MUSC professor wins 2025 InnoVision Award for Education

By Mike Switzer

Published March 12, 2026 at 6:30 AM EDT

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Dr. Jeff Borckhardt, professor at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and founder of Figment Learning Labs in Mount Pleasant, SC

Our next guest’s education technology company has developed an AI tool that creates emotionally responsive virtual patients in an effort to help future clinicians improve results in real-world healthcare environments. And that’s why the company was named the recipient of the 2025 InnoVision Award for Education. Mike Switzer interviews Dr. Jeff Borckhardt, a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and the founder of Figment Learning Labs in Mount Pleasant, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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