Roni Zeiger

Roni Zeiger is a United States physician. He is notable for being the chief health strategist at Google where he developed Google Flu Trends and for founding the Smart Patients project.

Education

Zeiger got his medical degree at Stanford University and did his residency at University of California, San Francisco.[1]

Work

Zeiger did primary care for some time.[2] Zeiger was chief health strategist at Google where he worked on Google Flu Trends.[1][3]

Zeiger has been profiled for partnering tech companies to health efforts.[4]

Smart Patients

With Gilles Frydman, founder of the Association of Cancer Online Resources, Zeiger cofounded the Smart Patients project.[5][6]

The project is a search engine and social media platform which connects clinical trial participants in cancer studies to each other for personal conversations.[7][8][9]

Selected bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 "Roni Zeiger MD - Mayo Clinic". mayo.edu. 2013. Archived from the original on June 3, 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
  2. ↑ Zeiger, Roni (2013). "Official Blog: Is there a doctor in the family?". googleblog.blogspot.com. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Zeiger, Roni (6 October 2009). "Google Flu Trends Overview - YouTube". youtube.com. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
  4. ↑ Heger, M. (2010). "Tech meets bio: software and technology companies have increasingly been taking a more active role in biological research: Roni Zeiger, Michael Montalto, Ajay Royyuru and Stephen Emmott" (PDF). Nature Medicine. 16 (8): 844–847. doi:10.1038/nm0810-844. PMID 20689541.
  5. ↑ Stanley, Sarah (24 April 2013). "Smart Patients: Groundbreaking Website Supports Conversations among Cancer Patients | Cancer Commons". cancercommons.org. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
  6. ↑ Dolan, Bryan (23 April 2013). "Google's ex-Chief Health Strategist launches startup, Smart Patients | mobihealthnews". mobihealthnews.com. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
  7. ↑ Herper, Matthew (24 April 2013). "A Former Google Exec Aims To Power A Patient Revolution - Forbes". forbes.com. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
  8. ↑ "Smart Patients: Groundbreaking Website Supports Conversations among Cancer Patients". cancercommons.org. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  9. ↑ Levingston, Suzanne Allard (30 November 2015). "Does your doctor listen when you talk?". The Washington Post. Retrieved 27 April 2016.

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