Three Hopes and a Dream: Bryant Lin Keynote Address | 2025 Stanford School of Medicine Graduation

Bryant Lin, MD, shares lessons from his personal cancer journey and offers advice on curiosity, creativity, and kindness to medical graduates.

At Stanford Medicine’s graduation, keynote speaker Bryant Lin, MD, clinical professor of medicine who has transformed his own cancer experience into a living lesson for others, shared his three hopes and a dream for the Class of 2025: Never forget to be curious, creative, and kind. Lin is the director of Stanford Medicine’s Medical Humanities and the Arts program and co-founder of the Center for Asian Health Research and Education. After being diagnosed with advanced metastatic lung cancer — despite never smoking — he created MED 275, a course that shared his journey with students across Stanford. More on Bryant Lin: stan.md/3Zv2VWe Share his speech here: stan.md/4kOKep1 #StanfordMedicine2025 #commencementspeech #medschool #medschoolgraduation #graduation #commencement #medschooljourney #medicalschool 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.