Medicine
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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! -
Jonathan Wayne Chun
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Med/Hospital Medicine
Current Role at StanfordInpatient Rotation Director for the VA
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Joseph David Cooper
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Med/Infectious Diseases
BioJoseph David Cooper attended Bucknell University for his undergraduate degree with a dual major in Biology and Philosophy. He graduated from St. George’s University School of Medicine and went on to complete his Internal Medicine residency at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania. He remained at Geisinger for an additional year as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine with a focus on teaching and the education of trainees. He completed his Infectious Diseases fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center-Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease.
He began working at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center primarily in the PACE (Partners in AIDS Care and Education) and Infectious Diseases Clinics in July 2019. He has an active outreach HIV clinic at Valley Health Center in Gilroy, California once a month which maintains a regional presence for excellence in HIV care. He sees outpatients with general infectious diseases and provides inpatient infectious diseases consultation at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, the main tertiary teaching and research center for the Santa Clara Valley Healthcare system. He is actively involved in the teaching and training of Stanford University Infectious Diseases fellows, Internal Medicine residents from his home institution and Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara, as well as mentoring undergraduate students from San Jose State University. Dr. Cooper holds an appointment of Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated) at Stanford University School of Medicine in the division of Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine and department of Medicine since 2020.
Dr. Cooper is an active member of the American College of Physicians, WikiGuidelines (PWID and Bacteremia guidelines), Mycoses Study Group Education & Research Consortium, Infectious Diseases Society of America, and HIV Medicine Association. He volunteers his time and energy within these international professional organizations previously serving on workgroups surrounding education, mentoring of trainees and as an ad hoc reviewer for infectious diseases and general internal medicine journals. His professional interests are broad and include HIV/AIDS, opportunistic infections, sexually transmitted infections, with a special interest in mycology and fungal infections. He is widely published in a variety of academic journals collaborating with colleagues in all parts of the world. Currently, Dr. Cooper holds a leadership position serving on the executive board of Valley Physicians Group (VPG), an organization representing over 500 physicians, dentists and podiatrists at his current institute, focusing on physician advocacy, excellence and organization. Dr. Cooper is passionate about providing high quality, evidence-based care to all of the patients he encounters. He uses his professional expertise, passion and energy to ensure that his patients remain as well and healthy as possible.
Outside of medicine and work, you can find Dr. Cooper spending time with his wife and two daughters - hiking and exploring the Bay Area and beyond, listening to all types of music with a particular interest in live music, gardening, nature photography (with an emphasis on macrophotography), cooking new recipes, exercising and playing sports. -
Heather Truher Cousins
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated) [Vapahcs], 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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Kiera Davis
Casual Employee, Med/Stanford Center for Clinical Research
Current Role at StanfordClinical Associate Director, Education & Training
Program Lead, SHC Tri-Valley Program Management Office (PMO) -
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).
