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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).
