Stanford innovation

MedX Conference Ignites Passion to Change the (Healthcare) World

By MikeH on October 4, 2012

One particular moment doesn’t stand out about the MedicineX conference at Stanford University this past week. Instead, it was all of the moments!
What I keep coming back to in my mind is the recurring theme of this event: that the voice of the patient is incredibly meaningful, and should be a part of the healthcare process, from beginning to end.
That, IMHO, is was what the three-day MedX conference was all about. A few…

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Patient Voices Contest Winner Sara Krugman: Connections Are Key

By AmyT on August 29, 2012

Welcome to the fifth in our series of interviews with the 10 winners of our DiabetesMine Patient Voices Contest, who were unvieled in June. Today, we’re chatting with Sara Krugman, a 25-year-old Massachusetts woman diagnosed with type 1 as a young child. She’s a graphic designer with a unique perspective on what it means to be a “patient” and an “advocate.”
In her hand-animated contest video, Sara talks about the people, institutions and numbers she…

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Josh Makower, Stanford Biodesign, on Medical Innovation and What’s Wrong with the FDA

By AmyT on December 21, 2010

Dr. Josh Makower is Co-founder of Stanford’s Biodesign Innovation Program, and a Consulting Associate Professor of Medicine at the Stanford University Medical School.  He’s also Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ExploraMed, a medical device incubator. And he’s a Venture Partner with New Enterprise Associates, where he supports the investing activity in new medical devices.
In short, Dr. Makower is a world authority on med-tech innovation. I bumped into him while beginning preparations for the…

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