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Debra Schifrin
Lecturer, Graduate School of Business - Other Faculty
BioDebra Schifrin designs and leads corporate workshops on leadership, communication, collaboration, agility, storytelling, and creativity. At Stanford Graduate School of Business, she co-designed, piloted and teaches the school’s first improv-based MBA management course. The course empowers students to become better leaders, managers, and team members. It is one of the only such MBA courses in the world. She is co-creating and teaching a new MBA course in Spring 2021,"Creativity and the Business Ecosystem." Debra has written and published over 80 Stanford and Harvard business cases, which are taught in MBA classes at the GSB and at other business schools. The topics of her business cases include strategy; marketing; product and social innovation; humor; and storytelling.
Before joining Stanford, Debra spent 11 years as a reporter, director and producer for National Public Radio and Marketplace. She produced thousands of breaking news and feature stories for the NPR flagship news program All Things Considered and directed the broadcast. Her stories and commentaries aired on All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Marketplace. A long-time actor and improvisor, Debra performs most weekends in San Francisco in many formats, including improvised musicals and improvised Star Trek. -
Erika Schillinger
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy passion is clinical skills education: the patient's experience of health and healthcare, doctor-patient communication, professionalism and physical exam. I am focused on curriculum design and innovation, having helped develop the Continuity of Care Clerkship, the clinical skills curriculum in Practice of Medicine, the Family Medicine core clerkship, outpatient faculty development modules and the SHIELD course (Stanford Healthcare Innovations and Experiential Learning Directive).
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Michel Schimpf
Graduate, Medicine, Dermatology
BioMichel Schimpf is a PhD candidate affiliated with Stanford and Cambridge, working at the intersection of AI and Psychology. His research investigates how large language model–based systems can be used to scale behavior change interventions, with a focus on goal setting, dietary behavior, and emotional well-being. Michel has a background in Computer Science, completing his Bachelor's at TUM with a minor in Psychology at LMU Munich. He previously worked on alignment research at Mistral. Alongside his academic work, he co-founded wahl.chat, a chatbot for political education that reached over 250,000 users, and Techdalo, a nonprofit teaching programming skills to Colombian students.
Personal website: https://www.meetmichel.me/
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8864-2172
