried under a mound of social challenges."
In his five-minute presentation, Harris told the judges about a teenage patient who had been admitted to OHSU's Doernbecher Children's Hospital for Type 1 diabetes complications 22 times in a year.
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