In September of 2012, Stanford anesthesiologist Larry Chu, MD, kicked off an academic conference unlike anything I'd ever seen before. The conference united patients, providers, researchers, …
Tag: Medicine X
“It doesn’t matter who you are — everyone is included”: Looking ahead to Medicine X
The arrival of September means that Stanford's Medicine X is just days away. The three-day conference, which brings together researchers, patients, providers, technologists and policy leaders to talk …
C3 Prize: Calling for bright ideas to improve cancer care
Robert Herjavec, a star investor on the reality TV show Shark Tank, knows what it’s like to have a family member suffer through cancer treatment. …
Mark your calendars — Medicine X Week is Sept. 12-18
The first time I attended Medicine X, back in 2012, I was blown away. The powerful talks, the hip (pink and purple) staging, the energy in the …
Stanford Medicine X leads precision medicine workshop at the White House
"You’re in a room where treaties are negotiated, and today it’s covered in sticky notes,” said DJ Patil, PhD, chief data scientist in the Office of …
TEDMED, in pictures
A group of MD and PhD students represented Stanford at TEDMED 2015, which was held last week. Several students have written about their experiences on Scope, …
A discussion of intimacy and illness at Medicine X: “Embrace yourself and embrace your normal”
Medicine X is well known for shining a light on dark feelings and difficult-to-talk about topics, as well as being a safe place to hold …
A look at using smartphone apps for patient-centered research
The usefulness and power of mobile apps in research was one of the last topics at Medicine X yesterday. One of the panelists in the late-afternoon "Clinical …
From patient to entrepreneur: Three Medicine X panelists offer advice
"Who better than to solve our problems in health care than the people who live it and breathe it every day?" That was the rhetorical …
Engaging and empowering patients to strive for better health
Medicine X yesterday featured a series of talks on a topic that is near and dear to the heart of many conference attendees: Empowering and engaging …
At Medicine X, designers offer their take on why patient-centered design is top priority
As a Medicine X veteran, I'm used to hearing patients talk about the importance of putting patients' needs first. But yesterday afternoon, I got to hear about …
Peter Bach on drug pricing: “A system so broken even a child could manipulate it”
The U.S. medical system is like a New England toll road: It's designed to extract tolls from patients all along their health-care journeys, with a …
Living long and living well: A conversation on longevity at Medicine X
There were big-time laughs, and the expected misty eye or two, at today’s Medicine X session on aging and longevity. Natrice Rese, a retired personal …
Learning from patients by walking in their shoes
Where else but at a medical conference in Silicon Valley would you hear the term “empathy hack”? The concept of the empathy hack unites the …
“No ordinary conference”: The magic that is Medicine X returns to the stage
Medicine X, Stanford's popular conference on emerging technologies and medicine, returned to the stage today. The conference, which was proceeded by the first-ever Medicine X | …
Integrating digital literacy into medical education
Bertalan Mesko, MD, PhD, has cracked the code on convincing medical students that digital literacy skills are equally as important as clinical knowledge. Seats in …