Stanford Mervyn Shoor MD

Stanford Shoor is a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Rheumatology at Stanford University. He has conducted clinical research in Rheumatology and Internal Medicine and has more than 65 publications in medical journals but his emphasis is teaching and patient care. He is a key clinical faculty member in the Rheumatology Fellowship program and heads the Division’s programs in resident and medical student education. He is the Course Director of Rheumatology Grand Rounds. His special interests are sarcoidosis, evidence-based medicine, patient self-care, and practice improvement. He received the Department of Medicine division teaching award in 2012 and 2013 and has been honored as a Visiting Professor at Hiroshima University and the Muribushi Residency Program in Okinawa. He is proud of having received the “Moving Mountains” award from the Martin Luther King Jr. Foundation of Santa Clara County. He majored in History at Stanford University and has an interest in foreign languages, especially Italian, French and Spanish. He owes his skills to his mother, who was his high school French teacher, and his father, who was a physician, but his sanity to his wife and three sons.