Shadyside Handbook

The Shadyside Handbook was proposed at the direction of Department of Medicine Chief Dr. Amanda Lenhard. A handbook should do more than collect information: it should provide an immediate way to communicate, find relevant knowledge, build community, and advance shared goals.

We are living in unprecedented times, as institutions become increasingly cephalized—developing something like a shared nervous system through which their people, knowledge, and emerging intelligence can connect. This handbook hopes to serve as one small interface to that system: a communicator you can use not only to talk with the institution’s nascent intelligence, but ultimately to help teach it, improve it, and shape what it becomes.

Questions, ideas, corrections, and contributions are welcome: sohnae@upmc.edu