Key Documents
Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP
- Professor, Medicine
Contact Information
- Clinical Offices
Department of Medicine 300 Pasteur Dr S102C MC 5109 Stanford, CA 94305 Telephone Work (650) 721-6966 Fax (650) 725-8381
- Academic Offices
Personal InformationAdministrative Contact Leslie Steen Executive Assistant Email lsteen@stanford.edu Tel Work 650-723-7609Not for medical emergencies or patient use
Clinical Focus
- Internal Medicine
- Infectious Disease
- Pulmonary Medicine
Administrative Appointments
- Residency Program Director, Stanford University, Department of Medicine , (2009– present )
- Senior Associate Chair for the Theory & Practice of Medicine, Stanford University, Department of Medicne , (2007– present )
Honors and Awards
- Senior Associate Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Stanford University (2008-present)
- Master, American College of Physicians (2005)
- John P. McGovern Medal, Osler Society, Montreal (2007)
- Doctor of Humane Letters (Hon), University of Northern Illinois (2007)
- Doctor of Science (Hon), Swarthmore College (2001)
Professional Education
- Board Certification: Pulmonary Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine (1988)
- Board Certification: Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine (1983)
- MD, Madras University Medicine (1979)
- Residency in Medicine, East Tennessee State University Medicine (1983)
- Fellow in Infectious Diseases, Boston Univ School of Medicine Infectious Diseases (1985)
- Board Certification: Infectious Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine (1986)
- Master of Fine Arts, The University of Iowa Fiction (1991)
- ETSU James H. Quillen College of Medicine (1988) TN
- Boston University Medical Center/Framington (1985) MA
- ETSU James H. Quillen College of Medicine (1983) TN
- Madras Medical College Hospitals (1980) India
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Research Interests
My interest is in clinical skills and the bedside exam, both in its technical aspects, but also in the importance of the ritual and what is conveyed by the physician's presence and technique at the bedside. This work interests me from an educational point of view, and also from the point of view of ethnographic studies related to rituals and how they transform the patient-physician relationship.
Publications
- A novel published by Alfred P. Knopf. 2009;
- The Tennis Partner: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss,1998 Aug. (Harper Collins in the USA, Vintage in the UK, Penguin in India). 1999 Oct Paperback version (by Harper Perennial in the USA and Vintage in UK).
- My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS. Simon & Schuster, New York, NY 1994..
- New England Journal of Medicine. 2008; (26): 2748-51
- N Engl J Med. 2005; (18): 1844-7