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Keri Brenner
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioKeri O. Brenner, MD, MPA, FAAHPM is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and is board-certified in both psychiatry and hospice and palliative medicine. She earned her bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, where she subsequently served on the Board of Trustees (2005 to 2008). She received her medical degree from Yale School of Medicine, where she earned the Keese Prize for her honors thesis on the phenomenology of suffering in illness. She earned a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School as a Zuckerman Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership. She subsequently completed her adult psychiatry residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital, followed by fellowship training in hospice and palliative medicine at Harvard.
Dr. Brenner is a nationally recognized leader in “PalliPsych” education initiatives that integrate psychiatric, psychological, and psychotherapeutic principles into serious illness care. Her scholarship explores how psychological formulation and concepts drawn from psychotherapy can deepen serious illness communication and therapeutic presence. She has authored an extensive body of peer-reviewed scholarship and is co-editor of a 10-article special series in the Journal of Palliative Medicine on psychotherapeutically informed serious illness communication. She has delivered hundreds of grand rounds, invited presentations, keynote addresses, and intensive workshops at leading institutions and professional conferences nationally and internationally.
Dr. Brenner serves as Chair of the Stanford Jonathan King Lectureship Committee; Founder and Chair of the AAHPM Bogetz Lectureship Advisory Group; Director of Stanford’s Clinician Educator Scholars Program (PCPH Division); and a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Hippocratic Society. Her honors include Stanford’s Outstanding Palliative Care Faculty Award, AAHPM Emerging Leader (2024); visiting professorships at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Manitoba, support from Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2019), and a Stanford Catalyst Grant for ELEVATE, an AI-integrated training program in psychologically informed serious illness care.
Dr. Brenner's formative service at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Kolkata, India, profoundly shaped her vocation in palliative care. Outside of medicine, she enjoys the beauty of Northern California with her husband and four children. -
Cort Breuer
Ph.D. Student in Immunology, admitted Autumn 2022
BioCort Breuer is currently an Immunology PhD student in the lab of Nathan Reticker-Flynn. Cort received his BS in Biological Engineering from Cornell University in 2022, where he studied lymphatic-cancer interactions and T cell mechanosensing in the lab of Esak Lee. Previously, he worked with James Moon at Massachusetts General Hospital to develop in vivo gene therapies for the immune system and with Michelle Krogsgaard at NYU Perlmutter Cancer Center to investigate structural biology of TCR signaling. Cort’s current work focuses on mechanisms of tumor-immune tolerance and decoding the antigen specificity of T cell receptors. Drawing on his engineering background, he designs new molecular tools to record how immune cells communicate and constructs therapeutics to target impaired immune responses.
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Ryan Charles Leung Brewster
Fellow in Pediatrics - Neonatology
BioRyan Brewster is a Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine. His scholarship focuses on building, scaling, and evaluating technology-enabled models of care delivery, with an emphasis on child health equity. Ongoing initiatives include implementing pediatric home hospital, studying the use of artificial intelligence for medical translation and interpretation, and expanding tele-neonatology services globally. Prior to his clinical fellowship, he was a Harvard HealthTech Fellow and Ariadne Labs Research Fellow. His work has led to over 80 peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations that have been featured in Forbes, CNN, STAT News, and the New York Times.
Dr. Brewster completed his residency training in the Boston Combined Residency Program (Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine) as part of the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy Track and is a graduate of the Stanford University School of Medicine (MD) and Middlebury College (BA).
