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  • Andrew Michael Brennan Jr

    Andrew Michael Brennan Jr

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Cardiology

    BioDr. Andrew Brennan is a pediatric cardiologist and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. He specializes in cardiac imaging, including fetal echocardiograms, transthoracic echocardiograms, and transesophageal echocardiograms, and provides care to patients and families in the hospital in the acute care cardiology unit.

    He completed pediatric residency, pediatric cardiology fellowship, and pediatric cardiology advanced imaging training at Stanford University. Previously he graduated from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and attended Northeastern University where he received his B.S. in Health Science.

    His research interests include evaluating the use of echocardiographic indices, such as speckle-tracking strain analysis, in clinical outcome studies in congenital heart disease and pulmonary venous anomalies.

  • Keri Brenner

    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.

  • John Brock-Utne

    John Brock-Utne

    Professor (Clinical) of Anesthesia, Emeritus

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsA large variety of clinical research including new non-invasive warming technology, temperature measurement during anesthesia, new non-pulsetile oximetry, monitoring of systemic ischemia, new technology to be used in anesthesia, airway management, and operating room waste

  • Jay B. Brodsky

    Jay B. Brodsky

    Professor (Clinical) of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Emeritus

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsClinical aspects of anesthesia for non-cardiac thoracic surgery including lung separation techniques, management of one-lung ventilation and post-thoracotomy analgesia.
    Anesthesia for the morbidly obese patient' bariatric surgery

  • Jessica Brodt

    Jessica Brodt

    Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsClinical Education
    Regional Anesthesia for Cardiothoracic Enhanced Recovery (RACER)
    Anesthesia for transcatheter and electrophyiology procedures

  • Laura Brodzinsky

    Laura Brodzinsky

    Clinical Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology - Maternal Fetal Medicine

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSpecial interest in women with vulvodynia and other genital pain disorders.