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Vandana Boparai, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Vandana Boparai is board certified in Internal Medicine. Her interest in clinical research is one of the reasons she joined medicine. She has been involved in many gastrointestinal research projects in affiliation with Stanford University. Her professional interests include healthcare maintenance, preventative medicine and women’s health, hypertension, acid reflux and diabetes management.
In her free time, she loves spending time with her kids. They love to swim together, and when time allows they love to travel all over the world. Her favorite tourist destination has been the Great Barrier Reef. -
Nathaniel Jacob Braun
Social Science Research Professional 1, Primary Care and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordResearch Manager/Analyst (Social Science Research Professional 1) - Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
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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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Walter De Brouwer
Adjunct Professor, Primary Care and Population Health
BioWalter A. De Brouwer, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Professor at the Stanford School of Medicine. As a core faculty member at CERC DICE, he is the course director for “Innovation in Healthcare: from idea to incorporation,” which includes a bi-weekly presentation. He also serves on the advisory committee focused on the strategic direction for the program and is part of the leadership team developing the program curriculum and practicum. He is the founder of doc.ai, a Palo-Alto-based Federated Edge Learning company for the payers/pharma industry which merged in January 2020 with Sharecare Inc.
Professional Education
Bachelor’s degree in Philology (University of Ghent, Belgium)
Master’s degree in Formal Linguistics (University of Ghent, Belgium)
Post-graduate: Epistemology (University of Ghent, Belgium)
Ph.D. Computational Semiotics (Catholic University of Tilburg, the Netherlands). -
Virginia Fowkes
Senior Lecturer in Medicine (Family and Community Medicine)
Sr. Research Scholar, Primary Care and Population HealthCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsEvaluation of academic-community programs for health professionals in medically underserved areas
Training of health professionals for medically underserved areas/populations
Program development in medical education (Family Medicine and (AHECs)
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Karleen Frances Giannitrapani
Instructor (Affiliated), Primary Care and Population Health
Staff, Primary Care and Population HealthBioKarleen Giannitrapani PhD MPH, is an Instructor in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford University School of Medicine. As a Core Investigator at the Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i) in the VA Palo Alto Health Care System she is the Principal Investigator of an effort to facilitate the role of employee occupational health during the Covid Pandemic. She is also a co-investigator and methods lead on multiple ongoing studies representing over 25 Million dollars of VA funding. Since 2018, she is the Associate Director of the VA Quality Improvement Resource Center (QuIRC) for Palliative care, one of three centers supporting Veterans Affairs Geriatrics and Extended Care nationally where she focuses on improving the processes that interdisciplinary teams can leverage to improve pain and symptom management among high-risk high-need patients. Her expertise includes organizational behavior, building teams, healthcare team functioning, implementation science, mixed methods-research, quality improvement, chronic pain, palliative care, and global health.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=karleen+giannitrapani
VA Appointments
Associate Director, Quality Improvement Resource Center for Palliative Care (2018-Present)
Investigator, Center for Innovation to Implementation -Ci2i (2016-Present)
Professional Education
PhD, University of California Los Angeles, Health Policy and Management (2015)
MPH, University of California Los Angeles, Community Health Sciences (2010)
MA, University of California Los Angeles, African Studies (2010)
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Christophe Gimmler, MD, MFT
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Primary Care and Population Health
BioChristophe Gimmler, MD, MFT, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine (Affiliated) at Stanford School of Medicine;
Staff Physician, Medical Service, VA Palo Alto Health Care System;
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
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After establishing and building the hospitalist and consult/liaison medicine service at the VA, Christophe now practices and teaches medical students and house staff in the primary care clinics there. He concurrently practices as a community psychotherapist and specializes in medical professionals. His central interest is the intersection of medicine and psychotherapy and, in particular, the application of psychological frameworks and skills to the practice of medicine, in addition to resiliency and burnout prevention. He developed the Medical Student Resiliency Skills Training program (MedReST) for the Stanford School of Medicine as well as the Resiliency Curriculum Series for the internal medicine residency program. He received as undergraduate degree in biology and psychology and an MD from the University of Virginia, completed his internal medicine residency at Stanford, and received a Master’s in Counseling Psychology from Sofia University.
Publications:
Foster Well-being Throughout the Career Trajectory: A Developmental Model of Physician Resilience Training:
Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Cordova MJ, Gimmler CE, Osterberg LG
2020; 95 (12):
Developing institutional infrastructure for physician wellness: qualitative Insights from VA physicians.
BMC Health Services Research
Schwartz, R., Shanafelt, T. D., Gimmler, C., Osterberg, L.
2020; 20 (1): 7 -
Laura Holdsworth
Social Sci Res Scholar, Primary Care and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordSocial Science Research Associate
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Gary Hsin
Clinical Professor (Affiliated), Primary Care and Population Health
Staff, 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. 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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Cati G. Brown-Johnson
Social Sci Res Scholar, Primary Care and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordResearch Scientist | Implementation and Social Science
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Samantha M.R. Kling
Quantitative Research Scientist, Primary Care and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordQuantitative Research Scientist in the Evaluation Sciences Unit (ESU)
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Jacob Less
Clinical Research Coordinator Associate, CV Med - Clinical Trials
QI Coordinator for T1D Exchange | Research Assistant, Medicine - Med/Endocrinology
Clinical Research Coordinator, Primary Care and Population HealthBioJacob Less is a Clinical Research Coordinator in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health. He also works as a Quality Improvement Coordinator in the Adult Endocrine Clinic in the Division of Endocrinology, Gerontology, and Metabolism (as affiliated with the Type 1 Diabetes Exchange). In his time affiliated with Stanford, he was a Chief Scribe of Stanford's Medical Scribe Fellowship (COMET), completing his term in June 2021. Since then he has transitioned into an advisory role as a Chief Emeritus with COMET where he continues supporting the program's development and conducting research.
As a Chief Scribe, Jacob managed a cohort of 15 scribes placed in 11 specialty clinics and working with 30 providers. He scribed for three providers at Stanford, working in the Endocrinology and Cardiology clinics. As a member of the COMET Leadership team, he strived to uphold the program's pillars--mentorship, research, and social fellowship. Outside of his duties in COMET, Jacob is continuing to grow and learn as a clinical researcher. He has worked as a research assistant on projects in primary care/family medicine, and diabetes mellitus. He has presented at three national conferences, both as a collaborator and lead presenter, and participated in two peer-reviewed publications. He is open to new experiences in the field of research to further his growth and build new skills.
Jacob earned his Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2018 and received his Pre-Health Professions Certificate from the San Francisco State University Post-Baccalaureate Program in June 2021. Jacob is a pre-health student currently applying to medical schools with hopes to matriculate starting in Fall 2022. Jacob developed a strong background working with marginalized communities during his undergraduate years at UCLA. He has worked in higher education as a peer counselor, and peer counseling coordinator, to the Filipino Community at UCLA and also volunteered as a social caseworker to offer low-barrier social and medical services to the medically underserved in Hollywood and Santa Monica. He has high hopes to continue supporting marginalized communities along his educational and professional journey. -
Sally Shan Li
Executive Director, Center for Asian Health Research and Education, Primary Care and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordExecutive Director, Center for Asian Health Research and Education (CARE)
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Clemence Mainpin
Visiting Instructor, Primary Care and Population Health
BioClémence Mainpin, M.P.A., is a 2021–22 French Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice. She is a project manager for the French Ministry of Health where she designed and drove implementation of several public healthcare policies, including the national strategy for telemedicine with new pricing prototypes, the public hospital reform law that reorganized the 891 public hospitals into 135 public hospital trusts and the national experimentation framework.
Improving and transforming health systems has always been the main driver of her professional path. She first led transformation on the ground level, within a university hospital where she began her career as Head of Performance, Head of Finances and Deputy Director of Maternity Services.
She truly has an innovative nature. She implemented design thinking methods into public authorities practices. She co-founded the program called HOSPITALENTS dedicated to promote intrapreneurship within public hospitals through hackathons. She is also highly concerned by empowerment issues. She takes part in a national incubator for project holders to provide every health professional a robust infrastructure to develop a prototype and make a proof of concept for any kind of organizational innovation. In this incubator, she co-designed and supervised an experimentation to switch from fee-for-service payment model to value-based healthcare, for cataract surgery.
She is a passionate believer in information transmission and sharing, which is why she notably lectures at the EHESP School of Public Health that every French Public Hospital Director has to graduate from. She is also a founding member of the University of Change Management, a public/private project to drive pragmatic reform in the healthcare system
Clémence graduated from McGill University (2006), from Sciences Po Paris (2008) and from the French School of Public Health (2011). She also holds a certification in advanced management from ICN Business School (2012).
Clémence currently conducts a research project on intrapreneurship and excubation models. She studies how to transform caregivers’ employees into entrepreneurs, through intrapreneurship programs.
