Roni F. Zeiger is an American

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and technologist. He is notable for his work as the Chief Health Strategist (2006–2012) at

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where he developed

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and

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. He is a co-founder of the Smart Patients project. In 2019, Zeiger announced he would be joining

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as the Head of Health Strategy.

Education

Zeiger received his medical degree at

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, including a master's degree in

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and he did his

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(UCSF). He was an

internist Internal medicine, also known as general medicine in Commonwealth nations, is a medical specialty for medical doctors focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in adults. Its namesake stems from "treatment of diseases of th ...

by training. He became interested in the application of technology in healthcare during his medical training, and noticing how difficult it was to find things in the medical records and how as time went on, the records got larger and more difficult to navigate.

Work

Zeiger did

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for some time. Zeiger has been profiled for partnering tech companies to health efforts.

Google

Zeiger was Chief Health Strategist (2006–2012) at

where he worked on

, symptom, anatomy, and health search on

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, and

Smart Patients

With Gilles Frydman, founder of the Association of Cancer Online Resources, Zeiger co-founded the Smart Patients project. The project is a

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and

social media Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the Content creation, creation, information exchange, sharing and news aggregator, aggregation of Content (media), content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongs ...

platform which connects

clinical trial Clinical trials are prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human subject research, human participants designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioral interventions, including new treatments (such as novel v ...

participants in

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studies to each other for personal conversations.

Bibliography

This is a select list of some of Zeiger's writings. * * * *

References

External links

personal homepageSmart Patients official website
*Video
Who is the real medical expert?
''TEDMED Talks'' from

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2013 conference (April 2013) *Radio
A Chat with Roni Zeiger, MD CEO 'Smart Patients'
(April 2013) from ''This Week in Health Innovation'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Zeiger, Roni Living people American public health doctors Google people Stanford University School of Medicine alumni Year of birth missing (living people)