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Wow! How? Patient-led Design

January 16, 2025 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

A man sits on stage in a wheelchair. Behind him is a screen showing a chair and stool.

Michael Graves, the renowned architect and designer, was hospitalized in 2003 when a sinus infection spread to his spinal cord, a very rare occurrence. He survived but was paralyzed from the chest down.  As he moved among hospitals and rehabilitation centers, Graves was struck by how the patient rooms and furniture were not only ugly, but […]

Filed Under: Champions, Solvers Tagged With: assistive devices, Michael Graves, Rebel Health, Stanford Medicine X, Wow! How? Health

The Other 80

April 22, 2024 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Screenshot from Derek Sivers' TED talk How to start a movement

Claudia Williams created The Other 80 podcast to talk about how medical care only accounts for 20% of health outcomes. The other 80% includes factors like food, housing, transportation options, social connection, etc. I was honored to be interviewed for episode #27, now available wherever you listen to podcasts. You can hear in my voice […]

Filed Under: Champions, Networkers, peer-to-peer health care, Seekers, Solvers Tagged With: #wearenotwaiting, Claudia Williams, Dana Lewis, Derek Sivers, Hugo Campos, John Costik, Open Notes, Patient-Led Research Collaborative, Rebel Health, Sara Riggare, Stanford Medicine X

Signs of the times: Black Lives Matter

June 12, 2020 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

Hand painted Black Lives Matter protest signs attached to fence

Sonja Sharp, an LA Times reporter, interviewed Deaf people about how they are creating and sharing new signs for this moment of reckoning and recognition. I cued up the story’s video (below) to the point at which Rorri Burton, a Black American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter, shares her perspective: The sign for “your knee on […]

Filed Under: key people Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Deaf, Stanford Medicine X

Public Q&A: conference organizing

December 2, 2019 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Huge conference hallway

A friend asked me to share some of my tips about how to organize a useful, comfortable, inclusive health care conference. Meeting planning is not what I do for a living, but since I attend about a dozen events each year, I’ve captured quite a few observations about how to create a great experience for […]

Filed Under: public Q&A Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, conferences, food allergy, Stanford Medicine X

Artists of health care

September 4, 2018 By Susannah Fox 41 Comments

Naked Barbie doll with six sets of pliers clamped to her left leg

I have found that we can anticipate the future by paying attention to artists. Like hackers, artists bend tools until they break and ask, “Why CAN’T I do that?” They push the edges of any field they find themselves in. Autodesk, which makes software for people who make things, created the Pier 9 Residency Program to […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder Tagged With: Anatomical Element, Anthony Carbajal, art, Autodesk, Doug Lindsay, Elizabeth Jameson, Gilles Frydman, Jennifer Berry, Maggie Whittum, Regina Holliday, Spoon Theory, Stanford Medicine X, Yoko Sen

If we give people access to the tools they need to solve problems, they will

March 28, 2018 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

A woman building an device by hand

One of my core beliefs is that if we give people access to the data, information, and tools they need to solve their own problems, they will. The Maker movement is an example of a group of people who embody this idea. They modify and improve the world around them. They look at a problem and not only say, […]

Filed Under: positive patterns, trends & principles Tagged With: #InventHealth, George Hacks, Invent Health, maker movement, Stanford Medicine X

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