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Lindsey Merrihew Haddock
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioLindsey Haddock, MD, MAEd, is a geriatrician and clinician-educator with a master's degree in education. Her research in medical education focuses on learning in the clinical workplace and evaluation of workplace-based assessments. She is the director of Primary Care and Population Health Clinician Educator (CE) Scholars Program, helping faculty develop and disseminate their work in medical education and quality improvement. She is the associate program director of the fellowship in Geriatrics. She is an Educator-4-CARE faculty in the School of Medicine, serving as a longitudinal teacher and mentor for medical students, and also precepts students in the ambulatory medicine clerkship. She works clinically in Stanford Senior Care Clinic and the inpatient geriatrics service.
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Kurt M. Hafer, MD, FACP
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Kurt Hafer is a board-certified physician and Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) practicing Primary Care Internal Medicine exclusively at Stanford Concierge Medicine.
Dr. Hafer grew up in Chapel Hill, NC and attended Pomona College, where he received his undergraduate degree in Psychology. After completing post-baccalaureate pre-medical coursework at the University of Michigan (UM) in Ann Arbor, he worked as a neuro-endocrine peptide researcher at UM.
In 1999, Dr. Hafer graduated from The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed a Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC) in San Jose in 2002. Between 2002 to 2012 he was a Teaching Attending Physician at SCVMC as well as an adjunct Stanford physician, training medical students and residents in Internal Medicine.
Dr. Hafer joined Stanford in 2012 as the founding Medical Director of the Stanford Primary Care, Portola Valley Clinic -- Stanford's first new primary care clinic in many years. His five years of leadership at the Portola clinic included incorporating the latest technologies into primary care, adopting active population health panel management, LEAN management practices, embedded specialists and evidence-based, best-care practices as a viable model for the future of Stanford Primary Care.
In January 2017, Dr. Hafer joined Stanford Concierge Medicine as Medical Director. In addition to caring for his patients, his duties include directing the clinic and expanding clinic offerings in mental health, wellness, and piloting Primary Care Genetics and Pharmacogenomics screening programs as a test bed for Stanford Primary Care.
While at Stanford, Dr. Hafer has served as a lecturer for the American College of Physician's Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification Course held in San Francisco, and has been a Reviewer for the American College of Physicians on multiple projects. He has served on numerous Stanford Healthcare committees and worked with teams on numerous projects, including Stanford's Primary Care 2.0 Redesign, Hypertension Center of Excellence Clinical Integration Team, The Virtual Hypertension Monitoring Project, and Stanford's Primary Care Precision Health program design team. He has directed pilots of TeleHealth phone and video visits, integration of specialty care MDs into our primary care clinics. He led a successful Clinical Effectiveness Leadership Training (CELT) project using clinical pharmacists embedded in primary care clinics to more effectively manage diabetes and high blood pressure between MD visits. He has also served as the Physician Leader for Stanford's Realizing Improvement through Team Empowerment (RITE) Quality Improvement Program.
He currently serves as a Physician Member and Chair (2023, 2024) of the Global Executive Services (GES) Network Steering Committee, part of the Vizient University Health System Consortium, a national group of ~200 members of academic medical centers with Executive Health or Concierge Medicine services.
When not caring for patients, Dr. Hafer enjoys spending time outdoors with family and friends. He is married to a Stanford University History Professor, has a daughter who graduated from Stanford and UCLA Medical School (now a resident at UCSF), as well as a son who completed a masters degree in computer science at Stanford. He is an avid lifelong cyclist (road and MTB, logging up to 8k miles annually), hiker, has a passion for tinkering with vintage Datsuns and enjoys wearing vintage watches.
Dr. Hafer believes that a combination of truly knowing his patients as individuals, excellent patient-physician communication, and comprehensive preventive care allows him to provide exceptional care for his patients. -
James Hallenbeck, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Primary Care and Population Health) at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch in hospice and palliative care with emphases on physician education, cultural aspects of end-of-life care, and healthcare system issues.
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Josef Hannah
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Hannah graduated from Kansas City University of Medicine & Biosciences. He then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Kansas and a fellowship in Hospice & Palliative Medicine at Stanford University before joining as faculty at Stanford. His clinical practice includes both inpatient palliative care consultation as well as ambulatory care in palliative medicine. His research and educational interests include symptom management and utilizing media to grow palliative care services and education.
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Stephanie Harman
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Stephanie Harman is a palliative care physician and Clinical Professor of Medicine. She graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and went on to complete a residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford and a Palliative Care fellowship at the Palo Alto VA/Stanford program. She then joined the faculty at Stanford. She co-founded the Palliative Care Program at Stanford Health Care in 2007 and served as Clinical Chief of the Section of Palliative Care in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health from 2016 - 2022. She was the inaugural Associate Chair for Women in Medicine for the Department of Medicine and is now the Associate Chair for Faculty Engagement and Leadership Development. She is Director of the Stanford Leadership Development Program, a joint program between Stanford Health Care and the School of Medicine for emerging leaders. A 2017 Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Scholar Leader Awardee, she has a passion for leadership development and faculty engagement; she has built multiple programs to support the careers of women leaders in academic medicine, both locally and nationally. Her other professional interests include clinical ethics and serious illness communication.
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Shireen N. Heidari
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioShireen Heidari, MD is a palliative care and family medicine physician. She works as part of the inpatient palliative care consult team providing symptom management and support for patients and families facing any stage of a serious illness. Dr. Heidari is the program director for the Stanford University Hospice and Palliative Fellowship. She previously served as the clinical lead for the Stanford site of the PERIOP-PC Study, collaborating with the surgical department to evaluate the impact of early palliative care support for patients and family members preparing for major upper gastrointestinal cancer surgery.
Dr. Heidari is also a writer whose pieces about the importance of human connection, tough conversations, and stigma around healthcare workers seeking help for their mental health have been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, CHEST, The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, and the Intima. She hopes that by sharing her own story, she can continue being part of these conversations as we advocate for culture change in medicine and more sustainable practice.
Before moving to northern California, Dr. Heidari attended medical school at Boston University, completed her residency at UC San Diego where she served as chief resident, followed by palliative fellowship at UCLA. Outside of her clinical and mentorship work, she is likely writing creatively or outside with her husband chasing their dogs. She is currently writing her first fiction novel. -
Heather Henri, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Heather Henri is a Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.
A graduate of Stanford University and the Harvard Medical School, she is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. A Biological Sciences major at Stanford, Dr. Henri was awarded the President’s Award for Academic Excellence. She received an American Heart Association Internship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and completed two Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellowships at the NIH.
Following medical school, she completed Internship and Residency at Stanford Hospital, then joined the Stanford Medical Group and was subsequently appointed Clinic Chief at the Blake Wilbur Clinic.
In 2013, Dr. Henri was one of two physicians selected to launch Stanford Concierge Medicine. During her 15-year tenure as a full time Internist at Stanford, she consistently received the highest tier of patient satisfaction scores.
Dr. Henri has served on Stanford’s General Internal Medicine Executive Committee and the Appointment and Promotions Committee. She was a member of the California Academic Collaborative on Chronic Care and co-authored the chapter “Hypertension: Context and Management” in the leading Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. She served on the Outcomes Research Advisory Board for Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE)– the world’s largest private source of funding for research dedicated to the prevention and treatment of food allergy. In addition, Dr. Henri was named a “Top Reviewer” by the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Henri works closely with the American College of Physicians (ACP) – the world’s largest medical society for Internists- and is one of the three Primary Care physicians in the country serving on the ACP 2027 Scientific Program Advisory Committee. She served for four years as the Director of the ACP Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification Course held in San Francisco. Dr. Henri was a member of the ACP Internal Medicine Essentials Text and Online Questions Editorial Review Board, and authored educational material for the ACP’s Medical Knowledge and Self-Assessment Program. Dr. Henri has given several lectures for the ACP and regularly reviewed podcasts created by the ACP for physician continuing education. In 2025 Dr. Henri served as a Board Preparation Curriculum Subspecialty Editor.
Dr. Henri feels that comprehensive proactive preventive care and excellent personalized patient-physician communication are the foundations of her medical practice. She is pleased to see patients once a month at Stanford's Express Care, and otherwise as a Stanford Trusted Community Concierge Physician at the medical practice of Caras Health in Portola Valley. -
Joseph Hopkins
Clinical Professor Emeritus (Active), Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsQuality improvement, process improvement, physician leadership development, patient safety, physician professionalism.
