School of Medicine
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Rebecca Smith-Coggins, MD
Professor (Teaching) of Emergency Medicine, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEffect of work schedule on work performance, mood and, sleep architecture in attending emergency medicine physicians,residents.
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Matthew Strehlow
Professor of Emergency Medicine (Adult Clinical/Academic)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research aims to improve healthcare delivery in LMICs through evidence-based training, emergency care epidemiology, and strengthening maternal and child health via EMS. Partnering with Digital Medic and WHO, I evaluate training methods and develop guidance for health emergencies. I’ve contributed to prehospital care systems in India and other countries. Additionally, I explore EMS as access points for intimate partner violence victims and climate related health emergencies.
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John Su
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioJohn Su, MD, MA, is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and the Associate Medical Director for the San Jose Fire Department. He is an emergency physician and EMS physician-scientist with fellowship training in Emergency Medical Services and an MA in Biostatistics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Su’s academic work focuses on improving the quality, safety, and delivery of prehospital care, with particular attention to children and older adults. His research integrates artificial intelligence, clinical informatics, biostatistics, and implementation science to develop and evaluate clinical decision support tools, quality measurement strategies, and system-level interventions. By partnering with EMS agencies, health systems, and community organizations, he studies how these approaches can be integrated into routine practice, inform EMS policy, and strengthen systems of care across diverse populations and settings.
In his role with the San Jose Fire Department, Dr. Su provides EMS medical direction, quality improvement, and clinician education. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Safe Passages, supporting community-based programs for children, youth, and families. -
Brian Suffoletto
Professor of Emergency Medicine (Adult Clinical/Academic)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy work sits at the intersection of acute care, behavioral science, and digital health and I have applied this approach across a wide range of health challenges, including alcohol and substance use, medication adherence, sleep, mental health, hypertension self-management, post-concussive symptoms, and recovery following emergency care.
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N. Nounou Taleghani MD, PhD
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioDr. Nounou Taleghani completed her undergraduate education at UCLA, graduating in 1986, and subsequently earned both her M.D. and Ph.D. (Neuroscience) degrees at the Chicago Medical School.
She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine in 1999 and joined the faculty of the Department of Surgery at Stanford as a Board Certified Emergency Medicine specialist in the same year.
She briefly left Stanford in August 2005 and joined the faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College, where she served as the Associate Dean for Clinical Curriculum for the Qatar campus and was responsible for the implementation, management and coordination of the WCMC-Q undergraduate clinical curriculum, including the third year clerkships and the fourth year electives. Under her leadership, WCMC-Q developed a pioneering, multilingual program in medical interpreting designed to assist medical students as they interacted with patients in their clinical courses at the local teaching hospital. Dr. Taleghani has received many awards for teaching, including several Excellence in Teaching awards, both at Stanford and at Cornell.
She re-joined the faculty of the Stanford School of Medicine in Fall 2009 as Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and as an Attending Physician in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Stanford Hospital. She holds an appointment in the medical school and taught in the clinical curriculum as part of the Educator for CARE faculty for 10 Years and as Assistant Dean for Academic Advising. She now serves as Associate Dean for Academic Advising in the School of Medicine and is the founder and director of the Center for Specialty Career Advising.
Dr. Taleghani was also the Director for Medical Student Education for the Department of Emergency Medicine and oversaw all the courses her department teaches in the Medical School, including being the inaugural required Clerkship Director for the EMED Clerkship. She also served as the founding Director for the Rapid Assessment Program , MD in triage for the Emergency Department.
Aside from her clinical and academic responsibilities at Stanford, Dr. Taleghani is also involved in many organizations around the Bay Area including serving as
Medical Director, Palo Alto Fire Department from 1999–2005,
Volunteer Ski Patrol, Diamond Peak, CA 2020-
Volunteer Medical Director, Susan G Koman 3 Day Walk, SF from 2003-2010
Volunteer Medical Provider for the Painted Turtle Camp
Volunteer Medical Director, AVON, Breast Cancer Walk, SF 2012-2015.
She is also one of the VTML’s, team medical liaison for the National Football League. -
Caitlin Marie Toth
Clinical Research Coordinator Associate, Emergency Medicine
Current Role at StanfordClinical Research Coordinator Associate
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Milana Trounce
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioDr. Boukhman Trounce graduated from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and went on to complete her emergency medicine residency and fellowship in Disaster Medicine and Bioterrorism Response at Harvard Medical School. She worked with the Center for Integration of Medicine and Technology (CIMT), a consortium of Harvard teaching hospitals and MIT, where she led BioSecurity related projects in conjunction with the US State Department. She also received her MBA from Stanford Business School.
After Harvard she joined UCSF as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and was Medical Director for Disaster Response. For the past 11 years, she has been at Stanford Medical School, where she is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine.
She directs the BioSecurity program at Stanford, focused on protecting society from pandemics and other threats posed by infectious organisms, with a specific emphasis on approaches to interrupting transmission of infectious organisms in various settings. The background for the approach is outlined in her briefings at the Hoover Institute (see in publications list below). Stanford BioSecurity facilitates the creation of interdisciplinary solutions by bringing together experts in biology, medicine, public health, disaster management, policy, engineering, technology, and business. https://med.stanford.edu/biosecurity/about.html
At Stanford, over the past ten years she has established and directed a class on BioSecurity and Pandemic Resilience , which examines ways of building global societal resilience to pandemics and other biothreats and has educated over a thousand students. She has also taught an online Harvard course on medical response to biological terrorism, educating thousands of physicians globally.
She has served as a spokeswoman for the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and is a founding Chair of BioSecurity at ACEP. In addition to her academic research and speaking at national conferences, she also consults nationally and internationally to healthcare systems, governments, and other organizations. -
Alfredo Urdaneta
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioDr. Alfredo Urdaneta is a Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he serves as the Medical Director of Stanford Life Flight. His academic and clinical work focuses on the modernization of prehospital and retrieval critical care systems, the expansion of prolonged field care scope of practice, and the optimization of advanced resuscitation protocols in high-acuity aeromedical environments.
His research program encompasses critical care trial operations and acute resuscitation science. Dr. Urdaneta serves as a site Co-Investigator for National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded clinical trials, including the RECOVER initiative investigating the pathobiology and long-term sequelae of post-acute COVID-19, and the AIMS study focused on acute sepsis sub-phenotyping and precision resuscitation strategies in the intensive care unit.
In the aeromedical and emergency medicine communities, Dr. Urdaneta holds national leadership roles dedicated to governance, clinical standards, and professional ethics. He serves as Chair of the Standards and Research Committee for the Air Medical Physician Association (AMPA) and as Vice Chair of the Ethics Committee for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM). Through these appointments and presentations at national meetings, he helps shape national clinical guidelines, aeromedical safety frameworks, and ethical standards across emergency and transport medicine.
In addition to his civilian academic appointments, Dr. Urdaneta serves as a Colonel (O-6) in the United States Army Reserve Medical Corps. His military career includes serving as the Command Surgeon for the 63d Readiness Division, where he provided executive medical oversight, clinical governance, and readiness management across multi-state operational formations. His extensive background in military operational medicine directly informs his academic scholarship in mass casualty management, austere resuscitation, and the bilateral translation of combat casualty care innovations into civilian trauma and critical care systems.
Dr. Urdaneta earned his B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his M.D. from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed a general surgery internship at the University of Illinois, an emergency medicine residency at UCSF Fresno, and advanced subspecialty fellowship training in Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington. -
Vance Vanier, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPrimary and secondary prevention of disease through the use of preventive genomic medicine. Patients who have greater insight into their genetic risk for different diseases may change their lifestyles and decrease their probablity of succumbing to conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular events. Personalized screening regimens for those at increased genetic risk, such as for colon cancer, is another important application worthy of validation.
