The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation recently hosted a symposium at which they honored Jeff Belkora and his team as winners of their innovation contest. You can view Jeff's presentation with team member Alexandra Teng at the Mayo website, or click below to stream a video clip.
The site NewsCertified features an interview with Jeff Belkora. You can view an excerpt by clicking on the frame below to stream a video clip.
At UCSF, premedical interns accompany women making breast cancer treatment decisions to their appointments, help them make a list of questions, audio-record their visits, and take notes for them. Below, a patient discusses her experiences interacting with the premedical interns. Click on the frame to stream the video clip.
Recently the premedical interns made a comic (exaggerated) portrayal of the challenges involved in trying to synchronize their arrival in the patient exam room with that of the attending physician. (We've since solved the problem by giving the patient a ticket with the premed's pager number on it, so that the patient can page the premed to come in when the doctor arrives.)
Excerpts from Jeff Belkora's interview with the Broadcast Corporation, discussing his research on decision support for rural patients, at the offices of the California Breast Cancer Research Program, Oakland, May 5, 2006. Click on the frame below to play the clip.
Excerpts from a lecture on guiding patients to good decisions, given to UCSF medical students on December 6, 2008. Click on the frame below to play the clip.
Belkora's annual lecture to second year medical students, featuring a discussion about the controversies surrounding screening mammography, on December 8, 2009. Click on the frame below to play the movie. You may also download and view Belkora's slides from the lecture.