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Meg Tabaka, MD, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Tabaka is a board-certified family medicine physician with a special focus in LGBTQ+ and underserved medicine. She is also a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health of Stanford Department of Medicine. In this role, she splits her time between the Stanford Los Altos LGBTQ+ Primary Care Clinic and the MayView Community Clinic, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Mountain View, CA.
Dr. Tabaka provides expert, compassionate care personalized to each patient she serves. She is dedicated to meeting the health care needs of all of her patients including all members of the LGBTQ+ community and she welcomes patients of all ages and backgrounds to her practice.
Prior to her medical training, Dr. Tabaka completed her Masters in Public Health at the University of Minnesota. She went to complete medical school at Stanford University and completed residency at the Stanford O’Connor Family Medicine Residency Program in San Jose, CA. -
Holly Tabor
Professor of Medicine (Primary Care & Population Health) and, by courtesy, of Pediatrics (Stanford Center of Biomedical Ethics)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on ethical issues in genetics and genomics, specifically return of results and translation for exome and whole genome sequencing and translation of genomic sequencing into the clinical setting. I also conduct research on ethical issues in clinical care and research for patients and families with autism and other developmental and cognitive disabilities.
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Sana Laraib Tehal, MD
Affiliate, Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr Sana L. Tehal is currently working alongside three professors; Internal Medicine - Anuradha Phadke, MD (Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine); Geriatrics - Silvia Tee, MD (Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine); and Nephrology - Vivek Bhalla, MD (Associate Professor of Medicine and Director, Stanford Hypertension Center). Alongside clinical work, Dr Tehal’s current research interests at Stanford include Hepatitis B screening, remote blood pressure monitoring for improving hypertension, and investigating novel biomarkers for hypertension diagnosis. Dr Tehal is excited to participate in the match this year to start medical residency in 2024, and aspires to obtain a fellowship in community medicine or population health in the future.
Driven by a passion for service and healthcare equity, Dr. Sana L. Tehal, a medical doctor from Malawi, now based in the US, is dedicated to improving access to healthcare for underserved communities globally. Dr Tehal previously completed volunteer internships serving underrepresented populations in Oakland and San Jose at Roots Community Health Care and Bay Area Community Health. Dr Tehal graduated with excellent standing from Dubai Medical College, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and served as a Medical Officer under the Dubai Health Authority, following her graduation. Throughout her career and in recent years, she has persistently worked to serve underprivileged communities in Dubai, Malawi, Cameroon with the United Nations, and now in the US.
Dr Sana L. Tehal has received multiple awards for her research including on “Comparing outcomes of hospitalized patients (in the US) with Diabetic Ketoacidosis in teaching vs nonteaching hospitals from 2016 – 2019”, and multiple national awards in the UAE including for a concept paper around “Improving awareness on Diabetes Early Detection and Prevention in U.A.E”; for a presentation on “The relation between VDR-Fok 1 gene polymorphism to Pre-Menstrual Syndrome in adolescent females”; and on “Thyroid Cancer in Dubai: A Seven-Years Single Center Experience”.
In her spare time, Dr Tehal is a keen artist, and uses art as means to relax and unwind, her favorite medium is acrylic on canvas and loves painting still life and landscapes. -
Valerie Teng
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Valerie Teng is a board certified family physician with special interests in preventative medicine and women's health. Her experiences in caring for patients with chronic conditions, such as diabetes and hypertension, have fueled her desire to partner with patients to enter healthier lifestyles. She is also passionate about providing comprehensive care to patients of all ages, including newborns and teens.
During her residency training, Dr. Teng explored many opportunities in medical education through the O’Connor-Stanford Leaders in Education Residency (OSLER) program. She is delighted to continue in medical education as a part of the faculty at Stanford Family Medicine. -
Winifred Teuteberg
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Teuteberg completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago and a Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. She joined the faculty at Stanford in 2017 and currently sees patients as a part of the inpatient palliative care consult team at Stanford Healthcare.
She has been the clinical director or Stanford Medicine's implementation of the Ariadne Labs' Serious Illness Care Program since its inception in 2018. Her interests include communication skills training, leveraging predictive algorithms to identify patients who would most benefit from serious illness conversations, how to empower non-physician clinical team members to participate in this work, and best practice for EHR builds related to advance care planning. -
Julie Ngoc Thai, MD, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Thai is a fellowship-trained specialist in geriatric medicine. She provides care at the Stanford Senior Care Clinic.
She completed her fellowship training at the University of California, San Francisco. She is board-certified in family medicine through the American Board of Family Medicine .
Dr. Thai earned her medical degree from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. She completed her residency in family medicine at McLaren Flint/Michigan State University College of Human Medicine where she served as chief resident.
She also holds a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University.
Dr. Thai has a background in clinical and population health research. She recently received a grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation to study the role of motivational interviewing in smoking cessation.
She contributed to research in rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and ankylosing spondylitis in the Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine at Cedars Sinai Medical Center.
Dr. Thai was also an endourology research fellow in the Department of Urology at Mount Sinai Health System. Research focused on renal stone disease, clinical markers and outcomes, and testing and development of new technologies.
She has co-authored articles on topics such as caregivers’ communication with elders living with late-life disability, palliative care practices in diverse settings, and the social consequences of forgetfulness and Alzheimer’s disease. These articles appeared in the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Journal of Palliative Medicine, Journal of Mental Health Aging, and other peer-reviewed journals
Dr. Thai is a member of the American Geriatrics Society, American Academy of Family Physicians, and California Academy of Family Physicians. She is also an inductee of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
She has volunteered with homeless shelters, women’s advocacy groups, Goodwill, the American Red Cross, and AmeriCorps.
Dr. Thai is fluent in English and proficient in speaking Vietnamese. -
De Tran
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioI would like to use the office visits as opportunities to engage the patients in participating in managing their well-being, and to bring them world-class Stanford Health Care.
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Cynthia Tsai, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Cynthia Tsai, MD, is a board certified internal medicine physician who practices at Stanford Primary Care in Los Altos. She also serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Stanford within the Division of Primary Care and Population Health. She completed medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, and she completed residency training in internal medicine and primary care in the UCSF Primary Care/General Internal Medicine (UCPC-GIM) track of the Internal Medicine residency program. A Bay Area native, she is eager to provide primary care for a complex patient panel here in the Bay Area. Her clinical interests include preventative healthcare, the care of older adults, addiction medicine, and behavioral medicine. She grew up in a bicultural and bilingual home and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and she provides language concordant care to Mandarin speaking patients. Outside of patient care, she has interests in ambulatory medical education and the cultivation of early trainee interest in primary care. She also has strong interest in the medical humanities and narrative medicine, and has published personal perspective pieces in publications such as JAMA and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Timothy Tsai
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Tsai is a board-certified family medicine physician, clinical informaticist, and trained in osteopathy. He is a clinical assistant professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Medicine – Primary Care and Population Health. Prior to joining Stanford Health Care, he obtained a Master of Management in clinical informatics from Duke University.
Dr. Tsai seeks to improve clinician workflows and patient care by applying his knowledge of clinical informatics. His innovations allow providers to quickly access, share, and document information to advance patient care. He has also held many notable leadership, educational, and quality control positions throughout his career.
Dr. Tsai investigates ways to maximize the time clinicians spend with patients. He expedites and standardizes communication between health care providers and patients through the integration of mobile devices and remote patient monitoring programs. He streamlines the documentation process by updating electronic medical record tools and creating more efficient patient questionnaires to optimize the quality of care.
He has presented his research orally or in poster format at the American Medical Informatics Association, Family Medicine Education Consortium, and American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. As a medical student, Dr. Tsai developed an open online osteopathic manipulation course, enrolling over 1,200 students. As a clinical fellow at Duke, he co-authored a textbook chapter on the future of health informatics -
Geoffrey Tso
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsClinical Informatics, Clinical Decision Support, Digital Health, Multimorbidity, Preventive Health, Telemedicine, Telehealth, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
