Revolutionizing Maternal Healthcare
Founders
BAKS Medical was started by two medical students with business and engineering skills, and goals to transform maternal healthcare.
Prior to becoming an emergency medicine doctor, I worked in the OR running an autotransfusion machine for over 15 years. We collected blood lost during a surgical procedure, washed it, and reinfused it back into a patient to avoid donor blood.
But sometime around 2008 I lost one of my patients to postpartum hemorrhage.
It was since then; I had been thinking about ways that I could have helped save that mother’s life and other mothers like her.
We all want to solve maternal mortality, but at BAKS Medical we’re working on one of the leading causes of maternal mortality - postpartum hemorrhage.
- Katie Buzenius, MD
BAKS TEAM & ADVISORS
Josephine Regalado, RHIA, MBA
Business Operations Manager Rush Hospital Hemophilia Thrombophilia Center
Danny Martin
Industrial Designer & Engineer - Founder Catapult Design
Miiri Kotche, PhD
Director, Innovation Medicine Program, College of Medicine
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs, College of Engineering
Richard S Hill Clinical Professor, Richard and Loan Hill Department of Biomedical Engineering
Michael Browne, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Richard and Loan Hill Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago
Assistant Director, Innovation Medicine Program
Michael J. Young, MD
Research Asst. Professor, Depts. of Urology and Biomedical Engineering
Innovation Center Medical Advisor
Ankit Mehta, MD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Innovation Center Medical Advisor
Omar Perez, MD
Associate Director of Clinical Microbiology – University of Illinois Chicago
David Allison, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology – University of Illinois Chicago
Jonathan Werderits
Chief Operating Officer Midwest Blood
Dante Castillo
Regional Account Manager Midwest Blood