Bio

Shivam 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.

Clinical Focus

  • Fellow
  • Internal Medicine

Honors & Awards

  • Outstanding Resident of the Year, UIC Internal Medicine Residency Program, American College of Physicians (November 2022)
  • Interdisciplinary Honors in Biology and Psychology, Schreyer Honors College (May 2014)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

  • Resident/Fellow Representative, Stanford Graduate Medical Education Committee (2023 - Present)

Professional Education

  • BS, The Pennsylvania State University, Biology-Neuroscience (2010)
  • MD, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine (2020)
  • MBA, University of Illinois at Chicago Liautaud Graduate School of Business, Finance, Business Analytics (2020)