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Umang Barvalia
Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Med/Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
BioUmang Barvalia earned his M.B,B.S degree from Medical College, Baroda in Vadodara, India. He completed his internal medicine residency at Marshfield Clinic- St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, WI where he also served as a chief resident. He was a chief fellow during his Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship at University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. He is currently working as a Board Certified Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Physician at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC), San Jose. – a county hospital that serves as a teaching site for Stanford residents and fellows. He holds an appointment of Clinical Associate Professor (affiliated) at Stanford University School of Medicine due to his involvement in training of pulmonary and critical medicine fellows.
His professional interests include point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and medical education. He is certified in Critical Care Echocardiography by the National Board of Echocardiography (NBE) and teaches residents and fellows POCUS in the ICU and on the pulmonary consult service.
As a lung specialist, he cares for patients with chronic lung conditions like asthma, pulmonary hypertension, COPD, Interstitial lung disease, diseases involving the pleura and lung cancer. He also established the Endobronchial Ultrasound Program at SCMVC that helps in the diagnosis and care of lung cancer patients.
As a full time faculty in the intensive care unit, he treats patients with a variety of conditions including sepsis, liver failure, respiratory failure, post cardiac arrest and stroke. Along with his peers, he introduced prone position ventilation at SCVMC that helps in management of patients with ARDS. -
Alexandria Blacker
Program Director - Community Partnership, Medicine
BioAlexandria Blacker, PhD, MPH is the Director of the Stanford Department of Medicine’s Community Partnership Program and adjunct fauclty in the Milken School of Public Health at George Washington University. As a public health professional, Dr. Blacker has worked in breast cancer behavioral research, primary care redesign, community health, health care worker well-being, and program implementation.
In her current role, she focuses on building bi-directional, equitable, and sustainable partnerships to advance local health equity. Dr. Blacker’s research focuses on understanding processes to developing sustainable community-academic partnerships and exploring the complexity of interprofessional health care teams including teaming behaviors and contextual influences.
Dr. Blacker has had the pleasure of working with Stanford in both the health care and University settings. As a Stanford Health Care employee, Dr. Blacker worked for the Stanford Coordinated Care clinic and managed the disease management program for employees and staff. She also worked closely with her colleagues to assist in the change management efforts for the Primary Care 2.0 redesign implementation by developing educational curriculum and go-live execution with physicians, clinic managers, and team members.
As a University employee, Dr. Blacker previously worked as part of the HealthySteps to Wellness team as the Wellness Manager for Stanford Health Care. In this role, she worked cross-functionally with department heads to design and manage wellness-based trainings. She has developed curricula in positive psychology, stress management, and behavior change. She has conducted over 100 trainings and conducted programmatic evaluations to streamlining processes to increase overall effectiveness. -
Vandana Boparai, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. 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. -
Jessica Kopcho Buesing, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Med/Hospital Medicine
BioDr. Jessica Buesing is a board-certified internal medicine physician dedicated to providing empathic, honest, open, and compassionate patient care. Before joining Menlo Medical, she cared for veterans as an academic hospitalist at the Palo Alto VA for two years. Her professional interests include improving health span and quality of life, chronic disease prevention and management, comprehensive cancer survivorship care, improving health disparities, mental health support and addiction treatment. She is committed to personalized medicine and emphasizes shared decision-making, recognizing that effective healthcare must be tailored to each patient’s unique needs. Outside of work she enjoys camping, exercise, playing music, and spending time with her husband, two children, and cats.
