At the intersection of entrepreneurship & medicine: responding to COVID-19 with Geoffrey Ching

This week, host and entrepreneurship@UBC’s Creative Specialist, MJ Araujo speaks with Geoffrey Ching, a UBC med student and one of the founders of the BC Student Medical Service Response team, a medical student-led initiative to support BC physicians and Public Health Authorities in their efforts against COVID-19. 

About Geoffrey Ching
Geoffrey Ching is a 3rd year UBC medical student who has worked with his medical school classmates to serve frontline workers, the public health response, and the community as part of the BC Medical Student Response Team. In addition to research foci in cornea, medical simulation, and teleophthalmology, he focuses much of his non-medical work in the angel investing space. He is currently the Vancouver chapter lead for Hatching Health, a by-physician angel for-physician angel investment network, and works concurrently with VANTEC, a BC-based angel investment network, to improve presenting company and angel investor experience. In addition, he is currently involved in a digital teleophthalmology startup, Augos, and a digital medical education startup, CyberPatient, that has reached medical schools worldwide.