CEO/Founder
Korion Health
Anna Li is the CEO/Founder of Korion Health, which builds an affordable electronic stethoscope and guided interface to enable people to get DIY heart and lung sound screenings from home, and has raised over $2M to date, including from the $1M Global Hult Prize Competition. Additionally, Anna is a joint MD-PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University with clinical and research focuses on Emergency Medicine and Computational Biology, respectively, and a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. As a queer Chinese American daughter of immigrants growing up translating for her parents, Anna is well versed in barriers to healthcare access, both practical and psychological, and strives to use her engineering background combined with her learnings as a medical student to solve inefficiencies and misaligned incentives in healthcare.
Through her work with Korion, Anna was named first place in the UpPrize Social Innovation Challenge for Racial Equity, the first place winner of the American Heart Association’s EmPOWERED to Serve Business Accelerator, was first place for the Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Innovation Challenge and later invited back as the keynote speaker in 2024, a double first-place winner for the Pitt Challenge Healthcare Hackathon in both 2020 and 2021 as well as the keynote speaker in 2022, and have done a successful crowdfunding raise through Honeycomb Credit. They are projected to get FDA clearance for their flagship product, the SoundHeart digital stethoscope, by Q2 2026. In her free time, Anna likes to run and can be spotted in the hospital volunteering with her therapy dog, Winston.
Plenary Session: Bridging the Access Gaps: Regulatory Pathways to Equitable Innovation
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM EST