{"result":[{"lastName":"Contopoulos-Ioannidis","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Infectious Disease"},{"focus":"Infectious Diseases"},{"focus":"Toxoplasmosis"},{"focus":"Antibiotics and Weight Gain"},{"focus":"General Pediatrics"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=20444&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Despina Contopoulos-Ioannidis, MD","firstName":"Despina","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Despina_Contopoulos-Ioannidis","researchInterest":"Evidence based medicine Systematic reviews  Meta-analyses \r\nOutcome research \r\nComparative effectiveness \r\nComparative safety research\r\nChronic Antibiotic Use and Weight Gain\r\nFamily outbreaks and Epidemiology of acute toxoplasmosis in US\r\nCongenital toxoplasmosis: Improving  laboratory dx \r\nTrends in intussusception in the US (association with pediatric vaccines)\r\nEmpirical appraisal of CEA for pediatric vaccines (with and without inlcusion of herd immunity"},{"lastName":"Goodman","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines"},{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23410&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Steven Goodman","firstName":"Steven","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Steven_Goodman","researchInterest":"I am interested in issues relating to the representation and measurement of evidence in medical research, and determinants of the truth of medical findings, using a Bayesian framework. I also do work in evidence synthesis, comparative effectiveness research, and the ethics of clinical research. Finally, I have an ongoing project related to landmark clinical trials that have had great impact."},{"lastName":"Kraemer","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4163&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Helena Chmura Kraemer","firstName":"Helena","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Helena_Kraemer","researchInterest":"I am interested in the methodology pertinent to dealing with research problems where biological and behavioral interests meet. These interests have been applied not only in psychiatric research, but in those areas of Cardiology, Pediatrics and other fields of medicine in which behavioral research is becoming ever more salient."},{"lastName":"Stafford","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol)"},{"focus":"Hypertension (high blood pressure)"},{"focus":"Diabetes Mellitus"},{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Preventive"},{"focus":"Obesity"},{"focus":"Primary Prevention"},{"focus":"Internal Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3840&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Randall Stafford","firstName":"Randall","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Randall_Stafford","researchInterest":"As Director of the SPRC Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices, my work focuses on cardiovascular disease treatment and prevention, the adoption of new technology and practices, and patterns of physician practice, particularly medication prescribing.  Specific interests include measuring and improving the quality of outpatient care, disparities in health care by race, gender, age and socioeconomic status, and interventions to improve prevention outcomes."},{"lastName":"Lazzeroni","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4220&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Laura C. 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We develop statistical approaches for high dimensional data in the attempt of improving our understanding of the molecular basis of health related traits."},{"lastName":"Pizzo","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Hematology-Oncology"},{"focus":"Ped Infectious Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Former Dean,School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology,NULL"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Former Dean,School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3843&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Philip A. Pizzo, M.D.","firstName":"Philip","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Philip_Pizzo","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"McDonald","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Sr Research Engineer (PI Waiver),Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research"}],"primaryAppointment":"Sr Research Engineer (PI Waiver),Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6130&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kathryn McDonald","firstName":"Kathryn","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Kathryn_McDonald","researchInterest":"My research and educational activities focus on evidence-based medicine, patient-centered concerns, health care quality, and patient safety. I enjoy forming and participating in multi-disciplinary teams to identify, highlight and formulate solutions to issues of suboptimal performance of the health care system, both in the US and abroad."},{"lastName":"Asch","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=24300&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Steven Asch","firstName":"Steven","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Steven_Asch","researchInterest":"Health services research, Quality assessement, Quality improvement, Implementation science, Health sevices to improve value of care, HIV, HCV, Cancer, Palliative care, Renal disease"},{"lastName":"Lu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14526&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ying Lu","firstName":"Ying","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Ying_Lu","researchInterest":"Biostatistics, clinical trials, statistical evaluation of medical diagnostic tests, radiology, osteoporosis, meta-analysis, medical decisoin making"},{"lastName":"Friedman","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Consulting Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Consulting Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6143&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gary Friedman","firstName":"Gary","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Gary_Friedman","researchInterest":"Chronic disease epidemiology, particularly cancer, cardiovascular disease, adverse effects of smoking, alcohol and pharmaceuticals, evaluation of screening tests.\r\nMost of my career has been in the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research where I was Director for 7 years and am still active. I especially enjoy mentoring students and trainees at Stanford."},{"lastName":"Ashley","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology"},{"focus":"Inherited cardiovascular disease"},{"focus":"Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Genomic medicine"},{"focus":"Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy"},{"focus":"Cardiomyopathy, Dilated"},{"focus":"Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7578&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Euan A. Ashley","firstName":"Euan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Euan_Ashley","researchInterest":"The Ashley lab is focused on the application of genomics to medicine. We develop methods for the interpretation of whole genome sequencing data to improve diagnosis of genetic disease and to personalize the practice of medicine. We also use RNA sequencing data to generate gene networks and link communities. Half of the lab is wet benches where we take advantage of cell systems, transgenic models and microsurgical models of disease to prove causality of our favorite targets."},{"lastName":"Holodniy","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4021&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark Holodniy","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Mark_Holodniy","researchInterest":"My research program is currently focused in three areas: 1) translational research (HCV/HIV viral evolution and antiviral resistance prevalence and development), 2) HIV/HCV clinical trials (diagnostic assay/medical device, antiretrovirals, ARVs and immunomodulators), and 3) health services research focusing on cost effectiveness of HIV antibody and ARV resistance testing and ARV utilization and clincal outcome."},{"lastName":"Winkleby","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4305&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marilyn Winkleby, PhD, MPH","firstName":"Marilyn","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Marilyn_Winkleby","researchInterest":"Cardiovascular disease epidemiology, health of socioeconomically disadvantaged and ethnic minority populations, social determinants of health, community-based intervention research, youth advocacy and mentorship, promoting diversity in health professions"},{"lastName":"Patel","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19505&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Chirag J Patel","firstName":"Chirag","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Chirag_Patel","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Whittemore","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4482&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Alice S Whittemore","firstName":"Alice","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Alice_Whittemore","researchInterest":"Cancers of the prostate, breast and ovary account for a major proportion of new cancer cases and cancer deaths in the U.S. each year. Our recent research focus has been on developing improved statistical methods for the design and conduct of studies involving hereditary predisposition and modifiable lifestyle characteristics in the etiologies of site-specific cancers."},{"lastName":"Haskell","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6108&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"William Haskell","firstName":"William","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/William_Haskell","researchInterest":"My major research interests and activities over the next several years will focus on the development and evaluation of the objective measurement of physical activity in free-living populations using a variety of sensing devices and mobile phones for data collection and processing. Also, I will continue to direct the Stanford Heart Network with the major mission being to assist community-based CVD prevention/treatment programs implement more effective heart attack and stroke prevention programs."},{"lastName":"Schreiber","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Emergency Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Emergency Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Emergency Medicine","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4225&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Donald Schreiber","firstName":"Donald","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Donald_Schreiber","researchInterest":"My research group focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular emergencies including acute myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome and congestive heart failure. We have evaluated novel cardiac markers and point-of-care testing in clinical practice. Current projects also include the diagnosis and treatment of acute pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis. Other interests include spinal cord injury, pneumonia and sepsis."},{"lastName":"Shih","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7951&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mei-Chiung Shih","firstName":"Mei-Chiung","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Mei-Chiung_Shih","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Klein","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Sr Research Engineer (PI Waiver),Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Sr Research Engineer (PI Waiver),Genetics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6129&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Teri Klein","firstName":"Teri","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Teri_Klein","researchInterest":"Co-founder, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing\r\nNIEHS, Site Visit Reviewer\r\nNIH, Study Section Reviewer"},{"lastName":"West","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6327&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dee W. West","firstName":"Dee","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Dee_West","researchInterest":"- Cancer etiology (diet, familial, genetic), especially breast, prostate and colon cancer\r\n- Cancer surveillance (Cancer registration, cancer patterns)\r\n- Cancer outcomes (Survival, quality of life, quality of care)"},{"lastName":"Balise","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Sr Research Engineer,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Sr Research Engineer,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=25948&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Raymond Balise","firstName":"Raymond","href":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/Raymond_Balise","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Lavori","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Natural Sciences Cluster - Statistics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4192&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Philip W. Lavori","firstName":"Philip","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Philip_Lavori","researchInterest":"Biostatistics, clinical trials, longitudinal studies, casual inference from observational studies, genetic tissue banking, informed consent. Trial designs for dynamic (adaptive) treatment regimes, psychiatric research, cancer."},{"lastName":"Olshen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Natural Sciences Cluster - Statistics"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Electrical Engineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4324&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Richard A. Olshen","firstName":"Richard","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Richard_Olshen","researchInterest":"My research is in statistics and their applications to medicine and biology. Many efforts have concerned tree-structured algorithms for classification, regression, survival analysis, and clustering."},{"lastName":"Cho","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Pediatrics - Centers, Center for Biomedical Ethics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Pediatrics - Centers, Center for Biomedical Ethics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6124&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mildred Cho, PhD","firstName":"Mildred","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Mildred_Cho","researchInterest":"Dr. Cho's major areas of interest include: ethical and social issues in genetic research, stem cell research, bioweapons and microbial genome research, the effects of gene patenting on clinical genetic testing and research, and the impacts of academic-industry ties on biomedical research."}]}