Co-Director of Innovation
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.