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  • Dale Gene O'Brien

    Dale Gene O'Brien

    Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health

    BioDale O’Brien, MD, MPH is adjunct faculty at the Stanford University School of Medicine in the Primary Care and Population Health Division. He founded several medical clinics for vulnerable populations in under-resourced areas of northern California where he has been a practicing physician for more than four decades.

    A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Medicine, he took postgraduate training at the Oregon Health & Science University, and the University of California (San Francisco) / University of California School of Public Health. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and by the American Board of Preventive Medicine.

    Dr. O'Brien treated hippies at the White Bird Clinic in Eugene, Oregon in the mid-70s; served as the acting Health Officer of the Shasta County Health Department in California; and spent two years in the early 80s as an affiliate of the European Branch Headquarters of the World Health Organization in Denmark.

    As the Executive Director of the nonprofit Cancer Patients Alliance (CPA) since 2001, Dr. O’Brien and his team have advocated for and supported low-income Latinx community members, immigrants and farm workers with cancer in the Salinas Valley agricultural region of Monterey County, California.

    Dr. O’Brien was Co-Principal Investigator of the Stanford Cancer Institute's Developmental Research Award in Translational Science, "Building an Academic-Community Partnership to Understand and Address Barriers to Cancer Care in the Salinas Valley Region of Monterey County," 2010 – 2015.

    CPA has trained a number of Stanford University medical and post-doctoral students on behalf of the Valley Fellowship Program beginning in 2010 until the present.

    Dr. O'Brien was a member of the Stanford / Medable team that developed the cancer aftercare app called TOGETHERCare - per NIH / NCI (SBIR 363) Phase 1 and 2 grants from 9/18/2017 until 9/30/2022.

    Dr. O’Brien was on the Stanford-based research team in 2018 that piloted and studied the efficacy of the “Healthkey” behavioral health app for SAMHSA, CDC and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.

    Beginning 2019, he was Co-Principal Investigator with the Stanford University group that has helped reduce cancer disparities by increasing access to the emerging DNA technologies - and facilitating cultural translation in Monterey County - pursuant to 4-year support from the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine.

    In 2021, CPA received a 5-year grant award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to further their advocacy work with the Latinx community and farm workers with cancer in the Salinas Valley.

    In June 2021, CPA was selected by the California GOTV medical academic consortium including the Stanford University School of Medicine as led by UCLA - to conduct the "Get Out the Vaccine to Stop Covid-19" initiative for low-income populations in Monterey County, California.

    Since 2016 Dr. O'Brien has been on the Institutional Review Board of Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas. He is currently a member of the Stanford Cancer Institute Community Advisory Board. Dr. O’Brien is a past editor of the Berkeley Wellness Letter, Medicine on the Net and Cancer Informatics.

  • Sabrina Orique

    Sabrina Orique

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health

    BioSabrina Orique, PhD, RN, AOCNS, is a hematology/oncology clinical nurse specialist at Stanford Health Care. She serves as adjunct faculty for Fresno Pacific University in the MSN FNP program. Her program of research entails patient safety with a focus on delivery of nursing care. Her published work includes missed nursing care, situation awareness, and early recognition of clinical deterioration. She has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master of Science in Nursing from California State University, Fresno. She earned her PhD in nursing from the University of Missouri, Columbia and is a 2015 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar. She is a member of the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, Oncology Nursing Society, and Sigma Theta Tau. She is certified as an oncology nurse and advanced oncology clinical nurse specialist by the Oncology Nursing Certification Cooperation.

  • Lars Osterberg, MD, MPH

    Lars Osterberg, MD, MPH

    Professor (Teaching) of Medicine (Primary Care and Population Health)
    On Leave from 04/01/2024 To 07/03/2024

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsBarriers to Humanism

    Collaborative Faculty Development in Improving Humanism and Professionalism

    Using Radiofrequency Identificaton technology to improve medication adherence

    Impact of Learning Communities on Medical Education

  • Linda K. Ottoboni, PhD, CNS

    Linda K. Ottoboni, PhD, CNS

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsLearning more about the patient lived experiences with cardiac arrhythmias and their perceived resources believed to provide support to achieve Quality of Life.