The Silicon Valley Physician Innovator

Dr. Hill is moving!

22 years and counting– I’m still in the area and will continue serving patients in the South Bay. I’m very excited of things to come! Follow me on Facebook to catch the latest updates.

Are Stents and Bypass Surgery The Best Way to Treat Narrowing Coronary Arteries?

Commentary By Dr. Brad Hill The following article, published in the Wall Street Journal, describes how patients can reduce their chances of a heart attack or stroke. Maintaining a healthy diet (less meat and more fruits and vegetables), exercising at least 30 minutes a day (extra walking counts), not smoking, actively managing stress, and taking…
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MedTech Comes Together at the WSGR Medical Device Conference 2019

This past Thursday and Friday, I had the opportunity to attend the WSGR Medical Device Conference in San Francisco. It was a wonderful gathering of some of the brightest and most successful medtech entrepreneurs and their business partners from around the globe.  It was an opportunity to listen and learn about new emerging technologies, reconnect…
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Startup Innovation: When the Ink Hits the Whiteboard

By Brad & Menée Hill It’s where pure imagination molds into medtech design concepts and startup action plans; where dreams begin that circuitous path to fruition. We’ve all heard the stories… billion dollar companies that started on a garage workbench or as a crude idea scribbled on a the back of an envelop or a…
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Innovation in the City

By Brad & Menée Hill Let’s consider January 9th our official kick-off date reentering the public arena of biotech. A quick 50 minute trip into the city from the Silicon Valley, and we found ourselves at back-to-back evening events, both highlighting the 37th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, both in art galleries, both events laden…
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Filling Today’s Dearth; The Lack of Physician Innovators in Our Bio-Medical Landscape

Terrific article published January 2, 2019 (coincidentally Dr. Hill’s last day at Kaiser), when he left to pursue private practice and innovation.  Today’s medical device start-ups are filled with incredibly talented engineers, but as the article outlines, physician innovators, those who are currently practicing and give real world, real time feedback are sparse. …there’s a…
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