{"result":[{"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":"Maxim","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=7810&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Peter G Maxim","firstName":"Peter","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Peter_Maxim","researchInterest":"My research is focused on developing optical imaging technologies for the early detection and characterization of malignant tissue.\r\nFurthermore, I am interested in the design and implementation of novel radiation delivery approaches."},{"lastName":"Graves","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3974&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Edward Graves","firstName":"Edward","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Edward_Graves","researchInterest":"Applications of molecular imaging in radiation therapy, development of hypoxia and radiosensitivity imaging techniques, small animal image-guided conformal radiotherapy, image processing and analysis."},{"lastName":"Quon","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Nuclear Medicine"},{"focus":"PET Scans"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Nuclear Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Nuclear Medicine","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6452&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Andrew Quon","firstName":"Andrew","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Andrew_Quon","researchInterest":"Multimodality fusion imaging with PET, CT, and MRI for oncology.  \r\n\r\nTranslational research bringing new radiotracers to clinical use.\r\n\r\nCardiovascular multimodality PET/CT imaging."},{"lastName":"Hara","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Radiation Therapy"},{"focus":"Head&Neck Cancer"},{"focus":"Lung Cancers"},{"focus":"Sarcoma"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8428&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Wendy Hara","firstName":"Wendy","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Wendy_Hara","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Whyte","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4435&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Richard Whyte","firstName":"Richard","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Richard_Whyte","researchInterest":"clinical lung and esophageal cancer treatment studies, lung transplantation, surgical ,management of emphysema."},{"lastName":"Hoang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"VATS Lung Surgery"},{"focus":"Mesothelioma"},{"focus":"Pectus Excavatum"},{"focus":"Transcervical Thymectomy"},{"focus":"Endobronchial Ultrasound"},{"focus":"Esophagectomy"},{"focus":"Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung"},{"focus":"Pancoast Syndrome"},{"focus":"Hyperhidrosis"},{"focus":"Nissen Operation"},{"focus":"Tracheal Diseases"},{"focus":"Pleural Diseases"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"General Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Thoracic Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Thoracic Surgery","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10439&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Chuong D. Hoang","firstName":"Chuong","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Chuong_Hoang","researchInterest":"In our thoracic oncology laboratory we study the biology of non-small cell lung carcinoma and mesothelioma.  We have a focus on translational research aimed at identifying molecular mechanisms of development, progression and/ or metastasis in these solid tumors."},{"lastName":"Donington","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3919&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jessica Donington","firstName":"Jessica","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Jessica_Donington","researchInterest":"Lung Cancer, Thoracic Cancers - Surgical Oncology, Esophageal Cancer"},{"lastName":"Shrager","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Thoracic Cancers - Thoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted"},{"focus":"Lung Cancer"},{"focus":"Thoracoscopy"},{"focus":"VATS"},{"focus":"Thymoma"},{"focus":"Mediastinal Diseases"},{"focus":"Mediastinal Cyst"},{"focus":"Myasthenia Gravis"},{"focus":"Thymectomy"},{"focus":"Surgical Procedures, Minimally Invasive"},{"focus":"Emphysema Surgery"},{"focus":"Lung Volume Reduction"},{"focus":"Bullectomy"},{"focus":"Sympathectomy"},{"focus":"Esophageal Cancer"},{"focus":"Pneumothorax"},{"focus":"Pleural Diseases"},{"focus":"sarcoma"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Thoracic Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Thoracic Surgery","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8561&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Joseph Shrager","firstName":"Joseph","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Joseph_Shrager","researchInterest":"In clinical research, Dr. Shrager has been an innovator studying outcomes in a variety of areas within Thoracic Surgery including: parenchyma-sparing operations and minimally invasive resections for lung cancer, transcervical thymectomy for myasthenia gravis, and surgical treatment of emphysema.\r\n\r\nIn the lab, Dr. Shrager is focused on the impact of disease states upon the diaphragm. His group published the seminal paper (NEJM) describing diaphragm atrophy assoc'd with mechanical ventilation."},{"lastName":"Wakelee","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Lung Cancer - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Investigational Therapeutics"},{"focus":"Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"thymoma"},{"focus":"Mesothelioma "},{"focus":"thymic carcinoma"},{"focus":"Thoracic Cancers - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Mesothelioma - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Oncology (Cancer)"},{"focus":"Thoracic Cancers"}],"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=6058&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Heather Wakelee","firstName":"Heather","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Heather_Wakelee","researchInterest":"Dr. Wakelee's research is focused on clinical trials in patients with lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies such as thymoma and thymic carcinoma.  She also works with novel agents for all malignancies as part of the developmental therapeutics group of the cancer center.  Other interests include translation projects in thoracic malignancies and collaborations with population scientists regarding lung cancer questions."},{"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":"Nair","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pulmonary Disease"},{"focus":"Lung Cancer"},{"focus":"Solitary Pulmonary Nodule"},{"focus":"Intensive Care of the Medical Patient"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13614&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Viswam S. Nair","firstName":"Viswam","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Viswam_Nair","researchInterest":"\u0095 Molecular determinants of FDG-PET using non-invasive methods\r\n\u0095 Quantitative imaging of glucose metabolism in malignant nodules\r\n\u0095 Metabolic parameters of lung disease using FDG-PET\r\n\u0095 Circulating biomarker and clinical data database development for early detection of lung cancer"},{"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":"van de Rijn","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anatomic Pathology"},{"focus":"Sarcoma"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4008&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Matt van de Rijn","firstName":"Matt","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Matt_van de Rijn","researchInterest":"Our research focuses on gene microarray analysis of human soft tissue tumors (sarcomas). In addition we work with tissue microarrays to characterize large numbers of novel antisera raised against peptides derived from genes found to be of interest during gene array analysis."},{"lastName":"Wong","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Neurosurgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7143&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Albert J. Wong, M.D.","firstName":"Albert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Albert_Wong","researchInterest":"Our goal is to define targets for cancer therapeutics by identifying alterations in signal transduction proteins. We first identified a naturally occurring  mutant EGF receptor (EGFRvIII) and then delineated its unique signal transduction pathway. This work led to the identification of Gab1 followed by the discovery that JNK is constitutively active in tumors. We intiated using altered proteins as the target for vaccination, where an EGFRvIII based vaccine appears to be highly effective."},{"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,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,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":"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":"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":"Iagaru","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Nuclear Medicine"},{"focus":"Positron-Emission Tomography"},{"focus":"Radioimmunotherapy"},{"focus":"Thyroid Cancer"},{"focus":"Sarcoma"},{"focus":"Breast Cancer"},{"focus":"Lymphoma"},{"focus":"GBM"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Nuclear Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Nuclear Medicine","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8156&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Andrei Iagaru","firstName":"Andrei","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Andrei_Iagaru","researchInterest":"Current research projects include: 1) Whole-Body MRI and PET/CT for Early Cancer Detection; 2) Targeted Radionuclide Therapy; 3) Clinical Translation of Novel PET Radiopharmaceuticals; 4) Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging and 5) PET/CT Imaging for Thyroid/Breast/Lung/Prostate Cancer, Melanoma, and Sarcoma."},{"lastName":"Hu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10405&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mickey Hu","firstName":"Mickey","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Mickey_Hu","researchInterest":""},{"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":"Winslow","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Genetics","imageUrl":"http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=24603&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Monte Winslow","firstName":"Monte","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/researcher/Monte_Winslow","researchInterest":"Our laboratory uses genome-wide methods to uncover alterations that drive cancer progression and metastasis in genetically-engineered mouse models of human cancers. We combine cell-culture based mechanistic studies with our ability to alter pathways of interest during tumor progression in vivo to better understand each step of metastatic spread and to uncover the therapeutic vulnerabilities of advanced cancer cells."}]}