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Vishnu Ravi, MD
@vishnuravi.bsky.social
Physician, Software Engineer, Digital Health & AI Architect @ Stanford. https://vishnu.io
Just wrapped up an incredible weekend mentoring teams at calhacks.io! The last time I was here, I was still in med school, hacking on weekends to keep my coding skills sharp. Amazing to see how much it’s grown. Thanks to the team for having me back! 🚀
October 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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At #ClimateWeekNYC, Vishnu Ravi (@vishnuravi.bsky.social) showcased Stanford Spezi at Cornell Tech’s Health in Climate AI Hackathon, helping teams use our Stanford Spezi framework, JupyterHealth, and AI tools to address health impacts from heat, air quality, and severe weather.
October 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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🇸🇪 Just wrapped up an incredible week hosting Team Sahlma, winners of the first international replication of our CS342 Building for Digital Health course in Sweden! Svea Strassburger, Frida Piscator Petersson, Amina Shaji and Houshi He, mentored by Dr. Zoha Saket, tackled IVF treatment challenges..
September 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Excited to speak at the @dcinetwork.org Conference at @harvard.edu, June 25–27, 2025, to share our AI and digital health work at @stanfordbdhg.bsky.social and leading the development of the @stanfordspezi.bsky.social ecosystem.

Thanks to @yuriquintana.com for bringing this community together!
@pschmiedmayer.bsky.social will speak at the DCI Network Conference at Harvard, June 25–27.

He’ll share insights on scaling access to care with open-source tools, AI, and interoperability, and on using chatbots to connect patients with their records.

Program: www.dcinetwork.org/patients2025
June 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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We had a great time at the AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) Clincial Informatics Conference!

Exciting to share our efforts within the @stanfordspezi.bsky.social ecosystem and all the research, translation, and teaching we are doing at @stanfordbdhg.bsky.social 🚀
Congrats @vishnuravi.bsky.social, @pschmiedmayer.bsky.social & Aydin Zahedivash on a successful workshop and presentation at @amiainformatics.bsky.social #CIC25 on building patient-centered digital health solutions with Stanford Spezi and promoting digital health innovation in pediatrics!
May 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Congrats @vishnuravi.bsky.social, @pschmiedmayer.bsky.social & Aydin Zahedivash on a successful workshop and presentation at @amiainformatics.bsky.social #CIC25 on building patient-centered digital health solutions with Stanford Spezi and promoting digital health innovation in pediatrics!
May 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Our team is at @amiainformatics.bsky.social #CIC25! Join @vishnuravi.bsky.social, @pschmiedmayer.bsky.social, & @AZahedivash tomorrow morning at 10:30am for a hands-on workshop on building your own #FHIR based, AI-enabled digital health app with Stanford Spezi (@stanfordspezi.bsky.social)!
May 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Our team benchmarked the leading on‑device inference models for healthcare, demonstrating that fine‑tuned LLaMa variants deliver state‑of‑the‑art performance directly on mobile and embedded devices - enabling private, offline AI‑driven diagnostics right out of your pocket: arxiv.org/abs/2502.08954
May 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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@pschmiedmayer.bsky.social, Patrick Langer, and Thomas Kaar represented our group at #LlamaCon2025 and presented our poster on “Medicine on the Edge: Comparative Performance Analysis of On‑Device LLMs for Clinical Reasoning", work by Leon Nissen, et. al.
May 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Incorporating clinicians and computer scientists in a multidisciplinary team is the secret of success; congratulations to @draalami.bsky.social, @vishnuravi.bsky.social, Aydin, and everyone in our team who aims to be a medical doctor in the future 🚀
On National Doctor's Day, we proudly honor our team's exceptional physician leaders — Dr. Oliver Aalami (@draalami.bsky.social),
Dr. Vishnu Ravi (@vishnuravi.bsky.social), and Dr. Aydin Zahedivash — who balance their clinical careers with pioneering work in digital health. 🚀
March 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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On National Doctor's Day, we proudly honor our team's exceptional physician leaders — Dr. Oliver Aalami (@draalami.bsky.social),
Dr. Vishnu Ravi (@vishnuravi.bsky.social), and Dr. Aydin Zahedivash — who balance their clinical careers with pioneering work in digital health. 🚀
March 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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This past week, students in Digital Health Implementation at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden got an in-person crash course in digital health app development from our teaching team @draalami.bsky.social @vishnuravi.bsky.social @pschmiedmayer.bsky.social. Excited to see what they build! 🚀
March 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Exciting news! 🚀 Research collaboration from Stanford’s Building for Digital Health course is now published in JMIR Formative Research! 📄

📱 BALANCE App: A study on enhancing distress tolerance in adolescents with anorexia nervosa.

Read more: [🔗 formative.jmir.org/2025/1/e70278/ ]
Enhancing Distress Tolerance Skills in Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa Through the BALANCE Mobile App: Feasibility and Acceptability Study
Background: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe psychiatric disorder with high morbidity and mortality, particularly among adolescents. Family-based treatment (FBT) is the leading evidence-based…
formative.jmir.org
March 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Just in time for new year's resolutions, @euanashley.bsky.social and @pbs.org share insights into just how profound #exercise can be for the human body. #newyear2025
How exercise may be the ‘most potent medical intervention ever known'
It's been well known for many decades that exercise provides many benefits to our health. But a new scientific consortium is revealing new insights into just how profound exercise can be for the human...
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January 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I made this free and open source dev tool:
gitingest.com

Replace "hub" with "ingest" in any github URL to get a text digest that you can feed into any LLM
December 7, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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2024 was a transformative year for us at Stanford Biodesign Digital Health! Here are the highlights!
January 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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We wish you a wonderful holiday season!
December 24, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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📣 Stanford students! Interested in learning how to create a real-world digital health solution with devices and #AI? Only 3 days left to apply for our CS342/MED253 Building for Digital Health course this Winter Quarter! Visit cs342.stanford.edu for more information!
November 27, 2024 at 3:12 PM
An incredible milestone for our QDG system that validates years of rigorous research and development, and will accelerate the path to reaching #ParkinsonsDisease patients and families in desperate need of a better solution.
November 23, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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One must consider that if DNA data storage takes off we will someday store sequencing data as DNA
November 21, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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The era of precision therapy for inherited cardiovascular disease is here. To date, we had almost nothing to offer patients with severe inherited cardiomyopathy.

We are now on the verge of a new chapter with dozens of genetic-based therapies entering clinical trials.

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Phase 1 Study of AAV9.LAMP2B Gene Therapy in Danon Disease | NEJM
Danon disease is a rare, X-linked, monogenic cardiomyopathy caused by mutations in the lysosomal-associated membrane 2 gene (LAMP2), which encodes the LAMP2 protein. In male patients, the predomina...
www.nejm.org
November 18, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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The @stanfordbdhg.bsky.social team recently participated in the Apple Health Research Summit, sharing insights from Stanford Spezi (@stanfordspezi.bsky.social)—our open-source ecosystem—and strategies for optimizing health data.

Read more: bdh.stanford.edu/news/stanfor...
November 21, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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At Stanford Biodesign Digital Health, we design, develop, implement, and investigate digital health solutions to support clinical research, enhance health journeys, and improve patient outcomes. Learn more about our work and how you can join us at bdh.stanford.edu!
November 15, 2024 at 12:34 PM