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Alok Patel is a pediatric hospitalist and a medical journalist known for his engaging and creative science communication tactics. He serves as the Faculty Director of Communications in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University. In his role, he coordinates creative media strategies for awareness, education, advocacy, and recruitment. Dr. Patel has extensive experience in broadcast journalism, including on-camera work, script writing, podcast hosting, and media consulting. His goal is to leverage these skills to improve public health messaging. He currently works as a pediatric hospitalist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and has a clinical focus on public health, advocacy, journalism, digital health, and pediatric hospital medicine.
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