Matthew Stevenson

Matthew Stevenson is a primary care physician and education director at VA Palo Alto General Medicine Clinic, and Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford School of Medicine.  As an educator, he supervises the Internal Medicine Continuity Clinic, runs two rotations for IM and psychiatry residents, and directs the Asynchronous Prevention Clinic: an award-winning population health outreach program.   He is a core faculty member in the Stanford Medicine residency program, where in 2025 he received the Mentorship Award for Ambulatory Education, and is also co-founder of the narrative oncology curriculum.  His narrative writing has been featured in the Nocturnists, and he has served as judge for the Paul Kalanithi Writing Award and co-founding Editor of the Pegasus Review Medical Literary Journal.  In 2025, he received the

Clinically, his interests include use of Buprenorphine for high-risk opioid deprescribing, use of patient narratives to improve advance care planning, and use of novel workflows for preventive health outreach.  During the Covid-19 pandemic, he built and oversaw VA Palo Alto’s Drive Through Respiratory Clinic and Testing program; designed EHR tools for Covid operations and epidemiologic data capture; and led the facility’s pre-exposure prophylaxis and primary care vaccination campaigns.  These efforts have been presented at the Academy Health Datapalooza, the Stanford Global Lean Medicine Conference, and Stanford Medicine Grand Rounds.