{"result":[{"lastName":"Giaccia","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Obstetrics & Gynecology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4141&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Amato J. Giaccia","firstName":"Amato","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Amato_Giaccia","researchInterest":"During the last five years, we have identified several small molecules that kill VHL deficient renal cancer cells through a synthetic lethal screening approach. Another major interest of my laboratory is in identifying hypoxia-induced genes involved in invasion and metastases. We are also investigating how hypoxia regulates gene expression epigenetically."},{"lastName":"Fisher","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4644&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"George A. Fisher Jr.","firstName":"George","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/George_Fisher","researchInterest":"Clinical expertise in GI cancers with research which emphasizes Phase I and II clinical trials of novel therapies but also includes translational studies including biomarkers, molecular imaging, tumor immunology and development of immunotherapeutic trials."},{"lastName":"Chang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Cancer of the Stomach"},{"focus":"Cancer of Anus"},{"focus":"Cancer of Pancreas"},{"focus":"Cancer of the Rectum"},{"focus":"Cancer of the Liver"},{"focus":"Cancer of the Esophagus"},{"focus":"Cancer of the Head and Neck"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8238&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Daniel Chang","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Daniel_Chang","researchInterest":"I specialize in the treatment of gastrointestinal malignancies.  I am interested in developing stereotactic body radiotherapy for tumors of the liver, both primary and metastatic.  I am interested in developing functional imaging as a means of determining treatment response with radiation.  I am also interested in developing image-guided radiotherapy to improve radiation delivery for GI cancers to reduce toxicity and improve disease outcome."},{"lastName":"Brown","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4536&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Martin Brown","firstName":"Martin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Martin_Brown","researchInterest":"We seek to understand the mechanisms responsible for the resistance of cancers to treatment and to develop strategies to overcome these resistances. We are using molecular and cellular techniques and mouse models to potentiate the activity of radiation on tumors by inhibiting the bone marrow rescue of the tumor vasculature following therapy."},{"lastName":"Swetter","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pigmented Skin Lesions"},{"focus":"Melanoma"},{"focus":"Skin Cancer "},{"focus":"Basal/ Squamous Cell Carcinomas - VA Dermatology"},{"focus":"Dermatology"},{"focus":"Cutaneous Oncology"},{"focus":"Basal / Squamous Cell Carcinomas - Dermatology"},{"focus":"Pigmented Lesion and Melanoma Program"},{"focus":"Melanoma - Dermatology"},{"focus":"Pigmented Skin Lesions - Dermatology"},{"focus":"Pigmented Skin Lesions - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Skin Cancer - Dermatology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Dermatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Dermatology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4215&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Susan Swetter, M.D.","firstName":"Susan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Susan_Swetter","researchInterest":"1) Early detection of melanoma through enhanced screening and professional and public education to improve melanoma awareness. 2) Chemoprevention of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancers in high-risk groups. 4) Epidemiologic and sociodemographic aspects of melanoma. 4) National dermatologist liaison to the ECOG Melanoma Committee and Co-founder/Co-Director of the Melanoma Prevention Working Group, an interdisciplinary Intergroup collaboration dedicated to melanoma control and prevention"},{"lastName":"Xing","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4443&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lei Xing","firstName":"Lei","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Lei_Xing","researchInterest":"Image-guided intervention, MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) and radionuclide imaging (PET/CT, SPECT/CT), biologically conformable radiation threapy (BCRT), intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), treatment plan optimization, optimization of stereotactic radiosurgery, image segmentation and deformable image registration, application of molecular imaging to radiation oncology."},{"lastName":"Luxton","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4390&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gary Luxton","firstName":"Gary","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Gary_Luxton","researchInterest":"1. Mathematical modeling of damage to tumors and normal tissues from irradiation.\r\n2. Image-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy.\r\n3. Modeling the combined radiobiological effect of brachytherapy and external beam irradiation.\r\n4. Development of clinical hypofractionated extracranial radiosurgery."},{"lastName":"Kuo","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiation Oncology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiation Oncology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14091&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Peiwen Kuo","firstName":"Peiwen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Peiwen_Kuo","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Dirbas","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Surgery"},{"focus":"Accelerated Breast Radiation"},{"focus":"MRI in Breast Cancer Staging"},{"focus":"Minimally Invasive Breast Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4667&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Frederick M. Dirbas","firstName":"Frederick","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Frederick_Dirbas","researchInterest":"My research interests are focused on minimizing the impact of breast cancer from a diagnostic and therapuetic standpoint. Breast MRI is a powerful tool to facilitate the screening for and staging of breast cancer, and can be valuable adjunct to guide breast surgery. Oncoplastic surgical techniques optimize cosmesis after breast cancer surgery. Accelerated radiotherapy after lumpectomy decreases radiotherapy treatment times from 6 weeks to just 1 to 5 days."},{"lastName":"Shelton","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Rectal Cancer "},{"focus":"Colon and Rectal Surgery"},{"focus":"Colorectal Cancer"},{"focus":"Crohn's Disease"},{"focus":"Colorectal Cancer - Surgery"},{"focus":"Gastrointestinal Cancers"},{"focus":"Gastrointestinal Cancers - Surgical Oncology"},{"focus":"General Surgery"},{"focus":"Inflammatory Bowel Diseases"},{"focus":"Ulcerative Colitis"},{"focus":"Laparoscopic colorectal surgery"},{"focus":"Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Surgery - General Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3886&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Andrew A. Shelton, M.D.","firstName":"Andrew","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Andrew_Shelton","researchInterest":"Multimodality treatment of rectal cancer\r\nSphincter preserving procedures for rectal cancer\r\nLaparoscopic colon and rectal surgery\r\nSurgical education"},{"lastName":"Sirjani","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Head and Neck Neoplasms"},{"focus":"Skull Base Neoplasms"},{"focus":"Surgical Flaps"},{"focus":"Robotic Surgery"},{"focus":"Salivary Gland Neoplasms"},{"focus":"Sialoendoscopy"},{"focus":"Parotid Neoplasms"},{"focus":"Thyroid Neoplasms"},{"focus":"Parathyroidectomy"},{"focus":"Tongue"},{"focus":"Jaw"},{"focus":"Otolaryngology"},{"focus":"Orbital Neoplasms"},{"focus":"Laryngeal Neoplasms"},{"focus":"TORS"},{"focus":"Neck Dissection"},{"focus":"Carcinoma, Skin Appendage"},{"focus":"Neoplasms, Unknown Primary"},{"focus":"Melanoma"},{"focus":"Oral Cancers"},{"focus":"Lip Neoplasms"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=16078&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Davud Sirjani","firstName":"Davud","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Davud_Sirjani","researchInterest":"Innovation of devices to improve the quality of life of patients with advanced head and neck cancers, Microvascular free flap reconstruction of large head and neck defects to restore cosmesis and function (speech, swallowing), stem cell recovery of radiation induced salivary damage, and salivary gland cancer biology"},{"lastName":"Carlson","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4629&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert W. Carlson","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Robert_Carlson","researchInterest":"Clinical investigations in breast cancer include institutional and NSABP studies of chemoprevention, adjuvant therapy, psychosocial interventions, treatment of metastatic disease, methods of decreasing anthracycline cardiotoxicity, and modulation of multidrug resistance. Research in meta-analysis includes the performance of meta-analysis in a wide variety of settings in cancer treatment by the international Meta-Analysis Group in Cancer."},{"lastName":"Li","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=20988&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ruijiang Li","firstName":"Ruijiang","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Ruijiang_Li","researchInterest":"Image-guided and adaptive radiotherapy;\r\nMotion management (4DCT, gating, tracking);\r\nLung motion modeling and real-time imaging;\r\nApplications of machine learning in radiotherapy."},{"lastName":"Hsu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8155&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Annie Hsu","firstName":"Annie","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Annie_Hsu","researchInterest":"Current research interests are inter- and intra- fractional motion, focusing on SBRT and realtime imaging.  I have also recently been looking at quality assurance for gated VMAT delivery"},{"lastName":"Hristov","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8011&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dimitre Hristov","firstName":"Dimitre","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Dimitre_Hristov","researchInterest":"Development and integration of X-ray, MRI and US imaging technologies for radiation therapy guidance; Design of synergistic approaches to radiation therapy delivery; Treatment planning optimization and modeling."},{"lastName":"Yang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6176&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"George Yang","firstName":"George","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/George_Yang","researchInterest":"Our laboratory studies the role of cellular stress pathways in the response to injury, particularly wound healing and fracture healing."},{"lastName":"Jensen","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology"},{"focus":"Cytopathology"},{"focus":"Anatomic Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7660&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kristin Jensen","firstName":"Kristin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Kristin_Jensen","researchInterest":"I am a clinical translational investigator with a primary interest in breast cancer biology, and the use of investigational and clinical ancillary techniques such as gene and tissue microarray analysis and immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis and prognosis of this disease. As a practicing cytopathologist, I also have an interest in improving the fine needle aspiration biopsy diagnosis of breast lesions, again using immunohistochemistry and gene expression analysis as adjuncts to cytomorphology."},{"lastName":"Ford","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cancer Genetics"},{"focus":"Gastrointestinal Cancers - Genetics"},{"focus":"Gastrointestinal Cancers - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Breast Cancer - Genetics"},{"focus":"Ovarian Cancer - Genetics"},{"focus":"Medical Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4066&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"James Ford","firstName":"James","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/James_Ford","researchInterest":"Mammalian DNA repair and DNA damage inducible responses; p53 tumor suppressor gene; transcription in nucleotide excision repair and mutagenesis; genetic determinants of cancer cell sensitivity to DNA\u000bdamage; genetics of inherited cancer susceptibility syndromes and human GI malignancies; clinical cancer genetics of BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer and mismatch repair deficient colon cancer."},{"lastName":"Welton","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anal Cancer "},{"focus":"Basal / Squamous Cell Carcinomas"},{"focus":"Basal / Squamous Cell Carcinomas - Surgery"},{"focus":"Carcinoid Tumors"},{"focus":"Carcinoid Tumors - Surgery "},{"focus":"Colon and Rectal Surgery"},{"focus":"Colorectal Cancer"},{"focus":"Colorectal Cancer - Surgery"},{"focus":"Gastrointestinal Cancers"},{"focus":"Gastrointestinal Cancers - Surgical Oncology"},{"focus":"Inflammatory Bowel Disease"},{"focus":"Rectal Cancer "},{"focus":"Rectal Cancer - Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3835&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark Lane Welton","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Mark_Welton","researchInterest":"Clinical research focused on the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of anal cancer and its precursor lesions.  Clinical trials of ablative therapy for High-grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions (HSIL) of the anus and perianal tissues as a means for preventing anal cancer.\r\nBasic science work in collaboration with Ronald Davis and Hanlee Ji focused on the molecular genetic and pathologic studies of anal cancers using moecular inversion probe genomic technology"},{"lastName":"Tibshirani","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Natural Sciences Cluster - Statistics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4688&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Tibshirani","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Robert_Tibshirani","researchInterest":"My research is in applied statistics and biostatistics. I specialize in \u000bcomputer-intensive methods for regression and classification, bootstrap, cross-validation\u000band statistical inference, and signal and image analysis for medical diagnosis."},{"lastName":"Colevas","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Oncology (Cancer)"},{"focus":"developmental therapeutics"},{"focus":"investigational new drugs"},{"focus":"Adverse event( toxicity) evaluation and reporting"},{"focus":"Thyroid Cancer"},{"focus":"combined chemotherapy and radiation treatment"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8044&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Alexander Colevas","firstName":"Alexander","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Alexander_Colevas","researchInterest":"Multi- modality treatment of Head and Neck Cancer\r\n\r\nPhase 1 clinical trials"},{"lastName":"Loo","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Radiation Therapy"},{"focus":"Lung Cancer"},{"focus":"Head and Neck Cancer"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6839&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Billy W. Loo, Jr., MD, PhD, DABR","firstName":"Billy","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Billy_Loo","researchInterest":"My clinical specialties are radiation treatment of lung and head & neck cancers, and I serve as the Tthoracic Radiation Oncology Program Leader.\r\n\r\nMy research interests include 4-D multimodality imaging of tumor and organ motion using CT, PET, and MR; novel functional/metabolic imaging of tumor hypoxia, normal tissue inflammation, and lymphatic drainage; high-precision image-guided radiation therapy including 4-D IMRT, dynamic arc therapy, and stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR)."},{"lastName":"Pinto","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Head and Neck Cancer"},{"focus":"Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4027&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Harlan Pinto","firstName":"Harlan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Harlan_Pinto","researchInterest":"Clinical Interests: general oncology, head and neck cancer Research Interests: chemoprevention trials and combined modality approaches to head and neck cancer"},{"lastName":"Choi","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8332&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Clara Y. Choi, M.D., Ph.D.","firstName":"Clara","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Clara_Choi","researchInterest":""}]}