Using Design to Make Healthcare Better
The Better Lab is a venture that uses design to study and fix healthcare challenges. Dr. Amanda Sammann, explains that the Lab takes a human-centered design approach, starting with users – patients, physicians, caregivers, healthcare professionals – to understand the context of their everyday liv...
The physical and mental toll of mass violence
In the wake of violence, some survivors appear unharmed but actually experience very real mental health injuries. Manya Chylinski, a survivor of 2013 Boston Marathon bombing who now speaks about mental trauma and resiliency & Amanda Samman, CEO of the Better Lab and trauma surgeon at Zuckerberg S...
Chapter 2 Executive- Amanda Sammann, Assistant Professor in Residence, UCSF Department of Surgery & Founder and Executive Director, The Better Lab
We had the pleasure of talking to Amanda Sammann, the Assistant Professor in Residence at the UCSF Department of Surgery and the Founder and Executive Director of Better Lab. The Better Lab is a multidisciplinary research lab that combines human centered design and traditional research methods. S...
Using Design to Make Healthcare Better
The Better Lab is a venture that uses design to study and fix healthcare challenges. Dr. Amanda Sammann, explains that the Lab takes a human-centered design approach, starting with users – patients, physicians, caregivers, healthcare professionals – to understand the context of their everyday liv...
The physical and mental toll of mass violence
In the wake of violence, some survivors appear unharmed but actually experience very real mental health injuries. Manya Chylinski, a survivor of 2013 Boston Marathon bombing who now speaks about mental trauma and resiliency & Amanda Samman, CEO of the Better Lab and trauma surgeon at Zuckerberg S...
#0071: Carmen Medina on thinking better, being a rebel + befriending bureaucratic blackbelts
Carmen's story as a heretic and change agent at CIA is featured in Adam Grant's bestseller Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World. Carmen is passionate about many things, but namely intelligence analysis, strategic thinking, and the diversity of thought and innovation.
In this episode, Ca...
