I’m frequently approached by medical students, residents, and fellows interested in careers in informatics and digital health.  I love...

Sometimes simple is the best. I recently tried a new smartphone app – Doximity Dialer – that is just that. I have been so struck by it...

Our UCSF Clinical Informatics group met a few months ago with several representatives from a major Health IT vendor. The vendor, we’ll...

I recently had the fortunate opportunity to be part of the inaugural UCSF Lean Launchpad course, formed by Erik Lium and Stephanie Marrus...

I went in to the dermatologist last week for an annual skin check and, instead of a humiliating, cold, and uncomfortable paper gown, this...

I am just finishing up a packed few days at TEDMED 2013 as a FrontLine Scholar.  There were over 1,800 people there, from a broad...

I’m very excited to be attending TEDMED 2013 in Washington DC next month.  I was fortunate to be chosen to go as part of the Front Line...

I gave a talk yesterday to a great crowd at the annual UCSF CME conference, Diabetes Update.  The slides from my presentation, “The...

Weitzman et al just published a very interesting article in JAMA Internal Medicine called “Participatory Surveillance of Hypoglycemia and...

As an early-adopter and a bit of a productivity nut (I am a big believer in David Allen’s Getting Things Done), I use a lot of different...

It was a true honor and a pleasure to be invited to be part of the UCSF Unusual Thinkers panel at Dreamforce 2012 yesterday in San...

As excited as I am, and many people are, about making major strides in improving the capabilities of diabetes technology, we have to keep...

On Wednesday, I was in New York along with other members of GreenDot to make our presentation to the judges and audience as...

While eyeing things like the Jawbone Up and FitBit for the last year or so, I’ve stayed out of the fray until recently.  As part of my...

As our team gears up for Demo Day on May 16, our GreenDot website is now live. There was also a very nice article written about us in...

Our team is continuing to gear up for May 16th Demo Day, hard at work refining our product.  Here is some information below for anybody...

In this interview, Wil Yu, the special assistant of innovations and research and director of ONC’s SHARP (Strategic Health IT Advanced...

See the press release here from Fast Company and also announcement on Sanofi’s competition’s blog.  Our team is comprised of Saleh Adi,...

I don’t have diabetes.  But I do think about diabetes a lot, read about diabetes a lot, and certainly talk about diabetes a lot.  So,...

Why diabetes? Because diabetes is not just about science and pathophysiology.  Beyond the science, it is about culture, food, behavior...