Stephanie Harman

Dr. Stephanie Harman is a palliative care physician and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine. She graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and went on to complete a residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford and a Palliative Care fellowship at the Palo Alto VA/Stanford program. She then joined the faculty at Stanford. She co-founded the Palliative Care Program at Stanford Health Care in 2007 and served as Clinical Chief of the Section of Palliative Care in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health from 2016 - 2022. She is the inaugural Associate Chair for Women in Medicine for the Department of Medicine and the director of the Stanford Leadership Development Program, a joint program between Stanford Health Care and the School of Medicine. A 2017 Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Scholar Leader Awardee, she has a passion for leadership development and has built a Women’s Leadership in Academic Medicine (WLAM) program in the PCPH Division, which is now in its 4th year with 28 women leaders. Her other professional interests include clinical ethics in decision-making and serious illness communication skills training.