BREATHE - Key Persons


Aaron Hsueh

Job Titles:
  • Endocrinologist
Endocrinologist Aaron Hsueh discovers obestatin, a hormone that supresses appetite and may lead to treatments for obesity.

Alexander Ryan Berg

Job Titles:
  • Student, Expected Graduation Spring 2028

Amanda Keen

Job Titles:
  • Research Nurse

Ananya Chakraborty

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Maternal & Child Health Research Institute ( MCHRI )

Ann Leung

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Radiology ( Thoracic Imaging )

Anna Sophia

Job Titles:
  • Research Operations Program Manager, Primary Care and Population Health

Anne Brunet

Job Titles:
  • Research Interests

Anthony G. Doufas

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Aparna Goel

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Avram Goldstein

Job Titles:
  • Pharmacologist
Pharmacologist Avram Goldstein discovers a chemical in the human brain that could lead to the development of powerful painkillers with fewer undesirable side effects.

Axel Brunger

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, of Neurology, of Photon Science and, by Courtesy, of Structural Biology / Research
One of Axel Brunger's major goals is to decipher the molecular mechanisms of synaptic neurotransmitter release by conducting imaging and single-molecule/particle reconstitution experiments, combined with near-atomic resolution structural studies of the synaptic vesicle fusion machinery.

Aya Kamaya

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Radiology ( Body Imaging )

Beth Darnall

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (Adult Pain) and, by courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (General Psychiatry & Psychology (Adult))

Beverley Newman

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Radiology ( Pediatric Radiology )

Brendan Carvalho

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine ( Adult MSD ) and, by Courtesy, of Obstetrics and Gynecology ( Maternal Fetal Medicine )

CARL AND ELIZABETH NAUMANN

Job Titles:
  • CARL and ELIZABETH NAUMANN DEAN of the SCHOOL of MEDICINE / VICE PRESIDENT for MEDICAL AFFAIRS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Carlos Milla

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Pediatrics ( Pulmonary Medicine ) and, by Courtesy, of Medicine ( Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine )

Carlos O. Esquivel

Job Titles:
  • Arnold and Barbara Silverman Professor in Pediatric Transplantation and Professor of Surgery ( Abdominal Transplantation ) and of Pediatrics ( Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition )

Carol Conrad

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Pediatrics ( Pulmonary Medicine )

Caroline Okorie

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor / Associate Director
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine
Dr. Okorie is board certified in pediatric pulmonology, sleep medicine and general pediatrics and joined the Division of Pediatric Pulmonary, Asthma and Sleep Medicine in 2018. She obtained her medical degree and Master's in Public Health at the University of Arizona before going on to a residency and chief residency in pediatrics at Oregon Health & Science University. She completed her fellowship training in both pediatric pulmonary medicine and sleep medicine at Stanford University. She has a passion for medical education and serves as an Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Residency Program at Stanford. She treats children with a variety of lung diseases, including: asthma, chronic cough, cystic fibrosis, chronic respiratory failure, and chronic lung disease of prematurity. Her additional training in sleep medicine allows her expertise to treat sleep disorders, including: sleep disordered breathing, parasomnias, narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, and insomnia.

Carrie Loutit

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Adolescent Medicine

Cathy Hernandez

Job Titles:
  • Database Coordinator

Christin S Kuo

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics ( Pulmonary Medicine )

Christopher Beaulieu

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Radiology ( Musculoskeletal Imaging ) and, by Courtesy, of Orthopaedic Surgery

Clarissa Mercado

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Administration

Cristina Maria Alvira

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics ( Critical Care )
The overall objective of the Alvira Laboratory is to elucidate the mechanisms that promote postnatal lung development and repair, by focusing on three main scientific goals: (i) identification of the signaling pathways that direct the transition between the saccular and alveolar stages of lung development; (ii) exploration of the interplay between postnatal vascular and alveolar development; and (iii) determination of developmentally regulated pathways that mediate lung repair after injury.

Daniel Arve Butler

Job Titles:
  • Butler

Daniel Imler

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics

David Bergman

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics ( General Pediatrics ) at the Lucile Salter Packard Children 's Hospital, Emeritus

David Drover

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

David Entwistle

Job Titles:
  • PRESIDENT & CEO / STANFORD HEALTH CARE

David Korn

Job Titles:
  • Pathology and Professor of Developmental Biology

David N. Cornfield

Job Titles:
  • Research Interests

Deepti Sinha

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine
Dr. Sinha is board certified in Pediatrics and Sleep Medicine. She completed medical school in Australia and general pediatric training in Australia and USA at Royal Children's Hospital and University of Chicago at Illinois. Her sleep medicine fellowship was completed at Stanford Hospital. She enjoys working with children of all ages. She manages both behavioral and physiological sleep concerns.

Diana Chen

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Assistant Professor With the Division of Pediatric Pulmonary
  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine
Dr. Chen is a Clinical Assistant Professor with the Division of Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine. She grew up in the Bay Area and attended undergraduate school at UC Berkeley (Go Bears!). She ventured across the country received her graduate and medical degrees at Boston University School of Medicine. After experiencing cold and snowy winters of the east coast, she returned to the Bay Area where she completed her pediatric residency and pulmonology fellowship at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. She joined Bay Area Pediatric Pulmonary Medical Group and subsequently the Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine at Stanford University in 2015. She then followed her husband and moved to Los Angeles in 2016 where she joined the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology at UCLA as Associate Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Center. A few years later, she decided to return to her roots in the Bay Area. She made her way back to Stanford University and rejoined the pediatric pulmonology group in November 2019. She enjoys caring for children, from infancy and beyond, with pulmonary diseases and developing relationships with their families. Her particular interests include bronchopulmonary dysplasia, asthma, neuromuscular disease, cystic fibrosis, and evaluation of complex airways with bronchoscopy. She also has interest in quality improvement and policy and procedure development.

Dominik Fleischmann

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Radiology ( Cardiovascular Imaging )

Dora Ho

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases

Dr. Daiana Fornes

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow
Dr. Daiana Fornes is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at the Center for Excellence in Pulmonary Biology. Daiana obtained her MSc from the University of Buenos Aires School of Exact and Natural Sciences, Argentina. She obtained her PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine. During her PhD, Daiana assessed the programming of metabolic alterations in the offspring of rats with gestational diabetes (GDM) induced by intrauterine programming. Subsequently, she completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Buenos Aires where she explored the programming of paternal diabetes. In Cornfield's Lab, Daiana is working in the preterm labor research line, exploring the role of the transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 channel (TRPV4) as a modulator of myometrial contraction, a novel target to treat preterm labor and prevent prematurity, the major cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality across the globe.

Dr. Lihua Ying

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist
  • Senior Research Scientist in the Pediatrics Department at the Center for Excellence
Dr. Lihua Ying is a Senior Research Scientist in the Pediatrics Department at the Center for Excellence in Pulmonary Biology at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology from The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. Currently, Dr Ying research focus is on elucidating the molecular mechanisms involved in TRPV4 activity regulation and the SPARK funded preterm project. Since joining the lab, Dr. Ying has focus on investigating the differential lung endothelial barrier function in response to inflammatory stimuli in neonatal and adult subjects. Compromised pulmonary endothelial cell (PEC) barrier function characterizes acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a condition associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Notably, survival from ARDS is greater in children compared with adults. The finding demonstrated FAK expression during inflammatory injury serves to preserve neonatal pulmonary endothelial barrier function in contrast to that observed in adults. The importance of gaining insight into the mechanisms underlying uterine quiescence and contractility is underscored by the absence of an effective strategy to prevent or treat preterm labor, the greatest cause of perinatal mortality and morbidity worldwide. Current evidence suggests that in myometrial smooth muscle cells (mSMCs) calcium homeostasis is modulated near term to promote uterine contractility. Nevertheless, the efficacy of blocking voltage-operated calcium channels is limited by dose-related cardiovascular side effects. Dr Ying has been focused on investigating the role of TRPV4 and miR-203 regulation in preterm labor. Prior to joining Stanford University, Dr. Ying was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Howard Hughes medical Institute in the Department of Molecular and Genetics at the University of Iowa. During this time, she focused on characterizating and identifying genes related to Bardet-Biedl Syndrome. Additionally, she investigated genes associated with Autosomal Recessive Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in an inbred family of Bedouin kindred. Furthermore, her research includedstudying the role of myocilin in pathogenesis of Primary Open Angle Glaucoma.​

Dr. Trang Dinh

Job Titles:
  • Fellow
Dr. Trang Dinh is a pediatric pulmonary fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University. She received her M.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, and trained in pediatric medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. In the Cornfield Lab, her research focuses on the roles that the CNN1 and BTG2 gene may play in regulating pulmonary vascular tone in diseased lungs.

Elizabeth A. Barnes

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist
  • Senior Research Scientist in the Pediatrics Department at the Center for Excellence
Dr. Elizabeth Barnes is a Senior Research Scientist in the Pediatrics Department at the Center for Excellence in Pulmonary Biology at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego; M.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego; and B.A. degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to joining Stanford University, Elizabeth was a Senior Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Surgery at the University of Washington, Seattle studying the development of lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) and tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) and a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego studying the development of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and TSC. Currently, Dr. Barnes research is focused on the elucidation of the molecular mechanisms involved in the development of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and pulmonary hypertension (PH), with the future expectations of developing methods and resources to treat these diseases. BPD is a lung disease of infancy that affects those born prematurely and in need of oxygen therapy. The necessity for breathing assistance damages the fragile lungs of the preterm infant. PH is a lung disease defined by high blood pressure in the lungs. This condition is caused by multiple factors, including genetic, environmental, and pre-existing illnesses that predispose a patient to the development of PH. There is no cure for either PH or BPD, and both of these diseases have significant mortality rates.

Elliot J. Krane

Job Titles:
  • Physician
  • Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine ( Pediatric Anesthesia ) at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus
Elliot Krane has received the Physician's Recognition Award in both Anesthesiology and Pediatric Critical from the American Medical Association, the Poster Award from the Vienna International Congress on Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, the Jeffrey Lawson Award for Advocacy in Children's Pain Relief from the American Pain Society (APS), the Ellis N. Cohen Achievement Award from the Stanford University Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, and the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Distinguished Career Award in Pediatric Pain. He has also been the recipient of grants from the Mayday Fund, the NIH, the American Medical Association, the Washington State Society of Anesthesiologists, the Diabetes Research and Education Foundation, and the American Society of Anesthesiologists as well as from pharmaceutical companies for new drug development for the treatment of pediatric pain. Academic Appointments Professor Emeritus-Hourly, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Member, Bio-X Member, Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI) Administrative Appointments Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, University of Washington (1983 - 1989) Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, University of Washington (1983 - 1989) Adjunct Associate Professor, Pediatrics, University of Washington (1989 - 1994) Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, University of Washington (1989 - 1994) Chief of Anesthesia, LPCH (1994 - 2003) Chief of Pain Management Service, LPCH (1994 - 2023) Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine (1994 - 2023) Professor, Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine (1994 - 2023) Professor, Emeritus, Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine and Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine (2023 - Present)

Emmanuel Mignot

Job Titles:
  • Sleep Researcher
Sleep researcher Emmanuel Mignot identifies the defective gene that causes narcolepsy, a disabling sleep disorder affecting humans and animals.

Eric Zee

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine

Esmeralda Morales

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine
Esmeralda Morales, MD is a Board-Certified Pediatric Pulmonologist who earned her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. She completed her subspecialty training in Pediatric Pulmonology at the University of Arizona/Arizona Respiratory Center known for its excellence in asthma care and research. She practiced in the southwestern United States for 7 years including a year as Interim Chief of the Pediatric Pulmonary Division at the University of New Mexico and was a former University of New Mexico Cystic Fibrosis Center Director, as well as co-chair of the New Mexico Council on Asthma. She has been a member of the Pediatric Pulmonary Division through the Stanford University School of Medicine for the past 7 years and is leading asthma clinical efforts in the division. Her main areas of interest are childhood asthma, aerodigestive disorders in children, respiratory disorders in children with complex healthcare needs and the care of historically marginalized patient populations.

Ethan Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Eugene Butcher

Job Titles:
  • Pathologist
Pathologist Eugene Butcher discovers a receptor that guides white blood cells into the peripheral lymph nodes.

Farshad Moradi

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Radiology - Rad / Nuclear Medicine

Francois Haddad

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine

Gary Dahl

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Pediatrics ( Hematology / Oncology ), Emeritus / Research

Gerald Crabtree

Job Titles:
  • Pathologist
Pathologist Gerald Crabtree develops techniques that allow scientists to toggle genes on and off in animal models.

Gilbert Chu

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Medicine ( Oncology ) and of Biochemistry / Research

Glaivy Batsuli

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics ( Hematology / Oncology )

Gundeep Dhillon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Medicine ( Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine )

Harmeet Bedi

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine

Helen Yue Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Doctoral Dissertation Reader ( NonAC )

Hina Emanuel

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine

Hugh McDevitt

Job Titles:
  • Immunologist
Immunologist Hugh McDevitt discovers regulatory genes believed to control the body's reponses to foreign proteins, which suggests that people may have predictable susceptibility to certain diseases.

Ian Carroll

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine ( Adult Pain )

Irving Weissman

Job Titles:
  • Pathologist
Pathologist Irving Weissman isolates a rare mouse cell, known as the hematopoetic stem cell, which gives rise to all the cells of the blood and immune systems. Pathologist Irving Weissman identifies the stem cell that gives rise to bladder cancer, and also shows how the cell uses the "don't-eat-me" signal, a molecule known as CD47, to evade the body's defenses. Pathologist Irving Weissman shows that a single antibody, which counters the effect of the CD47 molecule, shrinks a variety of human tumors transplanted into mice.

Jay B. Brodsky

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Clinical ) of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Emeritus / Research

Jeanine Tsang

Job Titles:
  • Finance & Research Administration Manager

Jessica Gold

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics

Jill Helms

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Surgery ( Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery ) Research

John Brock-Utne

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Clinical ) of Anesthesia, Emeritus / Research

John D. Mark

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Professor / past Program Director
  • Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine

John Farquhar

Job Titles:
  • Peter Wood Lead the First Large Clinical Investigation That Shows Lowering Cholesterol Levels Prevents Heart Disease
John Farquhar and Peter Wood lead the first large clinical investigation that shows lowering cholesterol levels prevents heart disease.

John Huguenard

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Neurology ( Neurology Research Faculty ), of Neurosurgery ( Adult Neurosurgery ) and, by Courtesy, of Molecular and Cellular Physiology

Jonathan Mulholland

Job Titles:
  • Director, CSIF, School of Medicine - CMGM

Kalene Hagan

Job Titles:
  • Recruitment Coordinator

Kanwaljeet S. Anand

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Pediatrics ( Pediatric Critical Care ) and of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Karen Hardy

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine

Kari Nadeau

Job Titles:
  • Immunologist

Karlene Cimprich

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and, by Courtesy, of Biochemistry
Genomic instability contributes to many diseases, but it also underlies many natural processes. The Cimprich lab is focused on understanding how mammalian cells maintain genomic stability in the context of DNA replication stress and DNA damage. We are interested in the molecular mechanisms underlying the cellular response to replication stress and DNA damage as well as the links between DNA damage and replication stress to human disease.

Karthik Balakrishnan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery ( OHNS ) and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics

Kenneth L. Cox

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Pediatrics ( Gastroenterology ) at the Lucile Salter Packard Children 's Hospital, Emeritus / Research

Khristian Erich Bauer-Rowe Ramos

Job Titles:
  • Student, Expected Graduation Spring 2024 Ph.D. Student in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Admitted Autumn 2021 MSTP Student

Kim Hoang

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics

King L Hung

Job Titles:
  • Student in Cancer Biology, Admitted Autumn 2018

Kristina Kudelko

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine

Kyle Loh

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology ( Stem Cell )

Lana Henthorn

Job Titles:
  • Senior Administrative Division Director

Lara Vastano

Job Titles:
  • Office & Events Coordinator

Laura Rojas

Job Titles:
  • Life Science Research Professional II

Laurence Katznelson

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Neurosurgery and of Medicine ( Endocrinology )
Dr. Katznelson is an internationally known neuroendocrinologist and clinical researcher, with research expertise in the diagnosis and management of hypopituitarism, the effects of hormones on neurocognitive function, and the development of therapeutics for acromegaly and Cushing's syndrome, and neuroendocrine tumors. Dr. Katznelson is the medical director of the multidisciplinary Stanford Pituitary Center, a program geared for patient management, clinical research and patient education

Lawrence C. Chow

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Radiology

Lea Steffes

Job Titles:
  • Instructor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine
Dr. Steffes, a Wisconsin native, completed medical school and pediatric residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She then moved to the Bay Area and completed her clinical fellowship in pediatric pulmonary medicine at Stanford University in 2020. Additionally, Dr. Steffes received further post-doctoral training in the laboratories of Dr. Maya Kumar and Dr. David Cornfield, studying the cellular and molecular mechanism driving pulmonary vascular disease. In addition to her role as an Instructor in Pediatrics in the division of Pulmonary Medicine, Dr. Steffes is also completing an advanced clinical fellowship in Pulmonary Hypertension at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. Her clinical work consists of caring for patients with pediatric pulmonary and pulmonary vascular diseases such as pulmonary hypertension, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, interstitial lung disease, respiratory failure, chronic cough and asthma. Her research is focused on the vascular changes seen in pulmonary hypertension, more specifically understanding the cellular characteristics of occlusive neointimal lesions, the abnormal cells that block pulmonary blood flow in pulmonary hypertension. In her most recent work, Dr. Steffes identified a subset of healthy vascular smooth muscle cells that are the cell of origin for the pathologic neointimal cells and a specific signaling pathway, that when blocked, inhibits the formation of neointimal lesions. Dr. Steffes is currently employing advanced single cell sequencing technologies to further understand neointimal cells with the ultimate goal identifying new therapies for pulmonary hypertension, a fatal disease with no known cure.

Lisa Higdon

Job Titles:
  • Events Manager

Lloyd B. Minor

Job Titles:
  • Scientist
  • Surgeon
  • CARL and ELIZABETH NAUMANN DEAN of the SCHOOL of MEDICINE / VICE PRESIDENT for MEDICAL AFFAIRS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
  • Director ( Chair ) of the Department of Otolaryngology
  • Vice President for Medical Affairs
Lloyd B. Minor, MD, is a scientist, surgeon, and academic leader. He is the Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine and Vice President for Medical Affairs at Stanford University. Dr. Minor also is a professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and a professor of Bioengineering and of Neurobiology, by courtesy, at Stanford University. As dean, Dr. Minor has had an integral role in setting strategy for the clinical enterprise of Stanford Medicine, an academic medical center that includes the Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and Stanford Medicine Children's Health. With his leadership, Stanford Medicine leads the biomedical revolution in Precision Health. His book, "Discovering Precision Health," describes this shift to more preventive, personalized health care and highlights how biomedical advances are dramatically improving our ability to treat and cure complex diseases. In 2021, Dr. Minor articulated and began realizing a bold vision to transform the future of life sciences at Stanford University and beyond - a multi-decade journey enabled by Precision Health. In August 2023, Dr. Minor was appointed Vice President for Medical Affairs to lead all matters related to health and medicine at Stanford University. Before Stanford, Dr. Minor was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs of Johns Hopkins University. Prior to this appointment in 2009, Dr. Minor served as the Andelot Professor and director (chair) of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and otolaryngologist-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. With more than 160 published articles and chapters, Dr. Minor is an expert in balance and inner ear disorders perhaps best known for discovering superior canal dehiscence syndrome, a debilitating disorder characterized by sound- or pressure-induced dizziness. He subsequently developed a surgical procedure that corrects the problem and alleviates symptoms. In 2012, Dr. Minor was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Lori Lee

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine

Lucile Packard

Job Titles:
  • Pediatric Pulmonary Fellowship Program Director
  • Support

Lucy (Goddard) Kalanithi

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health

Lucy Garcia

Job Titles:
  • Events Planner

Luis de Lecea

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ( Major Laboratories and Clinical and Translational Neurosciences Incubator ) Research

M. Gail Boltz

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Manisha Newaskar

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine

Marius Wernig

Job Titles:
  • Pathologist
Pathologist Marius Wernig turns mouse skin cells into cells that insulate neurons with the application of just three genes.

Mark Davis

Job Titles:
  • Immunologist
Immunologist Mark Davis characterizes the T-cell receptor, believed to regulate the body's response to infectious agents and cancerous diseases.

Mark Mercola

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Medicine ( Cardiovascular ) and, by Courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology

Mark Nicolls

Job Titles:
  • Stanford University Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Martin S. Angst

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Marwa Abu

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Gastroenterology

Mary Anne Tablizo

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine

Mary Gohlke

Mary Gohlke receives the world's first combined heart and lung transplant in a landmark operation led by surgeon Bruce Reitz.

Mary Kane Goldstein

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Health Policy, Emerita / Research

Matea Kresic

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to Dean Lloyd Minor, MD, Office of the Dean, Chief of Staff

Maya Kumar

Job Titles:
  • Research

Maya Melendrez

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager, Facilities & Faculty Affairs

Meena Kakani

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Manager

Mehran Farid

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine

Michael Jeng

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Pediatrics ( Hematology / Oncology )

Michael Lin

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Neurobiology, of Bioengineering and, by Courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology

Michael Miller

Job Titles:
  • Communications Manager

Michael Tracy

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine
Dr. Tracy is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Pediatric Pulmonary. His clinical interests include care for children with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), chronic respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation, childhood interstitial lung disease, and cystic fibrosis. He serves as the director Pediatric Pulmonary BPD Program, and co-director of the Cardiac and Respiratory care for Infants with BPD (CRIB) Program. He is the medical director of the Stanford Technology Assisted Respiratory (STAR) Program and the physician lead for the inpatient Pulmonary consult service at LPCH. Dr. Tracy is currently involved in clinical research to improve care for infants with BPD. With regard to medical education, he was formerly a chief resident in pediatrics at LPCH, and served as a faculty coach in the pediatric residency program.

Michelle Cheng

Job Titles:
  • Res Scientist - Basic Life, Neurosurgery

Michelle Thi Cao

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine

Mildred Berg

Job Titles:
  • Research Interests

Monica Elazar

Job Titles:
  • Regulatory Affairs Coordinator

Monther Abu-Remaileh

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Genetics

MyMy Buu

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine

Nicholas Avdimiretz

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine

Nicholas Leeper

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Surgery ( Vascular Surgery ) and of Medicine ( Cardiovascular )

Olivia Martinez

Job Titles:
  • Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery / Research

Orly R. Klein

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation

Patrick Barnes

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Radiology ( Pediatric Radiology ) at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus / Research

Paul A. King - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • PRESIDENT

Paul Cheng

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine ( Cardiovascular Medicine )

Paul Graham Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Beirne Family Professor of Pediatric Neuro - Oncology, Professor of Pediatrics and, by Courtesy, of Neurosurgery and of Epidemiology and Population Health

Paul Mohabir

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine Clinical Professor ( by Courtesy ), Surgery - General Surgery

Peter H. Hwang

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery ( OHNS ) and, by Courtesy, of Neurosurgery

Peter J. Koltai

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus / Research

Peter K. Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Microbiology and Immunology ( Baxter Labs ) and of Pathology / Research

Peter Wood

Job Titles:
  • Peter Wood Lead the First Large Clinical Investigation That Shows Lowering Cholesterol Levels Prevents Heart Disease

Philip Sunshine

Job Titles:
  • Professor in Neonatology, Emeritus

Rachel Knight Hopper

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Cardiology

Rachna Wadia

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine

Raji Bassi

Job Titles:
  • Financial Analyst

Rebecca Claure

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Regina Margo

Job Titles:
  • Interim Recruitment Coordinator

Renumathy Dhanasekaran

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine ( Gastroenterology )

Ricardo Castillo

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics ( Gastroenterology ) at the Lucile Salter Packard Children 's Hospital, Emeritus

Richard B. Moss

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Pediatrics at the Lucile Salter Packard Children 's Hospital, Emeritus

Richard Barth

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Radiology ( Pediatric Radiology ) and, by Courtesy, of Obstetrics and Gynecology ( Maternal Fetal Medicine )

Richard Bland

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Research ) of Pediatrics ( Neonatology ), Emeritus / Research

Richard Kempson

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Surgical Pathology

Richard Lee Hallett II

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Radiology

Robson Capasso

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery ( OHNS ) and, by Courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ( Sleep Medicine )

Ron Kopito

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Biology

Rona Balingit

Job Titles:
  • Interim Recruitment Coordinator

Ronald L. Ariagno

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Clinical ) of Pediatrics, Emeritus / Research

Rosemarie DeKruyff

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Ross Metzger

Job Titles:
  • Res Scientist - Basic Life, Pediatrics - Cardiology / Research

Roy Cohn

Job Titles:
  • Surgeon
Surgeon Roy Cohn leads the first human kidney transplant operation on the West Coast.

Samuel King

Job Titles:
  • Student in Bioengineering, Admitted Autumn 2023

Sanjiv Gambhir

Job Titles:
  • Radiologist
Radiologist Sanjiv Gambhir develops a new type of imaging system that can illuminate tumors in living subjects with a precision of nearly one-trillionth of a meter

Sarah S. Donaldson

Job Titles:
  • Catharine and Howard Avery Professor in the School of Medicine, Emerita / Research

Sarita Khemani

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine

Shannon Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine Clinical Professor ( by Courtesy ), Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine

Sheila E. Cohen

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Clinical ) of Anesthesia, Emerita / Research

Sheri Krams

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate Dean, Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs and Professor of Surgery ( Abdominal Transplantation ) Research

Steven R. Alexander

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Pediatrics ( Nephrology ), Emeritus

Sumit Bhargava

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine

Susan B. Ford

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Emerita
Susan McConnell has studied the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie the development of the mammalian cerebral cortex. Her work focused on the earliest events that pattern the developing forebrain, enable neural progenitors to divide asymmetrically to generate young neurons, propel the migration of postmitotic neurons outward into their final positions, and sculpt the fates and phenotypes of the neurons as they differentiate.

Susan K. McConnell

Job Titles:
  • Research Interests

Terry Robinson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics ( Pulmonary ) at the Lucile Salter Packard Children 's Hospital, Emeritus

Thomas Caruso

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Thomas Robinson

Job Titles:
  • Pediatrician
Pediatrician Thomas Robinson finds that children who curtailed their television time gained significantly less body fat than those who didn't .

Tina Conti

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator - BSRC, RRT, RRT - NPS, C -

Tristan Poasa

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager, Clinical and Research Operations Support

Tushar Desai

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Medicine ( Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine )

Varvara A. Kirchner

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Surgery ( Abdominal Transplantation ) and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics

W. Ray Kim

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Medicine ( Gastroenterology and Hepatology )

Ware Kuschner

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Medicine ( Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine ) Research

Warren Alpert

Job Titles:
  • Medical Education

William Berquist

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Pediatrics ( Gastroenterology ), Emeritus

William Haskell

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
Researcher William Haskell shows that intensive lifestyle changes and prevention/treatment programs can reduce cardiac events and slow the progression of atherosclerosis in coronary arteries.

William S. Robinson

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
Researcher William S. Robinson isolates the genetic blueprint of a virus that causes hepatitis B and a common form of liver cancer.

Xiaoxia Yao

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Finance & Research Administration

Xin Si

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine

Xuejun Gu

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology ( Medical Physics )

Yael Gernez

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Immunology and Allergy