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Biography
Roni F. Zeiger is an American physician and technologist. He is notable for his work as the Chief Health Strategist (2006–2012) at Google where he developed Google Health and Google Flu Trends. He is a co-founder of the Smart Patients project. In 2019, Zeiger announced he would be joining Facebook as the Head of Health Strategy.
Education
Zeiger received his medical degree at Stanford University, including a master's degree in biomedical informatics and he did his residency at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He was an internist by training. He became interesting in the application of technology in healthcare during his medical training, and noticing how difficult it was to find things in the medical records and how as time went on, the records got larger and more difficult to navigate.
Work
Zeiger did primary care for some time. Zeiger has been profiled for partnering tech companies to health efforts.
Zeiger was Chief Health Strategist (2006–2012) at Google where he worked on Google Health, symptom, anatomy, and health search on Google Search, and Google Flu Trends.
Smart Patients
With Gilles Frydman, founder of the Association of Cancer Online Resources, Zeiger co-founded the Smart Patients project. The project is a search engine and social media platform which connects clinical trial participants in cancer studies to each other for personal conversations.