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.

Blueprint

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A Stanford-hosted competition bringing together students from diverse backgrounds to apply big data analytics to challenges in healthcare.

Expo

SHIFT Expo aims to increase the breadth of SHIFT’s engagement with the surrounding health and biotech community and industry.

Team

Co-Presidents

Benjamin Liu

Benjamin Liu

Computer Science, 2023
bencliu@stanford.edu
Shobha Dasari

Shobha Dasari

Computer Science, 2023
sdasari1@stanford.edu

Team Leads

Pranav Gurusankar

Pranav Gurusankar

health++ and Blueprint Lead
Computer Science, 2023
Tony Chang

Tony Chang

health++ Lead
Biology, 2024
Ramya Ayyagari

Ramya Ayyagari

Blueprint Lead
Computer Science, 2024
Bikal Sharma

Bikal Sharma

Financial Officer
Biochemistry, 2024

Board of Directors

Shivaal Roy

health++ 2016 Lead
Computer Science, 2018

Jason Wang

health++ 2016 Lead
Mathematical and Computational Science, 2018

Sherman Leung

Software Engineer, PatientPing
B.S. Computer Science, M.S. Management Science and Engineering

Shannon Xue

Strategic Analytics, Genentech
B.A. Economics

Cindy Liu

health++ 2017 Lead
Biomedical Computation, 2019

Neal Patel

Blueprint 2017 Lead
Electrical Engineering, 2019

Advisors

Marta Zanchi

Stanford Biodesign

Anoop Rao

Neonatologist, Stanford Hospital

Oliver Aalami

Vascular Surgeon, Stanford Hospital

Robert Chang

Ophthalmologist, Stanford Hospital

Ami Bhatt

Director of Global Oncology, Center for Innovation in Global Health

Lloyd Minor

Dean, Stanford School of Medicine

Shruti Sheth

Medical Oncologist, Stanford Cancer Center