Women's Health Innovation Symposium featuring Dr. Josh Makower, Co-founder & Director of Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign

​We’re excited to announce that the Women’s Health Symposium will be happening on May 15 from 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM at the Clark Center!

​This symposium will be focused on showcasing the range of women’s health research, startups, and service work at Stanford, and the wide variety of opportunities available to be involved in that work. This is an effort to improve accessibility to women’s health work and share resources and knowledge on the topic. Most importantly, this topic is incredibly interdisciplinary, and this symposium will be an opportunity to bring together people from every school at Stanford, whether you are educating about, designing for, starting up in, or discovering more about women’s health.

​We will close the symposium with keynote speaker, Dr. Josh Makower. Dr. Makower is The Yock Family Professor of Medicine and of Bioengineering at the Stanford University Schools of Medicine and Engineering and the director of the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign, the program he co-founded with Dr. Paul Yock twenty years ago. He will give insights into the Biodesign process and how it applies to women's health innovation from identifying unmet clinical needs to building category-defining and scalable companies. He'll share the story behind Willow, which is one of the a powerful example of what happens when you truly listen to women as patients and users, and his advice for the next generation of builders in this space!

​This is part of the Stanford Women’s Health Initiative directed by student Leads, Leen Abdul Razzak and Nisha Acharya, and faculty lead, Todd Coleman.