Primary Care and Population Health
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Burak Alsan, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPilot Study on the Use of Televisits for Transition Education for Young Adults with Chronic Disease
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Chad Anderson
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioChad Anderson is a Physician Assistant at Stanford ValleyCare and a Clinical Assistant Professor with the Stanford School of Medicine MSPA program. He is the Assistant Director of PA education at ValleyCare. He is dual credentialed as a Family Nurse Practitioner and a Physician Assistant. He completed his FNP/PA training at the Stanford School of Medicine and his graduate studies at A.T. Still University – Arizona School of Health Sciences. He is passionate about improving our patients hospital experience as well as educating our future providers.
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Maja Artandi, MD
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Artandi is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford. She is a leader in Primary Care, spearheading novel methods of health care delivery and education. She offers an impressive clinical background and has received several educational and leadership awards.
Her expertise lies in the development and implementation of a medical curriculum focused on the patient-physician interaction, emphasizing communication skills, physical examination skills and medical decision making to support best clinical practices.
Dr. Artandi is a dedicated Primary Care physician and educator and has served as a mentor for many students, residents and colleagues. She is currently the mentorship lead for the Division of Primary Care and Population Health.
She is in the process of getting an executive coaching certification and is faculty for the Advancing Communication Excellence at Stanford Program with the goal of helping her colleagues improve their communication skills.
From 2013-2021 she was the Co-Director of Primary Care education for the Stanford Internal Medicine residency program and co-founded and co-directed the Primary Care program (ACE) within the Stanford Internal Medicine Residency program.
Dr. Artandi is currently the Co-President of the Society of Bedside Medicine, an international society dedicated to studying and improving the patient/physician interaction.
She is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh and of the American College of Physicians and currently serves as the Wellness chair for the Northern California ACP chapter. -
Steven Asch
Professor of Medicine (Primary Care and Population Health) and, by courtesy, of Health Policy
On Partial Leave from 04/01/2026 To 06/30/2026Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDescribe your current research interest and activities
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Mehrdad Ayati
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Ayati completed his residency at UC Davis and his fellowship at Stanford University. During his residency at UC Davis, Dr. Ayati received the Award of Excellence in Clinical Teaching. Dr. Ayati worked at hospitals such as Lodi Memorial Hospital in Lodi, California, and as an Emergency Medicine Attending at Veteran Affairs in Palo Alto, California. Dr. Ayati worked as a Stanford Medical Director at Los Altos and Palo Alto Subacute and Rehabilitation centers and he is currently serving as a medical advisor for many Skilled Nursing facilities and also memory care units and assisted living facilities in Northen California. Dr. Ayati has a broad spectrum of practice and knowledge of general medicine and primary care in various settings, from office to Emergency room and acute and Sub-acute care. Dr. Ayati’s main areas of research and clinical focus are in the physiology of aging and on finding practical and yet innovative ways of addressing the wellbeing and needs of the population in any age category. Dr. Ayati is an advocate of his patient’s physical and mental health at any age in addition to disease management and prevention. Dr. Ayati is currently a member of the Ethnogeriatric and Quality and Policy Performance Committees of the Americal Geraitric Society. He also serves as a Community Health Advisor for Alzheimer Association, Northen California and Nevada Chapter. Dr. Ayati is the author of “Paths to Healthy Aging”. Dr. Ayati is also a guest educational speaker on several radio stations such as National Public Radio (NPR) and San Francisco’s KQED and international and national conferences. He also testified in the Senate of the US, Special Committee of Aging in 2018 to address the challenges of aging populations in the US.
Dr. Ayati strives to provide reliable information, effective strategies, and simple guidelines for patients of all ages to avoid or manage chronic diseases and to have a significantly better quality of life.
Dr. Ayati’s main focus and passion are in:
Raising awareness about Over Medication and Drug Cascade issues in the elderly population as well as highlighting prevention strategies
Helping patients better understand and voice their end of life care choices and medical intervention wishes
Bringing into focus the numerous social, economical, political and health challenges and hardship the elderly face in our society as well as finding solutions to address their needs
Being the voice of the elderly in finding innovative and yet practical solutions to promote their physical and mental health and well being -
Michele Barry, MD, FACP
Drs. Ben & A. Jess Shenson Professor, Senior Associate Dean, Global Health, Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health, Professor of Medicine, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute and Professor, by courtesy, of Health Policy
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAreas of research
Ethical Aspects of research conducted overseas
Clinical Tropical Diseases
Globalization's Impact upon Health Disparities
Human and Planetary Heath
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Preetha Basaviah, M.D.
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMedical education, preparation for clerkship curricula and hospital medicine.
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Eran Bendavid
Professor of Medicine (Primary Care and Population Health), of Health Policy, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEffect of global health policies on health of individuals in developing countries, global health, HIV and TB.
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Hilarey Ransom Bhatt
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Bhatt is an expert clinician, educator, and health system leader in the specialty of internal medicine. She earned her MD from University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and completed her training at UCSF’s Internal Medicine residency program. Dr. Bhatt is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Bhatt cares for people ages 18 and up. She practices at Stanford Express Care in Palo Alto and San Jose, where she serves as the Medical Director of the clinic. She has a particular interest in the care of medically complex patients and in teaching and practicing evidence-based medicine. She believes that the patient-clinician relationship is the foundation of good care and strives to develop respectful and collaborative relationships with all her patients.
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Gordon Bloom
Lecturer, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioGordon founded the Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory (SE Labs) at Stanford, Harvard and Princeton. He teaches about the design, development and leadership of innovative social impact ventures in global health and environmental sustainability.
At Stanford, Gordon is director of the Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab)- Human & Planetary Health and is a faculty fellow of the Center for Innovation in Global Health. He is a Lecturer in the School of Medicine, Division of Primary Care and Population Health/Dept. of Medicine, and an advisor in the Distinguished Careers Institute (DCI), and the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program, and cofounder of the Stanford Sustainable Societies Lab.
At Harvard, Gordon taught jointly on the faculties of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (Health Policy & Management) and the Harvard Kennedy School (Management, Leadership & Decision Sciences) and served as an Expert-in-Residence (EiR) at the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-Lab), and affiliated faculty at the Center for Primary Care, Harvard Medical School (HMS). He was faculty director of the Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab) for US & Global Health, an incubator course taught in a new interdisciplinary, collaborative model based at the i-Lab. He has also served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (2013-2014) at Harvard Business School in the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, on the Faculty of Arts & Sciences in the Sociology Department, at the Harvard Kennedy School, on the Leadership & Management faculty, and as a principal of the Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations (2004-2007). Gordon served as one of the founding faculty of the $10 million Reynolds Fellows Program in Social Entrepreneurship, a Center for Public Leadership and Harvard President’s interdisciplinary fellowship initiative that paid full tuition and stipend for graduate students from the Harvard Kennedy School, School of Public Health and Graduate School of Education.
At Princeton, Gordon served as Dean’s Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship in 2009-2010. Working together with the School of Engineering & Applied Science, the [Woodrow Wilson] School of Public & International Affairs, and the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, he launched a new set of programs and prizes in social innovation and entrepreneurship in collaboration with students, faculty and alumni.
At Stanford in 2001-2002, Gordon created the SE Lab, a Silicon Valley and technology–influenced, interdisciplinary incubator for social impact ventures and global problem solving. Gordon taught on the Public Policy Program and Urban Studies Program faculties (School of Humanities & Sciences) and served as a faculty affiliate at the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a Program Officer at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Many of the talented students and fellows in Gordon’s SE Labs have won the top awards of prestigious idea and business plan competitions, including those at Stanford, Harvard, Princeton and MIT.
Gordon is a co-author in the edited volume Frontiers in Social Innovation (N. Malhotra, ed., Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) and Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Social Change (A. Nicholls, ed., Oxford University Press, 2006/2008) and served as a founding member of the Oxford/Ashoka led University Network for Social Entrepreneurship. His interest in entrepreneurship is informed by work in both the private and nonprofit sectors in the U.S. (New York, Cambridge, Palo Alto), Europe (London, Paris) and Asia (Hong Kong), as CEO of a medical technology company (EDAP Technomed, USA) and in international strategy consulting (Bain & Co. Ltd.).
Gordon is married to Sara Singer- they on occasion teach together at Stanford, have a daughter Audrey and son Jason, and live in the Frenchman's Hill residential section of campus. -
Bryan Bohman
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioBryan Bohman is Associate Chief Medical Officer for Workforce Health and Wellness. Additional roles include Clinical Professor of Medicine and of Anesthesiology, Co-Director of the Clinical Effectiveness Leadership Training (CELT) program and Senior Advisor to the WellMD Center.
Bryan trained at Stanford in internal medicine and anesthesiology. After two decades of clinical practice in community-based anesthesiology, he served as SHC's first elected Chief of Staff from 2008-2011.
As Chief of Staff, Dr. Bohman established Stanford’s wellness committee and subsequently shepherded the founding of its WellMD Center in 2015, serving as the Center’s interim Director until 2017. The Center’s aim is to advance faculty, trainee and care team wellbeing across Stanford Medicine while also serving as an international leader of scholarship in occupational wellbeing. Bryan also led the establishment in 2014 of the CELT program, which continues to serve as a driver of clinical quality improvement across Stanford Medicine.
Dr. Bohman’s primary areas of interest include occupational wellbeing, process improvement, and the reciprocal influences between quality improvement, healthcare system performance, and the occupational wellbeing of healthcare personnel. -
Heather E Boynton
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioHeather E Boynton is an emergency physician at Pioneers Memorial Hospital in Brawley, California and an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Primary Care and Population Health.
Dr. Boynton trained in emergency medicine at UC San Diego, where she served as chief resident. She attended medical school at Georgetown University and also has a master’s degree in International Security Studies from the School of Foreign Service. She completed her undergraduate studies at Princeton University.
As an emergency physician practicing in a rural, cross-border community she hopes to challenge and engage rotating students to provide patient-centered care in a resource-limited setting. -
Michelle Elizabeth Yael Braunschweig, MD, PhD, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Braunschweig is a board-certified family medicine physician. She provides care for the entire family and welcomes patients of all ages from newborns to older adults. Her goal is to help every individual achieve the best possible health and quality of life.
Her special interests include children’s health, women's health and mental health. She is the Director of Child Health for the Division of Primary Care and Population Health, within the Department of Medicine, at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Braunschweig grew up in San Jose, CA. Prior to medical school, Dr. Braunschweig studied music and earned a PhD in musicology from UC Berkeley. Her interest in women’s health led her to volunteer as a birth doula at San Francisco General Hospital. There, she became passionate about maternal and child health, and was inspired to become a physician.
Outside of her clinical practice, she enjoys spending time with her family, plant-based cooking, swimming and exploring the beautiful Bay Area. -
Keri Brenner
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioKeri Brenner, MD, MPA is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. As a palliative care physician and psychiatrist, her clinical work includes inpatient palliative care consultations at Stanford. She was inspired to pursue palliative care after serving at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Kolkata, India on multiple occasions. Dr. Brenner’s scholarly interests and research focus on the psychological elements of palliative care, specifically psychodynamic and existential issues in patients with serious illness. Dr. Brenner completed her medical degree at Yale School of Medicine, where she received honors for her thesis on the phenomenology of suffering with terminal illness. She also has a Master in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School. Dr. Brenner completed adult psychiatry residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and palliative care fellowship at Harvard. She served on the University of Notre Dame Board of Trustees (2005-2008), and was awarded funding through Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2019). In her personal life, Dr. Brenner enjoys the beautiful outdoors of Northern California with her husband and four young children.
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Akemi Laura Brown
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Akemi Brown (she/her) is board-certified Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine physician who practices at the Stanford Internal Medicine Clinic in Palo Alto.
She graduated summa cum laude from UC San Diego with a B.S. in Human Biology. She then attended the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program where she received her MS in Health and Medical Sciences from UC Berkeley School of Public Health and her MD from UCSF. She completed her internal medicine residency in the UCSF Primary Care General Internal Medicine (UCPC-GIM) track with a Health Professions Education pathway. Following residency, she completed the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine Clinician Educator fellowship with Area of Concentration in Weight Management.
Dr. Brown is a Bay Area native who is passionate about providing patient centered care to patients in both primary care and weight management. She is also an active clinician educator who enjoys teaching medical students and residents as well as developing educational curriculum. Her work has spanned research into health disparities, interprofessional program development, and quality improvement for cervical cancer screenings. -
Spencer Chang
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Spencer Chang is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician who practices at the Stanford Internal Medicine Clinic in Palo Alto. Dr. Chang earned his MD at Duke University School of Medicine where he was part of the Primary Care Leadership Track. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency training at UCLA in the Primary Care Program. Dr. Chang has interests in medical education, improving access to primary care, community health, and Asian Pacific Islander health disparities. He believes in a holistic approach to patient care, addressing the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of his patients and partnering with them to achieve their health goals.
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Can Chen
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Can Chen is a board-certified physician specializing in internal medicine and geriatric medicine, with a clinical focus on post-acute and long-term care. She is a Certified Medical Director by PALTmed (Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association) and serves as the Medical Director for The Sequoias Portola Valley Continuing Care Residential Community, where she is committed to enhancing the quality of care for senior residents.
Dr. Chen excels in shared decision-making and creating individualized care plans, emphasizing personalized approaches to advance care planning, dementia care, and beyond. Her dedication to improving quality standards in geriatric care extends to her involvement in quality improvement initiatives, interdisciplinary team education, and community education in senior living environments. Dr. Chen actively engages in guiding seniors and their families through the complexities of healthcare and aging, advocating for informed and compassionate care. -
Eunice S. Chen, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Chen is a board-certified family medicine doctor practicing concierge medicine. She is a clinical assistant professor in the Stanford Department of Medicine, Division of Primary Care and Population Health.
Her interests include primary care, women’s and men’s health, geriatric medicine, mental health, travel medicine, and preventive care.
Dr. Chen values the importance of mutual trust in a patient-doctor healthcare partnership. With compassion, sincerity, humility, and respect, she works closely with her patients in a collaborative spirit. Her goal is to help them navigate the pathway towards the best possible health and quality of life through shared decision making.
Each patient in the Stanford concierge medicine program enjoys a close relationship with one dedicated doctor. The doctor personalizes a plan of care to fit individual health, work, and lifestyle needs.
Around-the-clock access to a doctor, no matter where the patient is located, is an important feature of the concierge medicine program. Dr. Chen is committed to making her services as accessible as possible. She can meet patients via a video visit whenever requested and appropriate.
Patient reviews give high marks to Dr. Chen’s professional and personable approach to care. Patients praise her for being very knowledgeable and approachable, a good listener, and a clear communicator.
When not providing patient care, Dr. Chen enjoys spending time with family and friends, learning about different cultures, traveling, and discovering new food venues. -
Mildred Cho, PhD
Professor (Research) of Pediatrics (Center for Biomedical Ethics) and of Medicine (Primary Care and Population Health)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Cho's major areas of interest include: ethical and social issues in genetic research, including those arising from gene therapy and editing, synthetic biology, microbiome research, the use of artificial intelligence to analyze genomic and medical data, the effects of gene patenting on clinical genetic testing and research, and the impacts of academic-industry ties on biomedical research.
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Nathaniel Lee Coggins
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency MedicineBioNathaniel Coggins, M.D. is a palliative care and emergency medicine physician specializing in the implementation and dissemination of palliative care in the emergency department setting. Dr. Coggins holds dual-appointments as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Emergency Medicine and is the Program Director for Stanford Emergency Palliative Care.
Dr. Coggins received his medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in 2019, where he was a recipient of the David Geffen Medical Scholarship. He completed his emergency medicine residency training at UCLA and hospice and palliative medicine fellowship training at the University of Utah. Dr. Coggins joined Stanford University as faculty in 2024, where he is an attending physician on the inpatient palliative care service and in the adult emergency department.
