VERA MOULTON WALL CENTER - Key Persons
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- Alfred Woodley Salter and Mabel G. Salter Endowed Professor of Pediatrics
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- Professor of Pediatrics ( Cardiology )
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- Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology
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- Professor of Medicine, UPR Medical Sciences
A combined genetic and proteomic approach to identify novel gene modifiers in PAH., Stanford University, University of Graz (December 1, 2016 - Present)
This collaboration aims to combine the information obtained from transcriptome analysis with protein analysis via liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) to identify novel modifiers in fibroblasts and smooth muscle cells isolated from patients with PAH.
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- Associate
- Clinical Research Coordinator
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- Adjunct Professor, Bioengineering
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- Clinical Assistant Professor
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
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- Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Cardiology / Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
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- Postdoctoral Research Mentor
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- Assistant Clinical Research Coordniator / Lab Researcher
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- Postdoctoral Research Mentor
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- PRESIDENT & CEO / STANFORD HEALTH CARE
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- Pathology and Professor of Developmental Biology
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- Dean
- Head
- Physician
- Scientist
- Surgeon
- DEAN / STANFORD SCHOOL of MEDICINE
- 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 is also 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 Children's Health and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. He oversees the quality of Stanford Medicine's physicians on the faculty and in the growing clinical networks and physician practices.
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," published in 2020, highlights how biomedical advances are dramatically improving our ability to treat and cure complex diseases.
As part of the Stanford Executive Briefing series, Minor shares his thoughts on authentic leadership and offers five leadership principles.
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- Marjorie Helene Boring Trust Award, Cardiovascular Institute ( 2016 - 2017 )
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- Associate Professor of Medicine ( Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine )
- Associate Professor, Pulmonary / Allergy & Critical
Dr. Roham Zamanian specializes in the treatment of pulmonary hypertension, right heart failure, and pulmonary embolism. He has more than 13 years of sub-specialty experience in pulmonary vascular diseases. Dr. Zamanian is considered one of the leading national experts in clinical trials and drug development for pulmonary hypertension.
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Medicine ( Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine )
Dr. Vinicio de Jesus Perez received his MD from the University of Puerto Rico Medical School and completed an internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine in Denver, followed by postdoctoral research training at Stanford University. He focused on researching genetic and molecular mechanisms of pulmonary hypertension (PH) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and has devoted his clinical practice to diagnosis and management of these conditions. He is presently associate professor of medicine and staff physician of the Stanford Adult PH Clinic where he trains fellows pursuing careers in PH and IPF. He is principal investigator of a research program with the ultimate goal of identifying new therapeutic targets to treat PH and IPF.
As a medical professional belonging to a minority group, Dr. de Jesus Perez is involved in academic endeavors seeking to improve access of care for patients with disadvantageous ethnic backgrounds and promote diversity in medicine.
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- Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
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- Life Science Research Assistant / Metzger Lab
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- Clinical Professor / Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
- Clinical Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
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- Molecular and Genetic Medicine and Professor of Pathology and of Genetics
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- Clinical Research Coordinator
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- Professor of Pediatrics ( Neonatology ) and, by Courtesy, of Obstetrics and Gynecology ( Maternal Fetal Medicine )
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- Instructor, Pediatrics - Cardiology
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- Professor of Pathology / Research
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- Professor of Surgery ( Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery ) Research
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- Student With Scholarly Concentration in Bioengineering, Expected Graduation Spring 2025
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- Assistant Professor of Medicine ( Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine )
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- Doctoral Dissertation Advisor ( AC )
Juliana Liu, MSN, RN, ANP-C is the Program Manager and Nurse Practitioner for the Adult Pulmonary Hypertension Service at Stanford. She received her Adult Nurse Practitioner (ANP) degree from the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. She has a BA in History from Pomona College. Juliana Liu has worked in the Pulmonary Hypertension field since 2002, and has presented at numerous nursing and patient conferences in the US and abroad. She has also served as member and chair on several committees of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association.
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- Clinical Assistant Professor
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- Lecturer, Lund University
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- Scholar Project Advisor
- Student
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- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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- Professor of Medicine ( Cardiovascular Medicine )
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- KM Mulberry Professor, Professor of Developmental Biology and, by Courtesy, of Medicine ( Endocrinology ) and of Pediatrics ( Endocrinology ) Research
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- Clinical Associate Professor
- Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
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- Professor in the School of Medicine, Professor of Genetics and of Medicine
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- 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.
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- Lab Manager
- Senior Research Associate
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- Endowed Chair, the Paul and Mildred Berg Professorship in Biochemistry
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- Chief, Division of Pulmonary
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- Research / Clinical Administrative Associate
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- Executive Assistant to Dean Lloyd Minor, MD, Office of the Dean, Chief of Staff
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- Instructor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine / Kumar Lab
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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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- Professor of Medicine ( Cardiovascular )
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- Associate Professor / Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
- Associate Professor of Medicine ( Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine )
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- the Ernest and Amelia Gallo Professor, Professor of Urology, of Developmental Biology and, by Courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology / Research
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- Professor in Neonatology, Emeritus
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- Professor of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario 12 De Octubre, Madrid
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- Clinical Associate
- Clinical Associate Professor / Division of Pediatric Cardiology
- Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Cardiology
Dr. Hopper is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Hopper's clinical responsibilities are focused on the inpatient and outpatient care of children with pulmonary hypertension. She is the Associate Director of the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Program based within the Children's Heart Center and part of the Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease at Stanford. Additionally, Dr. Hopper pursues clinical and translational research in the area of pulmonary hypertension. She has a specific interest in pulmonary hypertension associated with prematurity and co-directs the multidisciplinary Cardiac and Respiratory care for Infants with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (CRIB) Program.
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- Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
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- Clinical Assistant Professor / Division of Pediatric Cardiology
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- Doctoral Dissertation Reader ( AC )
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- Endowed Professor of Pediatrics / Research Interests
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- Instructor / Division of Pediatric Cardiology
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- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiology / 23 Total Publications
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- Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Cardiology
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- KM Mulberry Professor, Professor of Developmental Biology and, by Courtesy, of Medicine ( Endocrinology ) and of Pediatrics ( Endocrinology ) Research
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- Professor of Medicine ( Cardiovascular Medicine ) at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emerita
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- Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Cardiology
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- Student, Expected Graduation Spring 2026 Stanford Student Employee, Surgery - Anatomy
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- Associate Professor of Pediatrics ( Neonatology ) and, by Courtesy, of Obstetrics and Gynecology ( Maternal Fetal Medicine )
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- Clinical Assistant Professor