Faculty Mentor List

List of potential mentors: includes a balance of MD and PhD mentors across the core collaborative departments.
They are grant-funded faculty engaged in a broad range of cardiovascular imaging research
with experience training successful young investigators.

Francis Blankenberg, MD (Radiology, MIPS, Pediatrics)

Wah Chiu, PhD (Bioengineering, Microbiology and Immunology)

Kim Butts Pauly, PhD (Radiology, Bioengineering)

Jennifer Cochran, PhD, ( Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering)

Audrey Ellerbee, PhD (Electrical Engineering)

Dominik Fleischmann, MD, ( Radiology)

Francois Haddad, MD (Medicine, Cardiovascular)

Paul Heidenreich, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine, Health Research and Policy)

Robert Herfkens, MD (Radiology)

Butrus Khuri-Yakub , PhD (Electrical Engineering)

Craig Levin, PhD, (Radiology, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Bioengineering)

David Liang, MD, PhD (Cardiovascular Medicine, Electrical Engineering)

Sanjiv Narayan, MD, PhD (Cardiovascular Medicine)

Patricia Nguyen, MD (Medicine, Cardiovascular)

Koen Nieman, MD, PhD (Medicine, Cardiovascular, and Radiology)

Dwight Nishimura, PhD (Electrical Engineering)

John Pauly, PhD (Electrical Engineering)

Shreyas Vasanawala, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology 

Joseph Wu, MD, PhD (Cardiovascular Medicine, Radiology, MIPS)

Lei Xing, PhD (Radiation Physics, MIPS)

Phillip Yang, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine) 

Greg Zaharchuk, MD, PhD (Radiology)

Internal Advisory Board

Russ Altman, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Bioengineering 

Daniel Bernstein, MD Professor in Pediatrics (Cardiology), Associate Director for Education and Training of the Cardiovascular Institute

Daniel Herschlag, MD Professor of Biochemistry and, by courtesy, Chemical Engineering, and Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs

Daria Mochly-Rosen, PhD Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and Senior Associate Dean for Research and Training

Albert Macovski, PhD Professor (emeritus) of Electrical Engineering and Radiology

Richard Popp, MD Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine (Emeritus) and Director of Ethics and Policy, Stanford Biodesign Program 

Paul Yock, MD Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Director, Stanford Biodesign Program