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The Future of Medicine
Welcome to The Future of Medicine, a podcast from Stanford's Department of Medicine.
We bring you into conversation with the thought leaders who are reshaping how we understand disease, deliver care, and imagine what's possible in human health. This show is built around the extraordinary speakers who join us for Medicine Grand Rounds – one of the longest-running and most respected forums in academic medicine.
Our guests include world-renowned physicians, scientists, innovators, and policy leaders from across the globe, as well as the remarkable faculty at Stanford. Together, they represent the full spectrum of modern biomedical discovery: from breakthrough therapeutics and cutting-edge genomics, to health equity, digital health, global health, neuroscience, AI, and the re-design of care systems.
This is The Future of Medicine.
Episodes
32 episodes
Odette Harris on Concussion, Brain Injury, and Why Every Sport Carries Risk
Odette Harris, MD, MPH, Professor of Neurosurgery and the Paralyzed Veterans of America Professor of Spinal Cord Medicine at Stanford, joins The Future of Medicine for a conversation about concussion, traumatic brain injury, and what it takes t...
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Pascal Geldsetzer on the Link Between the Shingles Vaccine and Dementia
Pascal Geldsetzer, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine in Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford, joins The Future of Medicine to discuss a striking line of research: evidence that shingles vaccination may reduce the risk of dement...
Jyothi Tirumalasetty on Asthma Inhalers and Climate Change
Jyothi Tirumalasetty, MD, a Stanford Medicine allergist, immunologist, and researcher, joins The Future of Medicine to explain an overlooked source of health care emissions: the propellants used in many common asthma inhalers.In this ep...
Ami Bhatt on the Microbiome, Superbugs, and Cancer Therapy
Stanford hematologist and microbiome researcher Ami Bhatt, MD, PhD, joins The Future of Medicine to explore the microbes living in and on us—and how understanding their evolution could help scientists tackle hospital infections and develop new ...
Ash Alizadeh on Cancer Blood Tests and Early Detection
Ash Alizadeh, MD, PhD, a Stanford hematologist-oncologist and physician-scientist, joins The Future of Medicine for a conversation about cancer blood tests, DNA, early detection, and the growing ability to find traces of cancer that traditional...
Ross Levine on Blood Cancer, Cancer Genetics, and New Therapies
Ross L. Levine, MD, Chief Scientific Officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, joins The Future of Medicine for a conversation about blood cancer, cancer genetics, and how a laboratory discovery can eventually lead to new treatments.
Clarence Braddock on the Future of Medical Education
Clarence Braddock, MD, MPH, a nationally recognized medical educator and former Executive Vice Dean and Vice Dean for Education in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, joins Euan Ashley on The Future of Medicine to explore how we train ...
Valter Longo on Fasting-Mimicking Diets and Longevity
What can fasting teach us about aging, and can the body receive some of its benefits without giving up food completely? Valter Longo, PhD, professor of gerontology and biological sciences, director of the Longevity Institute at the University o...
Travis Zack on OpenEvidence and the Future of Medical AI
How can medical AI help doctors make better decisions while preserving clinical judgment and human connection?Travis Zack, MD, PhD, an oncologist, researcher, and chief medical officer of OpenEvidence, joins The Future of Medicine to di...
Michael Osterholm on Pandemic Threats, Public Trust, and the Future of Vaccines
Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, one of the world’s leading experts on infectious disease threats and pandemic preparedness, joins The Future of Medicine for a wide-ranging conversation about COVID-19, vaccines, airborne transmission, public trust,...
Michelle Mello on AI, Insurance Denials, and the Future of Health Policy
Dr. Michelle Mello, professor of law and health policy at Stanford University, joins The Future of Medicine for a conversation about one of the most frustrating and consequential parts of American healthcare: prior authorization. For many patie...
Anthony Fauci on the Lessons of HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, and The Future of Pandemic Preparedness
Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the nation’s most influential public health leaders, joins Stanford Department of Medicine’s The Future of Medicine for a conversation wi...
Christopher Murray on the Global Burden of Disease and the Hidden Threats Facing Humanity
Dr. Christopher J.L. Murray — health economist at the University of Washington, physician, and founder of the Global Burden of Disease framework — joins The Future of Medicine to discuss what decades of data across 204 countries reveal about hu...
Samuel Klein on GLP-1 Revolution, Metabolism, and the Future of Obesity Medicine
Dr. Samuel Klein, Division Chief and William H. Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science at Washington University Medicine, joins The Future of Medicine for a conversation about obesity, metabolism, insulin resistance, and the rev...
Robert Wachter on the Digital Doctor, the Trust Gap, and Medicine's Next Giant Leap
In this episode of the Future of Medicine, we welcome Dr. Robert Wachter, physician, author, and chair of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, for a conversation about artificial intelligence, healthcare, and the future of m...
Crystal Mackall on CAR-T Breakthroughs, Beating Childhood Cancer, and the Future of Cell Therapy
In this episode of the Future of Medicine, we welcome Crystal Mackall, the Ernest and Amelia Gallo Family Professor and founding director of the Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy at Stanford, for a conversation on CAR T-cell therapy, pedi...
Stephen Quake on Safer Prenatal Genetic Testing, and Detecting Disease Earlier
In this episode of The Future of Medicine, we welcome Stephen Quake, a bioengineer, physicist, and serial entrepreneur whose innovations have transformed how we measure biology and deliver care.Dr. Quake shares how his early fascination ...
Bonnie Maldonado on Smallpox Eradication, Vaccine Hesitancy, and the Return of Measles
In this episode of The Future of Medicine, we welcome Yvonne "Bonnie" Maldonado, pediatrician and infectious disease expert at Stanford, for a powerful conversation on vaccines, public health, and the fragile progress of modern medicine.
Priscilla Chan on AI, Rare Disease, and the “Virtual Cell”
In this episode of The Future of Medicine, we welcome Priscilla Chan, MD, pediatrician and co-founder of Biohub, a first-of-its-kind research initiative combining frontier AI with frontier biology to accelerate progress toward curing o...
Jonathan Chen on AI in Medicine: Promise, Pitfalls, and Practice
In this episode of The Future of Medicine, we welcome Jonathan Chen, MD, PhD, clinician, AI researcher, and Associate Professor at Stanford, whose work focuses on combining human and artificial intelligence to improve clinical decision-making.<...
Eric Topol on the Future of Healthy Aging
In this episode of The Future of Medicine, we welcome Eric Topol, MD, cardiologist, scientist, bestselling author of Super Agers, and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, whose work has helped shape the field of digital medi...
Alexis Thompson on Gene Therapy and the Future of Sickle Cell Disease
In this episode of The Future of Medicine, we welcome Alexis Thompson, MD, MPH, pediatric hematologist and internationally recognized expert on sickle cell disease whose work helped lead to the first approved gene therapies for this serious con...
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo on Scientific Publishing, Peer Review, and the Future of Medical Journals
In this episode of The Future of Medicine, we welcome Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, physician, epidemiologist, and Editor-in-Chief of JAMA, whose work sits at the center of how today’s most influential medical research is evaluated, co...
Mark Skylar-Scott on Bioprinting Organs, and the Future of Transplant Medicine
In this episode of The Future of Medicine, we welcome Mark Skylar-Scott, PhD, bioengineer and researcher at Stanford University, whose work sits at the forefront of 3D bioprinting, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine.Dr. Skyla...
Anna Lembke on Pleasure, Pain, and Recovery in a Dopamine-Driven World
In this episode of The Future of Medicine, we welcome Anna Lembke, MD, psychiatrist and professor at Stanford School of Medicine, and author of the bestselling book, Dopamine Nation.In this conversation, Dr. Lembke explores how...