Cardiovascular Institute

Member List & Research Profiles

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Oscar Abilez, MDAbilez, Oscar J., MD - Post Doc, Surgery, Vascular
Research Lab: http://vascular.stanford.edu/research/index.html
Research Interests: Stem cell biology, vascular developmental biology, vascular tissue engineering, medical device design

Adams, Eloa - Fellow, Pediatrics, Critical Care

Ako, Junya - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular

Amin Al-Ahmad, MDAl-Ahmad, Amin, MD - Faculty Medicine, Cardiovascular

Alhasaniah, Saad, MD - Fellow, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Ali, Ayyaz - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular

Ali, Shah Rukh, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Immunology
Ali, Ziad (Zino), MD, PhD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular

Wesley Alles, PhDAlles, Wesley, PhD - Research Scientist, Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Health Improvement Program
Research Lab: http://hprc.stanford.edu/
Research Interests: Health promotion, specifically behavior modification.  We are
providing this service to Stanford Faculty, Staff, Retirees, and their familes.  The program was tested in YMCA along the West Coast and is now being offered to 45 YMCAs that are part of a nationwide Collaborative. Health Promotion Resource Center (HPRC) licenses and sells educational materials to HMOs, hoealth and hospital systems, public health departments, universities, and commercial corporations. Most focus on cardiovascular disease prevention

Almendral, Jesus, MD - Fellow, Medicine, Cardiovascular

Russ Altman, MD, PhDAltman, Russ, MD, PhD - Faculty, Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine
Research Interests: The application of computational technologies to problems in molecular biology of relevance to medicine
Katrin Andreasson, MDAndreasson, Katrin, MD - Faculty, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Research Interests: Stroke and neurodegeneration and the role of protective prostaglandin receptors.
Timothy Angelotti, MD, PhDAngelotti, Timothy, MD, PhD - Faculty, Anesthesia
Research Lab: http://med.stanford.edu/anesthesia/research/#angelotti
Research Interests: Autonomic nervous system pharmacology, ion channels and G-protein coupled receptors; improved communication and collaboration to develop next generation pharmaceuticals.

Ardehali, Reza, MD - Post-Doc Medicine, Cardiovascular
Armstrong, Kaylyn, RN - SHC Staff, SHC Cardiology-Arrhythmia Service
Arumugam Niveditha - Grad Student, Mechanical Engineering
Euan Ashley, MRCP, PhDAshley, Euan, MRCP, PhD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests: My research interests are translational. We use high dimensional genomic analysis to identify myocardial gene expression networks then use molecular, cellular and classical physiology tools to assay the biological systems. Our interests range from fit to failing hearts.
Themistocles Assimes, MD, MSAssimes, Themistocles, MD, MS - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular


Research Interests: Genetic Epidemiology, Genetic Determinants of Complex Traits related to Cardiovasular Medicine, Pharmacoepidemiology of Cardiovascular Drugs & Outcomes, Biomarkers to predict major adverse cardiovascular events
Azuma, Junya - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular

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Baker, Julie C., PhD - Faculty, Genetics
Research Lab: http://www.stanford.edu/group/bakerlab/
Laurence Baker, PhDBaker, Laurence, PhD - Faculty Health Research Policy, Economics
Research Interests: Health economics
Balster, Doug, MD
- Post-Doc, Pediatrics, Cardiology
Roland Bammer, PhDBammer, Roland, PhD - Faculty; Research, Scientist Radiology
Research Lab: http://rsl.stanford.edu
Research Interests: Rapid MRI, flow visualization, better imaging methods to investigate morph
ology and function of the heart in adults and children
Dipanjan Banerjee, MDBanerjee, Dipanjan, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Barbosa, Laura - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Fritz Bech, MDBech, Fritz, MD - Faculty, Surgery, Vascular
Research Interests: Functional outcome after treatment for peripheral arterial disease, and in the relationship between emerging technologies and physician practice patterns. Bech is preparing a clinical trial comparing exercise-based treatment to revascularization with minimally invasive techniques in patients with mild intermittent claudication due to obstruction of the femoral artery
Beraud, Anne-Sofie - Cardiovascular Medicine
Research Interests: Clinical research in cardiovascular imaging, with a special interest in echocardiography in the assessment of mitral valve prolapse, pulmonary hypertension, and the characterization of Marfan cardiomyopathy
Daniel Bernsein, MDBernstein, Daniel, MD - Faculty, Pediatrics, Cardiology
Research Interests: Cardiomyopathy, adrenergic receptors and polymorphisms, transgenic models, transplantation. Heart failure in complex congenital heart disease
Kathy Berra, MSN, ANP, FAANBerra, Kathy, MSN, ANP, FAAN - SHC Medicine, Prevention Research Center
Research Interests: CVD Prevention Women's Health; innovative stategies for prevention and heart health promotion
Berry, Gerald, MD - Faculty, Pathology, Cardiac & Pulmonary
Research Interests: Cardiopulmonary transplantation, Pulmonary Hypertension
Ramin Beygui, MDBeygui, Ramin, MD - Faculty, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Vivek Bhalla, MD, FASNBhalla, Vivek, MD, FASN - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology
Research Lab: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Vivek_Bhalla/
Research Interests:
(1) End-organ complications of diabetes mellitus (2) Molecular mechanisms of salt-sensitive hypertension (3) Kidney disease Insulin resistance and the kidney

Bhatt, Kirit - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Sandip Biswal, MDBiswal, Sandip, MD - Faculty, Radiology
Richard Bland, MDBland, Richard, MD - Faculty, Pediatrics
Research Lab: http://med.stanford.edu/labs/rabinovitchbland/
Research Interests: Pulmonary circulation and lung injury; Gene regulation of lung development; Impact of mechanical ventilation on genes that control the formation of alveoli and lung blood vessels after premature birth

Blankenberg, Francis G., MD - Faculty, Radiology
Research Interests: Studies on apoptotic cell death using the H MRS phenomenon
Terry Blaschke, MDBlaschke, Terry, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology, Molecular Pharmacology
Research Interests: My ongoing Stanford research activities involve studies on the clinical pharmacology of drugs used in HIV-infected patients.
Helen Blau, PhDBlau, Helen, PhD - Faculty, Microbiology & Immunology; Laboratory for Genetic Pharmacology
Research Lab: http://www.stanford.edu/group/blau/
Research Interests: Stem cell repair of heart damage

Blundo, Jennifer - Student, Mechicanical Engineering, BioX
Boltz, M. Gail - Faculty, Anesthesia
Bos, Ernst - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Bothe, Wolfgang, MD - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Bravman, John, PhD - Faculty, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: Materials for medical devices
Brenner, Jacob, PhD - Student, Chemical & Systems Biology, MSTP
Research Interests: Calcium signaling in the regulation of cardiac hypertrophy, cardiomyopathy, and heart failure
Todd BrintonBrinton, Todd J. - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Brown, Ian, MD, FACEP, FAAEM - Faculty, Medicine, Emergency Medicine
Thomas Burdon, MDBurdon, Thomas, MD - Faculty, Cardiothoracic Surgery, General Surgery
Atul Butte, MD, PhDButte, Atul, MD, PhD - Faculty, Medicine, SMI, Pediatrics,Computer Science
Byrne, James, PhD - Faculty, Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education Institute for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine; OB-Gyn

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Anthony Caffarelli, MDCaffarelli, Anthony, MD - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Michele Calos, PhDCalos, Michele, PhD - Faculty, Genetics
Research Lab: http://www.stanford.edu/~calos/
Research Interests: Gene Therapy, Stem Cells

Chai, Hong, MD, PhD - Post-Doc, Surgery
Chalajour, Fariba, MD - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Champagne, Mary Ann, RN, MSN - SHC Staff, SHC Preventive Cardiology/Cardiovascular Service Line
Research Interests: Primary and Secondary Prevention
Frandics Chan, MD, PhD Chan, Frandics, MD, PhD - Faculty, Radiology, Diagnostic Cardiac MRI

Chanani, Nikhil K. - Pediatrics Cardiology
Research Interests: Pediatrics, outcomes
Ching-Pin Chang, MD, PhDChang, Ching-Pin, MD, PhD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests: mechanisms of cardiovascular development; transcriptional and signaling events that coordinate their interactions and assembly into heart tissues; developmental mechanisms that control tissue formation and recapitulate the developmental processes for therapeutic or regenerative purposes; repair mechanisms of vascular injury in adults
Chang, Christine - Post-Doc, Anesthesia
Chang, Paul - Sr. Research Scientist, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Interests: Congenital Heart Disease and Transplant
Chang, Stephanie - Grad Student, Research
Charlton, Carol A., PhD - Researcher, Medicine, Nephrology
Charo, David, MD - Fellow, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Ajay Chawla, MD, PhDChawla, Ajay, MD, PhD - Faculty, Medicine, Endocrinology
Research Interests: Transcriptional control of macrophage biology and lipid metabolism by members of the nuclear receptor superfamily, specifically the PPARs
Cheng, Zhongwei, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular, Arrhythmia service
Chennazhi, Krishna Prasad , MD - Post-Doc, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Eric Chiao, PhDChiao, Eric T., PhD - Instructor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Research Interests: Deriving new human embryonic stem cell lines and directing the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells towards cardiovascular cell fates
Clifford Chin, MDChin, Clifford, MD - Faculty, Pediatrics, Cardiology
Research Interests: Exercise physiology, transplant
Choe, Elizabeth - Post-Doc, Medicine,  Cardiovascular
Chruscinski, Andrzej , MD
- Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Chun, Hyung J., MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Chung, Jaehoon, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine,  Cardiovascular
Churchill, Eric N, PhD - Post-Doc, Chemical & Systems Bio
William T. Clusin, PhDClusin, William T., MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests: Cardiac Electrophysiology, Ion Channels, Arrhythmias, Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Cardiac Ischemia, Biophysics, Neurobiology
Andrew Connolly, MD, PhDConnolly, Andrew , MD, PhD - Faculty, Pathology
Research Interests: vascular biology and cardiovascular pathology. We are currently working on gene expression in endothelial cells at sites of pathology
Conolly, Steven - Post-Doc, Bioengineering
Carol Conrad, MD, PhDConrad, Carol , MD, PhD - Faculty, Pediatrics, Pulmonary
Research Lab: http://cfcenter.stanford.edu/
Research Interests: Lung Inflammation in Cystic Fibrosis and other pulmonary diseases, oxidation-reduction balance, NO biology

Chris Constantinou, MDConstantinou, Chris, MD - Faculty, Urology
Research Interests: Pharmacologic methods in identifying alpha adrenergic receptors in the obstructed urinary tract; Fluid mechanics and physiological mechanisms of contractility in the urinary tract; Biomedical Engineering approaches in the characterization of static and dynamic properties of soft tissues; Image processing and 3D reconstruction of magnetic resonance; Computer models and vector analysis of pelvin floor musculature, Software for interactive teaching.
Christopher Contag, PhDContag, Christopher, PhD - Faculty, Pediatrics, Natology
John Cooke, MD, PhDCooke, John, MD, PhD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Lab: http://cvmedicine.stanford.edu/vascularmedicine/
Research Interests: Endothelial biology, atherosclerosis, angiogenesis, Genomic and proteomic determinants of peripheral arterial disease

Allen Cooper, MDCooper, Allen D., MD - Faculty, Medicine, Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Research Interests: Lipid and Lipoprotein metabolism, Atherogenesis
David Cornfield, MDCornfield, David, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care
Gerald Crabtree, PhDCrabtree, Gerald, PhD - Faculty, Developmental Biology, and Pathology, HHMI
Research Lab: http://crablab.stanford.edu/index.html
Martha Cyert, PhDCyert, Martha S., PhD - Faculty, Biology
Research Lab: http://www.stanford.edu/group/cyert/
Research Interests:
Mechanisms of Ca2+-dependent signaling using the unicellular eukaryote,Saccharomyces cerevisiae, as a model system

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Dai, Hongjie, PhD - Faculty, Chemistry
Dake, Michael, MD - Faculty, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Ronald Dalman, MDDalman, Ronald , MD - Faculty, Surgery, Vascular, VAPA
Daniels, David, MD - Fellow, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Dash, Rajesh - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular, MRI
Daughters, George T., MD - Faculty, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Interests: 3-D Cardiac dynamics, including aortic and mitral valves
Dauskardt, Reinhold H., PhD - Faculty, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests: Mechanical and fracture behavior, biomaterials, soft tissue mechanics
Davies, Frances, PhD - Researchers, Anesthesia
Vinicio de Jesus Perez, MDde Jesus Perez, Vinicio, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine
DeBusk, Robert , MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular, PCOR/CHP: Center for Health Policy, Institute for International Studies
Research Interests: Creation of new systems to integrate the prevention and rehabilitation of coronary artery disease
deGoma, Emil - Fellow, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Desai, Sapna, MD - Fellow, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Dewey, Frederick, MD - Fellow, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Gundeep Dhillon, MDDhillon, Gundeep, MD - Faculty, Medicine,  Pulmonary & Critical Care
Ricardo Dolmetsch, PhDDolmetsch, Ricardo, PhD - Faculty, Chemical and Systems Biology
Research Lab: http://www.stanford.edu/group/dolmetschlab/
http://www.stanford.edu/group/dolmetschlab/Dolmetsch_Lab_Website/About_Ricardo.html
Research Interests: Calcium signaling in neurons and cardiomyocytes. cell biologist who combines advanced microscopy, biochemistry and genetics to determine how calcium channels regulate the cell biology of neurons and myocytes.  His lab also studies the cell biological basis of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Doyle, Ramona, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care
Draney, Mary  T., PhD - Faculty, Mechanical Engineering , Biomechanical Engineering
Research Interests: aortic biomechanics
Drukker, Micha - Post-Doc, Pathology
Anne Dubin, MDDubin, Anne, MD - Faculty, Pediatrics, Cardiology
Research Interests: Resynchronization clinical trials
Duffield, Chris, PhD - Researcher, Pediatrics, Hematology, Oncology

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Edwards, Kim A. - Medicine, Cardiovascular
El-Bizri, Nesrine M., PhD - Post-Doc, Pediatrics

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Rebecca Fahrig, PhDFahrig, Rebecca, PhD - Faculty, Radiology, Diagnostic
Fajardo, Giovanni - Post-Doc, Pediatrics
Fan, Xiujun, MD - Post-Doc, Obstetrics & Gynecology
James Fann, MDFann, James, MD - Faculty, Cardiothoracic Surgery
William Fearon, MDFearon, William, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests: Interventional cardiology and coronary vascular reactivity
Jeff Feinstein, MD, MPHFeinstein, Jeff, MD, MPH - Faculty, Pediatrics, Cardiology
Research Interests: (1) computer simulation and modeling of cardiovascular physiology with specific attention paid to congenital heart disease and its treatment, (2) development and testing of transcatheter therapies for the treatment of congenital heart disease, and (3) the evaluation and treatment of pulmonary hypertension/pulmonary vascular disease.
Finsterbach, Tom, MD - Researchers, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Michael Fischbein, MD, PhDFischbein, Michael, MD, PhD - Faculty, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Interests: Mechanisms of allograft rejection, ischemic/reperfusion injury, and molecular and genetic mechanisms of aortic aneurysm/dissection development. Clinical research interests include thoracic aortic diseases (aneurysms, dissections).
Fitzgerald, Peter, MD, PhD- Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular, Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Intravascular ultrasound
Fleischmann, Dominik, MD - Faculty, Radiology, Diagnostic
Foppiano, Linda, MD - Faculty, Anesthesia
Forrester, Matthew, MD - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Stephen Fortmann, MDFortmann, Stephen, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center
Research Lab: http://prevention.stanford.edu/
http://reynolds.stanford.edu/proj3.html
Research Interests: CVD epidemiology and prevention

Michael Fowler, MDFowler, Michael, MD - Faculty, Medicine,  Cardiovascular
Research Interests: Congestive Heart Failure
Frank, Curtis, PhD - Faculty, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering
Research Interests: Polymer surfaces and interfaces; virology, immunology; biomolecular materials including phospholipids, lipopolymers, polypeptides, and oligonucleotides.
Freeman, James - Post-Doc, Medicine,  Cardiovascular
Victor Froelicher, MDFroelicher, Victor, MD
- Faculty, Medicine
Research Interests: Exercise sciences; computers, ECG, Treadmill exercise testing
Fuller, Gerald G., PhD - Faculty, Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Vascular Anastomosis Using Thermoreversible Gels
Margeret Fuller, PhDFuller, Margaret T., PhD - Faculty, Developmental Biology, Human Biology & Genetics
Research Interests: Mechanisms that regulate stem cell behavior

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Gallagher-Thompson, Dolores, PHD, ABPP - Researcher, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Research Lab: www.oafc-menlo.com
Research Interests: Depression (assessment & treatment) and how that common mental health disorder impacts women's cardiovas
cular health status.


Sam Gambhir, MD, PhDGambhir, Sam, MD, PhD - Faculty, Radiology, Molecular Imaging, Nuclear Medicine
Research Lab: http://mips.stanford.edu; http://nucmed.stanford.edu
Research Interests: Molecular Imaging, Gene Therapy

Christopher Gardner, PhDGardner, Christopher, PhD - Faculty, Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Heart Disease Prevention Center
Research Lab: http://nutrition.stanford.edu/
Research Interests: Nutrition. Chronic disease prevention. Cardiovascular disease risk factors. Clinical trials.

J. Kent Garman, MD, MS, FACCGarman, J. Kent, MD, MS, FACC - Faculty, Anesthesia, Cardiovascular Anesthesia
Ghebremariam, Yohannes, PhD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
John Giacomini, MDGiacomini, John, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular, VAPAHCS
Research Interests: Cardiovascular pharmacology
Girard-Hughes, Erin - Post-Doc, Bioengineering
Glotzbach, Jason, MD - Post-Doc, Surgery
Goergen, Craig - Student, Bioengineering
Goktepe, Serdar, PhD - Post-Doc, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Biomechanics Group
Research Lab: http://biomechanics.stanford.edu
Research Interests: applied and computational solid mechanics and computational biomechanics

Mary Goldstein, MDGoldstein, Mary, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Health Research & Policy, Primary Care & Outcomes Research, VAPA
Research Lab: http://chppcor.stanford.edu/research/2091/Research Interests: My major research focus is evaluation of methods of implementating clinical practice guidelines, particularly with computerized, guideline-based, automated decision support; innovative methods of health care delivery for hypertension.
Michael Goris, MD, PhDGoris, Michael, MD, PhD - Faculty, Radiology, Diagnostic and Nuclear Medicine
Research Lab: http://nuclearmedicine.stanford.edu/
Research Interests: Image processing; expert systems in diagnosis, Cardiac PET/SPECT

Michael K. Gould, MD, MSGould, Michael K., MD, MS - Faculty, Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Health Research and Policy (by courtesy) VAPA
Research Interests: Outcomes and effectiveness research, venous thromboembolism, and (to a lesser extent) pulmonary hypertension; lung cancer quality of care and cost-effectiveness
Grahn, Dennis, PhD - Faculty, Biological Sciences
Grant, Budas, PhD - Post-Doc, Chemical & Systems Biio

Ralph Greco, MDGreco, Ralph, MD - Faculty, Surgery
Research Interests: Application of micro/nanotechnology to biological systems


Green, Eric - Medicine
Greif, Daniel, MD - Instructor, Medicine, Cardiovascular and Biochemistry
Research Interests: Arteries supply critical nutrients to metabolically active tissues of the body and have an intricate structure which includes a single inner cell layer of endothelial cells (ECs) surrounded by multi-layered vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). A variety of vascular diseases, such as pulmonary artery hypertension and coronary artery atherosclerosis, are characterized by excessive and disordered EC and VSMC proliferation and migration. Many of the molecular mechanisms underlying these findings are likely to recapitulate the processes regulating morphogenesis of developing vessels. However, the development of the VSMC and EC layers of vessels is a poorly understood process. We are studying the morphogenesis of the left pulmonary artery of the embryonic mouse and our work, to date, has made this vessel one of the best described process of artery formation in vivo. Consequently, this work promises to have important implications for both vascular biology and clinical disorders characterized by aberrant EC and VMSC physiology.


Gross, James J., PhD - Faculty, Psychology, Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory
Research Lab: http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~psyphy/; http://www-psych.stanford.edu/%7Ejames/
Research Interests: Biobehavioral aspects of cardiovascular disease (with a particular focus on the role of emotion regulation)

Samira GuccioneGuccione, Samira - Faculty, Radiology, Diagnostic
Gupta, Anurag, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Geoffrey Gurtner, MDGurtner, Geoffrey, MD - Faculty, Surgery, Plastic & Reconstructive
Guta, Cosmin, MD - Faculty, Anesthesia

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Francois Haddad, MDHaddad, Francois, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular, Pulmonary Hypertension Group
Hang, Calvin T. - Grad Student, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Frank Hanley, MDHanley, Frank, MD - Faculty, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatrics
Research Interests: Fetal surgery, surgery of complex cardiac malformations in neonate
Katherine Harrington, MDHarrington, Katherine, MD - Post-doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery
William L. Haskell, PhDHaskell, William L., PhD - Faculty, Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center
Research Lab: http://prevention.stanford.edu/; http://stanfordheart.net
Research Interests: Preventive Cardiology

Paul Heidenreich, MDHeidenreich, Paul, MD, MS - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular, Health Research & Policy VAPA
Research Interests: Outcomes research; cost-effectiveness of therapies for myocardial ischemia and congestive heart failure
Heilshorn, Sarah, PhD - Faculty, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Lab: http://www.stanford.edu/group/heilshorn/
Research Interests: biomaterials, tissue engineering, protein engineering, microfluidics

H. Craig Heller, PhDHeller, H. Craig, PhD - Faculty, Biological Sciences
Research Lab: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/biology/faculty.html; http://neuroscience.stanford.edu/
Research Interests: Sleep, Rhythms, and Human performance

Helms, Jill, PhD - Faculty, Developmental Biology, Human Biology & Genetics
Jill Helms, MDHelms, Jill, MD - Faculty, Surgery, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Research Interests: craniofacial development and regenerative medicine.
Robert Herfkens, MDHerfkens, Robert, MD - Faculty, Radiology
Research Interests: Noninvasive CV imaging = CT MRI PET/CT; CV imaging and/or Aorta/valve disease.
Hill, Charles, MD - Faculty, Anesthesia
Hirschberg, David, PhD - Researcher, ITI, Center for Immune Monitoring
Mark Hlatky, MDHlatky, Mark, MD - Faculty, Health Research Policy, Cardiovascular Medicine
Research Lab: http://reynolds.stanford.edu/, http://reynolds.stanford.edu/proj4.html
Research Interests:
Outcomes research, clinical epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, clinical trials; ischemic heart disease, arrhythmias

Ho, Michael - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Ho, Yen-Dong, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Chuong Hoang, MDHoang, Chuong, MD - Faculty, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Interests: cancer biology; genomics research in lung cancer with a focus on translational research aimed at identifying molecular mechanisms of metastasis.
Lawrence Hofmann, MDHofmann, Lawrence "Rusty", MD - Faculty, Radiology, Interventional
Hollak, Brooke - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Honda, Yasu - Researcher, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Ralph Horwitz, MDHorwitz, Ralph, MD - Faculty, Medicine
Houston-Miller, Nancy, RN, BSN - Researchers, Medicine, Cardiovascular

Henry Hsia, MDHsia, Henry, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular


Hsu, Sheau-Yu Teddy, PhD - Faculty, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Reproductive Biology
Research Interests: Endocrinology, Bioinformatics, reproductive biology
Shijun HuHu, Shijun – Radiology
Research Lab: http://mips.stanford.edu/public/faculty-info?personnel_id=2813
Research Interests: Gene and cell therapy on cardiovascular disease

Huang, Mei - Post-Doc, Radiology
Huang, Ngan, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Sharon Hunt, MDHunt, Sharon, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests: Clinical care and research in heart transplantation
Hunter, Arwen, PhD - post-doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular

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Kai Ihnken, MDIhnken, Kai, MD - Faculty, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Ingels, Jr., Neil B., PhD - Researcher, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Interests: Cardiovascular Biomechanics, Valvular Heart Disease
Irani, Afraaz R.
Itakura, Haruka, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine
Ito, Satoshi, MD - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery

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Rex Jamison, MDJamison, Rex, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Nephrology
Research Interests: lowering plasma homocysteine in patients with kidney disease; decrease in heart attack, stroke, amputation of all or part of a lower extremity; a composite of the foregoing secondary endpoints and primary end point, and, in patients undergoing hemodialysis, thrombosis of the vascular access.
Jiang, Lijun - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Jiang, Xinguo - Post-Doc, Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care
Jin, Hong - Medicine, Cardiovascular
Jolley, Matthew, MD - Student
Joyce, David, MD - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery

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Kaiser, Clayton, MD - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Kamousi, Baharan - Grad Student, Electrical Engineering
Arvindh Kanagasundram, MDKanagasundram, Arvindh, MD - Post-Doc, School of Medicine
Research Interests: 1) Mechanisms of initiation and maintenance of ventricular tachycardia. 2) Cryoablation of supravantricular tachycardias.
Max Kanevsky, MD, PhDKanevsky, Max, MD, PhD - Faculty, Anesthesia
Research Interests: 1. Potassium channels and cardioprotection; 2. Transesophageal echocardiography
Peter Kao, MD, PhDKao, Peter, MD, PhD - Faculty, Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care
Research Interests: Pulmonary hypertension
Kapoor, John - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Kenna, Heather - Researcher, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Khan, Mohammad Afzal, PhD - Postdoc, Medicine
Kiran Khush, MDKhush, Kiran, MD - Instructor, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests: heart failure, heart transplantation, cardiorenal syndrome
Michaela Kiernan, PhDKiernan, Michaela, PhD - Researcher, Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center
Joel Killen, PhDKillen, Joel, PhD - Faculty, Medicine, Prevention Research Center, General Internal Medicine
Kim Keekyoung, PhDKim, Keekyoung, PhD - Post-doc, Mechanical Engineering and Pediatrics Cardiology
Research Lab: http://microsystems.stanford.edu
Research Interests: Microelectromechanical Systems for biomechanics measurement of cardiomyocytes and stem cell derived cardiomyocytes

Kim Seung, MD, PhDKim, Seung, MD, PhD - Faculty, Developmental Biology, HHMI
Kim, Yu-Mee, PhD - Post-Doc, Pediatrics, Cardiology, Pulmonary & Critical Care
Abby King, PhDKing, Abby, PhD - Faculty, Health Research & Policy
Kleisli, Thomas - Post-Doc, Pediatrics, Cardiac Lab
Kleppner, Sofie, PhD - Program Officer, Cardiovascular Institute
Knowles, Josh, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests:
Genetic susceptibility to coronary disease and heart failure
Kobilka, Brian, MD - Faculty, Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Cardiovascular Medicine
Research Lab:
http://www.med.stanford.edu/kobilkalab/index.html
Research Interests:
Genetic mouse models of cardiovascular disease

Koizumi, Nobusato, MD, PhD - Post-doc, Vascular Surgery
Research Interests:
Thoracic aortic aneurysm, Abdominal aortic aneurysm, Surgical treatment and Endovascular intervention
Kojima, Yoko - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Koo, Bon-Kwon - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Kosuge, Nori, Kosuge, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine
Nishita Kothary, MDKothary, Nishita N., MD - Faculty, Radiology, Interventional
Research Interests:
Peripheral vascular disease, Angiogenesis, Lung ca, GI oncology
Fredric Kraemer, MDKraemer, Fredric B., MD - Faculty, Medicine, Endocrinology
Research Interests: Cellular lipid metabolism
Krampitz, Geoffrey, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Mark Krasnow, MD, PhDKrasnow, Mark, MD, PhD - Faculty, Biochemistry
Research Interests:
Lung development from drosophila to mice
Krishnamurthy, Gaurav - Student, Mechanical Engineering
Thomas Krummel, MDKrummel, Thomas, MD - Faculty, Surgery, Pediatrics
Kuhl, Ellen, PhD - Faculty, Mechanical Engineering
Kuhnert, Frank, MD - Researchers, Medicine, Hematology
Kume, Teruyoshi, PhD - Post-Doc
Kundu, Ramendra, PhD - LSRA, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Kuo, Calvin, MD, PhD - Faculty, Medicine, Hematology
Research Lab: http://hematology.stanford.edu/research/kuo_lab.html
Research Interests:
Regulation of angiogenesis

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Lachenmyer, Judi, RN - Researcher, Surgery, Cardiac, Cardiovascular Service Line
Richard Lafayette, MDLafayette, Richard, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Nephrology
Lamendola, Cindy, MSN/ANP - Researcher, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests:
Insulin Resistance and Diabetes and CVD - Primary and Secondary Prevention in CVD
Philip Lavori, PhDLavori, Philip, PhD - Faculty, Health Research & Policy, Biostatistics, VAPA
Le, Vy-Van, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
David Lee, MDLee, David, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests:
Interventional cardiology and devices
Jason Lee, MDLee, Jason, MD - Faculty, Surgery, Vascular
Research Interests:
Endovascular Aortic Aneurysm Repair outcomes versus open repair; Carotid Angioplasty/Stenting outcomes versus endarterectomy; Thoracic Outlet Syndrome; Peripheral Atherectomy/Lower extremity interventions; Renal Angioplasty/Stenting; Surgical Education/Simulation
Lee, Jieun, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Lee, Jin Hyung, PhD - Post-Doc, Electrical Engineering
Lee, Keane - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Leeper, Nicholas, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Lehrer-Graiwer, Josh, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests:
calcineurin and vegf signaling in cardiac and vascular disease
Lawrence Leung, MDLeung, Lawrence, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Hematology
Research Lab:
http://hematology.stanford.edu/research/leung_lab.html
Research Interests:
#1. Thrombin biochemistry and biology - we have generated a large panel of thrombin mutants by alanine scanning site-directed mutagenesis, and used them to characterize thrombin's interaction with various substrates. We are interested in the physiological mechanisms that regulate thrombin's prothrombotic and pro-inflammatory functions and in the development of novel antithrombotic drugs. #2. Novel endothelial cell markers - we have identified a number of novel endothelial cell transcripts using SAGE and microarray transcript profiling. The biochemistry and cell biology of some of these novel endothelial proteins are being pursued.

Levenston, Marc - Faculty, Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests:
Physical effects on cells; tissue engineering; soft tissue mechanics; cartilage and meniscus degradation
Craig Levin, PhDLevin, Craig S., PhD - Faculty, Radiology, Molecular Imaging
Research Lab: http://mips.stanford.edu/public/faculty.adp ; http://mips.stanford.edu/public/faculty-info?personnel%5fid=1937 ; http://mips.stanford.edu/index.tcl
Research Interests:
Development of novel instrumentation, software, methods, and applications for in-vivo molecular imaging

Li, Zongjin, PhD - Post-Doc, Radiology
David Liang, MD, PhDLiang, David, MD, PhD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests:
Medical imaging and medical devices, with a particular interest toward image guided minimally invasive therapy. I also have a clinical research interest in Marfan syndrome and aortic disease. Intravascular MRI.
Lijkwan, Maarten - Cardiothoracic Surgery
Lima-Filho, Moyses - Medicine, Cardiovascular
Lin, Bryant, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests: Electrophoresis
Liu, Li-fen, PhD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Endocrinology
Liu, Zhao – Sr. Scientist, Vascular Surgery
Research Interests:
Tissue Engineering Graft, Treatment for Vascular Diseases
Lo, Ronald - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Lorig, Kate, PhD, RN - Faculty, Medicine, Immunology & Rheumatology/Center for Clinical Immunology
Lui, Diana - Grad Stud, Mechanical Engineering
Luikart, Helen, RN, MSN - Researcher, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests:
Cardiac transplant, general cardiology clinical research, surgical research

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Ma, Gene - Student, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests: Congenital heart disease, heart valve morphogenesis
Ma, Xiaoyuan - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Sean Mackey, MD, PhDMackey, Sean, MD, PhD - Faculty, Anesthesia, Pain Management
Research Lab:
http://snapl.stanford.edu/
Research Interests: Functional Imaging, Pain Management, Outcomes, Therapies Aimed at Peripheral Vascular Disease

Merritt Maduke, PhDMaduke, Merritt, PhD - Faculty, Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Research Lab:
http://maduke.stanford.edu
Research Interests:
Chloride-selective ion channels

Maeda, Katsuhide, PhD - Instructor, Pediatrics, Cardiac Surgery
Richard Mainwaring, MDMainwaring, Richard D., MD - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Hari Mallidi, MD, FRCSCMallidi, Hari R., MD, FRCSC - Researcher, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Interests:
Translational Research, Cardiovascular Databases, Clinical Outcomes in Cardiovascular Surgery
Mancuso, Michael - Grad Student, Medicine, Cancer Biology
Marchand, Melanie, PhD – Post-Doc, Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine
A.C. Matin, PhDMatin, A.C., PhD - Faculty, Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests: http://www.stanford.edu/~amatin/MatinLabHomePage/MatinLabHome-Page.htm
Research Interests:
Study of biofilms that cause endocarditis; and infections of indwelling devices such as pacemakers

Mayer, Dirk, PhD - Researcher, Radiology
Research Interests:
Application of fast chemical shift imaging in research on cardiovascular diseases
Michael McConnell, MD, MSEEMcConnell, Michael, MD, MSEE - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular, Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Electrical Engineering
Research Lab:
http://reynolds.stanford.edu/proj5.html
Research Interests:
MR imaging of cardiac structures

McCoy, Patience - Researcher, Medicine, Cardiovascular,
McWard, Cheryl, RN - Researcher, Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Interests: Interventional Cardiology - new devices
Robert Merritt, MDMerritt, Robert, MD - Faculty, Cardiothoracic Surgery
D. Craig Miller, MDMiller, D. Craig, MD - Faculty, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiovascular Surgery
Research Interests: 1.cardiac, LV, and mitral/aortic valve mechanics, dynamics, physiology and response to disease and repair; 2. thoracic aortic blood flow (normal, pathological [aneurysms, dissections], and after surgical-repair); 3.mitral valve repair, aortic valve preservation.
R. Scott Mitchell, MDMitchell, R. Scott, MD - Faculty, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Mitiku, Teferi, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Miyama, Noriyuki - Surgery
Edward Mocarski Jr., PhDMocarski, Jr, Edward S, PhD - Faculty, Microbiology & Immunology
Research Lab:
http://cmgm.stanford.edu/micro/fac/mocarski.html
Research Interests:
Herpesviruses, Cytomegalovirus in Vascular disease

Daria Mochly-Rosen, PhDMochly-Rosen, Daria, PhD - Faculty, Chemical & Systems Biology
Research Lab:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/mochly-rosen/ ; http://www.kaipharma.com/
Research Interests: Molecular basis of human disease, elucidating the role of PKC in the development of heart failure; identifying the PKC isozymes that regulate the development of the disease with the hope of identifying the PKC isozyme(s) that should be targeted for drug discovery effort for the treatment or prevention of heart failure

Mora-Mangano, Christina, MD - Faculty, Anesthesia
Morrison, Tina, PhD - Post-Doc, Bioengineering, Cardiovascular
Research Lab:
http://www.tinamorrison.com/research
John Morser, PhDMorser, John, PhD - Fac/Senior Scientist, Medicine/Hematology
Research Interests: Interactions between coagulation, inflammation and immunology
Michael Moseley, PhDMoseley, Michael, PhD - Faculty, Radiology
Motonaga, Kara, MD - Post-Doc, Pediatrics, Cardiology
Daniel Murphy, MDMurphy, Daniel, MD - Faculty, Pediatrics, Cardiology
Research Interests:
Congenital heart disease in adults, echocardiography of congenital heart defects
Myers, Jon, MD - Researcher, Medicine, Cardiovascular VAPA

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Nakatani, Daisaku - Post-Doc, Medicine
Sandy Napel, PhDNapel, Sandy, PhD - Faculty, Radiology, EE (courtesy), Medicine (informatics (courtesy)
Research Lab: http://www.stanford.edu/people/Sandy.Napel ; Bio-x Lab: http://biox.stanford.edu/ ; 3D Lab: http://3dradiology.org
Research Interests:
Image visualization and understanding, CT imaging

Nihar Nayak, MDNayak, Nihar R., MD - Faculty, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Nejedly, Mary P., RN, MS, NP-C - SHC, SHC- Heart center
Nelson, Drew, PhD - Faculty, Mechanical Engineering, Design Div.
Research Interests: engineering design; mechanical behavior of materials (including fatigue of materials); stress analysis; intelligent materials and structures; optical fiber sensing
Nguyen, Patricia, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Nguyen, Tom C., MD - Post-Doc, Surgery, General
Mark Nicolls, MDNicolls, Mark R., MD - Faculty, Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care; ITI
Research Interests: Our lab focuses primarily on the contribution of the immune response to lung disease. We are specifically examining the contribution of inflammation to the development of pulmonary hypertension. We also study how airway remodeling occurs in lung transplantation with specific respect to the microvascular circulation and to the initiation of fibroproliferation.


Muriel Miederle, PhDNiederle, Muriel, PhD - Faculty, Economics
Research Lab:
http://www.stanford.edu/~niederle/
Research Interests:
the organization of heart transplants and the education aspect of residents which relates to the match (the NRMP).

Niiyama, Hiroshi, MD, PhD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Nishimura, Dwight, PhD - Faculty, Electrical Engineering/Information Systems Lab
Norfleet, Mary Ann, PhD - Faculty, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Norman, James - Post-Doc, Mechanical Engineering
Nudi, Cara, RN - Researcher, Heart/Lung Transplant Program
Research Interests:
Improve the quality of life for heart failure patients

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Hugh O'Brodovich, MDO'Brodovich, Hugh M., MD - Faculty, Pediatrics
Ruth O'Hara, PhDO'Hara, Ruth, PhD - Faculty, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Research Lab:
http://psychiatry.stanford.edu/research/ ; http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/100/25/2499
Research Interests: Physiological underpinnings of cognitive impairment in older adults. In particular, I am interested in the contribution of cardiovascular disease to cognitive decline and/or the onset of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Additionally, I have conducted studies and published on the impact of Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery on cognition in the elderly. A central part of my work is on the impact of the genetic risk factor for dementia, Apolipoprotein E4 allele, on cognition and its involvement in mediating the relationship between cardiovascular disease and dementia.

Cornelius Olcott, MDOlcott, Cornelius, MD - Faculty, Surgery, Vascular
Richard Olshen, PhDOlshen, Richard, PhD - Faculty, Health Research Policy, Biostat, Stat, Elec Eng
Research Lab: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~olshen ; http://reynolds.stanford.edu/biost.html
Research Interests: Statistics and mathematics and their applications to medicine and biology. Many efforts have concerned binary tree-structured algorithms for classification, regression, survival analysis, clustering, and analyses of longitudinal data.

Inger Olson, MDOlson, Inger, MD - Faculty, Pediatrics, Cardiology
Research Interests: education and echocardiography, including fetal, transthoracic and transesophageal
Otake, Hiromasa, MD – Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Ottoboni, Linda, RN, MS - SHC Staff, Cardiovascular Service Line/Cardiac Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
Phil Oyer, MD, PhDOyer, Phil, MD, PhD - Faculty, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Interests: Development of an artificial heart assist device; heart, and heart-lung transplantation

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Latha Palaniappan, MD, MSPalaniappan, Latha, MD, MS - Researcher, Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center (SPRC), Women's Health at Stanford
Research Lab:
http://www.pamf.org/research/policy/palaniappanl.html
Research Interests:
Insulin metabolism and metabolic syndrome in ethnic minority women

Palaniyandi, Suresh – Post-Doc, Chemical and Systems Biology
Panchal, Shyam - Researcher, Radiology, Interventional
Alan Pao, MDPao, Alan, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Nephrology
Research Interests:
New hormonal system that appears to be important for the pathogenesis of salt-sensitive hypertension
Park, Chan Young - Post-Doc
Park, Shirley - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Andrew Patterson, MD, PhDPatterson, Andrew, MD, PhD - Faculty, Anesthesia, Critical Care Medicine
Research Interests: Adrenergic Receptor Biology, Congestive Heart Failure, Molecular Biology, Cardiovascular Physiology
Arogyaswami Paulraj, PhDPaulraj, Arogyaswami, PhD - Faculty, Electrical Engineering
Research Lab: http://www.stanford.edu/~apaulraj/
Research Interests: Signal Processing

John Pauly, PhDPauly, John, PhD - Faculty, Electrical Engineering
Research Lab:
http://mrsrl.stanford.edu
Research Interests:
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Image Guided Interventions

Pavlovic, Aleksandra - Researcher, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Pearl, Jeremy - Grad student, Medicine
Ron Pearl, MD, PhDPearl, Ron, MD, PhD - Faculty, Anesthesia
Research Interests:
Pulmonary hypertension, cardiovascular monitoring, hemodynamic therapy, cardiovascular anesthesia
Norbert Pelc, ScDPelc, Norbert, ScD - Faculty, Radiology, Diagnostic, Electrical Engineering
Research Lab:
http://rsl.stanford.edu
Research Interests:
Cardiovascular imaging, especially with CT and MRI

Pera, Renee Reijo, PhD - Faculty, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Perez, Marco, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Perlroth, Mark, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests:
CV web, Natural history of disease
Pham, Michael, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Phan, Tiffany - Researcher, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Timothy Pirolli, MDPirolli, Timothy J., MD - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Poon, Ada, PhDPoon, Ada S. Y., PhD - Faculty

, Electrical Engineering
Research Lab: http://www.stanford.edu/~adapoon/research.html
Research Interests:
Autonomous miniature implantablle devices for cardiovascular functional imaging and focused ablation

Beth Pruitt, PhDPruitt, Beth L., PhD - Faculty, Mechanical Engineering
Research Lab: http://microsystems.stanford.edu
Research Interests: Microsystems for study of cellular mechanotransduction and monitoring of cardiovascular pressures and flows

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Qi, Xin, PhD - Post-doc, Chemical & Systems Biology
Research Interests: mitochondrial dysfunction, neuroscience
Stephen Quake, PhDQuake, Stephen, PhD - Faculty, Bioengineering
Research Lab:
http://thebigone.stanford.edu
Research Interests:
Single Molecule Biophysics and Microfluidics

Quertermous, Tom, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Lab:
http://med.stanford.edu/advance/
Research Interests:
The genetic basis of atherosclerotic heart disease

Qvit, Nir, PhD - Chemical & Systems Bio

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Marlene Rabinovitch, MDRabinovitch, Marlene, MD - Faculty, Pediatrics, Cardiology, Developmental Biology
Research Lab:
http://med.stanford.edu/labs/rabinovitchbland/
Research Interests:
1. Pulmonary circulation in congenital heart disease; 2. Pulmonary hypertension; 3. Molecular mechanisms regulating vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cell-extracellular matrix interactions, and how these relate to novel enzymes, endogenous vascular elastase, and chymase, to fibronectin and tenascin-C, and to a microtubule-associated protein that regulates mRNA translation; 4. Gene regulation, gene therapy and transgenic mouse models of altered cardiovascular development and disease.

Rabkin, Ralph, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Nephrology VAPA
Thomas Raffin, MDRaffin, Thomas A., MD - Faculty, Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
Research Lab:
http://scbe.stanford.edu/ ; http://scbe.stanford.edu/people/leadership.html
Research Interests: Biomedical ethics; pulmonary disease

Rajagopalan, Viswanathan, MD - Post-Doc, Pediatrics
Rajaratnam, Bala, PhD - Faculty, Statistics
Research Interests: Biostatistics / Genomics / Gene network modeling
Chandra Ramamoorthy, MBBS, FRCARamamoorthy, Chandra, MBBS, FRCA - Faculty, Anesthesia, Pediatrics
Research Interests:
CV anesthesia in children
Thomas Rando, MD, PhDRando, Thomas A., MD, PhD - Faculty, Neurology
Research Lab:
http://www.stanford.edu/~casco/
Research Interests:
Muscular Dystrophies, stem cells

Julia RansohoffRansohoff, Julia - Student, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Katie RansohoffRansohoff, Katie - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Natalie Rasgon, MD, PhDRasgon, Natalie, MD, PhD - Faculty, Psychiatry, Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Program, Women's Wellness Program
Research Lab: http://bne.stanford.edu
Research Interests:
The interaction between reproductive hormones and brain function. Specifically, research efforts of our lab are concentrated in two areas: (1) the reproductive endocrine status of women with affective disorders, and (2) the neurobiology of the effects of hormone therapy in aging women

Razavi, Hedi - Bioengineering
Research Interests: http://taylorlab.stanford.edu/
Research Interests:
Hemodynamics of Congenital Pulmonary Artery Disease

Reaven, Gerald, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests: Insulin resistance
V. Mohan Reddy, MDReddy, V. Mohan, MD - Faculty, Pediatrics, Cardiac Surgery
Research Interests:
Fetal cardiac surgery; cerebral protection; Pulmonary vascular remodeling
Olaf Reinhartz, MDReinhartz, Olaf, MD - Faculty, Pediatrics, Cardiac Surgery
Research Interests:
Mechanical support of failing TCPC
Bruce Reitz, MDReitz, Bruce, MD - Faculty, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Interests:
Transplant, myocardial protection
Kirk Riemer, PhDRiemer, R. Kirk, PhD - Researcher, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Pediatric Cardiology
Robert Robbins, MDRobbins, Robert, MD - Faculty, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiovascular Institute
Research Lab: http://med.stanford.edu/labs/robert_robbins/research.html
Research Interests:
Fetal surgery, transplantation, immune reactivity, stem cells

Thomas Robinson, MD, MPHRobinson, Thomas, MD, MPH - Faculty, Pediatrics, General Internal Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center
Research Lab: http://prevention.stanford.edu ;http://pediatricweightcontrol.stanford.edu ; http://noTV.stanford.edu
Research Interests: Prevention of cardiovascular diseases through behavioral, social and environmental interventions for children, adolescents and their families; obesity prevention and treatment, reduced sedentary behavior, increased physical activity and improved nutrition.

Stan Rockson, MDRockson, Stan, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Lab: http://cvmedicine.stanford.edu/research/index.html
Research Interests:
Lymphatic disease, Peripheral arterial disease, atherogenesis, hypertension, dyslipidemia

Rogers, Jayna - Obstetrics & Gynecology
Michal Bental Roof, PhDRoof, Michal Bental, PhD - Researcher, Pediatrics, Cardiology
Research Lab:
http://med.stanford.edu/labs/rabinovitchbland/
Justus E. Roos, MDRoos, Justus, MD - Faculty, Radiology
Research Interests: CT applications, with two main scholarly focuses on computer-aided detection of pulmonary nodules in chest CT scans and on cardiovascular CT visualization techniques. A major project has been to develop and validate new 3D post-processing methods of CT angiography data in patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease
Glenn Rosen, MDRosen, Glenn, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Interstitial Lung Disease Program
Research Interests:
Transcription factors and pulmonary fibrosis
David Rosenthal, MDRosenthal, David, MD - Faculty, Pediatrics, Cardiology
Research Interests: Heart Failure and Right Ventricular function
Roth, Stephen, MD, MPH - Faculty, Pediatric Cardiology
Geoffrey D. Rubin, M.D.Rubin, Geoff, MD - Faculty, Radiology, Diagnostic
Research Interests: Cardiovascular and pulmonary imaging; novel noninvasive vascular and cardiac imaging techniques and post-processing algorithms with emphasis on three- and four-dimensional acquisition, visualization and quantitation using multi-detector row CT

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Saachi, Sanaz - Post-Doc, Bioengineering
Sakata, Kenji, PhD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular, Center for cardiovascular Technology
Research Interests: Interventional Cardiology
Salisbury, Heidi, RN, MSN - Researcher, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Sasaki, Takashi - Post-Doc, Pediatrics, Cardiac Lab
Heidi Schillinger, RN, MSNSchillinger, Erika, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Family and Community
Research Interests: Medical education; Faculty Development; Doctor-Patient communication; Professionalism; Sleep medicine.
Ingela Schnittger, MDSchnittger, Ingela, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests:
Echocardiography
Donald Schreiber, MDSchreiber, Donald, MD - Faculty, Surgery, Emergency Medicine
Research Interests:
Coronary artery disease--diagnosis, Cardiac markers, Cardiovascular imaging
John Schroeder, MDSchroeder, John, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests:
Management of heart failure
Schultz, Geoff, MD - Post-doc, Surgery, Vascular
Segall, George M., MD - Faculty, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine
Research Interests: Scintigraphic evaluation of coronary blood flow and myocardial function using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET). Tumor imaging and characterization of pulmonary nodules with PET/CT
Sengupta, Debanti - Grad Student, Chemistry
Shah, Maulik, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Shamloo, Amir - Graduate student, Mechanical Engineering
Shang, Ching - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Shcherbakova, Olga, PhD - Post-Doc, Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Shen, Wen-Jun, PhD - Faculty/Sci, Medicine, Endocrinology
Shih, Jessica - Bioengineering
Shimohama, Takao - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Shin, David - Medical Student, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Shiran, Hadas, MD - Fellow, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Shizuru, Judith, MD, PhD - Faculty, Medicine, Bone Marrow Transplantation
Joseph Shrager, MDShrager, Joseph, MD - Faculty, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Interests: parenchyma-sparing operations and minimally invasive resections for lung cancer, transcervical thymectomy for myasthenia gravis, and surgical treatment of emphysema; the impact of disease states upon the diaphragm.
Norman Silverman, MDSilverman, Norman, MD - Faculty, Pediatrics, Cardiology
Research Interests:
Echocardiographic determinants of heart function in congenital malformations; fetal echocardiography
Simmons, Chelsey S. - Grad Student, Mechanical Engineering
Simoni, Robert D., PhD - Faculty, Biological Sciences
Sims, Stacy, PhD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Prevention Research Center
Sinha, Seema - Fellow, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Siu, Stephanie - Researcher, Surgery, Vascular
Spiekerkoetter, Edda, MD - Post-Doc, Pediatrics
Spilker, Ryan - Student, Mechanical Engineering, BioX
Josh Spin, MD, PhDSpin, Josh, MD, PhD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Lab: Smooth muscle cell (SMC) biology
Spudich, James, PhD - Faculty, Biochemistry, Cardiovascular
Research Lab:
http://biochem.stanford.edu/spudich/
Research Interests: Cellular mechanisms of force generation

Randall Stafford, MDStafford, Randall, MD, PhD - Faculty, Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Prevention Outcomes & Practices
Research Interests:
Health care delivery and chronic disease management
Stankunas, Kryn, PhD - Instructor, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Stanski, Donald, MD - Faculty, Anesthesia, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
Research Interests: Pharmacokinetics and dynamics of anesthetic drugs.
Marcia Stefanick, PhDStefanick, Marcia, PhD - Faculty, Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center, OB/GYN
Research Interests: Dr Stefanick is Principal Investigator of Stanford's (1) Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Center, (2) NCI Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) trial, and (3) MrOs, Study of Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (the MrOS study)
Marcia Stertzer, MD, FACC FAHAStertzer, Simon, MD, FACC FAHA - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests: Coronary Angioplasty; Intramyocardial Stem cell delivery
Frank Stockdale, MD, PhDStockdale, Frank, MD, PhD - Faculty, Medicine, Oncology
Research Interests: Clinical trials in breast cancer
Sam Strober, MDStrober, Sam, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Immunology & Rheumatology/Center for Clinical Immunology
Research Interests: Cellular immunology and the regulatory interactions between subpopulations of immune cells
Sun, Ning - Post-Doc, Radiology, MIPS
Research Lab:
http://mips.stanford.edu/public/faculty-info?personnel_id=2779
Research Interests: Embryonic stem cells, molecular imaging

Suzuki, Yoriyasu, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Swaminathan, Aravind - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Swanson, Julia - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Miller Lab
Swartz, James R., PhD - Faculty, Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering
Daniel Sze, MDSze, Daniel, MD - Faculty, Radiology, Interventional
Research Interests: Transarterial administration of chemotherapeutics, radioactive microspheres, and biologics for the treatment of unresectable tumors; Stent and Stent-graft treatment of peripheral vascular diseases, aneurysms, aortic dissections; management of portal hypertension (TIPS); Percutaneous treatment of complications of organ transplantation; Venous reconstruction; Magnetic resonance imaging-guided interventions.

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Tam, Frank - Fellow, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Tamosiuniene, Rasa, MD, PhD - Fellow
Tang, Beverly - Student, Mechanical Engineering
Tang, Daniel, MD - Instructor, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Taylor, C. Barr, MD - Faculty, Psychiatry, Stanford Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
Research Lab:
http://bml.stanford.edu
Research Interests:
Cardiovascular risk reduction, depression and CVD risk factors, cardiac rehabilitation

Charles Taylor, PhDTaylor, Charles, PhD - Faculty, Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering, Radiology, Surgery, Pediatrics
Research Interests:
Computer modeling and engineering approaches to congenital heart disease
Taylor, Rebecca E. - Grad Student, Mechanical Engineering
Tedesco, Maureen M. - Student, Surgery, Vascular
Teramoto, Tomohiko - Medicine
Terashima, Hiro, MD, PhD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests: McConnell's Lab, Atherosclerosis, Imaging
Thanaporn, Porama, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Thomas, Sheila - Post-Doc, Medicine
Tibayan, Frederick, MD - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Timek, Tomasz, MD - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Jennifer Tremmel, MDTremmel, Jennifer, MD - Instructor, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests: Sex differences in cardiovascular disease
Tsai, Vivian, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Tsao, Philip, PhD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests:
Wascular biology, vascular cell signaling, insulin resistance/diabetes, gene expression/microarrays, biomechanical forces (shear stress, cyclic strain)
Tsuda, Shoichi, MD - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Pediatric
Research Lab:
http://pediatriccardiac.stanford.edu/research/
Research Interests:
Cerebral Protection in neonates and infants

Tsun, Zhi-Yang - Medicine, Cardiovascular
Tsuruta, Fuminori, MD - Post-Doc, Neurobiology
Mintu Turakhia, MD, MASTurakhia, Mintu, MD, MAS - Instructor, Medicine, Cardiovascular VAPA Electrophysiology
Turcott, Robert - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular

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PJ Utz, MDUtz, PJ, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Immunology & Rheumatology
Research Interests: Autoimmune diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), scleroderma, myositis, primary biliary chirosis (PBC), Sjogren's disease, insulin dependent diabetes (type I diabetes or IDDM), multiple sclerosis (MS) and mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)

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Randall Vagelos, MDVagelos, Randall, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests: Congestive Heart Failure, New ECG Monitoring Devices, Prognostic Evaluation, Selection for Cardiac Transplantation


Hannah Valantine, MDValantine, Hannah, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests: Transplant vasculopathy
Van, Ho Hai, MD - Fellow, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Vanderbogt, Koen
Vaninetti, Michael - Student, SMS
Velotta, Jeff - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Robbins Lab
Venook, Ross, MD - Post-Doc, School of Medicine

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Roger Wagner, MD, PhDWagner, Roger, MD, PhD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests: Using genomic and molecular biological techniques to identify and characterize new genes involved in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular diseases including cardiomyopathies, atherosclerosis, and pulmonary hypertension in mouse disease models.
Wang, Aaron - Grad Student, Bioengineering
Wang, Jack T., MD- Post-Doc, Medicine
Paul Wang, MDWang, Paul, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular, Arrhythmia Service & Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory
Research Interests:
Clinical electrophysiology and ablation
Wang, Shan X., PhD - Faculty, Materials Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering
Research Lab: http://mse.stanford.edu/about_faculty/mse_fac_profile.php?sunetid=sxwang
Research Interests:
Nanoparticles, Biosensors, Magnetic Microarray

Wang, Xi - Staff, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Waseda, Katsuhisa - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Wei, Shao-Ang - Grad Student, Medicine, Hematology
David Weill, MDWeill, David, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care

Ann Weinacker, MDWeinacker, Ann, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care
Research Interests: ICU outcomes


Irving Weissman, MDWeissman, Irving, MD - Faculty, Pathology, Cancer Bio, Dev Bio, Biological Sci
Research Interests:
Transplantation immunity, cardiomyocyte stem cells
Marius Wernig, MDWernig, Marius, MD - Faculty, Pathology
Research Interests: Epigenetic Reprogramming, Pluripotent Stem Cells, Neural Differentiation: implications in development and regenerative medicine
Lynn Westphal, MDWestphal, Lynn, MD - Faculty, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Research Interests: Infertility, fertility preservation, oocyte cryopreservation
Wheeler, Matthew, MD, PhD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Richard Whyte, MDWhyte, Richard, MD - Faculty, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Interests: Clinical lung and esophageal cancer treatment studies, lung transplantation, surgical, management of emphysema.
Juergen Willmann, MDWillmann, Juergen, MD - Faculty, Radiology
Research Interests: Development and clinical translation of novel molecular and functional imaging strategies with special focus on abdominal and pelvic diseases.
Wilson, June, RN - Researcher, Medicine, Cardiovascular, Heart Failure Program
Research Lab:
 http://cvmedicine.stanford.edu/vascularmedicine/index.html
Research Interests:
CV disease and compliance, risk reduction, depression, anxiety, coping, and the impact of technology on health; how people use media (e.ig. film) to change behavior.

Wilson, Kitch, MD - Student, Bioengineering
Jeffrey Wine, PhD, FRACPWine, Jeffrey J, PhD, FRACP - Faculty, Psychology, Program in Human Biology, Cystic Fibrosis Research Lab
Research Lab:
http://www.stanford.edu/~wine/
Research Interests:
Cystic Fibrosis, airway submucosal gland function

Marilyn Winkleby, PhD, MPHWinkleby, Marilyn, PhD, MPH - Faculty, Medicine, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Health Research & Policy
Research Interests: Cardiovascular disease epidemiology; Health of socioeconomically disadvantaged and ethnic minority populations; Social determinants of health; Community-based intervention research
Paul Wise, MD, MPHWise, Paul H., MD, MPH - Faculty, Pediatrics, Health Research & Policy
Research Interests:
Pediatric precursors of adult-onset cardiovascular disease, particularly the policy implications of gene-environment interactions early in life
Ronald Witteles, MDWitteles, Ronald, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests:
Insulin resistance & heart failure, cardiorenal syndrome
Wong Po Foo, Cheryl, PhD - Post-Doc, Materials Science and Engineering
Woods, Chris, MD - Fellow, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Wu, Jenny, PhD- Researcher, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Joe Wu, MD, PhDWu, Joe C, MD, PhD - Faculty, Radiology
Research Lab:
http://mips.stanford.edu
Research Interests:
Stem cell, gene therapy, molecular imaging; My laboratory works on gene transfer and stem cell therapy in the heart. We use various reporter genes and reporter probes in conjunction with novel imaging technologies to study these molecular & cellular events. The ultimate goals are to study cardiac gene expression and stem cell survival noninvasively, repetitively, and quantitatively. My clinical interests are nuclear cardiology, echocardiography, and adult congenital heart disease

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Yiqin XiongXiong, Yiqin, MD, PhD – Post-Doc, Cardiovascular Medicine
Research Lab:
http://cpchanglab.stanford.edu/
Research Interests: 1) Role of Dyrk1a (an important gene involved in pathology of Down Syndrome) in heart development. 2) Nicotine and congenital heart disease

Xu, Chengpei, MD, PhD - Post-Doc, Surgery, Vascular
Xu, We-bin - Medicine
Xu, Yue, MD, PhD – Sr. Scientist, Cardiothoracic Surgery

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Yamada, Mayumi, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Yamen, Eric, MD - Fellow, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Bo Yang, MDYang, Bo, MD - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Phillip Yang, MDYang, Phillip, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests:
Cardiovascular MRI and other imaging
William Yarbrough, MDYarbrough, William, MD - Post-Doc, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Alan Yeung, MDYeung, Alan C., MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests:
Human coronary physiology
Yeung, Janice, MD - Post-Doc, Surgery, Vascular
Paul Yock, MDYock, Paul G., MD - Faculty, Medicine, Cardiovascular, Bioeng, Mech Engineering
Research Lab:
http://biodesign.stanford.edu ; http://innovation.stanford.edu ; http://bioengineering.stanford.edu/
Research Interests: Medical device design and testing, particularly catheter-based technologies; Intravascular ultrasound and other intravascular imaging methods; cardiac cell transplantation

Jin YuYu, Jin - Molecular Imaging at Stanford
Research Lab:
http://mips.stanford.edu/public/faculty-info?personnel_id=2409
Research Interests:
Human Embryonic Stem Cell and its differentiation

Patrick Yue, MDYue, Patrick, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular

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Zaidi, Kashif - Medicine
Roham Zamanian, MDZamanian, Roham, MD - Faculty, Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care
Research Interests: 1. The Utility of S100A4/Mts1 as a Biomarker in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). 2. Prevalence and Treatment of Insulin Resistance in PAH. 3. The Effect of EGF-Receptor Blockade and Elastase Inhibitor on Pulmonary Arteries of Patients with PAH. 4. Characterization of Pulmonary Arteries in Patients with Idiopathic and Secondary PAH by Wedge Angiography. 5. The Optimal Angle for Angiographic Evaluation of the Left Pulmonary Artery in Patients with PAH.
Zare, Richard N., PhD - Faculty, Chemistry, Physics
Research Lab:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/Zarelab
Research Interests:
In finding a way to quantitate biomarkers in human plasma that can be used to predict cardiovascular health or lack thereof.

Christopher Zarins, MDZarins, Christopher, MD - Faculty, Surgery
Research Interests: Hemodynamic factors in atherosclerosis, pathogenesis of, aortic aneurysms, carotid plaque localization and complication, anastomotic intimal hyperplasia, vascular biology of artery wall, computational fluid dynamics as applied to blood flow and vascular disease.
Paul Zei, MDZei, Paul, MD - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Research Interests: (1) Mechanisms of Arrhythmia, including Ventricular Tachycardia, Atrial Fibrillation and other arrhythmias. (2) New technologies and devices for catheter ablation.
Zeini, Miriam - Post-Doc, Medicine, Cardiovascular
Zenios, Stefanos, PhD - Faculty, Graduate School of Business
Research Lab:
http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/zenios/Zenios.asp
Research Interests: Health Care Delivery Systems; End-Stage Organ Failure; Transplant Waiting Systems; Transplant Economics; The Economics of Medical Devices 

Zhang, Jason - Medicine
Zhao, Mingming - Post-Doc, Pediatrics
Wei Zhou, MDZhou, Wei, MD - Faculty, Surgery, Vascular & Endovascular
Research Interests: Pathogenesis of atherosclerotic lesion formation and molecular mechanisms of intimal hyperplasia, including smooth muscle cell proliferation, oxidative stress, and endothelial cell dysfunction.

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