Clair Kuriakose, PA-C, FACHE, is executive director of advanced practice at the Center for Advanced Practice, Stanford Health Care. She is a physician assistant who graduated from the physician assistant program at Saint John’s University in New York. She also has a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business. Ms. Kuriakose specializes in performance improvement and has a green belt in Lean Six Sigma. She joined Stanford’s Center for Advanced Practice in September 2014 as the first manager of advanced practice and officially transitioned to the executive director of advanced practice role in August 2017. Ms. Kuriakose is passionate about the value advanced practice providers bring to the complex and ever-changing healthcare industry and truly enjoys collaborating with the organization’s growing team of APPs to ensure the best quality of care for patients.