School of Medicine
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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
Lecturer, Primary Care and Population Health
BioKarleen Giannitrapani PhD MPH, is a lecturer in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford University. As an investigator at the Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i) in the VA Palo Alto Health Care System she is a co-investigator on multiple ongoing studies representing over 25 Million dollars of VA funding. Since 2018, she is also 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. Dr. Giannitrapani received her PhD in Health Policy and Management with a concentration in organizational behavior from the University of California, Los Angeles. She also has a Masters of Public Health with a concentration in community health sciences, Masters of Arts in African Studies, and a Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology. Dr. Giannitrapani's research focuses on improving the processes that interdisciplinary teams can leverage to improve pain and symptom management among high-risk high-need patients.
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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Michelle Hauser
Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated) [Vapahcs], Primary Care and Population Health
Staff, Primary Care and Population HealthBioMichelle Hauser, MD, MS, MPA, FACLM, Chef is board certified in internal medicine and completed medical school, internal medicine residency, the Zuckerman Fellows Program in Leadership & Public Service, and a Master of Public Policy and Administration degree at Harvard, as well as a Master of Science in Epidemiology and Clinical Research and the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at Stanford. She is a certified chef via Le Cordon Bleu and a Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine where she has also served on the Board of Directors and published the Culinary Medicine Curriculum—the first comprehensive, open-source culinary medicine curriculum for health professional training programs. As Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine (Affiliated) at Stanford University School of Medicine, she teaches medical students nutrition, culinary medicine, and lifestyle medicine; she is also a teaching attending for internal medicine residents, psychiatry interns, medical students, and other trainees. At the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS), Dr. Hauser practices obesity medicine via a series of group medical appointments she developed that are focused jointly on lifestyle and medical management of obesity; she also evaluates patients for bariatric surgery. Additionally, Dr. Hauser practices primary care-internal medicine and serves as teaching attending at both the VAPAHCS (General Medicine Clinic, Palo Alto, CA) and the San Mateo County Health System (Fair Oaks Health Center, Redwood City, CA). Her research, clinical, and community projects blend her training in medicine, public policy, nutrition, epidemiology, and culinary arts to focus on improving education and access to delicious, healthy food for medical professionals, patients, and the general public. Her research has been published in top medical and nutrition journals, such as JAMA and AJCN, and she has been interviewed about cooking and health by media organizations such as the New York Times, Bloomberg News, CNN, the Washington Post, NPR, Stanford Medicine, and Harvard Health Publications.
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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 Associate Professor (Affiliated) [Vapahcs], Primary Care and Population Health
Staff, Primary Care and Population HealthBioDr. Hsin is Director of the Hospice and Palliative Care Center 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 in palliative medicine at Harvard Medical School's Center for Palliative Care. He is a certified teacher in the Compassion Cultivation Training program at Stanford’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE). 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 Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholars Program; he is a Fellow at Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health.
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Sachin Jain
Adjunct Professor, Primary Care and Population Health
BioSachin H. Jain, MD, MBA is chief executive officer (CEO) at CareMore Health System, an innovative health plan & care delivery system with $1.2B revenue & over 100,000 members in 8 states. He is also consulting professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a contributor at Forbes. Dr. Jain was previously CareMore's chief medical officer (CMO) and chief operating officer (COO).
Prior to joining CareMore, Dr. Jain was Chief Medical Information & Innovation Officer at Merck & Co. He also served as an attending physician at the Boston VA-Boston Medical Center and a member of faculties at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School. From 2009-2011, Dr. Jain worked in the Obama Administration, where he was senior advisor to Donald Berwick when he led the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Dr. Jain was the first deputy director for policy and programs at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). He also served as special assistant to David Blumenthal when he was the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
Dr. Jain graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a BA in government and continued on to earn his MD from Harvard Medical School and MBA from Harvard Business School. He trained in medicine at the Brigham and Women's Medicine, earned his board certification, and continues to practice medicine at CareMore. He is co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science & Innovation; is an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI); and an invited Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP). He has published over 100 peer-reviwed articles and in journals such as the New England Journal, JAMA, Health Affairs, and was an editor of the book, The Soul of a Doctor (Algonquin Press).
Dr. Jain is a native of Bergen County, New Jersey, but presently resides in Los Angeles, California. -
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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Harika Kottakota
Stanford Stdnt Employee-Summer, Primary Care and Population Health
BioHarika Kottakota (’20) is a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology with minors in Human Rights and African Studies.
Harika has a wide range of laboratory experiences, having worked in developmental genetics and neuro-immunology labs at Stanford School of Medicine, as well as a translational cancer biology lab at Oxford University.
Harika currently serves as the Undergraduate Coordinator for the Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Program (HRTMHP), an inter-disciplinary group affiliated with Stanford Psychiatry, Stanford Handa Center, and Stanford Law School to help survivors of human rights abuses access mental healthcare reparations around the world (including in the USA, Kenya, and Uganda) through international legal systems. Harika is committed to using her role on the Global Health Student Council (https://globalhealth.stanford.edu/programs/student-council/) and as a course assistant for MED 242: Physicians and Human Rights (Winter Quarter 2020) to help expand accessibility and community around global health and human rights for Stanford undergraduates. A published poet (in-print and online), Harika is also an affiliated member of the Pegasus Physicians Writers Group at Stanford Medical School (http://www.pegasusphysicians.com/programs-awards).
Feel free to contact Harika at harikak@stanford.edu. -
Jia Li
Adjunct Professor, Primary Care and Population Health
BioI hold the position of AI Fellow and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University in the School of Medicine. In Healthcare, I am interested in how AI could improve the outcomes of individual patients as well as hospitals. I was the Head of R&D of Google Cloud AI, President of the Google AI China Center. At Google Cloud AI, our mission is to democratize AI and advance AI. My org focus on both research innovation to solve real world problems and developing the full stack of AI products on Google Cloud to power solutions for diverse industries. Before joining Google, I was the Head of Research at Snap, leading the research innovation effort. Before Snap, I led the Visual Computing and Learning Group at Yahoo! Labs. In 2014, I was selected to receive the Super Star award at Yahoo!, the highest award at the company. I was also awarded the Master Inventor Award for my innovations in AI/ML. I received my Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. I was the leader of the OPTIMOL team, which won the first prize in the Semantic Robotics Vision Challenge sponsored by NSF and AAAI in 2007. I served as the Program Chair of ACM Multimedia 2017, Area Chair of ICCV 2017, Industry Relationship Chair of CVPR 2016 and Volunteers Chair of CVPR 2010. I am serving the The Computer Vision Foundation Industrial Advisory Board and the Associate Editor of the Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics by Springer. My work has been reported in the media including: MIT Technology Review, CNBC, TechCrunch, New Scientist, Forbes and more in recent years.
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Veronique Martin
Research Associate, Primary Care and Population Health
BioVeronique Martin is an experienced researcher and project manager. She holds a PhD in Cell Biology and an MSc in Public Health. She has over 10 years' experience in research and over 8 year's experience working as a medical writer and project manager for pharmaceutical consultancies. Prior to joining Stanford, she worked at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute evaluating care delivery, and supporting healthcare management and decision making using mixed-methods studies. She was previously the lead for a antimicrobial resistance surveillance project in the UK and Ireland. She is interested in health systems research in particular primary care, physician well-being, women’s health, quality improvement and healthcare delivery. She joined the Primary Care and Population Health Department as a Mixed Method Researcher in September 2019.
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D. Alan Nelson
Data Scientist, Primary Care and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordData scientist
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Lucas Oliver Oswald
Global Health Communications Manager, Primary Care and Population Health
BioLucas is passionate about bridging the gap between science and public understanding through multimedia and the written word, focusing his career on increasing knowledge and awareness of climate change and planetary health issues.
As the Global Health Communications Manager, Lucas develops and executes communication strategies for the Center for Innovation in Global Health, designing methodologies for broader audience engagement and creating and managing editorial content. Previous to his role at CIGH, Lucas worked with as a content specialist for the Director of Health Media Innovation at Stanford Medicine, consulting on strategy for public health messaging through entertainment media forms, as well as creating and producing an online multimedia course on ethical food consumerism. Before that, Lucas was the Multimedia Content Manager at Emerson Collective, a social impact organization in Palo Alto, CA, where he designed, managed, and produced multimedia content for the environmental, food, and health verticals.
Lucas received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Earth Systems from Stanford University, completing masters of science with a focus on science communication and a bachelors of science focused on human environmental systems. He is also an avid fiction writer—during 2019, he completed the first draft of a 550 paged novel while living in South Africa—and photographer. You can find his work at Lostwald.com. -
Allison Phillips
Executive Director, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, Primary Care and Population Health
BioAllison is passionate about multi-disciplinary approaches to improving the lives of women and children worldwide. Prior to joining the Center for Innovation in Global Health in 2019, Allison was Deputy Director of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Malaria Elimination Initiative where she joined during the start-up phase and co-led strategic planning, grant management, donor and partner relations, and operations for a team that grew to 60 with an annual budget of $12million.
Prior to UCSF, Allison lived in Tanzania where she worked with a large NGO to lead malaria and HIV prevention education programs in rural communities. With over 15 years of global public health experience, Allison also worked with McKinsey and Company to recommend investment opportunities in the private health sector across Africa, worked on HIV prevention in Thailand, and researched the relationship between modern and traditional medicine in India. Allison graduated from Lewis and Clark College with a degree in Medical Anthropology, and now lives in Menlo Park with her husband and two young daughters.
