Videos
Leading experts decode youth health and development best practices
The Future of Medicine
Canway Youth president Andre Rayner interviews Professor Michael Snyder, Chairman of Stanford’s Dept. of Genetics and Director of Stanford’s Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine. Professor Snyder is known as medicine’s “most measured man” as he’s collected terabytes of genomic, health, and wearable personalized data about himself. Professor Snyder received his PhD at the California Institute of Technology and carried out postdoctoral training at Stanford University.
The Microbiome and Human Health
Canway Youth president Andre Rayner interviews Doctor Xin Zhou, Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford’s Genetics Department. Dr. Zhou received his B.S. degree from Fudan University, and his PH.D. from the University of Connecticut Health Center & The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Genetics and Genome.
State of the Art in Neuroscience
Canway Youth engagement vice president Ari Alvidrez interviews Dr. Ricardo Dolmetsch, President and Chief Scientific Officer of gene therapy company uniQure. Prior to uniQure, he was the Global Head of Neuroscience for Novartis. In his academic career Dr. Dolmetsch was a Professor at Stanford Medical School and a Senior Director at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Dolmetsch received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Stanford University and conducted his postdoctoral training at Harvard University Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston.
Sleep, Health and Human Performance
Canway Youth marketing vice president Mihlaan Selvaretnam interviews Doctor Jamie Zeitzer, who is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University where he’s also the Co-Director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Sciences and one of the world’s leading experts on Sleep Medicine. Professor Zeitzer conducted post-doctoral work at UCLA and Stanford, and received his PhD at Harvard University in Neurobiology following an AB at Vassar College in Biology. He is a renowned leader in fields ranging from sleep impacts on health and human performance optimization. Dr. Zeitzer is also an entrepreneur and the IP from his research is behind LumosTech/Lumos-Sleep, a startup whose sleep mask can reset jet lag and contribute to more restful sleep.
Dan Siegel, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine debunking myths about the adolescent brain.
The Edge of Success - Movie
Now streaming on Amazon Prime Video and on YouTube
“This film takes a hard look at how sleep deprivation, stress and anxiety in teens—especially teens living in that heart of Silicon Valley at the time—created a dangerous mix, and what we can learn to prevent something from ever happening again...We need to educate everyone, and this [film] I believe does that…a must see...”
- Susan Hendricks, anchor, HLN / CNN