{"result":[{"lastName":"Owens","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Academic Units - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Management Science and Engineering - Management Sci Operations"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4649&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Douglas Owens","firstName":"Douglas","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Douglas_Owens","researchInterest":"My research uses decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and meta-analysis to evaluate clinical and health policy problems."},{"lastName":"Wang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiac Electrophysiology"},{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Atrial Fibrillation"},{"focus":"Cardiac Arrhythmias"},{"focus":"Implantable Defibrillators"},{"focus":"Pacemakers"},{"focus":"Hypertrophic  Cardiomyopathy"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3939&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul  J. Wang, MD","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Paul_Wang","researchInterest":"Dr. Wang's research centers on the development of innovative approaches to the treatment of arrhythmias, including more effective catheter ablation techniques, more reliable implantable devices, and less invasive treatments.  Dr. Wang's clinical research interests include atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, syncope, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.  Dr. Wang has active collaborations with Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering Departments at Stanford."},{"lastName":"Turakhia","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiac Electrophysiology"},{"focus":"Arrhythmias, Cardiac"},{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Death, Sudden, Cardiac"},{"focus":"Catheter Ablation"},{"focus":"Atrial Fibrillation"},{"focus":"Implantable Defibrillators"},{"focus":"Tachycardia, Supraventricular"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Acting Assistant Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Acting Assistant Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=11700&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Minang (Mintu) Turakhia","firstName":"Minang","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Minang_Turakhia","researchInterest":"Dr. Turakhia's research program aims to improve the treatment of heart rhythm disorders by understanding system- and patient-level variation of arrhythmia treatment and their relationship to outcomes. He is principal investigator of the The Retrospective Evaluation and Assessment of Atrial Fibrillation study (TREAT-AF). With 400,000 patients, TREAT-AF will serve as the largest known research cohort of patients with Atrial Fibrillation."},{"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":"Goldstein","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4068&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mary Kane Goldstein","firstName":"Mary","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Mary_Goldstein","researchInterest":"Health services research in primary care and geriatrics: developing, implementing, and evaluating methods for clinical quality improvement.  Current work includes applying health information technology to quality improvement through clinical decision support integrated with electronic health records: encoding clinical knowledge into computable formats in automated knowledge bases; natural language processing of free text in electronic health records."},{"lastName":"Baker","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Social Sciences Cluster - Economics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4222&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Laurence Baker","firstName":"Laurence","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Laurence_Baker","researchInterest":"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."},{"lastName":"Perlroth","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9187&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Daniella Perlroth","firstName":"Daniella","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Daniella_Perlroth","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Perez","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17888&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Felipe Perez","firstName":"Felipe","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Felipe_Perez","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Smith-Spangler","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Internal Medicine"}],"appointments":[],"imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8673&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Crystal Smith-Spangler","firstName":"Crystal","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/cancer/physician/Crystal_Smith-Spangler","researchInterest":"I study the health and economic outcomes related to the prevention and management of chronic diseases. I am specifically interested in population- and system-based approaches to improve health."},{"lastName":"Ioannidis","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Natural Sciences Cluster - Statistics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18745&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Ioannidis","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/John_Ioannidis","researchInterest":"Evidence-based medicine\r\nClinical and molecular epidemiology\r\nHuman genome epidemiology\r\nResearch design\r\nReporting of research\r\nEmpirical evaluation of bias in research\r\nRandomized trials\r\nStatistical methods and modeling\r\nMeta-analysis and large-scale evidence\r\nPrognosis, predictive and personalized medicine and health\r\nSociology of science"},{"lastName":"Japa","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18011&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sohan Japa","firstName":"Sohan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Sohan_Japa","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Winkelmayer","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Nephrology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Nephrology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=15938&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer, MD, ScD","firstName":"Wolfgang","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Wolfgang_Winkelmayer","researchInterest":"I study the comparative effectiveness and safety of competing clinical strategies in patients with kidney disease, diabetes, or cardiovascular disease. Such strategies may include medications, devices, clinical tests, policies, or other approaches to providing or organizing clinical care. My research is based on large insurance databases, disease registries, clinical databases or electronic medical records. My explicit career goal is to improve care and outcomes of patients with these diseases."},{"lastName":"Bundorf","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Political Economics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4357&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"M. Kate Bundorf","firstName":"Mary","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Mary_Bundorf","researchInterest":"Her research focuses on health insurance markets including the determinants and effects of individual and purchaser choices, the effects of regulation in insurance markets, the interaction of public and private systems of health insurance, and incentives for insurers to improve health care quality."},{"lastName":"Bhattacharya","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Social Sciences Cluster - Economics"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4000&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jayanta Bhattacharya","firstName":"Jayanta","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Jayanta_Bhattacharya","researchInterest":"My research focuses on the constraints that vulnerable populations face in making decisions that affect their health status, as well as the effects of government policies and programs designed to benefit vulnerable populations."},{"lastName":"Perez","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Atrial Fibrillation"},{"focus":"Arrhythmias, Cardiac"},{"focus":"Channelopathies (Long QT, Brugada, CPVT)"},{"focus":"Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9771&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marco Perez","firstName":"Marco","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Marco_Perez","researchInterest":""},{"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":"Park","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Gastroenterology"},{"focus":"inflammatory bowel diseases"},{"focus":"complex chronic diseases"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13479&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"KT Park","firstName":"Kun","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Kun_Park","researchInterest":"My research goal is to optimize pharmaco-economics of treating pediatric chronic diseases.  Overall research aims are to improve health outcomes, healthcare delivery, and cost-effectiveness in gastrointestinal diseases.  In particular, I am interested in comparing the cost-effectiveness of various therapeutic and diagnostic strategies in inflammatory bowel diseases, transplantation, and celiac disease.  Using cost-effectiveness modeling and database analyses, my research attempts to compare the"},{"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":"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":"Al-Ahmad","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiac Electrophysiology"},{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"focus":"Atrial Fibrillation"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6371&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Amin Al-Ahmad","firstName":"Amin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Amin_Al-Ahmad","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Das","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Bio-X","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5918&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Amar K. Das","firstName":"Amarendra","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Amarendra_Das","researchInterest":"My research focuses on informatics methods to study outcomes and biomarkers in longitudinal data sets."},{"lastName":"Heidenreich","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4682&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul Heidenreich, MD","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Paul_Heidenreich","researchInterest":"My research interests include \r\n\r\n1) The cost-effectiveness of new cardiovascular technologies. \r\nExample: tests to screen asymptomatic patients for left ventricular systolic dysfunction.\r\n\r\n2) Interventions to improve the quality of care of patients with heart disease. Examples: include clinical reminders and home monitoring.\r\n\r\n3) Outcomes research using existing clinical and administrative datasets. \r\n\r\n4) Use of echocardiography to predict prognosis (e.g. diastolic dysfunction)."},{"lastName":"Albers","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4026&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gregory W. Albers","firstName":"Gregory","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Gregory_Albers","researchInterest":"Our group\u0092s research focus is the acute treatment and prevention of cerebrovascular disorders.  Our primary interest is the use of diffusion- and perfusion-weighted MRI to expand the treatment window for ischemic stroke.  We are also conducting clinical studies of both neuroprotective and thrombolytic strategies for the treatment of acute stroke and investigating new antithrombotic strategies for stroke prevention."},{"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."}]}