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CHIPS – Cross-disciplinary Healthcare Innovation Partnerships at Stanford - aims to foster innovation by connecting Stanford students interested in healthcare across all schools. We do this by hosting networking dinners, innovation forums, lunch seminars with outside speakers, happy hours, and more.
CHIPS Steering Committee
Daniel Kim
CHIPS Co-President, Past Medical School Liason
I'm a third year MD/PhD student in Stanford School of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) with interests in preventative medicine, cancer therapeutics/diagnostics, healthcare policy, and entrepreneurship. I've been involved in Primary Care Progress, looking at ways to make preventative medicine a bigger priority at Stanford, as an area that particularly needs innovation. I've also been involved in an interdisciplinary speaker series focused on a better understanding of the Affordable Care Act and empowering students to make interdisciplinary connections. I am currently involved with a startup tackling the problems of obesity and diabetes in America as well.
Arielle Yablonovitch
CHIPS Co-President and Treasurer, Past CHIPS Webmaster
I am a fourth-year student in the Biophysics Ph.D. program. I work in Billy Li’s lab, studying regulators of RNA editing in Drosophila. Changes in RNA editing have been associated with several human diseases, especially neurological diseases such as schizophrenia, depression and autism. My main interests are in “omics” and personalized medicine, and the mental health care system. My favorite part about CHIPS is being able to discuss healthcare topics with people from different backgrounds and perspectives.
Kun-Hsing Yu, MD
CHIPS Webmaster
I'm a third year PhD student in Stanford Biomedical Informatics program. Prior to joining Stanford, I studied medicine at National Taiwan University, conducted research at Academia Sinica, and interned at National Taiwan University Hospital. My research interest includes biomarker discovery, epigenetic regulations, and translational bioinformatics. All kinds of multi-disciplinary works and innovations fascinate me.
Shireen Rudina
CHIPS Steering Committee Member
I'm a second-year PhD student in Bioengineering. I work in Dr. Christina Smolke's lab where I work on epigenome manipulation. I am interested in synthetic biology, gene therapy, and biomedical informatics. At CHIPS, I am primarily responsible for organizing interesting lunch series with industry and academic experts who are at the forefront of innovation in their field.
Dan Feng
CHIPS Steering Committee Member
I am currently a 2nd year medical student. Prior to Stanford, I received with a PhD degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Pennsylvania, and had 7 year basic research experience in the fields of metabolic diseases and cancer. Feeling the need to understand human diseases and patient care, I chose to pursue a MD degree. I also believe that breakthroughs in health care rely on joint efforts from physicians, scientists, engineers and many others, and so far Stanford has offered me great opportunities to interact with people across different disciplines. I participated in CHIPS events during my first year, and decided to join the CHIPS steering committee. I am very excited about my new role, and hope to create more opportunities for myself and for many people like me.
Junjie (Jason) Zhu
CHIPS Steering Committee Member
I am a first year PhD student in Electrical Engineering. My research interests include computational and statistical genomics and related medical applications. I am also interested in synchronizing research findings and clinical care through public policy. As a CHIPS steering committee member, I enjoy having conversations on healthcare innovation with professionals from various backgrounds. Prior to Stanford, I studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at Olin College of Engineering.
Nick Zakrasek
CHIPS Steering Committee Member
I'm a MBA student at the Graduate School of Business. Prior to Stanford, I worked as a program manager for One Mind for Research, where I helped launch a public-private partnership with the mandate to build the first in-silico disease model of Multiple Sclerosis. I'm interested in a broad array of healthcare innovations and how they will transform both clinical practice and current research paradigms. Currently, I'm especially interested in advancing personalized medicine by accelerating the adoption of the in silico -> in vivo -> in silico research feedback loop within industry.
Prior to diving in to healthcare innovation, I spent six years in international aerospace operations with Rockwell Collins. My undergraduate studies were in mathematics and Chinese at Brown University.
Mei-Hsin Cheng
CHIPS Lunch Series Founder, Past CHIPS President and Treasurer
I am a fifth year Ph.D. student studying genetics at Stanford. My Ph.D. research focuses on deciphering the genetic and epigenetic pathways of the transcription factor Myb, which is associated with aggressive forms of breast cancer in humans. I am interested in fostering interdisciplinary interactions in healthcare as well as healthcare entrepreneurship, policy, and business.
I became involved with CHIPS during my second year of graduate school because I was interested in meeting students outside of my School interested in healthcare. CHIPS has allowed me to work with many students from diverse backgrounds interested in healthcare that I wouldn’t have necessarily been able to meet otherwise. I’ve really learned a lot from CHIPS events and CHIPsters.
The CHIPS Lunch Series are small monthly lunches capped at 15 students with a healthcare professional. I started the CHIPS Lunch Series because we wanted to broaden the CHIPS community. The goals of the lunch are to help students learn about various healthcare careers and recent trends as well as to foster genuine connections between the CHIPS community and local healthcare professionals. We have covered many different areas of healthcare through the lunch series including: investing, entrepreneurship, policy, and law.
Favorite CHIPS moments: the CHIPS officers really coming together before the big CHIPS dinners and brainstorming all of the exciting events we’ll be throwing for the year
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/meihsin
CHIPS Alumni
Meredith M. Lee, Ph.D.
CHIPS Innovation Forum Founder, Past Co-President and Medical Devices/ Information Technology Chair
Meredith is currently a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in Washington, D.C., working on big data and resilient systems at the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA). As a Stanford postdoctoral scholar, Meredith developed a rapid, laser-based sensor platform for real-time detection of a patient's blood coagulation status. Her research was a collaboration between the Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection, and Stanford Departments of Electrical Engineering, Medicine (Hematology), and Radiology. Meredith's Ph.D. research at Stanford focused on the development of cost-effective, semiconductor-based "Lab-on-a-Chip" biomedical sensors. She is especially interested in global health, personalized medicine, and challenges at the intersection of engineering, human-centered design, and social entrepreneurship.
Favorite CHIPS moments: legendary group brainstorming pow-wow after our first Innovation Forum, and the steering committee meeting where we coined the term 'CHIPSter'
Website: http://snow.stanford.edu/~mmlee
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mmlee
Linked in: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mmlee/
Luke Lee
Past CHIPS Treasurer
Luke Lee is the treasurer of CHIPs. Having helped organize CHIPs lunches and networking dinners, Luke values the interdisciplinary focus and networking opportunities of CHIPs. He is currently a second-year Cancer Biology graduate student working on non-small cell lung cancer in Max Diehn and Ash Alizadeh’s labs at Stanford. In addition, he is involved with the Stanford Healthcare Consulting Group and the Stanford Biotechnology, Business, and Finance Group. Lastly, he has limited experience working in a cleantech startup the summer before Stanford. Luke is very excited to meet people to talk regarding interdisciplinary ideas and venture opportunities.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lukejlee
Sasha Brophy
CHIPS Steering Committee Member
I am an MBA student at Stanford Graduate School of Business. I am currently interning at One Medical and I worked at Medtronic / Ardian in product marketing this past summer. Before the GSB I was at Fletcher Spaght, a healthcare venture capital and consulting firm in Boston. My undergraduate degree is in bioengineering from MIT. I am passionate about personalized medicine and preventive care.
Favorite CHIPS event: I love discussing trends in healthcare, so the semi annual CHIPS dinners are my favorite way to meet other Stanford students who are interested in similar areas of healthcare.
Nicholas Weiler
CHIPS Steering Committee Member
I am a 6th year PhD. student in Neuroscience at the School of Medicine, studying the synaptic changes underlying experience-dependent plasticity in Stephen Smith's lab. I am a political news junkie and passionate about improving communication between science and society. I am excited to become a part of the steering committee for CHIPS!
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