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Rose Heald
Masters Student in Translational Research and Applied Medicine, admitted Autumn 2025
BioAs a Master’s student in Translational Research and Applied Medicine at Stanford Medicine, I’m passionate about bridging the gap between scientific discovery and real-world clinical impact. My career interests lie at the intersection of science and business, with a focus on advancing the development and implementation of novel therapeutics—particularly in the areas of genetics, rare disease, and neurodegenerative diseases.
I bring experience in clinical research, including work on the BabySeq Project, a pioneering study of genomic newborn screening (gNBS). This experience sparked my ongoing interest in how genomic technologies can be implemented to identify actionable health risks early in life. I continue to contribute to this field through my involvement with the International Consortium on Newborn Sequencing (ICoNS), a global initiative advancing gNBS research. -
Gregory M. Heestand, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Oncology
BioDr. Heestand is a board-certified medical oncologist with a focus on gastrointestinal cancers, primarily hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, and gallbladder cancer. He serves as the medical oncology champion of the Stanford Hepatobiliary Tumor Board, as well as the principal investigator of multiple clinical trials. He collaborates with campus laboratories to help develop new biomarker and treatment technologies. He is the former director of the Stanford Oncology Fellowship Program.
Dr. Heestand and his team take great pride in helping patients and their families face gastrointestinal cancer.
Outside of the clinic, Dr. Heestand enjoys playing the piano, teaching his kids about music, cooking for friends and family, and surfing the internet for interesting things to read. -
Shireen N. Heidari
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioShireen Heidari, MD is a palliative care and family medicine physician. She works as part of the inpatient palliative care consult team providing symptom management and support for patients and families facing any stage of a serious illness. Dr. Heidari is the program director for the Stanford University Hospice and Palliative Fellowship. She previously served as the clinical lead for the Stanford site of the PERIOP-PC Study, collaborating with the surgical department to evaluate the impact of early palliative care support for patients and family members preparing for major upper gastrointestinal cancer surgery.
Dr. Heidari is also a writer whose pieces about the importance of human connection, tough conversations, and stigma around healthcare workers seeking help for their mental health have been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, CHEST, The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, and the Intima. She hopes that by sharing her own story, she can continue being part of these conversations as we advocate for culture change in medicine and more sustainable practice.
Before moving to northern California, Dr. Heidari attended medical school at Boston University, completed her residency at UC San Diego where she served as chief resident, followed by palliative fellowship at UCLA. Outside of her clinical and mentorship work, she is likely writing creatively or outside with her husband chasing their dogs. She is currently writing her first fiction novel. -
Paul Heidenreich, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research interests include
1) The cost-effectiveness of new cardiovascular technologies.
Example: tests to screen asymptomatic patients for left ventricular systolic dysfunction.
2) Interventions to improve the quality of care of patients with heart disease. Examples: include clinical reminders and home monitoring.
3) Outcomes research using existing clinical and administrative datasets.
4) Use of echocardiography to predict prognosis (e.g. diastolic dysfunction). -
Michael K. Helms, PhD, MBA
Casual Employee, Medicine - Med/Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Current Role at StanfordDirector of Research Development, Team Science
Department of Medicine
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Michael Henehan
Affiliate, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Michael Henehan is board certified in Family Medicine and has a Certificate of Added Qualification (CAQ) in Sports Medicine. He is a team physician for San Jose State University (various sports) and the San Jose Sabercats (Arena Football Team).
Dr. Henehan is an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and is Director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship Program at O’Connor Hospital.
For fun, he enjoys hiking, winter sports, running and watercolor painting. -
Heather Henri, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Heather Henri is a Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.
A graduate of Stanford University and the Harvard Medical School, she is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. A Biological Sciences major at Stanford, Dr. Henri was awarded the President’s Award for Academic Excellence. She received an American Heart Association Internship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and completed two Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellowships at the NIH.
Following medical school, she completed Internship and Residency at Stanford Hospital, then joined the Stanford Medical Group and was subsequently appointed Clinic Chief at the Blake Wilbur Clinic.
In 2013, Dr. Henri was one of two physicians selected to launch Stanford Concierge Medicine. During her 15-year tenure as a full time Internist at Stanford, she consistently received the highest tier of patient satisfaction scores.
Dr. Henri has served on Stanford’s General Internal Medicine Executive Committee and the Appointment and Promotions Committee. She was a member of the California Academic Collaborative on Chronic Care and co-authored the chapter “Hypertension: Context and Management” in the leading Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. She served on the Outcomes Research Advisory Board for Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE)– the world’s largest private source of funding for research dedicated to the prevention and treatment of food allergy. In addition, Dr. Henri was named a “Top Reviewer” by the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Henri works closely with the American College of Physicians (ACP) – the world’s largest medical society for Internists- and is one of the three Primary Care physicians in the country serving on the ACP 2027 Scientific Program Advisory Committee. She served for four years as the Director of the ACP Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification Course held in San Francisco. Dr. Henri was a member of the ACP Internal Medicine Essentials Text and Online Questions Editorial Review Board, and authored educational material for the ACP’s Medical Knowledge and Self-Assessment Program. Dr. Henri has given several lectures for the ACP and reviewed podcasts created by the ACP for physician continuing education. In 2025 and 2026 Dr. Henri served as a Curriculum Subspecialty Editor.
Dr. Henri feels that comprehensive proactive preventive care and excellent personalized patient-physician communication are the foundations of her medical practice. She is pleased to see patients once a month at Stanford's Express Care, and otherwise as a Stanford Trusted Community Concierge Physician at the medical practice of Caras Health in Portola Valley. -
Lisa Henriksen
Associate Professor (Research) of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center)
Sr Research Engineer, Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research CenterCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research aims to improve our understanding of the health risks associated with exposure to tobacco marketing and provide a scientific rationale for new policies to reduce it. I also study use of media to promote and discourage adolescent tobacco use, and the impact of tobacco advertising on urge and craving to smoke.
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Tina Hernandez-Boussard
Professor of Medicine (Computational Medicine), of Biomedical Data Science, of Surgery and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy background and expertise is in the field of computational biology, with concentration in health services research. A key focus of my research is to apply novel methods and tools to large clinical datasets for hypothesis generation, comparative effectiveness research, and the evaluation of quality healthcare delivery. My research involves managing and manipulating big data, which range from administrative claims data to electronic health records, and applying novel biostatistical techniques to innovatively assess clinical and policy related research questions at the population level. This research enables us to create formal, statistically rigid, evaluations of healthcare data using unique combinations of large datasets.
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Dora Ho
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Ho did her PhD work in HSV pathogenesis and postdoctoral research in CNS gene therapy with viral vectors. She is currently the clinical chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine. She specializes in infection complications of immunocompromised patients, such as those with cancers, solid organ transplant or bone marrow transplant.
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Edith Ho
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Ho plays an active role in the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) Educational Affairs committee, where she chairs several abstract committees, directs regional post-graduate courses, regularly reviews physician course content, and develops CME content for the American Journal of Gastroenterology. She is also involed in the ACG Research Committee, which plays a criticol role in setting the direction of scientific advancement, education, and distribution of grant funding. Dr. Ho has also served as a guideline author for the American Gastroenterological Association on endoscopic therapies for weight loss and the medical management of luminal and perianal Crohn's disease. These guidelines shed new knowledge and set new standards of care for clinical practice here and abroad.
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Christian Hoerner
Sr Research Scientist-Basic Life, Medicine - Med/Oncology
Current Role at StanfordSenior Scientist and Lab Manager, Alice Fan Lab
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Andrew R. Hoffman
Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology), Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMechanism of genomic imprinting of insulin like growth factor-2 and other genes.Long range chromatin interactions Role of histone modifications and DNA methylation in gene expression.
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Seth Ari Sim-Son Hoffman
Instructor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsClinical research to benefit underserved populations.
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Florian Hoffmann, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Hematology
BioFlorian is a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Ami Bhatt's laboratory at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry working in Dr. Sam Sternberg's group at Columbia University where he studied atypical CRISPR systems in prokaryotes, in search of molecular tools for programmable gene editing and gene regulation. His studies elucidate the mechanisms of a novel RNA-guided transposition system, the evolutionary ancestors of the gene editing enzymes Cas9 and Cas12, and an unprecedented Cas12f enzyme that creates custom de novo transcription start sites without requiring promoter elements. Florian is fascinated by the vast untapped resources of novel gene functions encoded in bacteria and their viruses (bacteriophages). He is an inventor on multiple patents related to his doctoral work. During his postdoctoral work at Stanford, he aims to discover novel paradigms of bacteria-virus interactions and how these shape the human gut microbiome, and human health. To investigate these systems, he harnesses interdisciplinary approaches, combining computational gene discovery with experimental techniques in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biochemistry.
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Thomas Holden, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Oncology
BioDr. Holden is a board-certified, fellowship-trained medical oncologist. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.
He specializes in care for people with gastrointestinal cancer including those of the colon, rectum, esophagus, liver, pancreas, and stomach. Dr. Holden works closely with patients to prepare personalized, comprehensive, and compassionate care plans that optimize healing and quality of life.
Dr. Holden has conducted research into a wide range of subjects. He co-developed and established a multi-center trial investigating a new treatment regimen for gastric cancer. He has studied use of a fitness tracker to assess activity levels and toxicities in patients with colorectal cancer. He also has written invited commentary on the rapidly advancing field of genetic testing as well as a review on recent updates on the treatment of early-stage rectal cancer.
He has published his research findings in articles in peer-reviewed journals including JAMA, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Cortex, and elsewhere. He has made poster presentations to his peers at meetings including the ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers symposium and House Staff Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Conference, a meeting held annually at Thomas Jefferson University.
Dr. Holden has volunteered his time and expertise to help improve access to health care for homeless and underserved populations.
In his free time, he runs, reads, plays the acoustic guitar, and travels. -
Laura Holdsworth
Sr Res Scholar, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordDirector of the Evaluation Sciences Unit and Senior Research Scholar
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Alison Holmes Tisch, MSN, RN, ANP-BC, AOCNP
Affiliate, Medicine - Med/Oncology
BioAlison Holmes Tisch, MSN, RN, ANP-BC, AOCNP is an Adult Oncology Certified Nurse Practitioner who specializes in treatment and symptom management for individuals who are living with lung cancer, thymic cancer or mesothelioma. She has practiced in the department of Thoracic Oncology at Stanford Healthcare for more than 8 years and is passionate about supporting individuals and their families during challenging times and ensuring state of the art care with clinical trials, standard treatment options and supportive care and symptom management.
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Mark Holodniy
Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research program is currently focused in three areas: 1) Translational research (viral evolution and antiviral resistance prevalence and development), 2) Clinical trials (diagnostic assay/medical device, antimicrobials and immunomodulators), and 3) Health services research focusing on public health, infectious diseases and clinical outcomes.
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Marisa Holubar, MD MS FIDSA
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
BioDr. Marisa Holubar specializes in the treatment of infectious diseases and works primarily in the inpatient setting. She is particularly interested in antimicrobial stewardship and is dedicated to the mentorship and professional development of trainees and junior faculty.
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Jason Hom
Clinical Professor, Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSince 2002, I have worked on a variety of clinical and translational imaging research projects. I have been fortunate to have had Dr. Max Wintermark as a mentor. I have been fortunate to collaborate closely with Dr. Akshay Chaudhari and Dr. Robert Boutin at Stanford.
Representative recent projects
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.11686
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.243525
Since 2012, I have worked on a variety of multi-disciplinary high value care research projects, with a focus on studying interventions related to provider education and EHR-based clinical decision support systems. As technology has progressed, I have examined a spectrum of interventions, ranging from static guideline-based best practice alerts to more advanced AI-based systems. Due to prior research work with code sets and based on my administrative roles, I have a particular interest in researching LLM use for clinical documentation.
Representative recent projects
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03456-y
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2825395
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02855-5
Since 2015, I have had the distinct privilege of being a clinical team member for The Stanford Center for Undiagnosed Diseases (undiagnosed.stanford.edu - PIs Dr. Euan Ashley, Dr. Matt Wheeler, Dr. Jon Bernstein & Dr. Paul Fisher). -
Jison Hong
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology
BioJison Hong, MD specializes in the diagnosis, evaluation and management of all rheumatologic diseases. She has a special interest in evaluating and managing patients with complex gout and granulomatous mastitis. She is involved in projects to improve clinical care and promote language equity for those with limited English proficiency. She is involved in research identifying barriers to healthcare access along with mental health resources and outcomes for Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities. Dr. Hong serves as the division champion for Stanford's Value Based Care Program which focuses on initiatives aimed at delivering high quality care at lower cost.
Dr. Hong received her medical degree and Internal Medicine residency training at Rutgers- New Jersey Medical school in Newark, New Jersey. She served as a Chief Resident for an additional year and then went on to complete her fellowship training in Immunology & Rheumatology at Stanford University Medical Center . She joined the faculty in the Division of Immunology & Rheumatology at Stanford in 2014 as a Clinical Assistant Professor where she continues to practice. -
Joseph Hopkins
Clinical Professor Emeritus, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsQuality improvement, process improvement, physician leadership development, patient safety, physician professionalism.
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Benjamin Davies Horne
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
BioDr. Benjamin Horne is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor who is based at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City, UT, where he serves as the Director of Cardiovascular and Genetic Epidemiology. His doctoral training (PhD) in genetic epidemiology was completed at the University of Utah and he holds masters degrees in public health and in biostatistics. Dr. Horne is a fellow of the American Heart Association, a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, and a member of the American Society of Human Genetics. Dr. Horne’s research focuses on population health and precision medicine, including evaluating the genetic epidemiology of heart diseases, developing and implementing clinical decision tools for personalizing medical care, discovering the human health effects of intermittent fasting, and studying the influences of air pollution on major adverse health events.
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Sandra Horning
Professor of Medicine, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsClinical Interests: Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Research Interests: clinical trials in Hodgkin's disease and malignant lymphoma including high dose therapy and autografting, complications of cytotoxic therapy, novel therapeutics, and clinicopathologic correlations.
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Audra Horomanski
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology
BioDr. Horomanski specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of rheumatologic diseases. She received her undergraduate degree from Case Western Reserve University, medical degree from Wright State University, and completed her Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at Stanford University. She is the Director of the Stanford Vasculitis Clinic where she manages the complex care of patients with all types of vasculitis and works closely with partners in related specialties. She has a specific interest in clinical trials and a Graduate Certificate in Epidemiology and Clinical Research. Dr. Horomanski also received training in musculoskeletal ultrasound from the USSONAR program and is an integral part of Stanford's Diagnostic and Interventional Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Clinic. Additional areas of research include the application of ultrasound in the study and management of rheumatologic diseases.
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Shaikh Tanvir Hossain
Affiliate, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioTanvir is a Postdoctoral Researcher (Remote, based in Bangladesh) at the Geldsetzer Lab, led by Dr. Pascal Geldsetzer. He completed his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Business and Economics, TU Dortmund, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Carsten Jentsch, and is currently working with the team to apply causal inference and econometric methods to dementia research. His research interests lie at the intersection of Causal Inference, Econometrics, and Machine Learning.
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Stephanie Hsiao, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
BioDr. Stephanie Hsiao is a clinical assistant professor at Stanford Medicine and a full-time advanced heart failure/transplant cardiologist at the Palo Alto VA. She is the associate program director of the Stanford Cardiology Fellowship and the site director of Palo Alto VA. She grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. She attended undergraduate at UC Berkeley and obtained her Master’s degree in Pharmacology at Cambridge University in the UK. She obtained her M.D. from UC San Francisco. She completed her Internal Medicine residency and General Cardiology fellowship at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, where she served as the chief resident and chief cardiology fellow. She completed her advanced heart failure/transplant cardiology fellowship at Stanford in June 2022 and joined the Stanford Faculty soon after. She has a strong interest in medical education and quality improvement. Her clinical interests include HF outreach in the VA health care systems, cardiology fellowship curriculum design/development and humanism in medicine. Her research interests include multi-organ transplantations, advanced HF therapies for the underserved and CardioPalliative integration. She plans to lead a career in medical education and quality improvement to deliver exceptional and equitable care for patients needing advanced HF therapies.
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Robert Hsieh
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Oncology
BioRobert W. Hsieh, M.D. Ph.D. is a medical oncologist who specializes in the treatment of prostate cancer, bladder cancer, kidney (renal) cancer and testicular cancer as a member of Stanford's multi-disciplinary Urologic Cancer Program. Dr. Hsieh obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Chicago (Pritzker School of Medicine) and subsequently came to Stanford to complete his Internal Medicine residency and Hematology and Oncology fellowship training (with a clinical focus on genitourinary cancers).
Dr. Hsieh has also had extensive experience in basic lab research (cancer stem cells, target identification and validation, pre-clinical drug discovery) having done post-doctoral work in the Clarke Lab in the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. He is currently involved in early phase clinical trials in immuno-oncology in industry. -
Gary Hsin
Clinical Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Staff, Medicine - Primary Care and Population HealthBioGary Hsin, MD, is a Clinical Professor (Affiliated) and Chief of Palliative Medicine at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. His academic and clinical interests include palliative care delivery and education, global health, and compassion cultivation.
Dr. Hsin earned his medical degree from the Northwestern University School of Medicine and completed his family medicine residency and chief residency at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, Illinois. He subsequently completed fellowship training in Palliative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital through the Harvard Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program. He is also a certified Compassion Cultivation Training instructor through Stanford’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) and the Compassion Institute.
Dr. Hsin has been involved in global health initiatives across Africa and Asia with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Doctors Without Borders (MSF), and the Stanford/Yale Global Health Scholars Program. He is a Faculty Fellow with Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health. -
Ann Hsing
Professor (Research) of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center/Cancer Institute) and of Epidemiology and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch Focus
• Epidemiology of prostate, hepatobiliary, and thyroid cancers
• Racial disparities in cancer
• Endogenous hormones/growth factors
• Circadian rhythms
• Chronic inflammation
• Genetic susceptibility
• Cancer prevention and control
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Emory Hsu, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Med/Endocrinology
Staff, Medicine - Med/EndocrinologyBioEmory Hsu received his Bachelor’s degree in Biochemical Sciences with honors from Harvard University. He then attended medical school at Vanderbilt University, during which he completed an extra research year fellowship through Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He then completed his internship and residency training in Internal Medicine - research track at Emory University, followed by a fellowship in Endocrinology, Lipids, and Metabolism there. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Endocrinology. He is actively involved in the teaching and training of Stanford University Endocrinology fellows, Internal Medicine residents, and medical students.
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Joe Le Hsu
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in understanding the host-pathogen interaction between Aspergillus fumigatus and the lung transplant recipient.
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Jessica Hsueh
Affiliate, Department Funds
Fellow in Medicine - Med/Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care MedicineBioCurrent combined adult and pediatric critical care fellow physician interested in medical education, curriculum design, and health services for adolescent and young adults with childhood-onset chronic conditions and medical complexity.
Most recently, I pursued my internal medicine and pediatrics (MedPeds) residency, chief residency and a medical education fellowship at the University of Illinois in Chicago. During this time, I helped implement our new X+Y resident schedule, created a multidisciplinary medical education track for residents, revamped curricula on resident mistreatment and self-advocacy, and worked with both the pediatric and adult critical care teams to develop resuscitation simulation bootcamps. My academic and institutional service interests revolved around the evolution of expertise and belonging over the course of training, particularly as it pertains to critical care resuscitation, medical educators in training, and underrepresented groups in medicine. -
Jiaqi Hu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine
BioJiaqi Hu is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University, supervised by Drs. Tim Assimes and Shoa Clarke. She received her PhD in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from the Yale School of Public Health in 2026 and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Peking University in 2021. Her research focuses on identifying genetic variants underlying complex diseases, applying polygenic scores for disease risk prediction and subtype identification, and integrating genetic, environmental, and clinical data to improve individual-level risk stratification.
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Robert Huang
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEpidemiology
Epidemiology of gastric cancer
Racial and ethnic disparities in gastric cancer
Gastric intestinal metaplasia and other precancerous lesions
Molecular marker development
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Michelle Huffaker, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
BioDr. Michelle Huffaker is a board-certified, fellowship-trained allergist and immunologist with Stanford Health Care. She is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Huffaker specializes in diagnosing and treating allergies and health conditions that affect the immune system. She is particularly interested in asthma, food allergies, and allergic rhinitis.
Dr. Huffaker’s research is focused on treatments that achieve long-lasting remission for allergic and immunologic diseases, such as food allergies and allergic rhinitis. Dr. Huffaker is the director of clinical and translational medicine for the allergy portfolio of the Immune Tolerance Network (ITN), a clinical research consortium funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The ITN focuses on achieving immune tolerance in conditions where the body attacks healthy cells (immune-mediated diseases). Dr. Huffaker leads the development, conduct, and analysis of ITN clinical trials.
Dr. Huffaker has published her research in peer-reviewed journals, such as Allergy, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and World Allergy Organization Journal. She has presented to her peers at international, national, and regional meetings, including those of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (AAAAI), and the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (ACAAI).
Dr. Huffaker is a fellow of AAAAI and a member of AAAAI, EAACI, and the Western Society of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. -
William Hui, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Hui is a family medicine physician. He practices in the Stanford Family Medicine clinic in Palo Alto and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Primary Care and Population Health. He serves as the point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and Minor Procedure Service Director in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health.
Dr. Hui completed fellowship training in point-of-care ultrasound at the University of Pennsylvania. He trained as a resident in family medicine at Stanford Health Care - O'Connor Hospital after earning his medical degree at Drexel University College of Medicine.
He is interested in the utilization of point of care ultrasound in outpatient primary care and is part of the STFM POCUS task force.
Dr. Hui is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
He speaks English fluently and Cantonese with limited working proficiency. -
Sharon Wei Hung
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioSharon Hung MD, MSCP, FACP is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician practicing at the Stanford Internal Medicine Clinic in Santa Clara. She earned her MD from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Prior to joining Stanford, she served on the faculty at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.
Dr. Hung is the Director of Women’s Health for the Department of Primary Care and Population Health. In this role, she served as course director for Stanford CME’s Women’s Health Conference and co-directs the annual Stanford CME Menopause and Healthy Aging Conference. She also hosts the Stanford CME/YouTube Women’s Health Vodcast, where she interviews leading experts and explores timely, clinically relevant topics in women’s health.
She is a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner and sees perimenopausal and menopausal patients in her primary care embedded clinic, PeriWell.
Her scholarly interests include breast cancer screening, steatotic liver disease, osteoporosis, and weight gain during the perimenopausal period. Clinically, she is dedicated to preventive medicine and the management of chronic conditions such as pre-diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome, as well as guiding women through the perimenopausal transition. Dr. Hung also leads bi-monthly group patient visits focused on the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.
She is passionate about inspiring trainees and works with both Stanford Internal Medicine residents and Physician Assistant students. -
Jennifer L. Hunter, PA-C
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioJennifer Hunter, PA-C is the Lead Advanced Practice Provider (APP) for the Emergency Department & Clinical Decision Unit (CDU) with experience in Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) and over 10 years of experience in Emergency Medicine. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor and Educator-4-Care (E4C) at the Stanford School of Medicine & Masters of Science in PA Studies Program.
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Yusra Hussain, M.D.
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCollaborator in the HALF study
Collaborator in the PROMISE study
Primary Investigator, Bidet Pilot Study- 650-644-9230 -
Elizabeth W Hwang
Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Med/Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Staff, Medicine - Med/Gastroenterology and HepatologyBioBOARD CERTIFICATIONS:
Transplant Hepatology
Gastroenterology
Internal Medicine
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION:
Fellowship: Columbia University Medical Center, Transplant Hepatology
Fellowship: Stanford University School of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Residency: Columbia University Medical Center, Internal Medicine
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Joo Ha Hwang, MD, PhD
Fortinet Founders School of Medicine Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Surgery
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSpecialize in early detection of gastrointestinal malignancies including esophageal, gastric, pancreatic, bile duct & colon cancers. I have both a clinical & research interest in improving the early detection of gastric cancer in particular. I am the PI of the Gastric Precancerous conditions Study, a prospective study of patients with gastric intestinal metaplasia & other precancerous conditions which combines comprehensive clinical & endoscopic data with a large bio-specimen repository.
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Stephanie Ibe
Research Program Coordinator NOURISH - Casual, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordResearch Program Coordinator - NOURISH
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David Iberri
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Hematology
BioDr. Iberri is a hematologist who specializes in the treatment of multiple myeloma, Waldenström macroglobulinemia, and other blood and bone marrow disorders. He is actively involved in clinical research evaluating novel agents in hematologic malignancies. His research interests include the development and application of biomarkers to select patients most likely to benefit from therapy, and in the development of blood tests to reduce the need for bone marrow biopsies in myeloma disease monitoring.
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Hirotaka Ieki
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine
BioI am an MD, PhD physician-scientist aiming to advance precision medicine for cardiovascular disease through research in genomics and artificial intelligence.
MD, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 2013
Residency in Internal Medicine, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, 2013-2017
Residency in Cardiology, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, 2015–2017
PhD, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 2021
Clinical Fellow in Cardiology, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, 2021–2022
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, 2023–present
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Gentaro Ikeda
Instructor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
BioDr. Ikeda is a physician-scientist who develops innovative diagnostic and therapeutic modalities for patients with cardiovascular disease. Based on his clinical experience as a cardiologist, he has become aware of major clinical shortcomings, specifically in the current pharmaceutical therapies for myocardial infarction (MI) and chronic heart failure (HF). Some evidence-based drug therapies, including β-blockers, ivabradine, and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone antagonists are difficult to apply to critical patients due to adverse side effects. Drugs that have shown efficacy in basic animal experiments have failed to show significant benefits in clinical trials. To address these problems, he moved to academia to conduct translational research. During his graduate training in the Egashira Lab, he focused on drug delivery systems (DDS) that target mitochondria in animal models of MI. He obtained advanced skills in molecular biology, mitochondrial bioenergetics, and animal surgery. He realized the importance of translational research and the great potential of DDS to overcome many clinical problems. He developed nanoparticle-mediated DDS containing cyclosporine for the treatment of patients with MI. He published a first-author paper and received academic awards for his novel science. Since becoming a postdoctoral fellow in the Yang Lab, he has continued to build upon his previous training in translational research. He is currently developing an innovative therapy, namely, extracellular vesicles-mediated mitochondrial transfer for mitochondria-related diseases such as heart failure and mitochondrial disease.
