Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
From uncertainty to impact, Purvesh Khatri’s career path was anything but straight. In this episode, Maya Adam talks to Khatri about how curiosity and a willingness to pivot led to a breakthrough blood test that helps doctors make faster, life-saving decisions for sepsis.
Read the story: https://stan.md/4rCDYEb
Health Compass podcast: https://med.stanford.edu/health-compass-podcast.html
Purvesh Khatri, PhD, is a professor for the Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection and Division of Computational Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Stanford Medicine. He is an electronics and communications engineer turned software engineer turned computational systems immunologist. His research focuses on developing new methods to analyze data from diverse patient populations to better understand the human immune system and to develop improved diagnostics and treatments for inflammatory diseases, including autoimmune and infectious diseases, organ transplant complications, and cancer. He earned his PhD in computer science from Wayne State University.
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The Stanford Medicine YouTube channel is a curated collection of contributions from our School of Medicine departments, divisions, students, and the community. Our diverse content includes coverage of events, presentations, lectures, and associated stories about the people of Stanford Medicine.
From uncertainty to impact, Purvesh Khatri’s career path was anything but straight. In this episode, Maya Adam talks to Khatri about how curiosity and a willingness to pivot led to a breakthrough blood test that helps doctors make faster, life-saving decisions for sepsis.
Read the story: https://stan.md/4rCDYEb
Health Compass podcast: https://med.stanford.edu/health-compass-podcast.html
Purvesh Khatri, PhD, is a professor for the Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection and Division of Computational Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Stanford Medicine. He is an electronics and communications engineer turned software engineer turned computational systems immunologist. His research focuses on developing new methods to analyze data from diverse patient populations to better understand the human immune system and to develop improved diagnostics and treatments for inflammatory diseases, including autoimmune and infectious diseases, organ transplant complications, and cancer. He earned his PhD in computer science from Wayne State University.
#sepsis #patientcare #diagnosis #medicine #multidisciplinary #stanfordmedicine
Stanford Medicine advances human health through world-class biomedical research, education and patient care. Bringing together the resources of Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford Medicine is committed to training future leaders in biomedicine and translating the latest discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat disease.
The Stanford Medicine YouTube channel is a curated collection of contributions from our School of Medicine departments, divisions, students, and the community. Our diverse content includes coverage of events, presentations, lectures, and associated stories about the people of Stanford Medicine.
