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Carter Neugarten
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Neugarten is a national expert at the crossroads of palliative care and emergency medicine. He has published widely in his field, and his initiatives focus on enhancing upstream palliative care accessibility, resource optimization in healthcare, and harnessing telemedicine's potential in providing care.
His contributions include co-chairing a national committee that fosters innovation by merging these fields, and he has received grant funding to study the impact of palliative care referral from the ED.
Dr. Neugarten also has an established footprint in medical education, having held multiple formal teaching roles throughout his career. -
Varalakshmi Niranjan, MD MBA
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Varalakshmi Niranjan is a board-certified internal medicine doctor with Stanford Health Care. She is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Niranjan practices primary care and obesity medicine using the key principles of lifestyle medicine. She focuses on the prevention and management of chronic diseases, including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obesity, and fatty liver. She founded SMILES (Stanford Medical Intervention with Lifestyle Education Sessions) program to manage obesity. She is also the clinical lead for VBC (Value based care) project on MASLD (Metabolic Associated Steatotic Liver Disease) Dr. Niranjan has a special interest in global public health and has conducted a variety of health awareness and wellness camps in rural India.
Dr. Niranjan was the Regional Medical Director of population health for Saint Francis Healthcare Partners in Hartford, Connecticut. In her administrative role, she led many projects to improve patient safety and quality. Her research interests include ways to facilitate the teaching of lifestyle medicine, for which she received a Kaiser grant. She also received Food as Medicine Essentials Grant to implement Lifestyle Medicine education for the medical and ancillary staff at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Niranjan has also worked to develop educational tools for providers. She conducts workshops nationwide to teach primary care providers how to manage obesity with lifestyle interventions and medications. She also wrote a guidebook that offers a step-by-step approach for providers to help their patients manage obesity.
Dr. Niranjan has published her work in many peer-reviewed journals, including International Journal of Clinical Practice, Obesity Pillars, and Journal of General Internal Medicine. She is a reviewer for Obesity Pillars and Journal of Brown Hospital Medicine and has presented her work at professional meetings and conferences nationwide. In addition, she has authored several books and e-books, including a health education book and an e-cookbook of vegetarian soups for weight loss.
Dr. Niranjan is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Obesity Medicine Association. She is also a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and Society of General Internal Medicine.
