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Stephanie Harman
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Stephanie Harman is a palliative care physician and Clinical Professor of Medicine. She graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and went on to complete a residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford and a Palliative Care fellowship at the Palo Alto VA/Stanford program. She then joined the faculty at Stanford. She co-founded the Palliative Care Program at Stanford Health Care in 2007 and served as Clinical Chief of the Section of Palliative Care in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health from 2016 - 2022. She was the inaugural Associate Chair for Women in Medicine for the Department of Medicine and is now the Associate Chair for Faculty Engagement and Leadership Development. She is Director of the Stanford Leadership Development Program, a joint program between Stanford Health Care and the School of Medicine for emerging leaders. A 2017 Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Scholar Leader Awardee, she has a passion for leadership development and faculty engagement; she has built multiple programs to support the careers of women leaders in academic medicine, both locally and nationally. Her other professional interests include clinical ethics and serious illness communication.
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Shireen N. Heidari
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioShireen Heidari, MD is a palliative care and family medicine physician. She works as part of the inpatient palliative care consult team providing symptom management and support for patients and families facing any stage of a serious illness. Dr. Heidari is the program director for the Stanford University Hospice and Palliative Fellowship. She previously served as the clinical lead for the Stanford site of the PERIOP-PC Study, collaborating with the surgical department to evaluate the impact of early palliative care support for patients and family members preparing for major upper gastrointestinal cancer surgery.
Dr. Heidari is also a writer whose pieces about the importance of human connection, tough conversations, and stigma around healthcare workers seeking help for their mental health have been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, CHEST, The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, and the Intima. She hopes that by sharing her own story, she can continue being part of these conversations as we advocate for culture change in medicine and more sustainable practice.
Before moving to northern California, Dr. Heidari attended medical school at Boston University, completed her residency at UC San Diego where she served as chief resident, followed by palliative fellowship at UCLA. Outside of her clinical and mentorship work, she is likely writing creatively or outside with her husband chasing their dogs. She is currently writing her first fiction novel. -
Michael Henehan
Affiliate, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Michael Henehan is board certified in Family Medicine and has a Certificate of Added Qualification (CAQ) in Sports Medicine. He is a team physician for San Jose State University (various sports) and the San Jose Sabercats (Arena Football Team).
Dr. Henehan is an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and is Director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship Program at O’Connor Hospital.
For fun, he enjoys hiking, winter sports, running and watercolor painting. -
Heather Henri, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Heather Henri is a Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.
A graduate of Stanford University and the Harvard Medical School, she is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. A Biological Sciences major at Stanford, Dr. Henri was awarded the President’s Award for Academic Excellence. She received an American Heart Association Internship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and completed two Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellowships at the NIH.
Following medical school, she completed Internship and Residency at Stanford Hospital, then joined the Stanford Medical Group and was subsequently appointed Clinic Chief at the Blake Wilbur Clinic.
In 2013, Dr. Henri was one of two physicians selected to launch Stanford Concierge Medicine. During her 15-year tenure as a full time Internist at Stanford, she consistently received the highest tier of patient satisfaction scores.
Dr. Henri has served on Stanford’s General Internal Medicine Executive Committee and the Appointment and Promotions Committee. She was a member of the California Academic Collaborative on Chronic Care and co-authored the chapter “Hypertension: Context and Management” in the leading Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. She served on the Outcomes Research Advisory Board for Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE)– the world’s largest private source of funding for research dedicated to the prevention and treatment of food allergy. In addition, Dr. Henri was named a “Top Reviewer” by the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Henri works closely with the American College of Physicians (ACP) – the world’s largest medical society for Internists- and is one of the three Primary Care physicians in the country serving on the ACP 2027 Scientific Program Advisory Committee. She served for four years as the Director of the ACP Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification Course held in San Francisco. Dr. Henri was a member of the ACP Internal Medicine Essentials Text and Online Questions Editorial Review Board, and authored educational material for the ACP’s Medical Knowledge and Self-Assessment Program. Dr. Henri has given several lectures for the ACP and reviewed podcasts created by the ACP for physician continuing education. In 2025 and 2026 Dr. Henri served as a Curriculum Subspecialty Editor.
Dr. Henri feels that comprehensive proactive preventive care and excellent personalized patient-physician communication are the foundations of her medical practice. She is pleased to see patients once a month at Stanford's Express Care, and otherwise as a Stanford Trusted Community Concierge Physician at the medical practice of Caras Health in Portola Valley. -
Laura Holdsworth
Sr Research Scholar, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordSenior Research Scholar
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Joseph Hopkins
Clinical Professor Emeritus (Active), Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsQuality improvement, process improvement, physician leadership development, patient safety, physician professionalism.
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Gary Hsin
Clinical Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Staff, Medicine - Primary Care and Population HealthBioDr. Hsin, Clinical Professor (Affiliated), is Chief of Palliative Medicine at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. His interests include palliative care education, global health, and compassion cultivation. Dr. Hsin is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Medicine. After completion of his family medicine residency and chief residency at West Suburban Medical Center (Oak Park, IL), he completed his subspecialty training at Harvard's Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a certified teacher in the Compassion Cultivation Training program with the Compassion Institute. Dr. Hsin has been involved in international health care efforts in Africa and Asia through the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Doctors Without Borders (MSF), and the Stanford/Yale Global Health Scholars Program; he is a Faculty Fellow at Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health.
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William Hui, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Hui is a family medicine physician. He practices in the Stanford Family Medicine clinic in Palo Alto and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Primary Care and Population Health. He serves as the point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and Minor Procedure Service Director in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health.
Dr. Hui completed fellowship training in point-of-care ultrasound at the University of Pennsylvania. He trained as a resident in family medicine at Stanford Health Care - O'Connor Hospital after earning his medical degree at Drexel University College of Medicine.
He is interested in the utilization of point of care ultrasound in outpatient primary care.
Dr. Hui is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
Dr. Hui enjoys long-distance running and bouldering in his free time. He is also a coffee enthusiast.
He speaks English fluently and Cantonese with limited working proficiency.
