Bio
Dr. Andre Kumar is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Stanford Division of Hospital Medicine with a passion for improving patient care through Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS), clinical research, and education. He earned his MD from Tulane University and completed his residency, chief residency, and a Master's in Education at Stanford University.
As a passionate educator and researcher, Dr. Kumar has completed three randomized trials on POCUS and its impact on patient care. He continues to conduct research and teach POCUS on a local and national level, and is committed to improving the science and education that underlie the next generation of diagnostic tools. He is the lead investigator for a multicenter trial related to ultrasound and COVID-19. Dr. Kumar was also an investigator for the ACTT and ACTIV trials for COVID-19, which brought the first COVID-19 therapeutics to patients nationwide. Currently, he serves as the Co-PI at Stanford for the National Institutes of Health RECOVER trial, a $1 billion effort to understand the long-term effects of COVID-19 on patients.
Dr. Kumar has held numerous leadership positions that reflect his commitment to advancing medical education and clinical practice. He is the Director of the Clinical Research Unit for the Division of Hospital Medicine and the Director of the Rathmann Fellowship in Medical Education at Stanford University School of Medicine. In the School of Medicine, he serves as the Co-Director of Clinical Reasoning, Associate Course Director for the Practice of Medicine course. Dr. Kumar is also the Director of the Jane A. Stanford Scholars Program and Co-Founder and Director of the ASPIRE Grant Program in the Stanford Division of Hospital Medicine.
His contributions to medical education have been recognized with several awards, including the Lawrence H. Mathers Award for Exceptional Commitment to Teaching in 2023, the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching (2018, 2022), and the David A. Rytand Clinical Teaching Award (2018, 2022). Dr. Kumar has contributed to the creation of educational content, including videos for the Stanford Medicine 25 series that cover various aspects of POCUS.
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