Andrew Schechtman MD

About

Dr. Andrew D. Schechtman is a family medicine doctor in San Jose, California, board certified in Family Medicine after training at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. He practices at Family Medicine Associates of San Jose, University Healthcare Alliance, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, and Stanford Medicine Partners Primary Care San Jose O'Connor, and speaks English and Spanish.

Dr. Schechtman treats common conditions including hypothyroidism, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and low back pain, along with upper respiratory infections and the common cold. His procedures include routine adult exams, adult screening blood tests such as metabolic panels and lipid panels, cancer screenings for colon, breast and prostate, and adult vaccines including Tdap, shingles, pneumococcus and flu. He is the Associate Program Director of the Stanford Health Care - O'Connor Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program and has been faculty there since 2004. Dr. Schechtman grew up in San Jose and studied psychology at UC Berkeley before attending medical school at UCLA. After residency he spent six years in New Orleans teaching at the Ochsner Clinic Family Medicine Residency, and has volunteered extensively with Médecins Sans Frontières in Uganda, Guatemala, and Liberia, as well as serving as senior physician in a remote jungle hospital in Peru; he also has a special interest in medical informatics.