Compassion Innovation

Dr. Dev Dash is an emergency physician, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University, and Co-Director of Innovation at Stanford’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE). Fellowship-trained in clinical informatics, his work sits at the intersection of medicine, artificial intelligence, digital health, and compassion. His research focuses on developing and evaluating technologies that improve clinical decision-making, patient safety, and the delivery of care, with particular interests in computer vision, natural language processing, and quality improvement in digital health. He is especially interested in how artificial intelligence can be designed and applied to strengthen compassion, communication, and human connection in healthcare. Through CCARE’s innovation work, Dr. Dash also explores how technology, storytelling, and the humanities can address clinician burnout, moral injury, compassion, and meaning in medicine. He is helping lead the development of Life Support, an initiative that uses film and storytelling to examine the human experience of healthcare and create new approaches to education, reflection, and clinician well-being. Across his work, Dr. Dash focuses on advancing healthcare innovation while ensuring that technology strengthens, rather than diminishes, the humanity at the heart of medicine.

Dr. Andy Chu is a board-certified emergency physician, Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University, and Co-Director of Innovation at Stanford’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE). His work sits at the intersection of medicine, healthcare innovation, and storytelling. He has more than a decade of experience leading multidisciplinary teams developing technologies to improve clinical decision-making and patient care in complex, time-critical environments. Alongside this work, he uses film and the arts to explore the human experience of medicine, including burnout, moral injury, compassion, and meaning in clinical practice. His award-winning short film, Life Support, has screened at dozens of film festivals and received multiple jury awards for Best Short Film. Through both innovation and the humanities, Dr. Chu focuses on advancing medicine while preserving the humanity at its core.

Joyce Macalalad volunteers as the Interim Associate Creative Director at Life Support, where she supports creative strategy and storytelling initiatives that advance the organization’s mission. With a background in healthcare operations, project management, and human-centered design, she is passionate about creating systems and experiences that help people thrive. Joyce enjoys blending creativity, empathy, and data-driven problem solving to turn ideas into meaningful impact.

Angela Kim graduated from UC Berkeley. She is a Rhodes Scholarship Finalist, a National Udall Scholar, and the 1st-place Recipient of UC Berkeley’s Jengyee Prize. She serves on the World Health Organization (WHO) Youth Council. Angela received the UC Berkeley Major Citation Award and the UC Berkeley Departmental Citation Award, which are the highest honors awarded to one graduating senior across the entire academic major and department.

Angela is deeply passionate about advancing the human side of medicine through storytelling, the arts, AI, and health innovation. She is committed to cultivating a practice of medicine rooted in compassion, connection, and humanity. Angela’s interests also span climate health, health policy, environmental justice, and health systems resilience. She leads the Hydrogen Blending Resistance Coalition, serves on the Public Health Advisory Council for Los Angeles and Orange County, and has presented at the United Nations (UN) conference.

Bonnie Kim, M.Ed, MBA is helping shape a more human-centered future for medicine through innovation, compassion, and storytelling. As Director of Innovation at the STAARA Lab and Director of Narrative Research and Education at Stanford’s CCARE, she develops education, experiences, and tools that support well-being, self-compassion, and human connection for doctors and nurses. She also produced the award-winning short film Life Support, screened at more than 90 festivals worldwide and now used in compassion education at CCARE.

Bonnie brings more than 20 years of experience across entrepreneurship, executive coaching, nonprofit leadership, and storytelling. She founded an executive coaching firm where she also trains new coaches. Her clients and collaborators include leaders from the World Economic Forum, Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Apple, Google for Startups, LinkedIn, PwC, Ernst & Young, Estée Lauder, Cirque du Soleil, Zapier, Fivetran, Medely, and Compton College. She has spoken on panels including UN Women and is a Council of Urban Professionals Fellow.

Across her work, she is drawn to one challenge: turning meaningful ideas into something that improves how people live, lead, and care for one another.