She is passionate about primary care education and enjoys her teaching responsibilities with medical students and family medicine residents. Yu joined the faculty in 2006 and has been the Residency Program Director since 2016. Women's health (including obstetrics), diabetes care, quality improvement, whole family careĭr. of Family Medicine, Faculty Development (2007) San Jose - O'Connor Family Medicine (2006) Stanford University School of Medicine (2003) Outside of work, he enjoys creating giant bubbles, experimenting with sous-vide cooking, and spending time with friends and family. He is Stanford's first ambulatory physician builder for Epic EMR, working to make the EMR a better experience for primary care clinicians. In 2001, he launched, MeisterMed, an online company developing coding/billing and point-of-care clinical references for mobile devices which thrived for a decade before he closed it down. Schechtman also has a special interest in medical informatics. Schechtman took a year-long sabbatical in Peru with his family where he served as the senior physician in a remote jungle hospital in the Amazon river basin treating machete injuries, pit viper bites, and leishmaniasis among other conditions. Schechtman has volunteered with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) working 6 months in Uganda treating African sleeping sickness, 1 month in Guatemala during the emergency relief response to Hurricane Mitch, and a year in Liberia during the civil war treating malaria, malnutrition, measles, cholera, and war injuries. After residency, he lived in New Orleans for 6 years, studying tropical medicine and teaching on the faculty of the Oschner Clinic Family Medicine Residency. He grew up in San Jose, California, studied Psychology as an undergrad at Cal Berkeley and medicine at UCLA. Schechtman is the Associate Program Director of the Stanford Health Care - O’Connor Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program and has been a member of our faculty since 2004. Medical informatics (using technology to improve medical practice), tropical medicine, travelers' healthĭr. of Family Medicine, Faculty Development (2005) David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (1993)Ĭontra Costa Regional Medical Center Family Medicine in Martinez, CA (1996)

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