At 3 a.m. one night in mid-November 2022, Stanford Hospital was bursting at the seams. Residents Prerak Juthani, MD, and Amity Eliaz, MD, share stories of how kindness transformed chaos. That night, they sparked an idea: The Kindness Coalition, a movement to transform health care through compassion and communication.

After just one year of operation, the Mentorship | Opportunity | Development | Empathy | Leadership (MODEL) program has already had significant impacts on mentoring culture across the department.

Four department staff members who are also talented musicians unveil the healing and therapeutic nature of making music. For some, making music presents a much-needed path to the self and a way of practicing mindfulness. For others, it offers a chance to process and manage difficult emotions or to find meaningful connection with others.

Members of the Department of Medicine talk about finding identities both as professionals and as members of the Latin American community. Each journey emphasizes an incredible capacity to excel when given the opportunity, proving that, while nobody’s story is the same as another’s, success is a big achievement no matter who you are.

Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley’s transformation into a medical education hospital is a tale of remarkable dedication. Under the leadership of Minjoung Go, MD, launching the Family Medicine Residency involved navigating complex regulations, crafting impactful educational programs, and forging robust community connections – all aimed at bolstering the local supply of doctors to meet the pressing needs of the Tri-Valley area.

Common wisdom states that exercise is the best medicine. But how does medicine treat those who exercise? Jason Tso, MD, brings an athlete’s perspective to the rapidly growing – and evolving – field of sports cardiology.

Three brilliant, successful scientists bring different perspectives and display different levels of intervention in efforts to prevent common chronic diseases.

Clinical Assistant Professor Lauren Eggert, MD, collaborates with experts throughout Stanford Medicine to provide asthma, allergy, and COPD patients in the East Bay with the care they need.

Generic drugs have saved consumers billions of dollars in prescription costs. But are patients aware of the hidden costs they’re paying by sustaining an industry fraught with safety, availability, and pricing issues?

Gymnast-turned-oncologist Allison Betof Warner, MD, channels her determination into revolutionary cancer treatments at Stanford. Discover how she’s bringing new hope to cancer treatments with TIL therapy.

Crafting groundbreaking science that gets published in an esteemed academic journal, then finds itself featured in a Netflix Top 10 docuseries months later, is no easy feat. Meet the team of women researchers whose dedication to scientific rigor helped change the way we understand our diet’s impact on health and the environment, all while captivating millions around the globe.

From identifying trends in opioid prescriptions to predicting depression in cancer patients, Tina Hernandez-Boussard, PhD, is at the forefront of data-driven health care. Learn how her innovative approaches are transforming patient care and paving the way for equitable and personalized medicine.

E-consults serve as a bridge for primary care providers to get quick answers from specialists. A new interdisciplinary study investigates how to include patients in the communications loop to help speed diagnosis and treatment.

Home dialysis may not be new, but ensuring that every eligible patient is aware of this life-changing option and is given the support they need to benefit from it certainly is. Graham Abra, MD, is on a mission to make this a reality at Stanford, and his patients are reaping the benefits.

Discover how Stanford’s cutting-edge research is transforming the fight against autoimmune and rheumatic diseases. With advanced computational tools and informatics, researchers are paving the way for groundbreaking treatments that promise a healthier future for millions affected by these complex conditions.

To increase participation from underrepresented populations, the Stanford Center for Clinical Research debuts a novel approach to clinical drug trial recruitment.

Stanford Medicine researchers have teamed up with local communities in Sri Lanka and Central California to better understand a chronic kidney disease devastating agricultural communities around the world.

She was diagnosed with chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) at the age of 15. It wasn’t easy, but she’s in her 20s now and thriving, with support from the Stanford Pediatric-to-Adult IBD Transition Program.

Stanford’s Global Health team is pioneering a new approach to global health education through a largely virtual educational collaboration with Negele Arsi General Hospital and Medical College in rural Ethiopia. The enthusiasm for this initiative is as bidirectional as the learning.

Just outside the city of Palo Alto, opportunities in East Palo Alto look very different. Kids in the Palo Alto Unified School District have educational support that those across town do not. That’s where Eastside College Preparatory School comes in and where the Stanford Department of Medicine found a community partner to reduce disparities in health care access and education.