Consumer health deserves the same rigor as the rest of medicine

We kept going to health conferences and leaving frustrated. They were about the healthcare industry — its systems, its incentives, its adoption of AI — but almost never about the person actually trying to sleep better, move more, and stay healthy long before they ever became a patient.

That person is making more decisions about their own health than any generation before them, and the evidence often can't keep up. The result is a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars that still hasn't moved population health outcomes the way it should.

We started this conference to close that gap. For one day at Stanford Medicine, we put the scientists, clinicians, founders, and investors building consumer health in the same room — and hold the conversation to the same standard of evidence we'd expect from the rest of medicine.

It's student-led on purpose. We're the generation that will inherit these tools, and we want them built right.