STANFORD MEDICINE - Key Persons
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- Faculty Affairs Administrator
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- Senior Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs / Professor of Medicine ( Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care )
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- Special Advisor, DEI Programs / Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine ( Gastroenterology & Hepatology )
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- Interim Chair, Department
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- Faculty Affairs Manager for Recruitment and Diversity
Cynthia Llanes was born in the Philippines. She arrived in the United States with her family in 1973. She received a Bachelor's Degree in Public Health from UCLA. She has been at Stanford for 20 years, with appointments in the Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages as the Administrative Services Manager and as Associate Director of Faculty Affairs and Clinical More Training in the Department of Pathology. After a brief retirement, she was recruited by the Department of Medicine in Oct. 2019 as the Faculty Affairs Manager for Recruitment and Diversity. Her role includes serving as the administrative lead for the LENS Advocate Program. This role is especially important for Cynthia because of her commitment to diversity and inclusion. She strongly believes that the faculty's demographics should reflect the diversity of the patient and trainees they serve.
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- Professor of Medicine & Vice Chair of Academic Affairs
- Senior Vice Chair, Academic Affairs / Professor of Medicine ( Endocrinology )
Dr. Andrew Hoffman is a board certified endocrinologist who specializes in the treatment pituitary and other neuroendocrine diseases, including acromegaly, Cushing syndrome, prolactinomas and other pituitary tumors.
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- Associate Chair, Communications / Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine ( Hospital Medicine )
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- Director of Wellness / Clinical Professor of Medicine ( Primary Care & Population Health )
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- Associate Chair, Fellowship Programs / Professor of Medicine ( Nephrology ), and, by Courtesy, of Epidemiology & Population Health
- Professor
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- LENS Advocates Director, Academic Affairs
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- Professor
- Senior Advisor to the Chair
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- Chief of Staff, Office of the Chair
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- Associate Chair, Community Partnership / Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine ( Primary Care & Population Health )
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- Vice Chair, Basic Science / Associate Professor of Medicine ( Endocrinology )
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- Director of Clinical Educator Development
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- Vice Chair, Clinical Research / Professor of Medicine ( Cardiovascular Medicine )
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- Associate Chair, Business Development / Professor of Medicine ( Hospital Medicine ), and, by Courtesy, of Economics
Dr. Khush is Professor of Medicine and Director of Heart Transplant Research in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center and Director of the Advanced Heart Failure Transplant Cardiology Fellowship Program at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Khush is a clinical and translational investigator whose research More focuses on donor selection for heart transplantation; risk factors and mechanisms of primary graft dysfunction after heart transplantation; development and clinical utility of non-invasive transplant biomarkers; and prevention of long-term complications after heart transplantation, including cardiac allograft vasculopathy (a form of chronic rejection) and malignancies. She has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation. Dr. Khush is the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation and incoming Program Chair of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation annual scientific sessions (Boston, MA, April 2025). Through her collaborative clinical and research programs, she has experienced the great benefits arising from working with teams that are diverse in terms of background and life experiences. Dr. Khush hopes to bring this perspective to faculty searches and hires at Stanford Medicine.
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- Associate Chair - Academic Affairs / CE / Clinical Professor
Latha Palaniappan MD, MS, is an internist, and clinical and population researcher. Her research has focused on the study of diverse populations, chronic disease and prevention. Dr. Palaniappan specifically seeks to address the gap in knowledge of health in Asian subgroups and other understudied racial/ethnic minorities (PACS 5R01DK081371, CASPER R01HL126172, More and CAUSES R01MD007012). Her current work examines the clinical effectiveness of structured physical activity programs for diabetes management (Initiate and Maintain Physical Activity in Clinics - IMPACT, 5R18DK096394), as well as best exercise regimens for normal-weight diabetics (Strength Training Regimen for Normal Weight Diabetics - STRONG-D, 2R01DK081371). She was recently awarded a Midcareer Investigator Award (K24 HL150476) by the National Institutes of Health to provide mentoring to junior clinical investigators in the conduct of patient oriented research. She is currently working on implementation of evidence based genetic and pharmacogenetic testing in clinical settings. She is the Faculty co-Director of the Stanford Biobank (with Drs. Brooke Howitt and Joachim Hallmayer) designed to accelerate translatable scientific discoveries. She co-founded (with Dr. Bryant Lin) the Center for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Research and Education (CARE) at Stanford in 2018. She recently received a Fulbright Future Scholar Award and will work with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation on implementation of Precision Health in Australia.
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- Director - Continuing Medical Education
- Professor
Dr. Schapira is Professor of Medicine (Oncology) and the Inaugural Director of the Cancer Survivorship Program at Stanford Medicine. Dr. Schapira completed her residency in internal medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and went on to complete a fellowship in hematology and medical oncology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and a research fellowship at the More Division on Aging at Harvard Medical School. She was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Breast Oncology Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital from 2002-2016 and then joined the faculty at Stanford in 2016, where she directs a multidisciplinary research and clinical team focused on optimizing health outcomes for cancer survivors through research, clinical care, education and advocacy.
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- Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University
Dr. Srinivasan is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, Associate Director at the Stanford Center for Asian Healthcare Research and Education (Stanford CARE), Fellow at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH), board member at the Stanford Clinical Teaching Seminar Series, and member of the Stanford Teaching and More research program in amyloidosis, cardiac complications of cancer therapy, and sarcoidosis. Dr. Witteles is the recipient of a host of clinical teaching awards, and housestaff education is his greatest passion.
Marisha Smith has been employed at Stanford since 2007, initially with the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Over time she took on the role of HR and Faculty Affairs Administrator and eventually transitioned to the Department of Medicine. She has earned a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology, with emphasis in Social Problems and minor in Africana Studies, More a Master's degree is in Education with emphasis in Multicultural Counseling as well as a Doctorate in Education with emphasis on Educational Leadership and Management. In her current role as Academic Affairs Manager, Marisha oversees appointments and promotions in the professoriate lines, as well as retirement, emeritus recalls, and leave requests. As a bi-racial Black woman, daughter, sister, wife and mother, Marisha is very much passionate about social justice and committed to the mission of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) for all. In addition to her involvement as an administrative committee member for the LENS Advocates, she is a member of the Department of Medicine's Staff DEI Committee and on the Equity Leadership Team for the Long Beach Unified School District.
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- Director of Team Science / Professor of Medicine ( Immunology & Rheumatology )
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- Vice Chair - Education / Clinical Associate Professor
In addition to serving as general medicine clinic section chief at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System and clinical assistant professor of primary care and population health, Rhonda Hamilton, MD, finds unique strategies with student volunteers to engage veterans and reduce racial disparity gaps in their health care.
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- Professor
- Vice Chair, Academic Affairs / Professor
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- Associate Chair, Women in Medicine / Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine ( Primary Care & Population Health )
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- Associate Chair, Diversity & Inclusion / Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine ( Hematology )
- Clinical Associate Professor
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- Associate Chair, Faculty Development / Professor of Medicine ( Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine ), and of Microbiology & Immunology
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- Clinical Associate
- Associate Chair, Diversity & Inclusion
- Clinical Associate Professor
Wendy Caceres is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford University. She serves as one of the Associate Program Directors for the Stanford Internal Medicine Residency program and had been the Co-Medical Director of Pacific Free Clinic and Cardinal Free Clinics from 2015-2020. From 2020 she has been one of the Associate More Chairs for Diversity and Inclusion for the Department of Medicine. Her main interests are in diversity in medical education and clinical care of vulnerable populations. Her clinical scholarly activity has been focused on reducing health disparities through quality improvement at the point of care.