Extreme Makeover: Innovation Edition

Dr. Shamban, dermatologist for CBS’s The Doctors and ABC’s Extreme Makeover TV shows, graduated magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, and earned her Medical Degree from Case Western Reserve. In her talk, she will discuss her unorthodox "extreme" approach to layering treatments that traditionally were spaced out by several weeks. By drawing correlations between outcomes, she was able to stack multiple technologies to achieve extreme innovation in a 10 to 14 day time period for her clients who appeared on television, leading to life changing outcomes. Her lessons are inspiring for defense innovation efforts, suggesting that developing outcomes in parallel can lead to faster innovation development and adoption, which will favorably impact the development of solutions for our warfighters.