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Alexandra Cours, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Cours is a clinician educator in geriatrics and the clinical director for Aging Adult Services. She cares for patients as a primary care physician for older adults and as a geriatric medicine consultant in Stanford Hospital. She conducts research on bone and muscle health and leads a wellness program for medical trainees.
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Heather Truher Cousins
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Cousins is a clinician educator based at the Palo Alto VA. She is board certified in Geriatric Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and Internal Medicine. Dr. Cousins has an undergraduate degree from Stanford (Human Biology) and medical degree from the University of Chicago, and completed residency and fellowship at UCSF. She serves as medical director for the subacute nursing home (4C Short Stay CLC) at the Palo Alto VA, as well as for the VA Home Based Primary Care teams in Palo Alto and San Jose. Dr. Cousins serves as the primary faculty expert on geriatric palliative care for the Stanford Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program. She is closely involved with teaching the Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellows in the long term care setting and teaches the Geriatric-Palliative care thread for the fellowship core curriculum. Dr. Cousins is the VA site director for the Home Care Medicine rotation for the Stanford Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program. She also enjoys teaching history/physical and presentation skills to medical students in their second-year Practicum course. Her interests include supportive care for advanced cancer patients (especially head/neck cancer), nursing homes, home care medicine, transitions between care settings, elder abuse/neglect, and wound care.
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Henry C. Cousins
MD Student, expected graduation Spring 2025
Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Informatics, admitted Autumn 2021
MSTP StudentBioHenry is an MD-PhD candidate and Knight-Hennessy Scholar in the Medical Scientist Training Program and the Biomedical Informatics Program, where he is advised by Professor Russ Altman. He develops machine-learning methods to study the effects of complex genetic variation on human disease mechanisms, with focus on neurological and ophthalmic disorders. His goal is to translate genomic discoveries into disease-modifying therapies.
He received an AB summa cum laude from Harvard University in 2017, where he studied genetic mechanisms of retinal development with Professor Joshua Sanes. He then graduated with an MPhil with distinction from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. He previously worked at Leaps by Bayer and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and has received a number of awards related to research and teaching. -
Colleen Craig
Casual Employee, Medicine - Med/Endocrinology
BioDr. Craig’s research interests center on examining the roles of incretin gut hormones on glucose metabolism and weight, and on the development and application of incretin-based therapies for treatment of related conditions. In particular, Dr. Craig's clinical research has focused on elucidating the role of GLP-1 in mediating hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia conditions, including post-bariatric hypoglycemia (PBH) and congenital hyperinsulinism (HI), and on the role of GLP-1 in influencing feeding behaviors. Dr. Craig obtained her M.D. at Brown University School of Medicine and completed her postdoctoral research fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Lawrence Crapo
Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Gerontology and Metabolism) at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsInvestigation of the epidemiology of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) at a public hospital. All cases of DKA at SCVMC occurring over the past 5 years have been identified. Of the 480 cases of DKA, about 1/3 are in Type II diabetics, and 2/3 in Type I diabetics. We are exploring the causes of DKA in the two groups.
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Meredith Craven, PhD, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Craven’s research reflects her background and interests in psychogastroenterology (GI psychology), public health, and positive psychology. She has collaborated on projects across the spectrum of GI disorders, using quantitative and qualitative methods. She is interested in the role of biopsychosocial factors on symptom perception, experience, and related health outcomes and behaviors. In particular, she is passionate about investigating the role of patient strengths that can be fostered clinically, and mind-body practices.
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Anthony Crimarco
Casual Employee, Med/Stanford Center for Clinical Research
BioAnthony Crimarco, Ph.D., is a Clinical Research Coordinator for the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division at Stanford's Center Clinical for Research.
Previously, Dr. Crimarco completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at the Stanford Prevention Research Center and a Ph.D. in Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior at the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. He also completed M.S. degrees in Management at the University of Florida and Wellness Management at Ball State University.
His research focus areas include: Diet and lifestyle interventions; plant-based diets; diet and inflammation; as well as the gut microbiome and chronic disease risk.
