Primary Care and Population Health
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Bhabna Banerjee
Casual Employee, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioBhabna Banerjee is an illustrator and data journalist based in Vancouver, Canada. She graduated from York University with a BFA in Media Production and Visual Journalism and was named The Global Leader of Tomorrow Scholar from the class of 2020. Her interests include environmental policy, biodiversity loss, climate migration, and extreme weather. She has previously covered climate and environmental issues for publications such as Forbes, World Economic Forum, El Tecolote, Courrier International, and the Knight Foundation. In 2022, she founded Planet Anomaly to improve climate literacy and make environmental news more accessible through illustrated data visualizations. Since then, she has helped environmental organizations communicate their data and research and has collaborated with the Rocky Mountain Institute, Climate Central, Datawrapper, and Down to Earth. At Stanford, she will continue to develop innovative ways of visual storytelling that make climate reporting more comprehensible.
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Vandana Boparai, MD
Staff, Central Mgmt-Misc AR
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Primary Care and Population HealthBioDr. Vandana Boparai is board certified in Internal Medicine. Her interest in clinical research is one of the reasons she joined medicine. She has been involved in many gastrointestinal research projects in affiliation with Stanford University. Her professional interests include healthcare maintenance, preventative medicine and women’s health, hypertension, acid reflux and diabetes management.
In her free time, she loves spending time with her kids. They love to swim together, and when time allows they love to travel all over the world. Her favorite tourist destination has been the Great Barrier Reef. -
Rene Caissie
Adjunct Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioRene Caissie is an entrepreneur, researcher, and former surgeon who holds the position of CEO and Co-Founder at Medeloop.ai, a company dedicated to revolutionizing clinical research and trials through innovative AI technology. He serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he teaches entrepreneurship in Digital Health and A.I.. In addition, he lectures within the Stanford Master of Science in Clinical Informatics Management (MCIM) program, mentoring students through their practicum experiences. Furthermore, he provides instruction at the Translational Medicine Program (MTM) at UCSF, focusing on the translational challenges in medicine. He is also a member of the XPRIZE Brain Trust Team, where he lends his expertise to foster healthcare innovations. Additionally, Rene serves as a Venture Partner at the venture capitalist firm OVO Fund
Rene’s entrepreneurial and medical expertise has spurred the creation of several healthcare ventures, such as Medesync EMR, which was acquired by the $37 billion telecommunications giant, Telus. Amid the Covid-19 crisis, he played a crucial role in developing a powered Full Head Protective Hood with an air-purifying respirator and co-founding Dorma Filtration, which introduced Canada's first reusable N95 mask.
Beyond his professional pursuits, Rene is an avid mountain climber, sailboat trans-oceanic racer, SR22 Turbo aircraft pilot, and Ironman World Championship qualifier. His dedication to humanitarian work is evident through his NGO, Volte-Face, which has provided over $1 million in free medical care for life-changing surgeries to underprivileged patients. As a board member for Sprouts, a California-based non-profit, he supports disadvantaged youths through skills coaching and internships. -
Annie Bertha Chao
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Staff, Medicine - Primary Care and Population HealthBioDr. Annie Chern grew up in Wichita, Kansas, and remains a Midwestern girl at heart. After attending Washington University in St. Louis for her undergraduate degree, she received her M.D. from Stanford University School of Medicine. She has a special interest in helping patients of all ages with weight management, obesity prevention, and chronic disease care.
Dr. Chern has volunteered her time as a physician at Arbor and Pacific Free Clinics, the two Stanford-associated free clinics that provide basic healthcare for underserved patients. In her leisure time, she enjoys running in all forms - most of all - chasing after her fleet-footed twin toddlers! -
Heather Truher Cousins
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Cousins is a clinician educator based at the Palo Alto VA. She is board certified in Geriatric Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and Internal Medicine. Dr. Cousins has an undergraduate degree from Stanford (Human Biology) and medical degree from the University of Chicago, and completed residency and fellowship at UCSF. She serves as medical director for the subacute nursing home (4C Short Stay CLC) at the Palo Alto VA, as well as for the VA Home Based Primary Care teams in Palo Alto and San Jose. Dr. Cousins serves as the primary faculty expert on geriatric palliative care for the Stanford Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program. She is closely involved with teaching the Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellows in the long term care setting and teaches the Geriatric-Palliative care thread for the fellowship core curriculum. Dr. Cousins is the VA site director for the Home Care Medicine rotation for the Stanford Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program. She also enjoys teaching history/physical and presentation skills to medical students in their second-year Practicum course. Her interests include supportive care for advanced cancer patients (especially head/neck cancer), nursing homes, home care medicine, transitions between care settings, elder abuse/neglect, and wound care.
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Walter De Brouwer
Adjunct Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioWalter A. De Brouwer, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Professor at the Stanford School of Medicine. As a core faculty member at CERC DICE, he is the course director for “Innovation in Healthcare: from idea to incorporation,” which includes a bi-weekly presentation. He also serves on the advisory committee focused on the strategic direction for the program and is part of the leadership team developing the program curriculum and practicum. He is the founder of doc.ai, a Palo-Alto-based Federated Edge Learning company for the payers/pharma industry which merged in January 2020 with Sharecare Inc.
Professional Education
Bachelor’s degree in Philology (University of Ghent, Belgium)
Master’s degree in Formal Linguistics (University of Ghent, Belgium)
Post-graduate: Epistemology (University of Ghent, Belgium)
Ph.D. Computational Semiotics (Catholic University of Tilburg, the Netherlands). -
Virginia Fowkes
Senior Lecturer in Medicine (Family and Community Medicine)
Casual Employee, Medicine - Primary Care and Population HealthCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsEvaluation of academic-community programs for health professionals in medically underserved areas
Training of health professionals for medically underserved areas/populations
Program development in medical education (Family Medicine and (AHECs)
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Sachi Gianchandani
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Staff, Neurology ResearchBioSachi Gianchandani, MD, is a palliative care physician and neurologist at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, where she provides comprehensive care for veterans. Her current roles include providing neuropalliative care in the ALS Interdisciplinary Clinic and attending on the inpatient palliative care, hospice, and neurology services.
She completed her medical school at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, neurology residency at The Ohio State University, and palliative care fellowship at Stanford Health Care. -
Laura Holdsworth
Sr Research Scholar, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordDirector of the Evaluation Sciences Unit and Senior Research Scholar
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Gary Hsin
Clinical Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Staff, Medicine - Primary Care and Population HealthBioDr. Hsin, Clinical Professor (Affiliated), is Chief of Palliative Medicine at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. His interests include palliative care education, global health, and compassion cultivation. Dr. Hsin is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Medicine. After completion of his family medicine residency and chief residency at West Suburban Medical Center (Oak Park, IL), he completed his subspecialty training at Harvard's Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a certified teacher in the Compassion Cultivation Training program with the Compassion Institute. Dr. Hsin has been involved in international health care efforts in Africa and Asia through the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Doctors Without Borders (MSF), and the Stanford/Yale Global Health Scholars Program; he is a Faculty Fellow at Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health.
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Stephanie Ibe
Research Program Coordinator NOURISH - Casual, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordResearch Program Coordinator - NOURISH
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Cati G. Brown-Johnson
Sr Research Scholar, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordSenior Research Scholar | Implementation and Social Science
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Samantha M.R. Kling
Quantitative Research Scientist, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordQuantitative Research Scientist in the Evaluation Sciences Unit (ESU)
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Meagan Moyer
Lecturer, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioI am a lecturer in the School of Medicine's Clinical Informatics Management master of science program. I co-instruct the autumn through spring quarters practicum courses. Students in my courses gain a foundational knowledge of health policy, learn from experts in the field of health technology, and complete a capstone project that brings together learnings from the entire program into a meaningful deliverable that furthers their career and the field of clinical informatics and digital health technology.
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Michael Nedelman
Adjunct Lecturer, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Michael Nedelman leads the Stanford Health Equity Media Fellowship. He previously covered health and medicine as a journalist for CNN, earning an Emmy nomination for the network's acclaimed reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic. As producer for the inimitable Dr. Sanjay Gupta, he was part of a team known for excellent reporting and storytelling — also winning a Cronkite Award for tackling misinformation during the pandemic. Before CNN, he was a digital producer for the ABC News Medical Unit, worked on public health campaigns at the World Health Organization in New Delhi, and trained at the Stanford Journalism Program as part of the university's Global Health Media Fellowship. He received his MD from Stanford and did his undergraduate work in film at Yale.
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Marti Njeri Agola Okech
Casual, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordCasual Employee, Primary Care and Population Health
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Jeffrey Peng, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Peng is a board-certified specialist in sports medicine and family medicine. He provides care for athletes of all ages and enjoys helping everyday patients achieve and sustain a healthy, active lifestyle. His expertise includes orthobiologics, such as platelet-rich plasma, and ultrasound-guided minimally invasive techniques to treat osteoarthritis, tendinopathies, and other musculoskeletal conditions.
Outside of work, Dr. Peng enjoys reading, exercising, cooking, spending time with his wife, and creating fun mischief with his daughter and son. He is also fluent in Mandarin. -
Larissa Roux MD PhD
Adjunct Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioLarissa Roux is a sport medicine physician and health economist. She completed medical school at the University of Alberta, and followed this with residency training in family medicine and a fellowship in primary care sport medicine at the University of Calgary, as well as advanced training in lifestyle medicine. She combined her clinical training with a master’s in public health at Harvard, and a PhD in health economics at the University of Calgary. Her interest in public health and health policy resulted in a post-doctoral fellowship at the US Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta in the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity. Although she has deeply enjoyed working with athletes and dancers, her main clinical interest has been in the optimization of human performance in patients with chronic conditions, including obesity, arthritis, and trauma. Her academic and health policy work has focused on the economic evaluation of competing therapies for obesity, and population-level physical activity promotion strategies in the US and around the world. Larissa's interest in data science and technology applications in global health contributed to an ongoing health information technology venture. She believes that innovative, tailored, multidisciplinary, and multimodal approaches to chronic disease have transformative potential in human health.
