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Stanford Medicine / Stanford Health Care
Editorially verified · Last reviewed August 30, 2026
Intelligence summary
Documented successes: Health technologies developed by Biodesign trainees have helped more than 22 million patients; alumni have founded numerous medical device and digital health companies; program founded by Paul Yock, MD (now Director Emeritus) roughly two decades ago and renamed the Mussallem Center in 2024; dedicated directors for Innovation Fellowship (Dan Azagury), Digital Health & AI (Oliver Aalami), Biotechnology (Michael Ackermann) and global programs
Mandate and remit
The Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign (formerly the Byers Center for Biodesign) runs the field-defining Biodesign Innovation Fellowship, a nearly year-long, full-time, multidisciplinary program in which physicians, engineers, designers and business people work in teams on health-technology projects. Fellows are trained in the identify-invent-implement Biodesign process: clinical immersion to observe unmet needs, needs filtering, concept generation, prototyping, IP and regulatory strategy, reimbursement planning and business model development. The center also runs a separate eight-month, part-time Biodesign Faculty Fellowship aimed at Stanford faculty with entrepreneurial ambitions, plus global fellowship programs. Faculty mentorship comes from practicing clinician-inventors and medtech industry veterans, and the curriculum has been exported to biodesign programs worldwide.
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Documented successes
Health technologies developed by Biodesign trainees have helped more than 22 million patients; alumni have founded numerous medical device and digital health companies; program founded by Paul Yock, MD (now Director Emeritus) roughly two decades ago and renamed the Mussallem Center in 2024; dedicated directors for Innovation Fellowship (Dan Azagury), Digital Health & AI (Oliver Aalami), Biotechnology (Michael Ackermann) and global programs
Organizational home: Biodesign Innovation Fellowship, Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign, Stanford Medicine / Stanford Health Care
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