Instructor Details The Empathy Project 2017

Dr. Henry Lee, Neonatologist

Henry Lee, MD, MS,  is an Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine, and the Director of Research, California Perinatal Quality Improvement Collaborative (CPQCC), Stanford. Dr. Lee is an expert in perinatal outcomes research and leads the research operations for CPQCC, which is a data-driven quality improvement collaborative of 130 neonatal intensive care units in California. CAPE‘s Director, Lou Halamek, M.D., and Henry Lee, M.D., were recently awarded a four-year grant of $4 million from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality to optimize the safety of mothers and neonates in a mixed learning laboratory.

Seamus Harte, MFA Film

Prior to teaching at the d.school, Seamus toured the nation for three years as the Senior Producer with The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus working with thousands of students, teachers, artists, executives, and politicians. Producing multimedia content daily with these groups he developed a technique that fused immersion learning and hidden curriculum with transmedia production to create what he calls Transmedia Immersion Learning Experiences, or “TILES”. He is the creator and lead instructor of DMA STUDIOS, a two week “TILE” designed for Digital Media Academy, and also the co-founder of TENANDTWO, a creative agency. As a member of the @Stanford team, Seamus is excited to bring his craft of “TILEing” to a project that has the opportunity to redesign what it means to live and learn at Stanford. Seamus has a BS in Sound Design from Ex’pression College of Digital Arts and a MFA in Documentary Film + Video from Stanford University where he also received Fellowships from The Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCA) and The San Francisco Foundation.

Hamsika Chandrasekar, Stanford Medical Student

Hamsika Chandrasekar is a 4th year medical student at Stanford School of Medicine. She is planning on pursuing a career in Pediatrics, with a joint research focus on both quality improvement and medical education. In her free time, she enjoys reading, hiking, escaping to the beach, and more. 

Jules Sherman, MFA Design

Jules Sherman has been a product designer for 20 years. She attended RISD (BFA, Industrial Design) and Stanford’s Graduate Design Program (MFA Design), where she concentrated on learning design-thinking methods at the d. school. Jules is a design consultant for the Stanford Medical School working with a group of clinicians at Stanford and UCSF to improve safety in labor & delivery. Jules and her advisors have been developing Primo-Lacto, a closed system for colostrum collection. Jules’s company, Maternal Life LLC, was awarded two grants by the New England Pediatric Device Consortium to fund Primo-Lacto. Primo-Lacto is currently in clinical pilots at three different hospitals. Finally, Jules is the proud mama of 6-year-old Sophie-Bess, who is an endless source of inspiration and wisdom.