Bryant Lin

Bryant Lin, MD, MEng is a primary care physician, educator and researcher. The cornerstone of Dr. Lin's work is keeping medicine focused on humans - patients, providers, families and trainees - and not lost in technology and algorithms. His research and educational interests span (1) Developing and testing novel medical technologies, (2) Improving the health of Asian populations with Precision and Population Health, and (3) Increasing expression and interconnections in the Health Community with the Humanities and Arts. After receiving his undergraduate and master's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, he completed his MD and internal Medicine training at Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts Medical Center. He came to Stanford to serve as a Research Fellow in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Biodesign Fellow where he learned to identify unmet human-centered needs. Since completing his post-graduate training, he stayed at Stanford as clinical faculty in Primary Care and Population Health in the Department of Medicine where he has invented and researched new medical technologies addressing unmet human-centered needs and started the Consultative Medicine Clinic evaluating patients with medical mysteries. He serves as the Training Director for the Joe and Linda Chlapaty DECIDE Center which has created a novel shared decision making tool for atrial fibrillation anti-coagulation and is an investigator in several active clinical trials. Three years ago, he co-founded and currently co-directs, with Dr. Latha Palaniappan, the Center for Asian Health Research and Education (CARE) which aims to improve the health of Asians everywhere. Most recently, he has worked closely with the Medicine and the Muse leadership to help start the Stuck@Home concert series, the Stanford SoundWalk and the COVID Remembrance project. Dr. Lin has an active interest in storytelling and film-making. He co-directs an undergraduate seminar, MED 53Q “Storytelling in Medicine”, with Dr. Lauren Edwards and is working with a group of students on a documentary on end-of-life care at a Japanese-American Senior Home in the Bay Area.

Clinical Focus

• Internal Medicine
• Consultative Medicine
• Preventive Health
• Chronic Care Management
• Asian Health
• Atrial Fibrillation

Academic Appointments

• Clinical Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
• Member, Cardiovascular Institute

Administrative Appointments

• Director of Medical Humanities and Arts, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (2021 - Present)
• Co-Director, Center for Asian Health Research and Education (CARE) at Stanford (2018 - Present)
• Training Director, Joe and Linda Chlapaty DECIDE Center at Stanford University (2018 - 2022)
• Medical Director, Consultative Medicine Clinic (2013 - 2019)

Professional Education

• Medical Education: Tufts University School of Medicine (2002) MA
• Fellowship: Stanford University Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship (2008) CA
• Residency: Tufts Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency (2005) MA
• Fellowship, Stanford University, Biodesign (2006)
• Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine (2005)
• MEng, MIT, EECS (1997)
• SB, MIT, EECS (1996)

Patents

• Friedrich Prinz, Paul Wang, Bryant Lin, Ross Venook. "United States Patent 8,100,900 System for delivering therapy"
• Baharan Kamousi, Bryant Lin, Paul Wang. "United States Patent 8,204,581 Method to discriminate arrhythmias in cardiac rhythm management devices"
• Bryant Lin, Tatum Tarin, Ross Venook, Peter Hwang, Richard Goode. "United States Patent 8,290,582 Device and method to treat tissue with electric current"
• Paul Zei, Bryant Lin, Robert Allison, Kenneth Carr. "United States Patent 8,303,172 Devices and methods for exercise monitoring"
• Dorothea Koh, Bryant Lin, Paul Wang, Marie Guion-Johnson, Amin Al-Ahmad. "United States Patent 8,494,623 Method and apparatus for in-vivo physiological monitoring"