Bryan Vartabedian MD

Dr. Bryan Vartabedian is considered one of health care’s most influential voices on technology and medicine. His insight and thought leadership has made him a sought after keynote speaker in the area of medicine and new media. Dr. V has developed unique expertise in understanding how new media can be leveraged by organizations and individual stakeholders in health care. He consequently has served on the advisory board of Stanford's Medicine X conference and the External Advisory Board of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. Dr Vartabedian currently serves as a founding advisor to the Health Care Track at the SXSW Interactive Festival. You can find him quoted in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, US News and World Report and CNN.

One of his most recent projects is the co-creation of The Medical Futures Laboratory, a Rice University based collaborative for insight and solutions into the problems facing medicine at its intersection with technology. He currently serves as a Visiting Professor at Rice University where he has co-taught Medicine in the Age of Networked Intelligence. Medicine in the Age of Networked Intelligence was delivered as a MOOC (massive open online course) in the spring of 2015.