Innovation and Design Advanced Mentorship

The  Innovation and Design Advanced Mentorship trains program participants in how to think, conceptualize, and achieve healthcare improvement through advances in technology, systems change, digital applications, and much more.

The program curriculum is based on three pillars:

• Biodesign
• Design Thinking
• Digital Health

Participants may also augment their study with activities in additional focus areas.

Participants will learn to:

• understand and apply biodesign and design thinking processes to identify significant unmet health needs
• Iivent / evaluate new technologies and innovative solutions
• explore med tech innovation as a potential career pathway
• develop strategies for assessing and managing  the risks and challenges unique to med tech innovation
• hone critical thinking to understand the evolving digital health industry
• teach design thinking process to lay people and healthcare providers

 

After completing the Design and Innovation Advanced Mentorship, participants will be equipped to:

• provide valuable insight and guidance to start-up companies
• launch med tech careers
• invest/consult in the life sciences fields
• drive improvement and innovation within a large and complex health system

Didactic Learning

• Design Thinking Process in partnership with Stanford d.school (EMED 255/DINST255)
• Biodesign Process in partnership with the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign (Biodesign Innovation Course)

 

Experiential Learning

• Digital Health Project
• Graduate Biodesign Innovation Course Member
• Innovation Focus Areas: corporate and venture investing; medtech engineering, big data; machine learning; artifical intelligence; biopharma and life sciences.

 

This program is focused on innovation, human-centered design, and digital health as a tool to change care delivery. 

Program participants combine clinical shifts in an academic teaching hospital with didactics. 

• Participants are required to work 8 shifts per month (approximately 15 hours per week) as Attending Physician in the emergency department (ED) at Stanford University Hospital, with an academic appointment of Clinical Instructor in the Clinician Educator Line at Stanford University. 
• While attending in the ED, participants supervise residents and medical students. 
• Clinical time is spent at Stanford University Hospital, which is a world-renowned medical center.  It is a Level 1 Adult and Pediatric trauma center with aero-medical transport. The diverse and high-acuity patient population provides an excellent opportunity to continue to master clinical skills.  
• All program participants must be ABEM board-certified/eligible.

Deadline

September 30, 2026 (If more time is required, please email us ASAP).

 

Eligibility

• Board-eligible or board-certified emergency medicine physician from 4 year ACGME-accredited emergency medicine residency programs or 3 year ACGME EM programs with minimum 1 year post-graduate experience
• Have demonstrated an interest in health design, med tech, clinical operations, and digital health initiatives.
• Proven professionalism and ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team are required.
• Previous MBA or other graduate degree not required but valued.
•  Must be eligible for an unrestricted CA medical license.

 

To Apply

Submit:

• CV
• Cover Letter - 500 words or less
  
• 2 Letters of Recommendation from clinicians you have collaborated with within the past 2 years. These letters should provide specific examples of your principal strengths and how your performance and skills compare with those of other well-qualified individuals in similar roles.
• 1 Letter of Recommendation from a non-clinician describing your work in a collaborative project. This letter should be brief - 250 words or less - and tell a story about your work.

 

Send to Advanced Mentorship Director Ryan Ribeira, MD.