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DAVID HOLT: ENGINEERING A NEW CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
In college, David “DJ” Holt studied how technology could improve health care. Now he is trying to re-engineer health care itself.
Holt, a healthcare attorney, co-founded the startup, miVoyce, which educates consumers to be more savvy about purchasing and using medical care.
Holt came to the University in 2006 to study biomedical engineering. In high school, he read the works of futurist Ray Kurzweil and became entranced by the evolution of medicine and the possibility of replacing body parts with biotechnology.
“I was going to be the guy who built all these cool devices before they make it into people’s bodies—pacemakers,
95%
The percentage of 2015 graduates who were employed or enrolled in graduate school within six months of graduation.
Where do CSE graduates nd employment?
(based on a survey of 2015 graduates)
hip replacements, tissue organs,” he recalled. He pursued a career in tissue engineering and secured an undergraduate research position in the University's Stem Cell Institute. Holt’s research led to a valuable discovery—that the life of a lab
scientist was not for him. “I was sitting in the lab alone at 3 a.m. cultivating stem cells,” he recalled.
“I wanted to be a little closer to people, not just sitting at a computer screen, cultivating cells, or in the traditional scientist role.”
By the Numbers
90%
The percentage of graduates who are satis ed or very satis ed with their current employment
260
companies
More than 260 companies attended the 2015 Fall CSE Career Fair to recruit students
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