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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 quaternary referral hospital 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. 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), 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. Administratively, Dr. Cooper has held numerous leadership positions, previously serving as Associate Medical Director of the PACE Clinic from 2021 to 2023. Currently, Dr. Cooper holds a leadership position serving on the executive board of Valley Physicians Group (VPG), an organization representing over 400 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 people living with HIV and AIDS. 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, cooking new recipes, exercising and playing sports. -
Heather Truher Cousins
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), 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.
