School of Medicine
Showing 151-160 of 345 Results
-
Max Kasun
Research Professional, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioMax Kasun works in the Roberts Ethics Lab and Kim Ethics Lab at Stanford, which use empirical methods to help anticipate, clarify and resolve ethical issues in modern biomedical research. He has interests in empirical and normative thought dedicated to increasing scientific understanding and societal appreciation of the nature, internal experience, and prevalence of mental illness and well-being, as well as in moral philosophy (e.g. justice, action, capability, neo-Aristotelianism, and pragmatism), cognitive and affective sciences, and philosophy of mind (e.g. embodiment and personhood). He has co-authored scientific, peer-reviewed articles and other scholarly work investigating ethical issues in research (e.g. authentic voluntarism in informed consent), medical education, public health, and neuroscience. His most recent contributions to NIH-funded scientific work (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences; PI: Dr. Jane Kim) have focused on investigating ethical issues encountered in the design, development, and clinical integration of artificial intelligence, e.g., how environmental and cognitive factors shape appraisals of AI tools, clinical judgments, trust, and health decision-making.
Max is a co-author of several chapters in APA's Study Guide to DSM-5-TR (2024) including the chapters on bipolar and related disorders and personality disorders (American Psychiatric Association). He has published work in and provided editorial support for the peer-reviewed journal Academic Medicine (Oxford University Press) and for two works on the subject of trauma and crisis and related interventions, including a reference guide for providing mental health care to victims of state atrocity (United Nations, Springer). Previously, he served on leadership teams for the Stanford Mental Health Technology and Innovation Hub and Neurodiversity Project.
Max is currently working to develop a new Special Initiative of the Chair on Mental Health Care for Unhoused and Justice-Involved Persons (see https://med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/special-initiatives/mhuj.html). The initiative aims to bring together a community of scholars, public stakeholders, and health care professionals to help advance more humane and participatory inquiry and health policy in service of a population that faces profound controversy, health stigma, and scientific neglect. The initiative aims to improve how science is communicated to the public and policy decision-makers and to develop more evidence-based, pragmatic, strengths-based, and trauma-informed approaches to mental health care for unhoused persons, including those who have experienced episodic or cyclical involvement in the criminal and civil justice systems. -
Steve Khachi, M.D.
Adjunct Lecturer, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development
BioDr. Steve Khachi is a double board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist. He is the Founder, CEO, and Medical Director of Mind Study Center (est. 2017) and Mind Pulse Center (est. 2024) in Pasadena, California. Mind Study Center is an integrated outpatient clinic offering psychiatric evaluation, medication management, psychotherapy, neuropsychological evaluation, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); Mind Pulse Center is an insurance-based clinic specializing in TMS and medication management for treatment-resistant depression.
He serves as Adjunct Lecturer in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he has trained child and adolescent psychiatry fellows in transcranial magnetic stimulation and lectures on developmental psychopathology, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and neuroscience, and as Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, where he supervises child and adolescent psychiatry fellows. His interests include neuromodulation and TMS, precision and measurement-based psychiatry, and the translation of neuroscience into outpatient care.
His research training spans cellular and systems neuroscience, including studies of bipolar disorder using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells at UC San Diego and the Salk Institute (with John Kelsoe, M.D., and Fred Gage, Ph.D.), two-photon microscopy and electrophysiology as an HHMI-NIH Research Scholar, and cerebrovascular research at UCSF.
CLINICAL FOCUS: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Adult Psychiatry; TMS and Neuromodulation; Treatment-Resistant Depression; Mood Disorders; ADHD; Anxiety Disorders; Precision and Measurement-Based Psychiatry.
TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION: Board Certified, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2016) and Psychiatry (2015). Fellowship, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stanford University (2016), Chief Fellow 2015-2016. Residency, General Psychiatry, UC San Diego (2014). M.D., University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (2011). HHMI-NIH Research Scholar, National Institutes of Health (2008-2009). B.S., Biochemistry-Molecular Biology, UC Santa Barbara (2004).
HONORS: Top Doctors, Pasadena Magazine (2018, 2019); Chief Fellow, Stanford University (2015-2016); Trainee Advisory Board, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (2012-2015); PRITE Scholar Award, UC San Diego (2012); Advanced HHMI-NIH Research Scholar Fellowship (2009); Excellence in Research and Scholarly Activity Award, Des Moines University (2007).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Chang K, Hall R, Khachi S, Howe M, Singh M. Bipolar and Mood Disorders in Adolescents. In: Treating Adolescents, 2nd ed. 2014:223-51. | Khachi S, Gubbels SP, Robinson RA, Hansen MR. Ganglion Cyst Presenting as an External Auditory Canal Mass. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2011;144(1):131-2. | Zhu W, Khachi S, et al. Upregulation of EMMPRIN after permanent focal cerebral ischemia. Neurochem Int. 2008;52:1086-91. | Khachi S, Zhu Y, Yang GY. Preparation and analysis of endothelial progenitor cells associated with angiogenesis. Methods Mol Biol. 2010;621:139-48.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry; American Psychiatric Association; American Medical Association.
WEB: mindstudycenter.com | mindpulsecenter.com
