Video movement
An alumna explores the power of video to move students to learn
Editors' picks
New ventures
'Don't forget your Stanford connection,' urges alumnus Jeffrey Bird, a new partner at a health care focused venture capital firm.
The relay
Running the distance for organ transplantation
‘Scope
A quick look at the latest developments from Stanford University Medical Center
Poetry in medicine
Dozens of poets entered their work in the medical center's fourth annual poetry contest. Here we offer two of the poems selected for special recognition by the contest's judges. For information about the next contest, e-mail marian.slattery@medcenter.stanford.edu.
My life under the knife
A meditation on the experience of surgery.
Inside out ultrasound
A new way to view the digestive system.
New dean
Philip Pizzo, MD, plans to champion the cause of academic medicine.
Letters to the editors
from DEMOSTHENES PAPPAGIANIS,
class of 1962
Constructive idea
In this class, students must master Web-page construction as well as the basics of virology.