School of Medicine Career Center

Tom Ehrlich speaks on career development and gives advice to graduate students and postdocs for creating their career paths. (November 16, 2010)

Toby Friedman sheds light on a variety of interesting and potentially unforeseen opportunities for medical and life science trainees within drug development settings, as well as current trends in the biotechnology industry. (March 11, 2008)

Donald Kennedy discusses scientific publications and explores reformative measure for minting integrity given the instantaneous nature of news on the internet. (March 7, 2006)

Stanford School of Medicine Alum, John Hornberger, gives a presentation about the path he took to get to his career of choice. He describes how his company, Cedar Associates LLC, focuses on research within the health sector. (October 28, 2010)

Dr. James Sabry, co-founder of Cytokinetics, discusses the process involved with building a biotech company and talks about some of the things he learned during his experiences. (June 17, 2008)

President and CEO of Geron Corporation, Tom Okarma, discusses his company and how it has been successful and how it plans to be successful in the future. Geron is a cancer and stem cell researching medical company. (June 9, 2009)

Michael Penn discusses his work at Genentech. He describes how the company works to incorporate the medical and business world, in order to be most effective in a rapidly changing medical field. (December 9, 2008)

Two industry experts discuss the challenges to finding a job in the modern medical field and some effective approaches to finding an appropriate career. (March 6, 2008)

XDx employee Tod Klingler discusses the development of molecular diagnostics and how the recent advances in technology have affected the field of medicine. (February 10, 2009)

Michael Hebert, George Best, and Antoinette Konski from Foley and Lardner lead a presentation on the legal career surrounding science and technology. They look at intellectual property law in patent procurement, trademark, and copyrights. (May 13, 2008)