| PROGRAM MEMBERS | ||
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | ||
| Name/ Profile/E-mail |
Affiliations/Appointments | Research Interests |
Carlson, Robert, MD 
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Professor: Medicine - Oncology NSABP studies |
Studies of chemoprevention, adjuvant therapy, psychosocial interventions, treatment of metastatic disease, methods of decreasing anthracycline cardiotoxicity, and modulation of multi-drug resistance. Emphasis: Clinical investigations in breast cancer  |
| Cook, Karen, PhD
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Professor: Sociology Chair - Sociology Department |
Issues of trust in social relations and networks; collaborative research on physician-patient trust. Emphasis: Physician-patient trust issues |
| Crawley, LaVera, MD
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Assistant Professor:Pediatrics - Genetics Division Center for Bioethics (SCBE) |
Health disparities; palliative & EOL care; behavioral interventions; communication Emphasis: Health disparities |
| Ford, James, MD
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Associate Professor: Medicine - Oncology, Genetics Associate Professor(by courtesy):Pediatrics Children’s Health Initiative |
Cancer Genetics, DNA repair, Breast and GI cancers Emphasis: Cancer Genetics |
| Fortmann, Stephen, MD
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Professor: Medicine-Stanford Prevention Research Center, Professor (by courtesy):HRP-Epidemiology Associate: CHP/PCOR |
Tobacco cessation methods, tobacco control, policy Emphasis: Tobacco Cessation |
| Garber, Alan, MD, PhD
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Director: CHP/PCOR |
Topics in health economics, health insurance, technology assessment,
health care of the elderly, health policy, and international health care comparison Emphasis: Health Economics |
| Gardner, Christopher, PhD
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Assistant Professor (Research):Medicine-Stanford Prevention Research Center Associte: CHP/PCOR |
Nutrition, isoflavones, plant-based diets, antioxidants Emphasis: Nutrition |
| Gould, Michael, MD, MS
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Associate Professor: Medicine- Pulmonary and Critical Care Co-Director: Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Professor (by courtesy):HRP-Epidemiology Fellow:CHP/PCOR |
Technology assessment (especially the evaluation of diagnostic tests), cost-effectiveness analysis, decision analysis, meta-analysis, quality of care, and prognostic modeling in lung cancer. Emphasis: Health Economics |
| Hallenbeck, James, MD
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Medicine- General Internal Medicine Hub Site Director: VA Palo Alto Nationwide Palliative Care Network |
Research in hospice and palliative care with emphases on physician education, cultural aspects of end-of-life care, and healthcare system issues. Emphasis: End of life care |
| Haskell, William, PhD
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Professor Emeritus (active): Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center | Physical activity, energy expenditure, energy balance and chronic disease Emphasis: Physical Activity |
| Kiernan, Michaela, PhD
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Cancer Prevention and Control |
Developing theory-based interventions for long-term behavior change in the areas of weight management, dietary change, and physical activity; methodological improvements for the design, delivery, and analysis of randomized trials Emphasis: Clinical Trial Analyses |
| Killen, Joel, PhD
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Professor(Research):Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center | Development and evaluation of cigarette smoking prevention and cessation therapies and obesity prevention treatments for children, adolescents and adults. Emphasis: Smoking Cessation |
| King, Abby, PhD
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Professor: Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center, HRP-Epidemiology | Behavioral and lifestyle interventions; prevention; built environment influences on cancer prevention and control; applications of communication technologies to reduce risk. Emphasis: Environmental Influences |
| Kohrman, Matthew, PhD
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Associate Professor: Anthropology Department and Asia Health Policy Program | Policy development, social analysis, and intervention sciences regarding smoking behaviors and nicotine addiction. Conducting several studies in modern China. Emphasis: Smoking Behaviors < |
| Koopman, Cheryl, PhD
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Associate Professor (Research): Medicine - Psychiatry and Behavioral Science | Behavioral and lifestyle interventions; prevention Emphasis: Breast and Gynecological Cancer |
| Kraemer, Helena, PhD
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Professor: Medicine - Psychiatry and Behavioral Science | Methodology pertinent to 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. Emphasis: Behavioral Research |
| Nguyen, Bang, MPP, Dr PH
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Research Scientist: NCCC Consulting Assistant Professor: HRP-Epidemiology |
Cancer control, prevention, and early detection; underserved populations; breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer Emphasis: Cancer disparities |
| Oakley-Girvan, Ingrid, PhD
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Research Scientist: NCCC
Consulting Assistant Professor: HRP-Epidemiology |
Prostate, Ovarian, Breast cancers incidence and survival, genes and environment, modifiable lifestyle factors, disparities Emphasis: Cancer disparities |
| Olshen, Richard, PhD
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Professor: HRP - Biostatistics Professor (by courtesy): Electrical Engineering, Statistics Participating Faculty: Biomedical Informatics Affiliate:BioX Associate: CHP/PCOR |
Statistics and their applications to medicine and biology including, but not limited to developing sample reuse methods for longitudinal data concerning gait analysis, renal physiology, cholesterol and molecular genetics. Use of tree-structured algorithms to study cancer and other human diseases by association of SNPs and other predictors. Emphasis: Biomedical Statistics and Genetics |
| Presti, Joseph, Jr, MD
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Professor: Medicine - Urology Associate Chair: Department of Urology Director: Urologic Oncology Division |
Detection of prostate cancer, active surveillance for prostate cancer Emphasis: Prostate Cancer |
| Rhoads, Kim MD, MPH
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Acting Assistant Professor: Medicine - Surgery Health Services Research |
Disparities in surgical care and cancer outcomes; surgical quality improvement, public reporting and pay-for performance Emphasis: Institutional factors affecting disparities in surgical outcomes in cancer. |
| Robinson, Thomas, MD, MPH
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Associate Professor: Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center, Pediatrics Children’s Health Initiative Center of Excellence | Behavioral, social, environmental, and policy interventions to prevent obesity, improve dietary intake, increase physical activity, and prevent tobacco use in children and families. Emphasis: Social Policy and Interventions |
| So, Samuel, MD, FACS
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Professor: Medicine - Surgery Director: Asian Liver Center |
Development of new strategies that will lead to the elimination of hepatitis B worldwide and reduce the threat and incidence of liver cancer. Translational and clinical research, early detection and treatment, education promotion, awareness and immunization.
Emphasis: Liver Cancer Translational and Clinical Research |
| Spiegel, David, MD
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Professor: Medicine - Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Director: Stanford Center for Integrative Medicine, PST Lab |
Stress, the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis and Breast Cancer Progression; Effects of psychosocial support on quality of life and cancer progression Emphasis: Quality of Life |
| Stafford, Randall, MD, PhD
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Associate Professor: Medicine- Stanford Prevention Research Center Director: Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices Fellow: CHP/PCOR |
Disease treatment and prevention, particularly the adoption of new practices and technologies Emphasis: Prevention and Treatment Technologies |
| Stefanick, Marcia, PhD
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Professor: Medicine- Stanford Prevention Research Center Women's Health Initiative (NLBI) WHEL(NCI) MrOS (NIAMS) |
Women's health & chronic disease (heart disease, breast cancer, osteoporosis); prevention research/health promotion in both sexes: lifestyle (exercise, weight control, diet). Role of sex hormones & sex/gender differences in physiology related to cardiovascular and cancer biology and body composition. Menopause and aging. Emphasis: Women's health lifestyle factors |
| Swetter, Susan, MD
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Professor: Medicine - Dermatology Member:Cutaneous Oncology Group |
Melanoma-cancer control, epidemiology, early detection and screening (secondary prevention) in high-risk groups. Emphasis: Melanoma prevention and control |
| Tobin, Sara, PhD, MSW
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Senior Research Scholar: Center for Bioethics | Clinical trials, hereditary risk, ethical issues, education and outreach Emphasis: Education and outreach |
| Van Dam , Jacques, MD PhD
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Professor: Medicine - Gastroenterology and Hepatology Affiliate:BioX |
Developing methods for the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal cancer; the development of real-time, three-dimensional, image-guided, propulsive wireless capsule endoscopy; computer-assisted, potentially sedationless colonoscopy; methods of endoscopic gastric pacing; endoscopic ultrasound-guided pancreatic cyst ablation; and EUS-guided dendritic cell cancer vaccine for gastrointestinal tumors. Emphasis: Gastrointestinal Cancer Treatment Methodology |
| Wagner, Todd, PhD
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Researcher: VA, Palo Alto
Consulting Assistant Professor: HRP-Epidemiology Fellow: CHP/PCOR |
Consumer health information; cost-effectiveness analysis; willingness to pay; financing for institutional review boards; quality of life measurement Emphasis: Prognosis and Survival Breast Cancer, Ovarian Cancer |
| Wakelee, Heather, MD
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Assistant Professor - Med Center Line: Medicine - Oncology | Medical Oncology: Leptommeningeal Disease, Lung Cancer, Mesothelioma, Thoracic Cancers; Investigational Therapeutics Emphasis: Lung and Thoracic Cancers |
| Winkleby, Marilyn, PhD
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Professor: Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center Faculty Director: Office of Community Health |
Health of low-income, ethnic minority, and other medically underserved populations. Emphasis: Treatment disparities |
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