A team of Stanford Biodesign students is developing an app that aims to help low-income Californians improve their diet. The team, which coalesced during the "Biodesign …
Author: Stacey Paris McCutcheon
Biodesign students display health care innovations
Solving problems in health care requires deeply understanding the problem and the perspectives of those affected before developing solutions. Take cataracts. Despite being highly treatable, …
Graduating Stanford Biodesign fellows offer hard-won lessons in innovation
It’s been nearly a year since a dozen engineers, MDs and business specialists — the 2016-17 Biodesign Innovation Fellows — walked into the Byers Center …
Hospital simulations inspire student innovators
In order to invent new medical devices to address problems in health care, the doctors and engineers in Stanford Biodesign’s year-long fellowship program spend up …
Medtech CEO shares leadership lessons with Stanford Biodesign
Mike Mahoney has worked at health care companies ranging from start-ups to multinational organizations, including Boston Scientific, a medical device company where he is currently chairman and CEO. …
Minimizing risk in health technology innovation: A checklist
The process of medical device innovation is quite complex. First, innovators must pick the right problem to solve, not an easy task. Then, they have to …
Innovator addresses sleep-disordered breathing at Stanford Biodesign event
Sleep-disordered breathing is a "monster public health problem," Peter Farrell, PhD, recently told members of the medtech community, Stanford Biodesign trainees and alumni. Farrell, the founder …
Stanford Biodesign focuses on innovation in aging
By 2050, nearly one-quarter (link to .pdf) of the world’s population will be over 60 years of age, straining health-care resources. To address this challenge, the Stanford …
Stanford doctors use biodesign training to spark health innovation in Brazil
How did three Stanford doctors — a sleep surgeon, an ophthalmologist and a urogynecologist — along with Biodesign Innovation Fellowship alumnus Ravi Pamnani, end up in …
Biodesign trip highlights an innovative approach to Japan’s aging crisis
In Japan, the total population is shrinking, but the percentage of people who are elderly (age 65 and above) is expanding. The result is a significant and growing …