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Shivam Vedak
Affiliate, Department Funds
Fellow in Peds/Clinical InformaticsBioShivam Vedak, MD, MBA, is a clinical informatics fellow and internal medicine physician at Stanford Medicine. He holds a B.S. in Biology-Neuroscience from the Schreyer Honors College at The Pennsylvania State University, and an MD/MBA dual-degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He trained in the UIC Internal Medicine Residency program, during which he was selected as the American College of Physicians Outstanding Resident of the Year (2022) for his hospital-wide EHR optimization and education efforts. He also won several international hackathons as head of ImmunoLynk, a pandemic-era collaborative to improve COVID testing accuracy through use of machine learning and blockchain technology.
Clinically, Dr. Vedak practices as a hospitalist physician at Stanford Health Care. He is passionate about education, digital health, and the practical implementation of novel technologies in the traditionally slow-moving health care industry. This includes improving the quality of medical education surrounding Clinical Informatics, artificial intelligence, and the business of medicine, to ensure that physicians have the appropriate knowledge to safely integrate emerging innovations into their clinical practice. -
Anand Veeravagu
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and, by courtesy, of Orthopaedic Surgery
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe focus of my laboratory is to utilize precision medicine techniques to improve the diagnosis and treatment of neurologic conditions. From traumatic brain injury to spinal scoliosis, the ability to capture detailed data regarding clinical symptoms and treatment outcomes has empowered us to do better for patients. Utilize data to do better for patients, that’s what we do.
Stanford Neurosurgical Ai and Machine Learning Lab
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Erika Veidis
Human and Planetary Health Program Manager, Primary Care and Population Health
BioErika Veidis is the Planetary Health Program Manager for the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health. Before joining the CIGH team, she spent three years at the Planetary Health Alliance, a non-profit organization housed at Harvard University focused on understanding and addressing the intersections between global environmental challenges and public health. In this role, she managed a global network of universities, NGOs, research institutes, and government entities and led community engagement, outreach, and education efforts. In addition to her work with the PHA, Erika conducted research in environmental economics, with a particular focus on microplastics and grassroots campaigns targeting relevant governmental and corporate policies, and worked in regenerative agriculture in rural Wisconsin. Most recently, Erika helped to launch a project highlighting Indigenous place names across California with the California Institute for Community, Art & Nature. Erika graduated from Harvard in 2015 with a BA in Government and Mind/Brain/Behavior, holds an MBA from Cal Poly, and serves on the board of the Harvard Alumni for Agriculture and Food.