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Benjamin Hoover, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor
Stanford Health Care
Palo Alto, California

Dr. Hoover graduated with a BS in Biology and a minor in Chemistry from Duke University. After his undergraduate studies, he joined the Leppla Laboratory at the NIH and investigated the use of engineered anthrax toxin as a chemotherapeutic. Then he returned to the Duke University School of Medicine, where he earned his MD in 2017. While in medical school, he investigated gut sensation and its role in behavior using 3D electron microscopy, ultimately publishing a novel characterization of tuft cell ultrastructure.

He completed psychiatry residency at MGH-McLean. During this time, he was accepted into the R-25 funded Physician Scientist Training Program and joined the Kahn Laboratory at the Joslin Diabetes Center. He employed an iPSC model to investigate the role of insulin signaling dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease pathogenesis. His clinical interests also began to focus on the intersection of medical and psychiatric disease. He served as a chief resident and won the Anne Alonso Award for Psychotherapy and the Residency Neuroscience Award. After residency, he completed the MGH Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship.

After graduating from fellowship in 2022, Dr. Hoover joined the Stanford University School of Medicine faculty as a Clinical Assistant Professor. As part of the Medical Psychiatry division, he consults on hospitalized patients with psychiatric comorbidities, specifically training residents and fellows in critical care psychiatry. The interface between endocrinology and psychiatry also remains a particular area of clinical and research interest, and he brings years of previous laboratory experience in this area to his clinical practice.

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