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Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP

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 Information
    Administrative Contact
    Leslie Steen Executive Assistant Tel Work 650-723-7609
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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

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

  • CUTTING FOR STONE Abraham Verghese,  A novel published by Alfred P. Knopf.  2009;
  • Abraham Verghese,  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). 
  • Abraham Verghese,  My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS. Simon & Schuster, New York, NY 1994.. 
  • “Culture Shock: The Patient as Icon, Icon as Patient.” Abraham Verghese,  New England Journal of Medicine.  2008; 359 (26): 2748-51
  • The Calling Abraham Verghese,  N Engl J Med.  2005; 352 (18): 1844-7