Krisa Van Meurs, MD
Rosemarie Hess Endowed Professor Emerita of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, CA
Krisa Van Meurs, MD participated in Amigos for 5 years, and she had the honor of being appointed the first female Country Director. Her AMIGOS experience was the inspiration for pursuing a career in medicine.
After medical school and residency on the east coast, as well as research at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Van Meurs spent over 30 years as a faculty member in the Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and a neonatologist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. She has been actively involved in clinical care, clinical research, program administration and mentoring, and she has published over 200 manuscripts and lectured internationally. Dr. Van Meurs was named the Rosemarie Hess Endowed Professor in 2012.
Currently, while no longer in clinical practice, she continues to be active in clinical research, serving on Executive Committees for two large clinical trials, as a research mentor to young faculty, and as a member of the international Newborn Brain Society.
Dr. Van Meurs joined the Board of Directors of AMIGOS in 2025, after serving on the AMIGOS Bay Area Advisory Council for several years. Dr. Van Meurs’ daughter was an AMIGOS volunteer as well.