2025 Annual Report
From Moments to Momentum
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Learning and Growing Together
Discover the vibrant Educational Programs team at Stanford’s Department of Medicine, where a focus on continuous learning fosters meaningful collaborations and encourages both personal and professional growth.
SCCR: The Engine of Innovation
The SCCR team marks 10 years of progress — bringing together staff, faculty, and collaborators dedicated to driving clinical research forward.SCCR’s rigorous scientific investigations are powered by efficient operational processes and a dedicated, highly trained...
The Stanford Advantage
Graduating from medical residency with a few publications under your belt, not to mention a research grant, puts you way ahead of the game. That’s why Stanford’s residency program puts multidisciplinary collaborative research front and center. Chief resident Sulaiman Somani, MD, tells us all about it.
Sepsis Moves Fast
When a patient shows signs of sepsis, minutes matter. But treating every case the same can lead to overtreatment or deadly delays. Purvesh Khatri, PhD, and his team have developed a rapid blood test that helps clinicians make faster, more precise calls.
Teamwork in Action
When critical care physicians from Stanford are paired with critical care medical staff at community hospital intensive care units, a true partnership forms. Patients benefit, above all, and physicians from both sides reap professional and personal rewards.
When a Common Virus Becomes a Clue
Could a common virus help explain multiple sclerosis? Stanford Medicine researchers uncover surprising clues.
Resilience and Resourcefulness
Discover how the transformative SASH program is fostering resilience and innovation in health care at a time of growing global health challenges. Through partnerships and knowledge exchange, physician-leaders from African countries gain skills and insights to improve health care at home, addressing pressing challenges like antimicrobial resistance and neonatal care.
Endocrine Tumor Program Brings Unparalleled Clinical and Research Expertise Under One Roof
What do you do when you might have a pheo para, a tumor so rare that your primary care doctor may never have heard of it? Head over to Stanford, where Justin Annes, MD, PhD, and his multidisciplinary team will take care of you and your family members, who may be at risk for the disease, too.
Shots on Goal
When Bryant Lin, MD, learned he had stage IV lung cancer, hope took on new meaning. Since his diagnosis, he has focused on improving clinical research, education, and screening guidelines around his disease.
Stanford’s SMART-HM Program Empowers Junior Faculty to Become Tomorrow’s Leaders in Medicine
Andre Kumar, MD, launched SMART-HM, a structured pathway that guides junior faculty from clinical work to academic leadership through mentorship, professional development, and national collaboration – something he once wished he had himself.
Revolutionizing Heart Surgery
Instead of juggling screens and scans, Stanford medical practitioners in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine can now immerse themselves in a single, interactive 3D workspace.
Bridging the Gap
How is Stanford meeting the increasingly complex needs of our sickest and most elderly patients? By training “SNFists” to ensure continuity of care from the acute setting through to skilled nursing facilities and right out into the community. Katherine Ward, MD, tells us more.
Welcoming Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley’s Inaugural Family Medicine Residents
A new spark at Tri-Valley is here: meet the inaugural class of Family Medicine residents training to serve the region’s health needs.
Hoops of Henle
Meet the Hoops of Henle, Stanford Nephrology's vibrant intramural basketball team, where faculty and trainees connect through sport and teamwork. Founded in 2007, this coed league fosters camaraderie, boosts wellness, and reminds us that behind their esteemed titles, physicians are people, too.
Targeted Hope
A new class of hope is here: Stanford’s Gabriel Mannis, MD, is helping lead the charge with menin inhibitors – newly FDA-approved drugs transforming leukemia care and rewriting what’s possible for patients.
Limited Sobriety Pathway Saves the Lives of Those With Little Hope
By forgoing the traditional six-months-sober requirement, Stanford’s Limited Sobriety Pathway liver transplant program saves very ill patients who have little hope of survival. One patient shares how her gratitude motivated her to help other transplant recipients.
Redefining Performance
What if empathy were as important in sports as speed or strength? At Stanford’s Sports Equity Lab, Yetsa A. Tuakli-Wosornu, MD, is redefining performance by centering “invisible metrics” like access, connection, and well-being.
Bright Project Shines
Saving thousands of work-hours and providing undergraduate students with the opportunity to conduct innovative research that directly impacts patient care is just a day in the life with Vanessa Kennedy, MD, at the Stanford bone marrow transplant center.
Advancing the Next Generation of Infectious Disease Researchers
Sue Merigan Scholars, faculty mentors, and colleagues gather to celebrate advancing infectious disease research at Stanford.Thomas C. Merigan, MD, Professor Emeritus of Infectious Diseases, is a leading virologist whose work has led to treatments for HIV/AIDS,...
The Smoking Cessation Program for Veterans That Doesn’t Quit
TeleQuit is a Veterans Affairs program helping veterans quit smoking in places where care is hard to reach and quitting isn’t easy. Through phone outreach, tailored treatment, and steady follow-up, the program reaches people that other programs often miss.
Stanford Cancer Care, Now in Emeryville
What difference does an increased faculty presence make? For patients of the Stanford Medicine Cancer Center in Emeryville it means access to specialized and subspecialized quality care along with on-site clinical trials and many other extra benefits that research and academic institutions can provide.