Neera Ahuja

Professor of Medicine (Hospital Medicine)

Clinical Focus

General Inpatient Medicine, Quality Improvement
Clinical Trials
Throughput
Building new clinical care models
Artificial Intelligence/LLM
Promoting physician resilience as a tool for wellness
Development of a Perioperative Medical Service for surgical co-management
Inpatient Medical Education of Housestaff
Internal Medicine
Clinical operations

Academic Appointments

Professor - University Medical Line, Medicine

Administrative Appointments

Medical Director, Pharmacy, Stanford (2021 - 2024)
Associate Residency Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program (2009 - 2019)
Division Chief, Hospital Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine (2017 - Present)
Director, Hospitalist Program, Stanford (2011 - 2017)
Medical Director, General Medicine Inpatient Wards, Stanford (2012 - Present)

Honors & Awards

Denise O'Leary SHC Board of Director's Award for excellence in patient care, Stanford Healthcare (2022)
Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award Finalist (Remdesivir in COVID-19; Stanford site PI)., National Clinical Research Forum. www.clinicalresearchforum.org. (2021)
Malinda S. Mitchell Award for Quality and Service, Stanford HealthCare (2016)
Malinda S. Mitchell Award for Quality & Service, Stanford Hospital and Clinics (2013)
Distinguished Teacher and Mentor Award, American College of Physicians (2012)
Arthur L. Bloomfield Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching, Stanford University Medical School (2011)
Divisional Teaching Award, General Medical Disciplines, Stanford University Medical Center (2010)
National Educator's Award, "Who's Who amongst Teachers and Educators" across the nation (2007)
President's Professionalism Project Award, University of Texas Medical Branch (2007)
AOA Lifetime Member, Alpha Omega Alpha Lifetime Member Induction (2006)
Clinical Women in Medicine Award; acknowledging women leaders in medicine, American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) National Award (2006)
Inducted as Faculty Mentor for Osler Student Society, UTMB (Texas) McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine (2006)
Excellence in Clinical Teaching "Golden Rattle Award", Pediatrics Dept. UTMB (Texas) (2004)
Gold-Headed Cane Award for "compassion, dedication to medicine, and a desire to serve", Awarded to one graduating medical student, UT Houston medical school (1997)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

Member, Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (2003 - 2019)
Member, Society of Hospital Medicine (2015 - Present)
Fellow, American College of Physicians (2009 - Present)
General Internist, Society of General Internal Medicine (2012 - Present)

Professional Education

Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine (2017)
Residency: University of Texas Health Sciences Center Internal Medicine Residency (2001) TX
Internship: University of Texas Health Sciences Center Internal Medicine Residency (1998) TX
Internal Medicine & Pediatrics, Univ. of Texas-Houston, Med/Peds Residency (2001)
M.D., Univ. of Texas- Houston, Medical Degree (1997)
B.A. (Honors), U.C. Berkeley, Major- Biology Minor- Creative Writing (1993)

Contact

Alternate Contact Jasmine Villarreal Administrative Coordinator jv2022@stanford.edu Tel: (650) 497-4770

Clinical (Primary)

This is the primary clinic for this clinical provider. For additional clinical locations and information, please visit the link(s) listed below in the 'Additional Clinical Info' section.

300 Pasteur Dr 3rd Floor East Pavilion Palo Alto CA 94305 Tel: (650) 723-7992 Fax: (650) 721-5425

Additional Clinical Info

Stanford Health Care

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Clinical inpatient trials, Quality improvement, Assessing interventions with operations on throughput. SDOH/Health equity
Medical education research; Intergenerational teaching/learning; Analysis of effects of duty hour regulations on housestaff training and ways to improve the system

Clinical Trials

Food Insecurity Reduction & Strategy Team Not Recruiting
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This study seeks to address the multifaceted challenges posed by food disparities and their negative consequences on health outcomes, via a comprehensive community health intervention program. Study objectives include: 1. To describe the social-demographic and clinical factors associated with food insecurity in the hospitalized diabetic population. 2. To design, implement and evaluate a nutrition program targeting the hospitalized diabetic population. The investigators will prospectively randomize the target population into either a nutrition program (Intervention), or state-of-art standard of care (SOC) in a 4:1 ratio. Participants in the intervention group will be provided the following two resources in addition to SOC: 1) Enhanced access to nutritious food (twice daily meal delivery up to 90 days post-discharge) 2) Education at discharge and continuing outreach to enhance knowledge for better diet and food options. 3. To enhance community engagement and develop a systematic implementation plan for long-term roll-out of the nutrition program.

Stanford is currently not accepting patients for this trial. For more information, please contact Christine Santiago, MD, (650) 725-5071.

Lead Sponsor
- Stanford University
Stanford Investigators
- Nidhi Rohatgi, MD MS
- Neera Ahuja
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2023-24 Courses

Independent Studies
- Directed Reading in Medicine
  MED 299 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Early Clinical Experience in Medicine
  MED 280 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Graduate Research
  MED 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Medical Scholars Research
  MED 370 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Undergraduate Research
  MED 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)

Graduate and Fellowship Programs

Medicine (Masters Program)

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