Primary Job Title Member of the Medical Advisory Board Primary Organization Healthline Media
Location Stanford, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Female
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Kane is a medical informatics specialist who received her medical degree from the University of California San Francisco.
She completed a Family Practice Residency at San Francisco General Hospital, where she co-created the Department of Medicine's Alternative Therapies Unit, one of the first programs of its kind in a major US medical
center.
She became board certified in Family Practice and completed fellowships in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Sports Medicine. She worked in the private practice of sports medicine in San Francisco, where she was medical director of the San Francisco Marathon; in multiple risk factor intervention at the Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention; as the physician at Apple Computer for nearly 10 years; as chief medical officer of Philips Medical Systems' EMR division; and as the consumer-professional portals liaison at WebMD.
Passionate about the provider-patient relationship, Kane chaired the American Medical Informatics Association's Internet Working Group and co-wrote AMIA's Guidelines for the Clinical Use of Electronic Mail With Patients.
She now consults at Healthline and teaches, with her equine partners, Medicine and Horses, a doctor-patient communications course at Stanford Medical School.
