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The questions
behind the work

I write about the places where medicine’s capabilities have moved faster than the systems built to use them.

The Cancer Resilience Code

A body of thinking about what cancer care becomes next.

The Cancer Resilience Code brings together my essays, a forthcoming podcast, and ongoing work across medicine, technology, and what it takes to build in healthcare.

Editorial Territories

  1. 01 Predictive cancer care and
    the limits of episodic medicine
  2. 02 Clinical judgment in an age
    of abundant data
  3. 03 Where AI belongs in healthcare, and where it does not
  4. 04 Cancer risk, survivorship, and
    the parts of the journey medicine under-serves
  5. 05 What physician-founders
    see differently
  6. 06 What the dying teach the living: stories from the bedside
The Cancer Resilience Code

Cancer Is Not an Event

For fifteen years I have been in the rooms where cancer care is decided, and I have never been in all of them at once until now. The clinic, as an Oncologist, Hematologist, and Internist, where I sat with patients and their families through the most vulnerable conversations in medicine. The research lab, as an NIH-funded physician-scientist, where I built some of the first physician-led machine learning models in clinical outcomes research. The drug industry, as a Senior Medical Director at Genentech, where our basket trial work changed guidelines and opened targeted therapy to patients who had run out of options. The academic center, at Stanford, where I practiced as a breast oncologist.

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