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De Tran
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population HealthBioI 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, FACP
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Cynthia Tsai, MD, FACP, is a board certified internal medicine physician and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Stanford within the Division of Primary Care and Population Health. She is the Medical Director of Stanford Primary Care in Los Altos and is also the Los Altos Clinic Site Director for the Stanford Internal Medicine Residency.
Within the Division of Primary Care and Population Health, she serves as the Division Lead for Quality and Equity, and she has spearheaded work to improve the equitable care of patients from racial and ethnic minority groups and limited English proficiency patients with chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes.
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, health equity, 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. -
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, Generative AI, LLM, Clinical Decision Support, Digital Health, Multimorbidity, Preventive Health, Telemedicine, Telehealth, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
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Crystal Unzueta, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Unzueta is a board-certified family medicine physician. She specializes in providing primary care services to people of all ages. Her services include annual check-ups, monitoring chronic conditions, and performing minor in-office procedures.
She is also a clinical assistant professor in the Stanford School of Medicine Department of Family Medicine.
Dr. Unzueta’s practice focuses on providing compassionate and comprehensive care. She specializes in providing bilingual and bicultural care for patients in underserved populations. She has traveled to Belize on a medical mission to provide free, basic primary care to vulnerable communities. Her mentoring work includes building a network of Latino medical students to help support each other throughout medical school. She has also worked on numerous volunteer projects, such as researching the benefits of a community yoga program for minorities in underserved areas. -
Sharif Vakili, MD, MBA, MS
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioSharif Vakili, MD, MBA, MS, (pronouns: he/him), is an internal medicine physician, clinician executive and educator. He practices at Stanford Los Altos Primary Care.
Dr. Vakili has a background in chronic disease management and health systems delivery, believing strongly in a teamwork approach to patient care that empowers patients to navigate the health system as part of their clinical care.
He is active in the research and business communities. His research has been in peer-reviewed journals including JAMA Network Open, the Annals of Emergency Medicine, Quality Management in Healthcare, and the Journal of Clinical Rheumatology. He also teaches annually at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Vakili is credited with establishing and coining Remote Patient Intervention (RPI), a model of clinician-supervised AI care delivery first performed at Stanford during a clinical study published in JAMA Network Open. -
Maria Norma Villalon Landeros
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Norma Villalon's path to medicine reflects a journey of perseverance and community service. Born and raised in rural Guanajuato, Mexico, her early years were shaped by strong family bonds and a deep appreciation for community care, despite financial challenges. Before immigrating to the United States at 18, she dedicated herself to adult education through INEA, teaching literacy and basic education to members of her community. This early experience fostered her commitment to serving diverse populations and understanding their unique needs. As a first-generation professional from an immigrant background, Dr. Villalon brings a unique perspective to medicine, informed by her profound understanding of underserved communities. Her journey from a small Mexican village to becoming a physician exemplifies the power of determination and the importance of accessible healthcare. Through her work, she continues to advocate for equitable medical care while actively mentoring and supporting the next generation of physicians from underrepresented backgrounds.
