News & Events: The Better Lab

Amanda Sammann, M.D., M.P.H., a UCSF trauma surgeon based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General, recently launched The Better Lab, an innovative research program based on human-centered design in healthcare. With her co-founders, Design Director Susan Dix Lyons and Researcher Lara Chehab, The Better Lab is focused on addressing health care challenges through greater empathy and better design using rigorous public health methodologies. A recent blogpost on the site by Susan Dix Lyons, How The Better Lab Got Started, traces Dr. Sammann's journey from a Stanford graduate working in finance to the [...]

Amanda Sammann, M.D., M.P.H., Executive Director of The The Better Lab, and an Assistant Professor of Surgery based at ZSFG, has contributed a work to the Hearts of San Francisco, a public art installation started by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation in 2004. Dr. Sammann's hand-crafted heart, called "Stem to Stern," powerfully memorializes the patients she served as a resident at San Francisco General Hospital a decade ago – and serves as a poetic homecoming to the institution where her career as a physician began. The Better lab discussed her contribution in a blogpost on its [...]