{"result":[{"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":"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":"John","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7425&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Esther M. John","firstName":"Esther","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Esther_John","researchInterest":"Etiology of breast, prostate and ovarian cancer; cancer in Hispanics and African-Americans; migration and acculturation in Hispanics; modifiable lifestyle factors (vitamin D, physical activity, body size, heterocyclic amines, occupational exposures); genetic susceptibility; gene-environment interactions"},{"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":"Sieh","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8373&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Weiva Sieh, MD, PhD","firstName":"Weiva","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Weiva_Sieh","researchInterest":"Genetic epidemiology; cancer epidemiology; ovarian, breast, and prostate cancer."},{"lastName":"Gomez","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7427&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Scarlett Lin Gomez","firstName":"Scarlett","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Scarlett_Gomez","researchInterest":"As a cancer epidemiologist with a focus on surveillance research and social epidemiology, Dr. Gomez conducts research in two broad areas:  1) methodologic studies aimed at enhancing cancer registry data for studies of race/ethnicity and social determinants in cancer incidence and outcomes; and 2) studies to elucidate the underlying social factors responsible for racial/ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities, particularly those identified through surveillance data."},{"lastName":"Kurian","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cancer Genetics"},{"focus":"Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Breast Cancer Risk"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Health Research & Policy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6431&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Allison W. Kurian, M.D., M.Sc.","firstName":"Allison","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Allison_Kurian","researchInterest":"Breast and gynecologic cancer genetics, epidemiology, prevention, and outcomes."},{"lastName":"Sabatti","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Natural Sciences Cluster - Statistics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14357&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Chiara Sabatti","firstName":"Chiara","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Chiara_Sabatti","researchInterest":"Statistical models and reasoning are key to our understanding of the genetic basis of human traits. Modern high-throughput technology presents us with new opportunities and challenges. We develop statistical approaches for high dimensional data in the attempt of improving our understanding of the molecular basis of health related traits."},{"lastName":"Clarke","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7430&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Christina Clarke","firstName":"Christina","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Christina_Clarke","researchInterest":"Dr. Clarke\u0092s research efforts are centered in five areas: 1) the epidemiology of breast cancer, 2) the epidemiology of lymphoid malignancies 3) immunologic and viral causes of malignancy, and 4) cancer surveillance and creative uses of and ways to visually display cancer surveillance data (e.g, SEER, cancer registry data) and more recently, 5) internet-based, patient-centric methods for recruitment and data collection in epidemiologic studies."},{"lastName":"Keegan","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7431&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Theresa Keegan, MS, PhD","firstName":"Theresa","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Theresa_Keegan","researchInterest":"Dr. Keegan's research focuses on cancer epidemiology and cancer surveillance, with primary areas of interest in genetic and modifiable factors that influence the occurrence of and survival after cancer."},{"lastName":"Horn-Ross","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7424&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Pamela Horn-Ross","firstName":"Pamela","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Pamela_Horn-Ross","researchInterest":"My research interests focus on nutrition and the etiology of hormonally-dependent cancers in women (most particularly breast, endometrial, and thyroid cancers).  Of particular interest are the effects of phytochemicals that may reduce cancer risk, such as the isoflavones in soy foods, the lignans in whole grains, the isothiocyanates in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables, and resveratrol in red wine and peanuts. Nutrient-gene interactions are also of interest."},{"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":"Desai","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Medicine - General Medical Disciplines"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research) (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Medicine - General Medical Disciplines","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13492&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Manisha Desai","firstName":"Manisha","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Manisha_Desai","researchInterest":"Dr. Desai is the Director of the Quantitative Sciences Unit.  She is interested in the application of biostatistical methods to all areas of medicine including oncology, nephrology, and endocrinology.  She works on methods for the analysis of epidemiologic studies, clinical trials, and studies with missing observations."},{"lastName":"Braddock","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Internal Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6002&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Clarence H Braddock III, MD, MPH","firstName":"Clarence","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Clarence_Braddock","researchInterest":"Doctor-patient communication and decision making: empirical study of quality of decision making for routine outpatient decisions, screening tests.\r\nMedical education: design and evaluation of medical ethics, professionalism education, including faculty development"},{"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":"Nguyen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7429&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Bang Nguyen","firstName":"Bang","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Bang_Nguyen","researchInterest":"Dr. Nguyen is interested in cancer prevention and control in ethnic and socio-economic underserved communities and health disparities."},{"lastName":"Gonzalgo","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Prostate Cancer - Robotic Prostatectomy"},{"focus":"Bladder Cancer - Robotic Cystectomy"},{"focus":"Urologic Oncology - Prostate, Bladder, Kidney, Testicular Cancer"},{"focus":"Urology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Urology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Urology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13213&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark L. Gonzalgo, M.D., Ph.D.","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Mark_Gonzalgo","researchInterest":"My laboratory is focused on studying the role of DNA methylation in prostate and bladder cancer.  Certain genes and their downstream targets may be useful molecular markers for disease detection and prognostication. We are interested in utilizing methylation markers to detect abnormal changes in serum and urine.  Clinical Focus: Prostate Cancer - Robotic Prostatectomy; Bladder Cancer - Robotic Cystectomy; Urologic Oncology - Prostate, Bladder, Kidney, Testicular Cancer."},{"lastName":"Crawley","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Pediatrics - Centers, Center for Biomedical Ethics"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Pediatrics - Centers, Center for Biomedical Ethics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6714&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"LaVera Crawley","firstName":"LaVera","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/LaVera_Crawley","researchInterest":"I am exploring the role of spirituality and religion as an intervention for improving outcomes and health delivery in three clinical domains:  end-of-life care; cancer; and conditions causing cognitive impairment.  \r\n\r\nTo this end, I completed a sabbatical undertaking a one-year Clinical Pastoral Residency for chaplaincy training at the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (2011 - 2012) with the goals: to develop skills in providing spiritual companionship to patients; to broaden my competencies as"},{"lastName":"Hallmayer","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4056&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Joachim Hallmayer","firstName":"Joachim","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Joachim_Hallmayer","researchInterest":"Principal Investigator\r\nInfrastructure to facilitate discovery of autism genes\r\nThe purpose of this project is to facilitate the discovery of the genes that contribute autism by maintaining an infrastructure which research groups studying the genetics of autism can work collaboratively. This will be \r\naccomplished through workshops, a Virtual Private Network, and access to a database that includes phenotype and genotype data from all participating groups.\r\n\r\nPrincipal Investigator\r\nA California"},{"lastName":"Husain","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cervix Cancer"},{"focus":"Cervix Cancer - Gynecologic Oncology"},{"focus":"Endometrial Cancer "},{"focus":"Endometrial Cancer - Gynecologic Oncology"},{"focus":"Fallopian Tube"},{"focus":"Fallopian Tube - Gynecologic Oncology"},{"focus":"Female & Gynecologic Cancers"},{"focus":"Germ Cell Tumors"},{"focus":"Germ Cell Tumors - Gynecologic Oncology"},{"focus":"Gestational Trophoblastic Disease"},{"focus":"Gestational Trophoblastic Disease - Gynecologic Oncology"},{"focus":"Gynecologic Cancers"},{"focus":"Gynecologic Cancers - Gynecologic Oncology"},{"focus":"Gynecologic Cancers - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Gynecologic Oncology"},{"focus":"Gynecology"},{"focus":"Melanoma"},{"focus":"Melanoma - Gynecologic Oncology"},{"focus":"Ovarian Cancer"},{"focus":"Ovarian Cancer - Gynecologic Oncology"},{"focus":"Sarcomas - Soft Tissue "},{"focus":"Urethral Cancer"},{"focus":"Urethral Cancer - Gynecologic Oncology"},{"focus":"Uterine Cancer "},{"focus":"Uterine Cancer - Gynecologic Oncology"},{"focus":"Vaginal Cancer "},{"focus":"Vaginal Cancer - Gynecologic Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3854&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Amreen Husain, MD","firstName":"Amreen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Amreen_Husain","researchInterest":""},{"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":"Yemoto","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Biosafety, Web & Compliance Specialist,Dean's Office - Finance & Administration, Health & Safety"},{"appointment":"Health & Safety Specialist,Dean's Office - Finance & Administration, Health & Safety"}],"primaryAppointment":"Biosafety, Web & Compliance Specialist,Dean's Office - Finance & Administration, Health & Safety","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=26030&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Cheryl Yemoto","firstName":"Cheryl","href":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/Cheryl_Yemoto","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Goldstein","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=21132&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Benjamin Goldstein","firstName":"Benjamin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Benjamin_Goldstein","researchInterest":"I am a senior biostatistician in the Quantitative Sciences Unit in the Department of Medicine. I am interested in applications of statistical methods to all areas of medicine. My current work is focused on computational methods for developing risk prediction tools for health outcomes, with a focus on utilizing real time, genetic and longitudinal data."},{"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":"Haile","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Acting Professor,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Oncology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Acting Professor,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=38026&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Haile","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Robert_Haile","researchInterest":""}]}