Mercy Asiedu

Mercy Asiedu, CTO and co-founder of Calla Health Foundation, received her PhD from Duke University Biomedical Engineering, with a certificate in Global Health at Dr. Nimmi Ramanujam’s Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies. At Duke, she developed the Callascope, a device that reimagines the current gynecological exam. This invention has been validated in patients at Duke University and in hospitals across Ghana, and honored through the Lemelson-MIT Graduate Student Inventor Award, Duke Health Innovation Jam Shark Tank, and the CISCO Global Problem Solver Challenge. She is a Schmidt Science Postdoctoral Research Fellow at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, working with Dr. Regina Barzilay to develop deep-learning tools for breast cancer risk assessment. After the fellowship she will join Calla Health Foundation full time to develop solutions to bridge healthcare disparities.