Stanford University
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Rondeep Brar
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Hematology
BioAs the Chief Medical Officer of Cancer Care at Stanford Health Care, it is my privilege to partner with my colleagues in advancing innovative research alongside high quality, coordinated, and compassionate care.
I aim to provide high quality care in a diverse patient practice. My clinic includes all types of hematologic disorders, ranging from anemia, clotting/bleeding disorders, and low blood counts to complex malignancies such as leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome, myeloma, and lymphoma. I aim to combine the efficiency of a private office with the complex care expected of a tertiary institution like Stanford. I value your time and strive to maintain an on-schedule clinic. -
Michelle Elizabeth Yael Braunschweig, MD, PhD, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Braunschweig is a board-certified family medicine physician. She provides care for the entire family and welcomes patients of all ages from newborns to older adults. Her goal is to help every individual achieve the best possible health and quality of life.
Her special interests include children’s health, women's health and mental health. She is the Director of Child Health for the Division of Primary Care and Population Health, within the Department of Medicine, at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Braunschweig grew up in San Jose, CA. Prior to medical school, Dr. Braunschweig studied music and earned a PhD in musicology from UC Berkeley. Her interest in women’s health led her to volunteer as a birth doula at San Francisco General Hospital. There, she became passionate about maternal and child health, and was inspired to become a physician.
Outside of her clinical practice, she enjoys spending time with her family, plant-based cooking, swimming and exploring the beautiful Bay Area. -
Keri Brenner
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioKeri Brenner, MD, MPA is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. As a palliative care physician and psychiatrist, her clinical work includes inpatient palliative care consultations at Stanford. She was inspired to pursue palliative care after serving at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Kolkata, India on multiple occasions. Dr. Brenner’s scholarly interests and research focus on the psychological elements of palliative care, specifically psychodynamic and existential issues in patients with serious illness. Dr. Brenner completed her medical degree at Yale School of Medicine, where she received honors for her thesis on the phenomenology of suffering with terminal illness. She also has a Master in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School. Dr. Brenner completed adult psychiatry residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and palliative care fellowship at Harvard. She served on the University of Notre Dame Board of Trustees (2005-2008), and was awarded funding through Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2019). In her personal life, Dr. Brenner enjoys the beautiful outdoors of Northern California with her husband and four young children.
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Akemi Laura Brown
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Akemi Brown (she/her) is board-certified Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine physician who practices at the Stanford Internal Medicine Clinic in Palo Alto.
She graduated summa cum laude from UC San Diego with a B.S. in Human Biology. She then attended the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program where she received her MS in Health and Medical Sciences from UC Berkeley School of Public Health and her MD from UCSF. She completed her internal medicine residency in the UCSF Primary Care General Internal Medicine (UCPC-GIM) track with a Health Professions Education pathway. Following residency, she completed the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine Clinician Educator fellowship with Area of Concentration in Weight Management.
Dr. Brown is a Bay Area native who is passionate about providing patient centered care to patients in both primary care and weight management. She is also an active clinician educator who enjoys teaching medical students and residents as well as developing educational curriculum. Her work has spanned research into health disparities, interprofessional program development, and quality improvement for cervical cancer screenings. -
Kate Bubar
Postdoctoral Scholar, Infectious Diseases
BioKate is a postdoc in the Lo Lab. With a background in applied mathematics, statistics, and infectious disease epidemiology, she is passionate about using data-driven models to better understand infectious disease dynamics with the ultimate goal of informing public health policies and reducing disease burden.
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Jessica Kopcho Buesing, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Med/Hospital Medicine
BioDr. Jessica Buesing is a board-certified internal medicine physician dedicated to providing empathic, honest, open, and compassionate patient care. Before joining Menlo Medical, she cared for veterans as an academic hospitalist at the Palo Alto VA for two years. Her professional interests include improving health span and quality of life, chronic disease prevention and management, comprehensive cancer survivorship care, improving health disparities, mental health support and addiction treatment. She is committed to personalized medicine and emphasizes shared decision-making, recognizing that effective healthcare must be tailored to each patient’s unique needs. Outside of work she enjoys camping, exercise, playing music, and spending time with her husband, two children, and cats.
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Nam Quoc Bui
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Oncology
BioDr. Bui is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Stanford Cancer Institute and a specialist in Sarcoma. Dr. Bui earned an undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Stanford University and went on to earn his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He completed Internal Medicine residency at Stanford Hospital and Hematology/Oncology fellowship at the University of California San Diego, where he performed extensive research in bioinformatics to analyze tumor sequencing data.
He is involved in numerous sarcoma clinical trials, leading efforts to take new therapeutics from the lab to clinical practice. His research background and interests are in the field of bioinformatics as applied to large data sets and the study of novel compounds in rare malignancies. He also is involved in education at the Stanford University School of Medicine, serving as a lecturer and mentor to medical students, residents, and oncology fellows. Dr. Bui is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Current Problems in Cancer: Case Reports”, an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes groundbreaking cases that give insight into redefining concepts in cancer. He also serves as the Chair of the Data Safety Monitoring Committee at the Stanford Cancer Institute, overseeing the board that reviews all investigator-initiated cancer trials run at Stanford. -
Jeffrey Bunker
Fellow in Medicine - Med/Infectious Diseases
BioJeffrey Bunker is an infectious diseases physician-scientist, immunologist, and microbiologist. He is currently a clinical fellow in infectious diseases at Stanford University; he previously completed residency training in internal medicine at Stanford University and an M.D. and Ph.D. in immunology at the University of Chicago. Bunker’s research investigates interactions between the microbiome and the immune system, including fundamental questions about how and why certain microbes generate immune responses and how this interplay influences both normal homeostasis and infectious or inflammatory diseases. His clinical interests include microbial pathogenesis, antimicrobial resistance, and the diagnosis and treatment of complex infections.
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Stephan Busque
Professor of Surgery (Abdominal Transplantation), and by courtesy, of Medicine (Nephrology)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research interest is focused on the improvement of clinical immunosuppression. I am involved in the evaluation of new immunosuppressive drugs, potentially more efficacious or less toxic. My ultimate goal is to achieve tolerance, a state that would obviate the need for any drugs. I am an investigator part of a multidisciplinary tolerance induction project using total lymphoid irradiation and donor hematopoietic stem cells infusion after living donor kidney transplantation.
