Dr. Tennant is the recipient of multiple teaching awards as a resident and attending, sharing his drive to learn in his everyday work. He is a Chief of Hospital Medicine at UCLA Olive View and Associate Program Director. His other interests are in medical education and quality improvement. He is an active fellow of the American College of Physicians, participating as a judge of poster competitions in regional meetings and attending both state and national efforts for promotion of health policy. Dr. Tennant achieved his Doctorate of Medicine from Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Olive View-UCLA and stayed an extra year as Chief Resident.

Dr. Taylor was born and raised in rural Kansas and Pennsylvania, the youngest of four children. He headed to the big city of Providence, RI to study Neuroscience, East Asian Studies and Entrepreneurship at Brown University. Following graduation, his short-lived career in finance took him to Los Angeles, London and Tokyo, before he decided medicine was how he could directly help others who needed it the most. He attended the University of Pennsylvania where he developed a passion for health disparities, social justice and community medicine in West Philadelphia. As a medical student, he founded the nationally-recognized Cut Hypertension Program (www.cuthypertension.org), a blood pressure screening, education and referral program partnered with African American barbershops. He completed residency and chief residency at UCSF prior to joining the Stanford faculty and Stanford-Intermountain Fellowship in Population Health, Delivery Science, and Primary Care.