Jose Gomez-Marquez

José Gomez-Marquez (born 1976) is a Honduran inventor, researcher, and educator and is best known for empowering medical professionals with MEDIkits.

[3] After entering the United States on a Rotary scholarship in 1997, Marquez attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, where he studied policy research covering international technology, transfer and small-team innovation.

[2] Gomez-Marquez developed a way to extract parts from toys and use these to build medical instruments for children at low cost.

[1] He is one of the cofounders of MakerNurse, a community of inventive nurses creating solutions to improve patient care, established in 2013.

[3] Gomez-Marquez is a three-time MIT IDEAS Competition winner including two Lemelson Awards for International Technology.

Mackenzie Cowell explains a cricket-leg sound wave recording device he made to Jose Gomez-Marquez (right) of MIT's D-Lab.