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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. -
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, and compassionate patient care. Before joining Menlo Medical, she cared for veterans as a hospitalist at the Palo Alto VA. Prior to that, she completed her internal medicine residency and chief resident year at Stanford.
Her professional interests include improving health span and quality of life, chronic disease prevention and management, obesity medicine, lipid management and cardiovascular risk reduction, comprehensive cancer survivorship care, mental health support, women’s health, 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 circumstances. Outside of work she enjoys exercise (especially Barry’s Bootcamp!), playing piano and singing, camping, travel, and spending time with her husband, two children, and cats.
