MariaArtunduagaMDMPH, MTM

Other MD/DO • Mountain View, CA

Translational Physician-Scientist, Inventor, StartUp Founder and CEO, Angel Investor

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Office
555 San Antonio Rd
Mountain View, CA 94040
Phone+1 617-999-3735

Summary

Maria is the Founder and CEO of Respira Labs.

An accomplished physician-scientist turned entrepreneur, Maria graduated top of her class from Colombia’s premier Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, ranked fifth among Latin American medical schools. She moved to the United States to pursue postdoctoral training, first at Harvard’s Department of Genetics then at the universities of Washington and California in Berkeley-San Francisco, where she obtained master's degrees in Public Health and Translational Medicine respectively.

As a former plastic and reconstructive surgery candidate at the University of Chicago, Maria’s clinical interests remain at the intersection of medicine, technology, policy, and education. She believes her multifaceted training has been crucial for her newly minted entrepreneurship career. Maria has over 12 years of combined clinical, research and technology experience, during which she has led operations for multidisciplinary teams at Harvard Medical School, the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) and Haas School of Business.

Maria has been awarded 20 grants, scholarships and prizes, has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine and Nature; and has presented her work internationally. She also is a peer reviewer for scientific journals in her native Colombia.

Currently, Maria is a full-time entrepreneur, selected to complete LAUNCH, Haas School of Business's most competitive accelerator program.

Graduate Student Profile - Dr. Maria Artunduaga

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Q & A with Student Maria Artunduaga on UW's Health Innovation Challenge

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Meet Maria Alexandra Artunduaga

A 2009-10 AAUW International Fellowship recipient started her career in medicine at the early age of 16...

Education & Training

University of California, BerkeleyMaster in Translational Medicine, Medical Innovation, Business and Entrepreneurship, 2016 - 2017
University of WashingtonMaster in Public Health, Global Leadership, Policy and Management; Epidemiology - Biostatistics, 2014 - 2016
University of ChicagoResidency, Plastic Surgery - Integrated, 2011 - 2012
Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolPost-Doctoral Fellowship, Medical Genetics and Genomics, 2007 - 2011
Pontifical Xavierian UniversityClass of 2003, MD, Cum Laude

Certifications & Licensure

IL State Medical License 2011 - 2012

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Winner, Dean's Seed Fund UCBerkeley Haas School of Business, 2017
3rd Place, Big Ideas@Berkeley Andrew & Virginia Rudd Family Foundation, 2017
Top Finalist, Bay Area Global Health Innovation Challenge HealthRoots Foundation for Global Health, 2017
Top Finalist, Health Innovation Challenge Unite for Sight, 2017
Top Finalist, Health Innovation Challenge UW Buerk Center for Entrepreneruship, 2016
2nd Place, Med-Tech Innovation Collider UC Berkeley, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, 2016
Scholar for Medical Technology honor issuer International Center for Professional Development, 2016
Gilead Scholar UCSF, 2016
Grant for Outstanding Academic Achievements UCBerkeley, 2016
Thomas Francis, Jr. Global Health Fellowship UW DGH, 2015
Immigrant of Extraordinary Ability of National Interest USCIS, 2011
1st Place, Travel Grant Award ASPO, 2010
Postdoctoral International Fellow AAUW, 2009
1st Place, William P. Potsic Basic Science Research Award ASPO, 2009
Best Intern of the Year PUJ SOM, 2003
Andrés Bello Scholarship Colombian Ministry of Education, 1997
Presidential Scholar Government of Colombia, 1996
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

31 citations
HOXA2 Haploinsufficiency in Dominant Bilateral Microtia and Hearing Loss
Kerry K. Brown, Lucas M. Viana, Cecilia C. Helwig, Maria A. Artunduaga, Lourdes Quintanilla-Dieck
Human Mutation. 2013-10-01
322 citations
De Novo Copy Number Variants Identify New Genes and Loci in Isolated, Sporadic Tetralogy of Fallot
Steven C. Greenway, Alexandre C. Pereira, Jennifer C Lin, Steven R. DePalma, Samuel J Israel
Nature Genetics. 2009-07-13
27 citations
A classic twin study of external ear malformations, including microtia.
Maria A. Artunduaga, Maria de Lourdes Quintanilla-Dieck, Steven C. Greenway, Rebecca A. Betensky, Yamileth Nicolau
The New England Journal of Medicine. 2009-09-17

Press Mentions

Respira Labs’ Wearable Device Listens for Lung DiseasesNovember 19th, 2021
STEM to Market Program Participant Dr. Maria Artunduaga Earns Competitive NSF Entrepreneur GrantJune 11th, 2019
Esteemed Physician-Scientist and Researcher, Maria Artunduaga, MD, MPH, MTM Will Be Highlighted in the Leading Physicians of the WorldMay 16th, 2017
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