Dr. Andrew Schechtman attended medical school at UCLA and completed his family medicine residency at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in California. He is board-certified by the American Board of Family Medicine.
Having a special interest in medical informatics and communication, Dr. Schechtman is the Medical Director of Engagement and Systems Innovation at UMP. He is Stanford’s first ambulatory physician builder for Epic EMR, working to make the EMR a better experience for primary care clinicians. Dr. Schechtman is also the Associate Program Director of the Stanford Health Care – O’Connor Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program and has been a faculty member since 2004.
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. Dr. Schechtman has volunteered with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) working 6 months in Uganda, 1 month in Guatemala during the emergency relief response to Hurricane Mitch, and a year in Liberia during the civil war.
In 2017, Dr. 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. Outside of work, he enjoys creating giant bubbles, experimenting with sous-vide cooking, and spending time with friends and family.