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3/15/2023 Scientists Dance the Beautiful Brain

"I don't think there's a better art than dance to portray the brain. Neuroscience examines emotions, thinking, logic, sensing, movement; everything essential about being human. And all of it can be portrayed through dance," said Stanford Medicine molecular and cell biologist Molika Sinha, who spoke and danced at the event.

3/14/2023 'What Looks Like Bravery' explains how achievement can't protect us from grief

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Laurel Braitman about her memoir, What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love.

1/25/2023 ‘Salt in My Soul’ pulls heartstrings while spreading chronic disease awareness

Mallory Smith ’14 was only three years old when she was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF), the leading genetic cause of death for children in the United States. Her doctors expected to have a cure by the time she was an adult. Yet, despite all medical efforts, she died at the age of 25, leaving her legacy in secret, handwritten diaries and audio recordings.

11/8/2022 A New Orchestra and Chorus Bring a Medical Community Together

Remarkably, the musicians in the Bay Area’s newest orchestra and chorus spend the majority of their waking hours not in rehearsal halls but in doctors’ offices, hospitals, medical clinics, and classrooms. Formed in response to the isolation people worldwide have experienced during the pandemic, the Stanford Medicine Chorus and Stanford Medicine Orchestra hold as a fundamental principle a mission to counteract the exactitude and solitary focus of medical training and specialty expertise. 

11/2/2022 Healing in harmony: Stanford medicine faculty, students and staff debut new orchestra and chorus

“I think there are many similarities between playing music and performing surgery or science. They’re creative in different ways and I think creativity is a common theme,” Steinberg said.

11/1/2022 We Are Stanford Med: Melanie Ambler

They’re students, clinicians, scientists and researchers. They’re also artists, influencers, patients, scholars and advocates. They hail from all over the globe and come to Stanford Medicine carrying big ideas and dreams. With passions that stretch beyond the lab, classroom and clinic, they share their “why” as they pursue science and medicine.

10/25/2022 Stanford Medicine wins national awards for COVID-19 remembrance project and work by media creators

CASE honored the institution with a grand gold-level Circle of Excellence award in the category for multiday, in-person special events for the COVID-19 remembrance project, “Apart-Together.” The program was spearheaded by the Medicine and the Muse program, the medical school’s home for arts and humanities.