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Roni Zeiger

Dr. Roni Zeiger is Chief Health Strategist at Google and a practicing physician.

Dr. Roni Zeiger is Chief Health Strategist at Google where he leads efforts in health search and related health projects. He continues to see patients on occasional evenings and weekends at a local urgent care center. Roni also mentors startups at Rock Health, an incubator for health startups. He earned his MD at Stanford and completed his internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco. He has written and edited several medical textbooks and has published articles on topics including continuing medical education, clinical decision support tools, and searching for health information on the web. Roni also created a tool called Diagnosaurus which helps clinicians remember the possible diagnoses for given symptoms -- the smartphone version of this tool has been used by more than 100,000 medical students and physicians.

Roni has worked as a primary care physician, an urgent care physician, and has served as a Clinical Instructor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. He was a fellow in medical informatics at Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto, California, and received a masters degree in biomedical informatics from Stanford University.