SHIFT

THE MISSION

SHIFT is a student group at Stanford that empowers students to move healthcare forward. We aim to promote and cultivate health innovation on campus by creating a forum for developers, entrepreneurs, and pre-health students to collaborate. As a student initiative, we want to create an environment to equip students for the growing intersection of healthcare and technology.

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Initiatives

health++

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health++ is an annual two-day hackathon scheduled for November 2018 at Stanford’s School of Engineering that will bring together 300 engineering and medical students, designers, physicians, and other healthcare professionals to tackle challenges in healthcare affordability.

TreeHacks Health

A joint initiative with TreeHacks that encourages student hackers to explore hacking on health and healthcare. The TreeHacks Health team works closely with sponsors and experts with diverse perspectives in healthcare to provide resources and needs for top student hackers from all over the US.

Seminar in AI in Healthcare

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Artificial intelligence is poised to make radical changes in healthcare, transforming areas such as diagnosis, genomics, surgical robotics, and drug discovery. In the coming years, artificial intelligence has the potential to lower healthcare costs, identify more effective treatments, and facilitate prevention and early detection of diseases. This class is a seminar series featuring prominent researchers, physicians, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists, all sharing their thoughts on the future of healthcare.

ThinkTank

The Think Tank team connects members of SHIFT and interested members of the Stanford community to brilliant minds in the fields of biotechnology, health, and related fields. We aim to create a direct pipeline to potential advisors or project managers for students who aspire to learn from them.