Enara Wimalananda

Diversity and inclusion only matter when they create real change: who feels welcome, gets opportunities and whose voices are heard. I want to help make MedTech Soc more collaborative, accessible, and genuinely welcoming to students from all backgrounds.

I would:

• Build speaker panels reflecting the breadth of medicine across gender, ethnicity and specialty with focus on:
  • women’s health
    • global health
    • innovation for underserved communities
• Keep events consistent all year
• Make MedTech more approachable to newcomers through beginner-friendly workshops in areas like medical imaging and device innovation. 
  • Curiosity - not prior experience - should be enough to get involved.
• Introduce more interactive and inclusive event formats like:
  • anonymous question submissions
    • small-group discussions 
    • facilitated networking 

What I Bring:

• I founded my school’s medicine society from scratch:
  • organising speakers
    • mentoring students
    • supporting applicants without existing connections to medicine
• At Imperial College’s Science in Medicine Competition, I led a team to runners-up designing an insulin delivery system for refugees in conflict zones, showing me how innovation and inclusivity can tackle real health problems.
• Growing up between Sri Lanka and England, and studying in an international school, gave me experience working with people from diverse perspectives.

MedTech Soc has huge potential, and I’d love the opportunity to help build something ambitious, welcoming and representative of future healthcare innovation.