Web Transformation Wins AAMC Award

Award for Excellence - Websites 2015

The School of Medicine’s redesigned website, its blog and its magazine earned top honors this year in a competition sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges.

The Stanford Medicine Web Transformation Project earned an Award of Excellence in the website category for 2105. The project involved implementing a new content-management system and design system for the Web environment, encompassing a new digital front door for Stanford Medicine and 800-plus individual websites. The competition judges cited the methodical and meticulous development of the website, adding that the project “has resulted in a robust and comprehensive website.” The project was spearheaded by Mark Trenchard, director of Web Services in the school’s Office of Information Resources & Technology.

This represents broad acknowledgement that Stanford Medicine is taking effective steps to becoming an effective digital expression of Stanford Medicine's vision and strategy.  Thanks to the hundreds of people that contributed to the success of the project and continue to work on the next set of capabilities.

  • Mark is a web and technology leader with experience at Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Universal Studios, executive consulting, higher education and startups. As the Director of Web Services for Stanford University School of Medicine, Mark leads and evangelizes the public digital presence for 800+ websites while providing operational leadership for user experience, design, SEO, analytics, content strategy, search, blog, online video, wiki services and Web author community development. His primary focus for the last several years has been working extensively with web platforms, most recently with Adobe Experience Manager.