{"result":[{"lastName":"Barr","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Teaching),Pediatrics - General Pediatrics"},{"appointment":"Professor (Teaching) (By courtesy),Graduate School of Education"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Teaching),Pediatrics - General Pediatrics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14402&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Donald Barr","firstName":"Donald","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Donald_Barr","researchInterest":""},{"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":"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":"Palaniappan","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Internal Medicine"}],"appointments":[],"imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6447&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS","firstName":"Latha","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/cancer/physician/Latha_Palaniappan","researchInterest":"Latha Palaniappan is currently an Associate Investigator at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Palaniappan has completed over 20 studies spanning 10 years in the areas of ethnicity, obesity, and diabetes risk. She currently leads the Pan Asian Cohort Study (www.pamf.org/pacs), to investigate diabetes in Asian Americans"},{"lastName":"Sandoval Mendoza","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Genetics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17418&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Karla Sandoval Mendoza","firstName":"Karla","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Karla_Sandoval Mendoza","researchInterest":"Population Genetics of Native Americans, Anthropology, Human Migrations Process, Ancient Populations."},{"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":"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":"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":"Kiernan","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Senior Research Scientist (PI Waiver),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Senior Research Scientist (PI Waiver),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6282&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michaela Kiernan","firstName":"Michaela","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Michaela_Kiernan","researchInterest":"Research interests include: (1) the design and testing of targeted behavioral interventions that promote long-term lifestyle changes and weight management among subgroups at risk, and (2) the development of methodological and statistical approaches that improve the design, delivery, and analysis of behavioral randomized clinical trials"},{"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":"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":"Corso","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Senior Lecturer,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research"},{"appointment":"Lecturer,Inter-Departmental Programs - Language Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Senior Lecturer,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7035&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Irene Corso","firstName":"Irene","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Irene_Corso","researchInterest":"My research interests involve doctor-patient relationship and communication strategies as they pertain to (1)  the development and instruction of medical Spanish curriculum, (2) satisfaction in health care delivery with emphasis on   cross cultural competency issues, and (3)  the effectiveness of interpretive systems in health care settings."},{"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":"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":"Frank","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=34556&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael Frank","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Michael_Frank","researchInterest":""},{"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":"Patel","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=20863&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Manali Patel","firstName":"Manali","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Manali_Patel","researchInterest":""},{"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":"King","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4715&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Abby C. 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In these areas, her work addresses cancer etiology and outcomes related to several risk factors, including EBV and HIV."},{"lastName":"Rhoads","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Colon and Rectal Surgery"},{"focus":"General Surgery"},{"focus":"Pelvic Floor Disorders"},{"focus":"Benign Colorectal Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8444&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kim F. 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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."}]}