WEIHAN CHU - Key Persons
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- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ( General Psychiatry and Psychology )
Dr. Fischer's research focuses on characterizing risk and resilience factors in depression. She has been awarded an NIH Career Development Award (K23) and Klingenstein Foundation Fellowship in Adolescent Depression to build her program of clinical and translational research at Stanford. Dr. Fischer's program of clinical care focused on the delivery and teaching of evidence-based clinical interventions that enhance resilience, with a focus on addressing the unique stressors encountered in academia and academic medicine that may contribute to risk and resilience in mood and anxiety disorders.
Dr. Fischer's translational program of research focuses on:
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- Professor ( Clinical ) of Anesthesia and Pediatrics, Emeritus
- Professor ( Clinical ) of Anesthesia and Pediatrics, Emeritus / Research
Dr. Hackel is Professor (Clinical) of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, and Pediatrics, Emeritus, at the Stanford School of Medicine. A graduate of Stanford University and its School of Medicine, he was the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Anesthesia at Stanford for 25 years. He is Board Certified in Pediatrics and Anesthesiology.
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- Stanford Medicine Innovation Professor and Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, of Health Policy and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics ( Endocrinology )
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- Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
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- Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
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- Professor of Radiology ( Diagnostic Radiology ) at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus
- Professor of Radiology ( Diagnostic Radiology ) at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus / Research
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- Director of the Stanford Pain Relief Innovations Lab
- 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))
Beth Darnall, PhD is Director of the Stanford Pain Relief Innovations Lab. She leads NIH and PCORI-funded clinical trials that broadly investigate behavioral medicine for acute and chronic pain, including $19M in research funding from the Patient Centered Research Outcomes Institute (PCORI). She serves as faculty mentor to junior investigators who are Stanford Pain NIDA T-32 post-doctoral research fellows, NIDA K23 awardees, and through the Stanford CTSA. In 2021 she received a K24 research and mentoring award from NIDA.
Her primary interests are developing and investigating novel pain treatments that are scalable, effective, and low burden. She is creator of "Empowered Relief", a single-session evidence based pain management intervention, and principal investigator for a 6-site $11M national randomized comparative effectiveness trial of online "Empowered Relief" vs. online 8-session cognitive behavioral therapy in diverse patients and pain conditions in the U.S. (funded by PCORI; 2022-2027). She and her team provide international clinician certification workshops for "Empowered Relief" (https://empoweredrelief.stanford.edu/). "Empowered Relief" is delivered in 16 countries, 7 languages, and is the subject of international research. In 2021, results for an NIH-funded randomized trial of "Empowered Relief" published in JAMA Network Open. Also in 2021 a second randomized trial of online-received "Empowered Relief" showed efficacy in mixed-etiology chronic pain 3 months after treatment (Ziadni et al). Digital analgesic innovations include on-demand, skills-based, self-regulatory treatment for perioperative patients ("My Surgical Success", showing extended pain relief 3 months after surgery (Ziadni et al, 2022), and virtual reality for acute and chronic pain (she is chief science advisor at AppliedVR). The broad goal of this collective line of research is to dismantle barriers to effective behavioral medicine for pain and health.
She leads the PCORI-funded EMPOWER study, a 7-site (5-state) pragmatic randomized controlled clinical trial that is investigating how to best help physicians and patients successfully, safely, and voluntarily reduce long term opioid use and chronic pain using patient-centered methods. EMPOWER is a 3-arm RCT comparative effectiveness trial of two evidence-based behavioral treatments, cognitive behavioral therapy for pain and chronic pain self-management, applied within the context of patient-centered opioid tapering (N=1365). This research builds on the team's first report on "Patient-Centered Prescription Opioid Tapering in Community Outpatients with Chronic Pain" (Darnall et al, JAMA Int Med, 2018). Learn more about the EMPOWER study at https://empower.stanford.edu/
Darnall three times briefed the U.S. Congress on the opioid and pain crises, and provided invited testimony to the FDA on iatrogenic harms associated with opioid tapering, and in 2022 advised the Federation of State Medical Boards. In 2020 she joined the NIH Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee as a scientific member. From 2020-2021 she served as a scientific member of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Opioid Workgroup of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (BSC/NCIPC).
Her work has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, NPR Radio, BBC Radio, and Nature. In 2018 she spoke on the psychology of pain relief at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Academic Appointments
Professor - University Medical Line, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Professor - University Medical Line (By courtesy), Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Administrative Appointments
CDC Opioid Workgroup (BSC/NCIPC), Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (BSC/NCIPC) (2020 - 2021)
NIH Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee (IPRCC). Scientific member., National Institutes of Health (2020 - 2022)
Co-Chair, Acute Pain Task Force, Stanford Hospital (2019 - Present)
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- Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ( Interdisciplinary Brain Science Research )
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- Professor of Psychology / Research
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- Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Professor and Professor, by Courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health / Clinical Focus / Anesthesia / 440 Total Publications
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- Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ( General Psychiatry and Psychology - Adult )
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- Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development
- Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development / Research
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- Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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- Clinical Professor, Neurosurgery / Research
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- Associate Professor of Pediatrics ( General Pediatrics ) at the Lucile Salter Packard Children 's Hospital, Emeritus
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- Health Policy and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
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- PRESIDENT & CEO / STANFORD HEALTH CARE
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- Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine ( Adult MSD ) Research
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- Dean
- Head
- Physician
- Scientist
- Surgeon
- Professor for the Dean
- Vice Dean Linda M. Boxer
Dean Minor is a leading physician, basic scientist and educator.
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, a position he has held since December 2012. He 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 plays 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.
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.
Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Professor for the Dean of the School of Medicine, Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, and by courtesy, of Neurobiology & Bioengineering
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, a position he has held since December 2012. He 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 plays 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. He oversees the quality of Stanford Medicine's physicians on the faculty and in the growing clinical networks and physician practices.
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Minor reacted quickly to implement protocols to ensure the safety of patients and of the Stanford Medicine community. He emphasized open communication, transparency, and accountability as he and the leadership team responded to the unprecedented challenges that affected every facet of the enterprise's activities.
With Dr. Minor's leadership, Stanford Medicine is leading the biomedical revolution through Precision Health. Empowering people to lead healthy lives, Precision Health is a fundamental shift to more proactive and personalized health care that predicts and prevents disease before it strikes and cures it decisively if it does. His book, "Discovering Precision Health: Predict, Prevent, and Cure to Advance Health and Well-Being," highlights how biomedical advances are dramatically improving our ability to treat and cure complex diseases.
Dr. Minor also spearheaded the creation of an Integrated Strategic Plan (ISP) that reaffirms Stanford Medicine's Precision Health vision while articulating a new commitment to be Human Centered and Discovery Led. An unprecedented roadmap, the ISP aligns Stanford Medicine's three entities, informs how each will develop strategies and make decisions, and is activating more than two dozen high-impact initiatives across Stanford Medicine.
In 2021, Dr. Minor articulated and began realizing a bold vision for transforming the future of life sciences at Stanford University, in the Bay Area, and beyond. This multi-decade journey will leverage the region's unique strengths in information sciences, technology, and biology and biomedicine to establish a biomedical innovation hub that through collaboration enhances fundamental understanding of biology and translates promising discoveries into transformative leaps that promote human and planetary well-being.
Dr. Minor has long provided significant support for basic science research and for clinical and translational research at Stanford. Through bold initiatives in medical education and increased support for MD and PhD students, Dr. Minor is committed to inspiring and training future leaders. He also has increased student financial aid and expanded faculty leadership opportunities.
Among other accomplishments Dr. Minor has led the development and implementation of an innovative model for cancer research and patient care delivery at Stanford Medicine and has launched an initiative in biomedical data science to harness the power of big data and create a learning health care system.
Before Stanford, Dr. Minor was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs of The Johns Hopkins University. As provost, Dr. Minor launched many university-wide initiatives such as the Gateway Sciences Initiative to support pedagogical innovation, and the Doctor of Philosophy Board to promote excellence in PhD education. He worked with others around the university and health system to coordinate the Individualized Health Initiative, which aimed to use genetic information to transform health care.
Prior to his appointment as provost in 2009, Dr. Minor was 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. During his six-year tenure, he expanded annual research funding by more than half and increased clinical activity by more than 30 percent, while strengthening teaching efforts and student training.
With more than 160 published articles and chapters, Dr. Minor is an expert in balance and inner ear disorders. Through neurophysiological investigations of eye movements and neuronal pathways, his work has identified adaptive mechanisms responsible for compensation to vestibular injury in a model system for studies of motor learning (the vestibulo-ocular reflex). The synergies between this basic research and clinical studies have led to improved methods for the diagnosis and treatment of balance disorders. In recognition of his work in refining a treatment for Ménière's disease, Dr. Minor received the Prosper Ménière Society's gold medal in 2010.
In the medical community, Dr. Minor is perhaps best known for his discovery of superior canal dehiscence syndrome, a debilitating disorder characterized by sound- or pressure-induced dizziness. In 1998, Dr. Minor and colleagues published a description of the clinical manifestations of the syndrome and related its cause to an opening (dehiscence) in the bone covering the superior canal. He subsequently developed a surgical procedure that corrects the problem and alleviates symptoms.
Dr. Minor received his bachelor's and medical degrees from Brown University. He trained at Duke University Medical Center and the University of Chicago Medical Center and completed a research fellowship at the University of Chicago and a clinical fellowship at The Otology Group and The EAR Foundation in Nashville, Tennessee.
In 2012, Dr. Minor was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
As part of the Stanford Executive Briefing series, Minor shares his thoughts on authentic leadership and offers five leadership principles.
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- Associate Professor of Pediatrics ( Gastroenterology ), Emeritus
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- Clinical Associate Professor, Neurosurgery
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- Professor of Surgery ( Vascular )
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- Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine ( Pediatric Anesthesia ) at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus
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- Professor and Professor, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics
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- Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Emeritus
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- Assistant Professor of Health Policy
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- Associate Dean of Minority Advising and Programs and Professor of Pediatrics ( General Pediatrics ) at the Lucile Salter Packard Children 's Hospital, Emeritus
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- Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine ( Pediatric ) and of Pediatrics ( Critical Care ) Research
Dr. Hammer's primary research interests are pediatric pharmacology and perioperative care of children undergoing cardiac surgery. He has numerous funded research projects in these areas, including an NIH grant for $4.3 million to study the pharmacology of sodium nitroprusside, a drug commonly used for blood pressure control in the operating room and ICU. Dr. Hammer has two other NIH grants and other ongoing research projects in the area of pediatric pharmacology.
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- Coyote Foundation Professor and Professor, by Courtesy, of Neurosurgery
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- Professor of Biostatistics in Psychiatry, Emerita / Research
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- Professor and Professor of Medicine, Emeritus
- Professor of Economics and of Health Research and Policy, Emeritus
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- Dean Award, University of Cambridge
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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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- Asad Jamal Professor and Professor, by Courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ( Administrative and Academic Special Programs )
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- Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Cardiology
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- Professor of Child Psychiatry
James Lock, MD, Ph.D. is Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine where he has taught since 1993. He is board certified in adult as well as child and adolescent psychiatry. He directs the eating disorder program in Child Psychiatry and is active in treatment research for children and adolescents with eating disorders.
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- Doctoral Dissertation Advisor ( AC )
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- Professor ( Clinical ) of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Emeritus / Research
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- Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Adolescent Medicine
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- Instructional Designer Dvlpr 1, Technology & Digital Solutions, Technology & Digital Solutions
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- Professor ( Research ) of Medicine ( General Internal Medicine ), Emeritus / Research
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- Endowed Professor for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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- Professor ( Clinical ) of Anesthesia, Emeritus / Research
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- the Dorothy and Thye King Chan Professor in Neurosurgery, Emeritus / Research
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- Clinical Instructor, Emergency Medicine
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- Professor of Pediatrics ( Pediatric Critical Care ) and of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
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- Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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- Professor ( Research ) of Medicine ( Immunology and Rheumatology ), Emerita / Research
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- Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
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- Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Critical Care
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- Professor of Anesthesia at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus / Research
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- Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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- Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
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- Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
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- Director, Stanford Center on Longevity and the Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr. Professor of Public Policy
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- Bing Professor of Human Biology, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Professor, by Courtesy, of Economics / Research
Dr. Baker's research is in the area of health economics, and focuses on the effects of financial incentives, organizational structures, and government policies on the health care delivery system, health care costs, and health outcomes.
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- Professor ( Clinical ) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emeritus / Research
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- Professor of Pediatrics ( Neonatology ) and, by Courtesy, of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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- Lucile Packard Children 's Hospital Professor in Pediatric Neurosurgery, Emeritus
- Support
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- Clinical Professor, Surgery - Vascular Surgery Affiliate, Surgery - Vascular Surgery / Research
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- Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
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- Professor of Health Policy and, by Courtesy, of Medicine ( BMIR ) Research
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- Executive Assistant to Dean Lloyd Minor, MD, Office of the Dean, Chief of Staff
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- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ( General Psychiatry and Psychology )
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- Research Scholar, School of Medicine - Biomedical Ethics
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- Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Clinical Associate Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences
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- Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Clinical Professor ( by Courtesy ), Neurosurgery
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- Lucile Packard Children 's Hospital Professor in Pediatric Neurosurgery, Emeritus
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- Public Rel Offcr 2, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences / 6 Total Publications
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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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- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ( Major Laboratories & Clinical Translational Neurosciences Incubator )
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- Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, by Courtesy, of Psychology
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- Professor of Radiology ( Pediatric Radiology ) at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus / Research
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- Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Gastroenterology
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- Professor in Neonatology, Emeritus
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- Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Emeritus
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- Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ( General Psychiatry and Psychology - Adult )
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- Student in Bioengineering, Admitted Autumn 2018
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- Clinical Professor, Radiology
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- Endowed Professor of Pediatrics / Research Interests
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- Professor ( Clinical ) of Pediatrics, Emeritus / Research
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- Clinical Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
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- Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
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- Quantitative Research Scientist, Primary Care and Population Health
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- Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
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- Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Critical Care
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- Redlich Professor, Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine and, by Courtesy, of Neurology
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- Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and, by Courtesy, of Neurosurgery
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- Clinical Associate Professor, Neurosurgery
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- Professor of Medicine ( Primary Care and Population Health ) and, by Courtesy, of Health Policy / Research
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- Head of the the Stanford Neuromolecular Innovation Program
Dr. Chang is also the head of the The Stanford Neuromolecular Innovation Program with the goal of developing new technologies to improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients affected by neurological conditions.
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- Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine / Research
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- Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
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- Professor of Medicine ( Gastroenterology and Hepatology )
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- Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emeritus / Research
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- Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine