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Education, Research & Health Care
Lloyd Minor, MD
DEAN, STANFORD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
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Promises, challenges of precision health
At a Stanford Medicine Town Hall, three faculty members explored prospects for precision health — health care whose goal is to anticipate and prevent disease in the healthy and precisely diagnose and treat disease in the ill.
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The promise of medical-practice guidelines in real time
For most patients, treatment guidelines are fuzzy at best and, at worst, nonexistent, forcing clinicians to rely on educated guesswork. But thanks to advances in computation, data processing and telecommunication, that may be about to change.
Facts & Figures
Academic Community
Full-time Faculty
Basic science: 136
Clinical science: 1,812
Total: 1,948
Student Enrollment
MD candidates*: 383
MD/PhD candidates: 90
PhD candidates: 786
MS candidates: 75
Postdoctoral scholars: 1,158
Residents & clinical fellows: 1,006
* Note: number excludes the MD/PhD candidates
Faculty Excellence
Total NIH funding (2013)
$315,104,246 - The highest funding per researcher ratio in the country
7 current Nobel Prize winners
31 members of the National Academy of Sciences
