Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Center on Food Security and the Environment
Stanford Health Policy
The Europe Center
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
Rural Education Action Program
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies
Center for Innovation in Global Health
Stanford Center at Peking University
The following is a collection of commentary about members (current or former) of CHP/PCOR found on various external, unaffiliated websites via an automated process:
May 8, 2012
Rosamond Gifford speaker Abraham Verghese mixes medicine with writing
Mention of Abraham Verghese via Syracuse.com“My real calling to medicine came because of a book,” said Verghese, an internist, novelist and memoirist at this season’s final Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series in Syracuse Monday evening. 
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April 9, 2012
Ask Stanford Med: Stefanos Zenios taking questions on health-care innovation and entrepreneurship
Mention of Stefanos Zenios via Scope (blog)Later this month, business and government leaders, entrepreneurs, academics and students will gather at Stanford for the 2012 Healthcare Innovation Summit to examine the forces shaping the future of health care and discuss practical solutions to some of our toughest health-care problems. Read more »
March 10, 2012
Weighty Matters: A Q&A; with John Morton on Obesity and Bariatric Surgery
Mention of John Morton via Stanford Hospital & Clinics ReportRoughly 300,000 people in the United States die prematurely each year as result of obesity. What can be done to stem the tide of chronic disease, death and red ink caused by this epidemic? John Sanford, a writer for Stanford Hospital & Clinics, spoke with John Morton, MD, MPH to find out. Read more »
March 6, 2012
The challenges of dieting and the promises of bariatric surgery
Mention of John Morton via Scope (blog)During a recent interview, Morton, one of the nation’s top weight-loss surgeons, reflected on the challenges of obesity in America and how bariatric surgery may be part of the solution for some. Read more »
March 5, 2012
Role of private health insurance examined in health care debate
Mention of M. Kate Bundorf via WMU NewsThe national insurance program Medicare and the part private health insurance plays in it will come into sharper focus next month when Stanford University researcher M. Kate Bundorf visits Western Michigan University. Read more »
March 2, 2012
Stanford Medicine magazine's best of 2011 now on Amazon
Mention of Abraham Verghese via Scope (blog)We’ve gathered our favorite 11 stories from 2011 in our first eBook anthology, debuting today on Amazon ... Read more »
February 21, 2012
Benefits of hepatitis C treatment outweigh costs for patients with advanced disease, study shows
Mention of Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert via Scope (blog)Using a computer model of hepatitis C disease — which accounts for different treatments, outcomes, disease stages and genetics — a research team led by Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, PhD, found that new triple-therapies for genotype-1 hepatitis C are cost-effective for patients with advanced disease. Their results were published Feb. 21 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Read more »
February 6, 2012
Junk foods still plentiful at elementary schools
Mention of Thomas Robinson via msnbc.com Junk food remains plentiful at the nation's elementary schools despite widespread efforts to curb childhood obesity, a new study suggests. Dr. Thomas Robinson, a Stanford University pediatrician and obesity prevention researcher, called the study results "sobering". The study appears in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, released Monday. Robinson wrote an accompanying editorial. Read more »
Retirement in an Era of Long Life
Mention of Laura Carstensen via TheStreet.comLaura L. Carstensen: "It seems that national discussions about retirement quickly turn to the long-term viability of Social Security. The problem with retiring in the early 60s isn't just a problem for Social Security. It's much bigger. We are squandering the opportunity to redesign life." Read more »
February 5, 2012
Abraham Verghese's "Cutting for Stone:" Two years as a New York Times best seller
Mention of Abraham Verghese via Scope (blog)The Stanford professor of medicine spent eight years writing the novel which begins in Ethiopia during the waning days of Emperor Haile Selassie’s regime and ends, climactically, in a gritty urban hospital in New York City. Read more »
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