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Erin Watson, PsyD, ABPP
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology
BioDr. Erin Watson is a board-certified, clinical health psychologist with Stanford Health Care GI Behavioral Medicine. She is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Watson specializes in assessing and treating psychological and behavioral factors affecting gastrointestinal and liver diseases, with clinical expertise in health anxiety, stress management, health behavior change, and adjustment to diagnosis and chronicity of disease. She has advanced certifications in motivational enhancement, cognitive behavioral, and acceptance and commitment-based therapies. Dr. Watson is passionate about lifestyle medicine and helping patients cope effectively with chronic health conditions.
Prior to joining Stanford, she held positions as an attending psychologist with the San Francisco VA and as an associate professor with UCSF, serving as the associate director of psychology for an interprofessional primary care training program, faculty for UCSF’s addiction psychiatry fellowship, coordinator for the health psychology fellowship, and national consultant for VA's motivational interviewing program.
Dr. Watson’s research focuses on optimizing behavioral interventions in chronic pain treatment. She is a coinvestigator in a National Institutes of Health-funded study examining effective treatment options for veterans with chronic pain and addiction. She is interested in developing evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions for chronic liver diseases. She has published her research in several peer-reviewed journals, including Contemporary Clinical Trials, Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, and Practical Pain Management. She has also presented to peers at regional, national, and international meetings, including annual conferences of the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Watson is a fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Health Psychology. She is also a member of the American Psychological Association, Society for Health Psychology (Division 38), Society of Behavioral Medicine, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, and the Rome Foundation. -
Mike Tzuhen Wei
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology
BioDr. Wei was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. He went to Stanford for his undergraduate studies in Biology and earned his medical degree at Weill Cornell Medical College. Unable to stay far from the Bay Area, he returned to Stanford where he completed his residency in internal medicine and subsequently his fellowship in gastroenterology. Dr. Wei has specific interests in colorectal cancer and Barrett’s esophagus surveillance as well as reflux diagnosis and management. He has an interest in endoscopic resection of large polyps and had received training under Dr. Shai Friedland, a world expert in this field. Dr. Wei work focuses on evaluating new tools, technologies and techniques in gastrointestinal cancer surveillance and management. He has been involved in running several trials in endoscopic management of polyps and evaluating artificial intelligence applications in gastroenterology. His work has been published in American Journal of Gastroenterology, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Clinical Endoscopy, VideoGIE, and Digestive Diseases and Sciences. He was formerly an Associate Editor for the ACG Case Report Journal (2020-2022) and was on the Board of the Northern California Society of Clinical Gastroenterology. When not in clinic or in endoscopy, Dr. Wei enjoys spending time with his family. He and his family enjoy traveling and exploring new restaurants.