NUCLEAR MEDICINE - Key Persons
Endocrinologist Aaron Hsueh discovers obestatin, a hormone that supresses appetite and may lead to treatments for obesity.
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- Clinical and Translational Research Manager
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- Professor of Radiology ( Nuclear Medicine )
- Professor of Radiology / Chief, Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Imaging
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- Residency Program Coordinator / Research Staff
Pharmacologist Avram Goldstein discovers a chemical in the human brain that could lead to the development of powerful painkillers with fewer undesirable side effects.
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- Professor of Radiology ( Diagnostic Radiology ) at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus
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- Clinical Professor of Radiology
- Clinical Professor, Radiology - Rad
- Clinical Professor, Radiology / Director, Clinical Research and Community Based Strategy
Dr. Franc is a Clinical Professor of Radiology - Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. He completed his B.S and M.S. in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, Stanford, CA. He completed his medical school training at University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine. While conducting his residency at Stanford University, in the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, he was also the chief resident. Dr. Franc's research interests include all aspects of PET-CT as he has nearly 20 years of experience in clinical Nuclear Medicine with particular expertise in PET-CT.
Dr. Franc predominantly publishes and lectures on applications and innovations of PET-CT. He has proficiency in all aspects of PET radiopharmaceutical development, spanning the design of molecules, synthesis of radioligands, and use in animal and human imaging. He also has expertise in quantitative image analysis, development of novel post-processing image reconstruction methods, and the application of artificial intelligence in human diagnostics. Dr. Franc has implemented new radiopharmaceuticals in pre-clinical and clinical research PET imaging as well as for clinical PET with applications in cancer, infectious disease (HIV), and autoimmune disease (RA). He has applied advanced computational techniques, including deep learning, to extract predictive data for prognosis of various cancers and neurodegenerative diseases from molecular imaging modalities.
Since joining the faculty at Stanford in 2018, Dr. Franc has received several awards including the Radiological Society of North America 2019 Margulis Award for Excellence in Research; RSNA 2019 Trainee Research; and Most read article in Radiology 2019. He has accepted the position of Director, Residency Program, Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging as well as the Director, Radiology Value-Based Care Initiative. Dr. Franc has presented more than 40 abstracts at national and international meetings and published more than 90 papers in peer-reviewed publications, as well as 9 book chapters.
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- Professor of Radiation Oncology ( Radiation Therapy )
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- Associate
- Clinical Research Coordinator
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- Clinical Professor, Radiology - Rad
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- Professor of Dermatology in the School of Medicine
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- Senior Research Scientist - Basic Life, Chemical and Systems Biology Operations
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- Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery ( OHNS )
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- Professor of Pediatrics ( Neonatology ), Emeritus
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- Clinical Professor, Neurosurgery / Research
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- Cancer Research and Professor of Genetics
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- Senior Clinical Research Coordinator and AI Lead
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- PRESIDENT & CEO / STANFORD HEALTH CARE
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- Professor of Medicine ( Endocrinology, Gerontology and Metabolism ), Emeritus / Research
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- Clinical Professor, Radiology
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- Pathology and Professor of Developmental Biology
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- Clinical Research Project Manager
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- Present Position: Teleradiology Private Practice
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- Clinical Professor, Otolaryngology ( Head and Neck Surgery )
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- Professor of Medicine ( Oncology ) and of Pathology / Research
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- Lead Administrative Associate
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- Clinical Professor, Neurosurgery
Dr. Michael F. Clarke is the Karel and Avice Beekhuis Professor in Cancer Biology and Associate Director of the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine. He is a board certified oncologist with extensive training in molecular biology and stem cell biology. In addition to his clinical duties in the division of Oncology, Dr. Clarke maintains a laboratory focused on two areas of research: i) the control of self-renewal of normal stem cells and their malignant counterparts; and ii) the identification and characterization of cancer stem cells. The main objectives of his laboratory are to pursue how perturbations in the self-renewal machinery contribute to human diseases and to use the findings to aid the development of more effective treatment therapies.
His laboratory has a long history of innovative findings which include: the first to demonstrate that inappropriate expression of a normal gene could cause a tumor; the first to identify a dominant-negative splice variant of an oncogene; the first to identify a molecular regulator of stem cell self-renewal; the first to identify a solid tumor stem cell (in breast cancer) and the first to demonstrate a molecular linkage of a self-renewal program used by normal mammary stem cells and breast cancer cells. Recently, his group described a molecular mechanism that confers resistance to radiation in breast cancer stem cells.
His group was the first to discover that the proto-oncogene Bmi-1 regulates stem cell self-renewal via an epigenetic mechanism. By examining the pathways upstream and downstream of Bmi1, hence the molecular pathways that regulate self-renewal, his laboratory found that USP16, a protein that dampens Bmi1 signals, causes a stem cell defect in various stem cells in Down's syndrome, including neural stem cells.
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- Associate Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery ( OHNS )
Dr. Vasu Divi specializes in the treatment of head and neck cancer, both as a cancer surgeon and a reconstructive surgeon. Dr. Divi has a special interest in high-risk and advanced skin cancers, oral cavity cancers, and osteoradionecrosis of the head and neck. He utilizes advanced 3D-modeling to customize reconstruction of the jaw following surgery for cancer or radiation injuries.
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- Professor of Surgery ( Vascular ), Emeritus
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- Present Position: Private Practice, Seattle, WA
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- Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology ( Radiation Physics ) and, by Courtesy, of Radiology ( Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford )
Sleep researcher Emmanuel Mignot identifies the defective gene that causes narcolepsy, a disabling sleep disorder affecting humans and animals.
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- Clinical Professor, Radiology
- Clinical Professor, Radiology - Rad
Erin Grady, MD, CCD, FACNM, FSNMMI is a nuclear medicine physician at Stanford Hospital and Clinics in Stanford, California. She is actively involved nationally in the SNMMI in multiple capacities including as a Director-at-Large on the SNMMI Board of Directors, chair of the Nuclear Medicine Program Directors, a member of the General Nuclear Medicine Council board, co-chair of the Government Relations Committee and a longstanding member of the Coding and Reimbursement Committee. In addition, she is a past chair of the American Board of Nuclear Medicine and has served on the board of appeals panel, review committee and milestone development committee for Nuclear Medicine and milestone revision committee for Nuclear Radiology at the ACGME. Her areas of research interest include quality, education, radiopharmaceutical therapy and finding answers to clinical questions that arise during the course of practice. She is passionate about education in nuclear medicine, nuclear medicine's future and is a staunch advocate for patients.
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Clinical Professor, Radiology - Rad/Nuclear Medicine
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- Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Pathologist Eugene Butcher discovers a receptor that guides white blood cells into the peripheral lymph nodes.
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- Clinical Associate Professor, Radiology
- Clinical Associate Professor, Radiology - Rad
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- Clinical Instructor, Pathology
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- Associate Professor of Radiology ( Pediatric Radiology ) and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics
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- Clinical Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
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- Associate Professor of Surgery ( General Surgery )
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- Professor of Radiology, Emeritus
- Professor of Radiology, Emeritus / Interim Division Chief, VAPAHCS
Pathologist Gerald Crabtree develops techniques that allow scientists to toggle genes on and off in animal models.
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- Coyote Foundation Professor and Professor, by Courtesy, of Neurosurgery
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- Clinical Associate Professor, Radiology
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- Clinical Associate Professor, Radiology
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- Professor of Radiology ( General Radiology ) and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics ( Hematology / Oncology )
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- Clinical Professor, Radiology / Director, Pediatric
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- Lebeson Professor of Cancer Biology
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- Assistant Professor of Radiology ( Nuclear Medicine )
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.
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- Professor of Radiology ( Neuroimaging and Neurointervention ) and, by Courtesy, of Neurosurgery and of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery ( OHNS )
Interventional Neuroradiology, Endovascular Neurosurgery, Cerebral aneurysm coiling, Brain AVM (arteriovenous malformation), Stroke, Spinal Intervention for pain, Head and neck vascular malformations and anomalies, Interventional Oncology, Pediatric Neuroradiology, Diagnostic Radiology, Vascular Malformations, Percutaneous Sclerotherapy, Vertebral compression fractures, Trigeminal Neuralgia and facial pain
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- Assistant Professor of Medicine ( Cardiovascular ) and of Radiology ( Veterans Affairs )
Dr. Gibbs is a board-certified radiation oncologist who specializes in the treatment of CNS tumors. Her research focuses on developing new radiation techniques to manage brain and spinal tumors in adults and children. Dr. Gibbs has gained worldwide acclaim for her expertise in Cyberknife robotic radiosurgery.
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.
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- Senior Research Scientist - Basic Life, Rad / Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford
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- Sam Willson Professor and Professor of Radiation Oncology ( Radiation Therapy )
- Sam Willson Professor, Professor of Radiation Oncology, Emeritus
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- Clinical Assistant Professor, Radiology
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- Professor of Medicine ( Oncology ) and of Genetics and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics
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- Dunlevie Family Professor of Pulmonary Vascular Disease and Professor, by Courtesy, of Bioengineering
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- Assistant Professor of Surgery ( Pediatric Surgery )
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- Professor, Professor of Statistics and of Biomedical Data Sciences
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- 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.
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- the Dorothy and Thye King Chan Professor in Neurosurgery, Emeritus / Research
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- Professor of Pathology and of Genetics
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- Clinical Assistant Professor, Radiology
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- KM Mulberry Professor, Professor of Developmental Biology, of Medicine ( Endocrinology ) and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics ( Endocrinology ) Research
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- Associate Professor of Pathology
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- Clinical Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
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- Doctoral Dissertation Reader ( AC )
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- Professor of Neurology and, by Courtesy, of Neurosurgery
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- Clinical Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
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- Associate
- Clinical Research Coordinator
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- Associate
- Clinical Research Coordinator
Pathologist Marius Wernig turns mouse skin cells into cells that insulate neurons with the application of just three genes.
Immunologist Mark Davis characterizes the T-cell receptor, believed to regulate the body's response to infectious agents and cancerous diseases.
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- Professor of Radiation Oncology, Emeritus / Research
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- Present Position: Private Practice, Southern California
Mary Gohlke receives the world's first combined heart and lung transplant in a landmark operation led by surgeon Bruce Reitz.
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- Executive Assistant to Dean Lloyd Minor, MD, Office of the Dean, Chief of Staff
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- Clinical Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy
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- Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus
- Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus / Research
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- Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery ( OHNS )
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- Professor of Radiology and, by Courtesy, of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery ( OHNS ), of Neurology, of Neurosurgery & of Radiation Oncology
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- Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
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- Professor of Radiology ( Interventional Radiology )
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- Present Position: Private Practice
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- Clinical Professor, Surgery - Vascular Surgery
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- Associate Professor of Medicine ( Biomedical Informatics ) and of Biomedical Data Science / Research
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- Professor of Radiology ( Pediatric Radiology ) at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus / Research
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- Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus / Research
Dr. Brown, currently an emeritus professor, is CEO and founder of Impossible Foods, a company dedicated to replacing the world's most destructive technology - the use of animals to transform plant biomass into meat, fish and dairy foods - by developing a new and better way to produce the world's most delicious, nutritious and affordable meats, fish and dairy foods directly from plants. Visit impossiblefoods.com for more information.
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- Peter Wood Lead the First Large Clinical Investigation That Shows Lowering Cholesterol Levels Prevents Heart Disease
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- Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Cardiology
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- Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
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- Professor ( Research ) of Pediatrics ( Neonatology ), Emeritus / Research
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- Professor of Surgical Pathology
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- Professor of Medicine ( Oncology and General Internal Medicine / Medical Informatics ) at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus / Research
Surgeon Roy Cohn leads the first human kidney transplant operation on the West Coast.
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- Adjunct Clinical Professor, Radiology
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
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- Catharine and Howard Avery Professor in the School of Medicine, Emerita / Research
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- KM Mulberry Professor, Professor of Developmental Biology, of Medicine ( Endocrinology ) and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics ( Endocrinology ) Research
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- Assistant Professor of Pathology
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- Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Cardiology
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- Professor of Radiation Oncology ( Radiation Therapy ), Emeritus
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- Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Emerita
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- Present Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, UCSF
Pediatrician Thomas Robinson finds that children who curtailed their television time gained significantly less body fat than those who didn't .
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- Professor of Medicine ( Biomedical Informatics ), of Biomedical Data Science, of Surgery and, by Courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health
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- Professor of Genetics and of Pediatrics, Emerita
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- Clinical Instructor
- Radiology
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.
Researcher William S. Robinson isolates the genetic blueprint of a virus that causes hepatitis B and a common form of liver cancer.
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- Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology ( Medical Physics )
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- Professor of Urology, Emeritus