SPM in Real Life: Fall ‘17

NEW MEMBERS: Fall ‘17 Brief bios/plugs for new members (extracted from the Introduce Yourself Connect Community) After returning to school to become an OR surgical tech, Mary Mack’s heart health declined, and she quickly learned to become a strong advocate for herself. Feeling that no one was into her participatory style, Mary believes a radical change in medical student education is necessary to change the culture of medicine. She is passionate about helping to make that change happen. Her other interests include playing the guitar and speaking Mandarin Chinese. Jim Skinner created the Smart Patient Academy a couple of years ago, with the idea of short-cutting the learning curve for patients and caregivers by documenting what the most resilient patients in the world do. This recently led him to create a tool called the Playbook for High-Performance Patients and Caregivers. A cancer survivor and brain tumor patient, Jim comes from an insurance background of 24 years. He hosts a podcast called Stories with a Purpose, which interviews resilient patients and caregivers. Discovering patterns of behavior that help to optimize outcomes has also led him to create a program called the Opportunity Coach. Tahir Ahmad is a computer engineering student from Aligarh Muslim University, class of 2018. He is currently working on an e-device named EDocto. EDocto is a health-monitoring device based on ECG technology, which can predict heart attacks based on machine-learning technology. It...
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