In a Health Affairs piece, a group of physician leaders discuss the importance of a chief wellness officer and provide guidance on how to integrate the job into health system leadership.
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New ENT clinic treats children in Zimbabwe
Stanford’s Peter Koltai is participating in an effort to advance much-needed ENT care for children in Zimbabwe.
Stanford immunologist pushes field to shift its research focus from mice to humans
Much of what we know about the immune system comes from experiments conducted on mice. But lab mice are not little human beings. The two species are separated by both physiology and lifestyles. Stanford immunologist Mark Davis is calling on his colleagues to shift their research focus to people.
Medicine and literature, mental health and history: A Q&A with psychiatrist-writer Daniel Mason
In this interview, Stanford psychiatrist and novelist Daniel Mason reflects on the intersections between writing and psychiatry.
Doctors and students rally to support gun violence research, education
More than 300 doctors, residents and medical students gathered on the Stanford Medicine campus to support reducing firearms violence in the United States.
Instincts vs. facts: How one physician learned to listen to intuition
In an essay for The New England Journal of Medicine, a Stanford resident writes about trusting intuition when a patient needs more than medical facts.
Boy meets girl, boy has heart attack, girl saves boy with CPR and now they teach CPR to others
On their first official date together, Andrea Traynor, a Stanford clinical associate professor, saved Max Montgomery with CPR. Now they educate others via bystander CPR workshops.
Stars of Stanford Medicine: Emergency medicine, health policy and innovation
This Stars of Stanford Medicine features Ryan Ribeira, an emergency medicine physician with interests in health policy and technology.
A chance encounter reunites NICU nurse with a former patient, now a physician
Neonatal intensive care unit nurse Vilma Wong recognized the name of one of the residents one day — he was one of her former patients.
Stanford’s John ‘Jack’ Farquhar, a pioneer in disease prevention research, dies
John Farquhar, a beloved mentor, and pioneer in cardiovascular disease prevention at Stanford, died Aug. 22 at the age of 91.
The importance of hearing your patients
When it comes to clinical care, high touch is just as important as technology, Dean Lloyd Minor reminds readers here.
Stanford Medicine’s chief wellness officer reflects on burnout, and on his own strategies to stay healthy
Stanford's Tait Shanafelt is working to address physician burnout, which impacts physicians' quality of life as well as patient care.
A tale of two tables: A Stanford researcher’s experience at Oxford
Chris Cheng, an adjunct professor of surgery, recently spent six months as a Visiting Fellow at Oxford.
Stars of Stanford Medicine: Improving health care in Japan
This Stars of Stanford Medicine Q&A features Satoshi Maruyama, a Japanese official in the health ministry who is earning a graduate degree at Stanford.
These things matter: Medical complications are not inevitable, a physician writes
After her father's hospitalization, Stanford fellow Ilana Yurkiewicz realized that complications are accepted as routine, although many could be prevented.
Stars of Stanford Medicine: Improving cardiovascular health in Africa and beyond
This Stars of Stanford Medicine Q&A features Andrew Chang, clinical instructor of medicine, who is working to improve cardiovascular health globally.