Residency // Leadership
Program Leadership
Ronald Witteles, MD
Program Director
Dr. Witteles (Program Director) graduated from The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and he completed his Internal Medicine residency training, chief residency, and Cardiology fellowship training at Stanford. He is an active member of the Heart Failure faculty, and frequently attends in the CCU. He serves as Co-Director of the Stanford Amyloid Center and runs an active clinical More research program in amyloidosis, cardiac complications of cancer therapy, and sarcoidosis. Dr. Witteles is the recipient of a host of clinical teaching awards, and housestaff education is his greatest passion.
Neera Ahuja, MD
Associate Program Director
Dr. Ahuja (Associate Program Director) completed her medical school education and residency in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. She served as a program director in Texas before joining Stanford in 2009 as an Associate Program Director, bringing several many years of experience in medical education to our More residency program. In addition, she serves as the Director of the Stanford Hospitalist Program, a group whose clinical, quality improvement, and educational efforts are intimately tied to housestaff education.
Stephanie Harman, MD
Associate Program Director
Dr. Harman (Associate Program Director) graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford and a Palliative Care fellowship at the Palo Alto VA/Stanford program. She is the section head for Palliative Care in the Division of General Medical Disciplines. Her research and educational interests include communication in healthcare and bioethics in end-of-life care.
Shriram Nallamshetty, MD
Associate Program Director - VA
Dr. Nallamshetty (Associate Program Director at the Palo Alto VA) graduated from Duke University School of Medicine and completed his Internal Medicine residency at Stanford. Following a chief resident year at Stanford, he completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and post-doctoral research training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Dr. More Nallamshetty’s clinical and research interests center on the metabolic underpinnings of cardiovascular disease. He currently attends in Cardiology and General Medicine at the Palo Alto VA and is actively involved in the clinical and research efforts in the Stanford South Asian Translational Heart Initiative (SSATHI).
Cybele Renault, MD, DTM&H
Program Lead in Global Health
Dr. Renault (Program Lead in Global Health) completed medical school and her Internal Medicine residency at The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and after spending a year as Chief Resident at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, she came to Stanford for her Infectious Diseases fellowship. Dr. Renault has a particular interest in working with underserved populations with a focus More on tropical disease and global health, where she has experience practicing medicine and teaching in Nepal, India, Thailand, Burkina Faso, Uganda and Zimbabwe. At Stanford, she is the primary attending physician on the inpatient Infectious Diseases consult service at the Palo Alto VA and is intimately involved with the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH). Dr. Renault is Site Director for the Johnson & Johnson rotation at Mulago Hospital in Uganda, and is Co-Director of the annual Stanford 2-week Intensive Global Health Course. She serves as a mentor and program point of contact for our Global Health Track residents, as well as for all of our residents interested in working overseas during their residency.
Angela Rogers, MD
Associate Program Director
Angela Rogers graduated from Harvard Medical School, and completed her internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship in the Harvard program. She moved to Stanford as an Assistant Professor in 2013. She is focused on critical care education for both residents and fellows, and works on the More Medicine side of the Stanford Medicine-Anesthesia combined residency program. Her research focus is on using genomics to identify novel biomarkers and improve phenotyping in sepsis and ARDS.
Robert Harrington, MD
Chair, Department of Medicine
Dr. Robert Harrington is the Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Harrington was previously the director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). His research interests include antithrombotic therapies in acute ischemic heart disease, mechanisms of disease of the acute coronary syndromes, risk stratification More in acute coronary syndromes, and clinical trial methodology. He has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts, reviews, book chapters, and editorials. He is an associate editor of the American Heart Journal and an editorial board member for JACC. He recently served as a member and the chair of the Food and Drug Administration Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee. He is a member of the Board or Trustees for the American College of Cardiology and he served as Chairman of the 2013 and 2014 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.
Abraham Verghese, MD
Vice Chair for Education
Dr. Verghese graduated from Madras University Medicine, India, and he completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship at East Tennessee State University Medicine. He is an internationally popular author; his most recent novel, Cutting for Stone topped the New York Times bestseller list for over two years. He is a prominent voice in medicine with a uniquely More humanistic view of the future of healthcare, marrying technological innovation with the traditional doctor-patient relationship. He pioneered the Stanford Medicine 25, a collection of technique-dependent bedside skills which all Stanford residents learn. Dr. Verghese is a 2014 recipient of the Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities.