The winning student team, “Mixed Bag,” celebrates their success at the annual Health Hackathon. From left: Chang Li of Parsons School of Design, and Mariia Dobko, Tyler Bershad and Amir ElTabakh of Cornell Tech. All photos: David Teng.
Asthma is personal for Tyler Bershad.
“Like 26 million Americans, I have asthma,” said Bershad, Johnson Cornell Tech MBA candidate, during the 2023 Health Hackathon in February. “Asthma is the most prevalent chronic respiratory disease in humans and, unfortunately, those who are most vulnerable are children.”
Bershad knows first-hand the reality that many pediatric asthma patients don’t always know how to communicate their symptoms to their parents or providers. This problem led him and his Hackathon team — named “Mixed Bag” — to create an innovative solution in the form of AiroCare, a smart monitoring device for…
