Events

Having a difficult illness can affect your life in many ways. Join us to find out what you can do to manage the impact your illness has on your life. Stanford palliative care doctor, Grant Smith, MD, will share ways to live your best life using a holistic, person-centered approach. Dr. Smith will talk about physical symptoms as well as emotional and […]

Please join us for the 2nd Annual Precision Mental Health & Wellness Symposium. there will have a great line-up of expert speakers sharing their transformative work in innovative therapeutics, translational neuroscience, biological bases and pathophysiology of major depressive disorders, patient-specific targets for intervention and treatment, and next-generation wearable developments.

First of four panels in 2022-2023 series – a candid discussion with four experts who will lay out the current landscape in digital health in Ontario and across Canada, and weigh in on where we’re headed. Topics will include – What do we mean by digital health?  How have our digital health systems performed lately?  How can we make progress? […]

Measures of lipids in the blood, including cholesterol levels, provide important information about future risk of developing heart disease. Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, will discuss what lipid test results mean and non-drug and drug strategies to improve lipids. Drawing on emerging research, you will gain a better understanding of steps you can take to improve your numbers and reduce your risk.

About half of Americans get their health insurance through their employer, or a family member’s employer. But the cost is high—and the quality uneven. Employers have a lot of power in the health care market. How can they wield it to improve the value of health care services delivered to their employees and families? This event, kicking off the 2022-‘23 […]

Seminar/Lecture: Diversity of the Biomedical Workforce: Challenges and Future Promise.

Join us for a virtual information session featuring the Executive MBA in Healthcare Administration (EMBA HCA) program. Zicklin’s EMBA HCA is designed for experienced professionals seeking their master’s degree in an accelerated format without interrupting their careers.

Maternal mortality in the U.S. is higher than in any other developed nation, with substantial inequities in maternal health outcomes. Systemic barriers, including poor access to care and inadequate health care coverage, together with a failure to recognize, respect and listen to patients of color, are at the root of this crisis. Our expert panel will touch on innovations in […]

Do companies have a responsibility for the health consequences of their products? Should those consequences drive how a company designs its product or service to be used by customers? What are the tradeoffs?

Hear from experts working to solve maternal health disparities through data sources, community engagement and improving care at scale. In addition to the keynotes, we will have several speed talks highlighting other research and resources here at Stanford, and breakout room discussions to promote conversation and connection.

What responsibility do employers have to the health and well-being of their employees? This question has grown in importance with COVID-19, especially as the workplace has expanded to include working from home. American businesses have long offered workplace and employee wellness programs, but evidence of improving, maintaining, and fostering health is limited. On the one hand, employees are demanding more […]

The US health care system relies heavily on private markets. The increasing presence of non-traditional companies in today’s delivery system indicates that advancements in healthcare are no longer exclusively shaped by providers but by innovators outside of it. The 2022 Health and Life Science Conference gathers a diverse set of voices to discuss the role of new entrants in the […]

Panel discussion on AI adoption in healthcare, focused on why the sector has been so slow to act.  Professor Avi Goldfarb will present key ideas from his forthcoming book, Power and Prediction to shed some light on this issue, and discuss ways to overcome the challenges with three experts from different vantage points – Helen Angus, former Deputy Minister of Health […]