Lisa N. Quach, MD

Dr. Lisa Nguy Quach, MD (she/her) is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician who practices at the Stanford Internal Medicine Clinic in Palo Alto.

She graduated summa cum laude from UC Davis with a B.S. in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior. She then received her MD degree at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA as a Geffen Scholar and was inducted into the Gold Humanism and Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Societies. There, she served as a student chief of the UCLA Student-Run Homeless Clinics, working to improve patient and medical student education as well as clinic operations.

A Bay Area native, she then returned to completed her training in the UCSF Primary Care (UCPC) track and Health Equity pathway of the UCSF Internal Medicine residency program. She was involved in projects aiming to address racial disparities in advanced care planning, improving provider workflow and education surrounding alcohol use disorder diagnosis and management, and piloting language-concordant video instructions to improve COVID-related patient education during the pandemic.

A child of Vietnamese refugees and a first-generation college student, Dr. Quach has an interest in transitions of care, improving care delivery for patients with primary languages other than English, and mentorship of students identifying as URiM.

She is conversational in Cantonese and Spanish and understands basic Vietnamese.