Dr. Keri Brenner, MD, MPA
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Dr. Keri Brenner is a palliative care physician and psychiatrist whose work bridges science, care, and meaning. She serves on Stanford’s inpatient palliative care team and has devoted her academic career to exploring the psychological, existential, and psychodynamic dimensions of serious illness. Inspired early on by formative service in Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Kolkata, she holds an MD from Yale (with honors for her thesis on suffering in terminal illness), a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, psychiatry training at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a fellowship in palliative care at Harvard. Outside of academic medicine, Dr. Brenner enjoys her local faith community and the outdoors of Northern California with her husband and four children.