Editorial Staff
Founding Editors
Hans Steiner, MD Professor Emeritus, Director of Pegasus Physician Writers at Stanford
Audrey Shafer, MD Professor of Anesthesiology, Director of Medicine and the Muse
Editor in Chief
Jennifer Pien, MD
Executive Editor
Matt Stevenson, MD
Art Director: Sam Rodriguez, MD
Assistant Art Editor
Shin Mei Chan
Asheen Rama, MD
Advisory Board
Abraham Verghese, MD Professor of Medicine, Author
Tom Wallace, Conde Nast Editorial Director
Steve Asch, MD Professor of Medicine
Irv Yalom, MD Professor Emeritus, Author
Rosanne Spector, Stanford Medicine Magazine Editor
Lucy Kalanithi, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Bill Meffert, MD Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Author
Michael Berkwits, MD JAMA Digital Editor
Managing Editor
Natasha Gupta
Senior Editors
Tayyeba Ali, MD, Fiction Editor
Richard Mamelok, MD Poetry Editor
Julia Nordgren, MD Nonfiction Editor
Lauren Edwards, MD Academic Editor
Marilyn Yalom, PhD Academic Editor
Editor-at-Large
Lisa Jacobs, MD
Design Consultants
TJ & Lindsay Tucker
Senior Developer
James Yau
Associate Editor
Stephen Marcott, Stanford Medical Student