Faculty Leaders

Abraham Verghese

Professor and Senior Associate Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine

Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, is Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. He obtained a master of fine arts from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1990 while he was taking a sabbatical from an active AIDS practice. His first book, My Own Country, about AIDS in rural Tennessee, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for 1994 and was made into a movie. His second book, The Tennis Partner, was a New York Times notable book and a national best seller. His third book, Cutting for Stone, was published by Knopf in February 2009. He has published extensively in medical literature, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, The Atlantic, Esquire, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. He is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary diseases and infectious diseases. Verghese is acclaimed as a dedicated and inspiring teacher of medicine at the bedside, and is a sought-after clinician and diagnostician.