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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 39 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

Conference organizers:
Steal these ideas!

March 5, 2018 By Susannah Fox 19 Comments

Conference stage lit up in violet with a white X hanging over the panelists

On February 21, Larry Chu, MD, announced that Stanford Medicine X would take a hiatus. He shared the following story: Eight years ago, I posted a tweet announcing my intention to launch my first conference at Stanford. I received a variety of responses, but the one that remains the most poignant is the one I received from […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, e-patient stories, positive patterns Tagged With: #medxsm, Abby Norman, Bill Simpson, Britt Moody, Charlie Blotner, conferences, Erin Moore, Geri Lynn Baumblatt, Hugo Campos, Julie Flygare, Larry Chu, Sean Ahrens, Stanford Medicine X, Terry Marlin

Waiting with open arms

December 4, 2017 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Wave Group Photo by Michael Cannon on Flickr

I’m honoring the contributions of my community colleagues over the years by pulling out some of their best comments and quotes. Emily Kramer-Golinkoff, in response to “A field guide to The Diagnosis Difference” (2013): My advice to a person or parent of a child newly diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis would be: “I can only imagine […]

Filed Under: featured commenters, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: cystic fibrosis, Emily Kramer-Golinkoff, Stanford Medicine X

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