Faculty in the Community
Many Stanford faculty engage in research and service projects with local and international communities. Use the School of Medicine's Community Academic Profiles (CAP) directory to find faculty mentors involved in local or international community-based initiatives, or browse the lists in the links below.
Faculty Mentors in community-based research, scholarship, and service
Faculty Mentors involved with International Health programs
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The California Academy of Family Physicians is proud to award the 2006 California Family Physician of the year to Dr. Samuel LeBaron. The CAFP annually honors a family physician who represents the finest characteristics of the specialty, and goes above and beyond in service to patients, colleagues and the community. We believe it is important to honor those who stand out and serve as icons within the family medicine community.more |
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Featured Faculty Profiles
| In Conversation with Marilyn Winkleby, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Marilyn Winkleby, professor of medicine and faculty director of the Office of Community Health, is an epidemiologist committed to reducing health disparities in low-income and other medically underserved communities. She leads a research team that focuses on social determinants of health among low-income and ethnic minority populations, and conducts community-based interventions to address health disparities. More |
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| Paul H. Wise, M.D., M.P.H.
Paul Wise is the Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society at Stanford, and a core faculty member at CHP/PCOR. He is a health policy and outcomes researcher whose work has focused on children's health; health-outcomes disparities by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status; the interaction of genetics and the environment as these factors influence child and maternal health; and the impact of medical technology on disparities in health outcomes. More |
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| Samuel LeBaron, Advocate of Humanism in Medicine
In 2003, Dr. Samuel LeBaron, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Family Medicine and Director for the Center of Education in Family and Community Medicine, received the AAMC Humanism in Medicine Award. The award, sponsored by the AAMC and the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative, honors a medical school faculty physician who is a mentor for medical students and a practitioner of patient-centered care. More |
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| Lars Osterberg: "Health care is a human right."
In the mind of Lars Osterberg, every little bit helps when it comes to those with little or no access to quality health care. Since 1994, he has been doing his part at the Arbor Free Clinic, an acute-care center run by Stanford medical students in Menlo Park. Osterberg, MD, clinical assistant professor of medicine (internal medicine), has served as the director of the clinic for the last five years. More |
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Physician still focused on community after 30 years of grassroots serviceAt the height of the Chicano civil rights movement, a group of Stanford medical students helped start a free clinic in San Jose's Gardner neighborhood. The clinic served Chicano and Mexican immigrant workers and their families. In its first year, it was housed in a schoolroom at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, home to Fathers Moriarty, Boyle and Isaac, Irish priests who marched alongside Cesar Chavez. More |
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| In Conversation with Lisa Chamberlain, MD, MPH
Lisa Chamberlain, MD, a pediatrician at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, is co-founder and chair of the advocacy committee of the local American Academy of Pediatrics, a group working to improve advocacy and community pediatric training for pediatric residents. Chamberlain works directly with Stanford residents to help them connect with communities and develop advocacy programs to address issues ranging from dental health to teen pregnancy to healthcare access for children. More |
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| In Conversation with Dana Weintraub, MD
Whether addressing childhood obesity or health-care disparities, Dana Weintraub, MD, clinical instructor for general pediatrics, works to connect the problems of her patients to larger community trends. She currently serves as the project director of the Sports to Prevent Obesity Randomized Trial (SPORT) and as the medical director of the Family Advocacy Program. More |
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| In Conversation with Seth Ammerman, MD
Dr. Seth Ammerman, assistant clinical professor in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Packard Children's Hospital, is also medical director of the Teen HealthVan, an outreach program that serves homeless and uninsured adolescents in Santa Clara, San Mateo andSan Francisco Counties. More |
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