Explore The Space

Avital O'Glasser is a leading physician on Twitter who is helping to drive a rapidly evolving revolution in medical information exchange. She is also Associate Professor of Medicine & Associate Program Director for Scholarship & Social Media at Oregon Health Sciences University. She joins us to discuss how Twitter & social media can help harness the positive & overturn outdates norms in communication and education. Key Learnings 1. What is actually happening in medicine with social media, using conferences as a specific example 2. How #MedTwitter has "harnessed the positive" of social media 3. The power dynamic change where student and teacher on social media are completely reversed in the hospital & how old norms are being detonated 4. Wherein Mark admits he doesn't know what "meta" means 5. Accessing conversations and personalities from all around the world just by using a hashtag 6. The standard way information in medicine is presented and the opportunity social media provides to upend this 7. Trac