Another September, another powerful group of women leading medicine forward. These photos represent the physicians, researchers, educators & staff who showed up this September to celebrate, inspire & lead. Thank you to everyone who joined us. #WomenInMedicine

Katherine High delivered this week's Stanley Schrier Lecture at Medicine Grand Rounds. The Spark Therapeutics co-founder & 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences winner led the team behind Luxturna, the first FDA-approved gene therapy for an inherited disease.

Wildfire smoke does more than irritate eyes & lungs. #StanDOM's Sharon Chinthrajah explains how it may alter gene expression, inflammatory signals & immune cells, with effects that build with each exposure. https://stan.md/3T1la5z

This Women in Medicine Month, we're highlighting #StanDOM's Mukta Awasthi, who leads the My Life, My Story program at the Palo Alto VA. The initiative adds veterans' first-person life stories to medical records to give them a voice. #WomenInMedicine https://stanford.io/4AnvcP4

Addressing #AntimicrobialResistance requires more than changing prescribing practices, according to research from Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health's Ashley Styczynski, who found that it also requires understanding the local conditions behind them. https://stanford.io/4hcc4uQ

Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy is linked to sudden cardiac death in young athletes. #StanDOM's Victoria Parikh is helping test a gene therapy designed to correct its genetic cause: https://stanford.io/4yTJsxB

#StanDOM's Hlaing Moh Moh Thu ("Moh") once worked on cancer data and registry in Myanmar. Today she brings that expertise to our transplant team as a clinical data specialist. Read her story: https://stanford.io/4iJ9Rcx

New on The Future of Medicine with #StanDOM's Errol Ozdalga: Stanford researcher Pascal Geldsetzer discusses a remarkable body of evidence connecting #shingles vaccination with a lower risk of #dementia: https://youtu.be/lpraA-mGD3M

"I am excited by the LUCIDITY results & the potential to have the first treatment for patients with PBH," says #StanDOM's Marilyn Tan, who led the Phase 3 trial of avexitide for #PostBariatricHypoglycemia. https://bit.ly/3SPZppg

"Our work is about more than just data. It is also about people feeling recognized, represented & heard," says #StanDOM's Annesa Flentje who co-directs @pridestudy.org, following 30,000+ LGBTQIA+ participants nationwide. #StanfordWIM #WomenInMedicine https://stanford.io/4rBmHw5

Gary Ruvkun, 2024 Nobel laureate for the discovery of microRNA, delivered this week's Rubenstein Lecture at Medicine Grand Rounds: "How a Tiny Worm Reveals Big Insights for Medicine."

#StanDOM's Amelia Sattler is reshaping #PrimaryCare by integrating #BehavioralHealth into everyday practice, so patients receive the right amount of support at the right time. We're celebrating her impacts this #WomenInMedicine Month! #StanfordWIM https://stanford.io/4xYjx7X

Congratulations to Sidhartha R. Sinha, MD, recipient of the 2026 Sherman Emerging Leader Prize! The $25,000 national award recognizes rising leaders advancing IBD research and care. Sid was honored for innovative work addressing unmet patient needs: shermanprize.org/prize-recipi...

New on The Future of Medicine with #StanDOM's Errol Ozdalga: Stanford Medicine allergist Jyothi Tirumalasetty explains how propellants used in many inhalers act as greenhouse gases & why reducing the emissions requires more than switching medications. https://youtu.be/lQARVSlt7D0

You don't need advanced medical training to save a life. Meet #StanDOM Administrative Specialist Tawny Bagnol, who championed hands-only CPR training for her Cardiovascular Medicine colleagues. https://stanford.io/4A9ZPHK #WomenInMedicineMonth #StanfordWIM #WomenInMedicine

Can a short, animated video help lessen stigma around drug & alcohol use disorder? Early findings from #StanDOM's Maya Adam & colleagues indicates yes. More on her work that seeks to disseminate health messages through digital pathways: https://stan.md/4ygcoiU

For #WomenInMedicine Month, we're celebrating #StanDOM's Faraah Bekheet & Morgan Shannon, members of Stanford Medicine's 2026–27 Chief Resident class. These two women are already making an impact across research, education & patient care. More about them: https://stanford.io/4AjATOa

This week's Medicine Grand Rounds featured a fireside chat with Tara Narula Cangello, at Lenox Hill Hospital, professor at Zucker School of Medicine, Chief Medical Correspondent for ABC News & New York Times best-selling author.

A new study by #StanDOM's Eran Bendavid & @healthpolicy.stanford.edu's Qinqin Kong, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, examined how age affects heat tolerance & developed the first-ever global map of who is at risk from dangerous heat, broken down by age. https://stanford.io/4gLXkUx

This #WomenInMedicine Month, we're spotlighting #StanDOM's Marina Basina & Stanford's milestone #IsletCellTransplant breakthrough — a new path toward a #Type1Diabetes cure. Read her story: https://stanford.io/4xfpps2 #StanfordWIM #WIM

The Stanford #LiverTransplant Program at Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley, led by #StanDOM's Deepti Dronamraju, helps critically ill patients access complex liver transplant evaluations closer to home &, when needed, move more quickly toward transplantation. https://stanford.io/467m17I

New on The Future of Medicine: #StanDOM's Ami Bhatt & @euanashley.bsky.social discuss how the #microbiome shapes human health, why certain microbes evolve into hospital superbugs & more. https://youtu.be/d1kVMz5a3Bk

Work from #StanDOM's Christina Curtis has redrawn the molecular map of breast cancer. She opened the 2026-27 Medicine Grand Rounds season with "The Long Game: How Hereditary Variation Shapes Immunity and Breast Cancer Trajectories."

"Music of the Meadow," arranged by #StanDOM's Diana Farid, an award-winning author & poet, is a participatory poem created from words & phrases contributed by 27 Stanford Medicine faculty, staff, trainees & students in celebration of #WomenInMedicine month. #StanfordWIM https://stanford.io/4xA57dM

#StanDOM staff member Jonathan DeVore placed second in the Stanford Medicine Spark Tank competition! He presented the Faculty Affairs Management Enterprise (FAME) system, developed to streamline workflows for faculty affairs staff. https://stanford.io/4gCuvbO

#StanDOM's Yann Le Guen & team studied people who remain cognitively healthy as they age, despite having strong genetic risk factors associated with #AlzheimersDisease. He discusses the study & what it may teach us about natural protection against Alzheimer's: https://stanford.io/4wXDj1S

September marks #WomenInMedicineMonth, which celebrates women's contributions & leadership across healthcare. All month, we're highlighting the resilience, innovation & impact of women across #StanDOM! Dive in: https://stanford.io/46BK92c #StanfordWIM #WIM

New on #FutureOfMedicine: #StanDOM's Ash Alizadeh & @euanashley.bsky.social discuss the promise & limitations of multi-cancer early detection tests. They unpack what cancer blood tests can already do, what remains unproven & more. Watch now: https://bit.ly/4xZXkWC

Check out my conversation w/ @rosslevinemd.bsky.social Whether you’re a student, resident/fellow, hematologist/oncologist, cancer biologist, drug discoverer or patient, this #TheFutureofMedicine podcast is for you! @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social youtu.be/KNB27ZRqABI?...

Ross Levine on Blood Cancer, Cancer Genetics, and New Therapies

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Stanford Medicine's recent Spark Tank Administrative Showcase gave 25 innovators the stage to share ideas, in just 5 minutes each, that colleagues across departments can adopt, adapt & amplify to streamline their work.