Our Team
Stephen Fortmann, MD
Dr. Fortmann is the Director of the Stanford Prevention Research Center and of the Preventive Cardiology Clinic. He is also the C.F. Rehnborg Professor in Disease Prevention and Professor in the Department of Medicine.
Dr. Fortmann received his MD at the University of California, San Francisco in 1974 and Internal Medicine specialty training at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose. He then returned to Stanford for a fellowship in heart disease epidemiology and prevention. He has been an attending physician in the Preventive Cardiology Clinic since 1979.
Specialties: Lipid disorders, smoking cessation, general preventive cardiology
Randall Stafford, MD, PhD
Randall Stafford, MD, PHD, has been an attending physician in the Preventive Cardiology Clinic and the Internal Medicine Clinic since 2002. He is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Program on Prevention Outcomes and practices in the Stanford Prevention Research Center at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Stafford is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland with a Masters in Health Administration, University of California at Berkeley (UCB), California with both a Masters in Public Health and and a PhD in Epidemilogy, and the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), California, with an MD.
He completed a residency in primary care internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, Massachusetts, USA and a fellowship in clinical epidemiology through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at Atlanta Georgia, USA.
Dr. Stafford studies cardiovascular disease treatment and prevention, the adoption of new technology and prevention practices, and patterns of physician practice, particularly medication prescribing. His main areas of interest include measuring and improving the quality of outpatient care and disparities in health care by race, gender, age and socioeconomic status.
Michael McConnell, MD
Dr. McConnell is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiovascular MRI in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. He is also an attending physician in the Echocardiography Lab and the Cardiology Clinic.
Dr. McConnell graduated from MIT with degrees in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering and received his MD from Stanford University in 1990. He did his Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine training at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston and then joined the faculty at the Brigham and Harvard Medical School in 1996. He returned to Stanford in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in 1998. As a result of his combined interest in cardiovascular disease and heart disease prevention, he joined the Preventive Cardiology team in 2002.
Specialties: Noninvasive imaging, Atherosclerosis, Preventive cardiology
Mary Ann Champagne, RN, MS
Ms. Champagne is a Clinical Nurse Specialist and the Nurse Coordinator for the Preventive Cardiology Clinic. Mary Ann serves as the primary contact for all the Preventive Cardiology Clinic patients and also is a patient care provider.
She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Seattle University and her Master of Science and Clinical Nurse Specialist degree from the University of California, San Francisco.
She has spent the majority of her professional career at Stanford in the area of risk reduction and prevention of cardiovascular disease; initially employed in the coronary care unit and then moving to primary and secondary prevention research and clinical practice. She has also been a medical supervisor in a local cardiac rehabilitation program for many years.
Specialties: Lifestyle and medication interventions for abnormal cholesterol, high blood pressure and abnormal blood sugar.
Jane Borchers, MPH, RD
Jane is the dietitian for the Preventive Cardiology Clinic. She provides nutrition counseling to clinic patients regarding dietary measures to lower high cholesterol and triglycerides levels, to reduce high blood pressure and to improve blood glucose levels. She is responsible for dietary assessment for new clinic patients.
Jane received her Masters Degree in Public Health Nutrition (MPH) from University of California, Berkeley in 1986 and obtained her Registered Dietitian certification the same year.
Jane has worked on a number of cardiovascular risk reduction studies at Stanford Prevention Research Center. She has been dietitian for Preventive Cardiology since 1996.