The Future of Medicine

About The Future of Medicine

Welcome to The Future of Medicine, a podcast from Stanford's Department of Medicine. We bring you into conversation with the thought leaders who are reshaping how we understand disease, deliver care, and imagine what's possible in human health. This show is built around the extraordinary speakers who join us for Medicine Grand Rounds – one of the longest-running and most respected forums in academic medicine. Our guests include world-renowned physicians, scientists, innovators, and policy leaders from across the globe, as well as the remarkable faculty at Stanford. Together, they represent the full spectrum of modern biomedical discovery: from breakthrough therapeutics and cutting-edge genomics, to health equity, digital health, global health, neuroscience, AI, and the re-design of care systems. This is The Future of Medicine.

Publisher

Stanford Department of Medicine

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Nov 2025

Latest episode

27 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

32 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Sept 2026

   Odette Harris on Concussion, Brain Injury, and Why Every Sport Carries Risk

   Odette Harris, MD, MPH, Professor of Neurosurgery and the Paralyzed Veterans of America Professor of Spinal Cord Medicine at Stanford, joins The Future of Medicine for a conversation about concussion, traumatic brain injury, and what it takes to change how medicine thinks about the brain. The conversation was recorded in front of a live Medicine Grand Rounds audience. Dr. Harris has spent her career arguing that concussions should be understood as brain injuries, not minor bumps. She explain...

2. 

   20 Sept 2026

   Pascal Geldsetzer on the Link Between the Shingles Vaccine and Dementia

   Pascal Geldsetzer, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine in Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford, joins The Future of Medicine to discuss a striking line of research: evidence that shingles vaccination may reduce the risk of dementia. Geldsetzer and his team study “natural experiments” — real-world situations that can allow researchers to get closer to determining cause and effect without conducting a traditional randomized clinical trial. In the case of shingles vaccination, ag...

3. 

   13 Sept 2026

   Jyothi Tirumalasetty on Asthma Inhalers and Climate Change

   Jyothi Tirumalasetty, MD, a Stanford Medicine allergist, immunologist, and researcher, joins The Future of Medicine to explain an overlooked source of health care emissions: the propellants used in many common asthma inhalers. In this episode, Dr. Tirumalasetty explains how metered-dose inhalers, including many commonly prescribed albuterol inhalers, use hydrofluorocarbon propellants to deliver medication into the lungs. Most of the propellant ultimately enters the atmosphere, where it acts ...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

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