Stanford's Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship Program offers fully-benefited, 12-month positions designed to provide post-graduate training to new Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) who wish to transition into specialty care and to experienced APPs who wish to transition to administration. Our goal is to provide support and training during transition to practice, allowing APP Fellows to build confidence and knowledge in the clinical specialties of Cancer Care, Cardiac Electrophysiology, Inpatient Neurosciences and Cardiothoracic Surgery, and the leadership specialty of Administration. The Fellowship teaches the core competencies for specialty certification and offers the opportunity for APPs to gain in-depth exposure to complex specialty care and systems. Clinical APP Fellows work with diverse teams of providers focused on specific patient populations through Stanford Health Care's inpatient and outpatient settings. Administrative APP Fellows work with diverse leadership teams focused on operations and quality improvement throughout the organization.
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Meagan is very excited to be joining the Stanford Health Care team as an APP Fellow in Cardiothoracic Surgery after graduating from George Washington University's PA Program this past May. Meagan first fell in love with CT surgery while working as a clinical intern for the Heart-Lung transplant team at St. Vincent's Hospital in Darlinghurst, Australia, where she observed her first CABG procedure. From there, she shadowed a CT surgery team in South Florida and completed her clinical year elective in CT surgery at the Washington, DC Department of Veteran Affairs. She is fascinated by the intricacy and complexity that comes with CT surgery and is enjoying diving into the field as an APP fellow.
As a former Division I softball player, Meagan is passionate about exercise and physical movement, which led her to spearhead the first PA chapter of Medicine in Motion, a non-profit organization founded by Harvard Medical Students in 2017, focusing on reducing student and clinician burnout through fitness, community, and philanthropy. Recently, her favorite forms of exercise have been Barry's Bootcamp classes, F45, and beautiful runs around Stanford's campus as she prepares to run the Napa Half Marathon this coming March. If she's not working out, you can find her trying different ice cream flavors at Salt n Straw, searching for the best pasta dish in the Bay Area, FaceTiming her family in Florida, or catching up on the latest show released on Netflix. Meagan's values of curiosity, integrity, compassion, mutual respect, hard work, and collaboration contribute to her passion for a team-based approach to medicine and inspire her to deliver the highest level of patient care to each patient she encounters.
Margarita graduated from UCSF as an Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner and is functioning in the role of Cancer Care APP Fellow here at Stanford. Margarita has dedicated her nursing career to caring for elderly patients. She has worked as a home health nurse and provided primary care and urgent care supporting frail elderly at the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly.
While completing Nurse Practitioner training, Margarita was one of the leaders in a longitudinal quality improvement project at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC). The project analyzed and addressed existing gaps in the process of colorectal cancer screening by introducing changes in workflow for primary care providers, resulting in improved screening rates for veterans at the SFVAMC. A whole-person approach to patient care is a core tenet of Margarita's philosophy. Margarita believes that patients are not defined by their illness, however severe or life-threatening. This aids in a better understanding of patients' preferences for care, which promotes shared decision-making and patient-centered care.
Charles graduated as a physician assistant from Touro University, California. Charles is part of the inaugural cohort for the APP Inpatient Neurosciences specialty. With a background in mental health, his original goal was to become a psychiatric PA. However, during his time in school, both of his maternal grandparents suffered from ischemic strokes. They were admitted into a Neurology ICU, which sparked his interest in pursuing neurology over psychiatry.
Charles originally joined mental health because he sought to help those suffering from depression; the process of preventing suicide and providing a space for another person to open up about their struggles was not only a professional accomplishment but a personal one that he is proud of.
Compassion and clarity are two values he continually practices both professionally and personally. From mental health to the inpatient neuroscience specialties, he believes the compassion he shows patients goes beyond acting respectfully to giving emotional and mental support. He hopes to show the same level of compassion that he gave patients at his psychiatric hospital to patients facing neurological diseases. Clarity is another value he practices both in and out of work. Outside of work, he enjoys playing tennis, hiking, learning new sports, and good food.
