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Kathleen Poston, MD, MS
Edward F. and Irene Thiele Pimley Professor of Neurology and the Neurological Sciences and Professor, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research addresses one of the most devastating and poorly treated symptoms that can develop in people with Parkinson's disease - Dementia. We use biological markers, multi-modal neuroimaging and genetics to understand the different underlying causes of dementia and to understand why dementia develops more quickly in some patients, but not others.
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Xiang Qian
Stanford Medicine Endowed Director
Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Clinical Professor (By courtesy), NeurosurgeryCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsClinical Interests
-Pain Medicine:
Facial pain
Migraine and headache
Trigeminal Neuralgia and Glossopharyngeal neuralgia
Cancer Pain
Spine Disease
Neuropathic pain
Interventional Surgery
CT guided Procedure
Opioid Management
-Facial Nerve neuralgia and neuropathy
Hemifacial Spasm
CT guided awake RFA of facial nerve
Research Interests:
-Medical device development
-AI based headache diagnosis and management
-CT guided intervention
-Intra-nasal endoscopy guided procedure
-Optogenetics
-Mechanisms of neuropathic pain
-Ion channel and diseases
-Neurotoxicity of anesthetics -
Ashwin Ramayya, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
BioDr. Ramayya is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery. He specializes in the treatment of patients with chronic pain, movement disorders, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury. His research program will focus on understanding brain mechanisms underlying pain experience and how to alleviate pain using brain stimulation.
Dr. Ramayya specializes in neuromodulation, including deep brain stimulation (DBS), spinal cord stimulation, MRI-guided laser therapy, and focused ultrasound. Dr. Ramayya obtained his MD and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also completed his neurosurgery residency and a fellowship in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery.
His research efforts have identified neural substrates underlying learning, memory, and decision-making using computational behavioral modeling, neurophysiology, and neuroimaging.
Dr. Ramayya has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Neuroscience, NeuroImage, and Cerebral Cortex. He has also presented his work at national and international meetings, including those for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Pan Philadelphia Neurosurgery Conference. -
John Ratliff, MD, FACS
Professor of Neurosurgery and, by courtesy, of Orthopaedic Surgery
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research interests focus upon preventing complications in spine surgery, assessing patient outcomes after spine surgery procedures, and developing population-based metrics for assessing surgical outcomes.
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Lawrence Recht, MD
Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences (Adult Neurology) and, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOur laboratory focuses on two interrelated projects: (1) assessment of glioma development within the framework of the multistage model of carcinogenesis through utilization of the rodent model of ENU neurocarcinogenesis; and (2) assessment of stem cell specification and pluripotency using an embryonic stem cell model system in which neural differentiation is induced.
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Nidhi Rohatgi, MD MS
Clinical Professor, Medicine
Clinical Professor (By courtesy), Neurosurgery
Clinical Professor (By courtesy), Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain MedicineBioNidhi Rohatgi, MD, MS, SFHM, is a Clinical Professor of Medicine and (by courtesy) Neurosurgery, Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. She served as Chief of Surgical Co-management for Neurosurgery, ENT, and Orthopedic Surgery at Stanford. Dr. Rohatgi is Affiliate Faculty at Stanford's Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging (AIMI) and Center for Digital Health. She served as Co-Director of Clinical Research in Hospital Medicine and Physician Lead of Stanford Health Care's Readmissions Committee.
Dr. Rohatgi has authored peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals (NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, Nature, Annals of Surgery), led workshops and webinars, and written book chapters in Perioperative Medicine. She is a global advisor on surgical co-management models and chaired the Society of Hospital Medicine's Global Technical Advisory Committee on co-management. Dr. Rohatgi serves as the Editor-in-Chief for JMIR Perioperative Medicine journal and is on the Editorial Board for Brown University's Journal of Hospital Medicine. She has been an invited speaker at several regional, national, and international meetings.
Dr. Rohatgi has served as Medical Director for Clinical Advice Services in Patient Experience at Stanford for over 10 years, overseeing after-hours clinical support and triage for 30+ services and 180+ clinics, and handling 90,000+ calls annually. This award-winning service has a strong track record in patient safety, reducing unnecessary ED and clinic visits, and reducing pages to on-call teams by over 90%.
She has served on multiple national committees: Society of Hospital Medicine's Research Committee, Hospital Quality and Patient Safety Committee, Perioperative Medicine Executive Council, Practice Management Committee, Perioperative and Consultative Medicine Educational Portal Planning Committee, and Leadership Committee for the Hospital Medicine National Writing Challenge. Dr. Rohatgi has served as a principal investigator and co-investigator for NIH and industry-sponsored trials. Recognized as a Top Hospitalist by the American College of Physicians, she has received numerous national and international awards for clinical care, quality improvement, teaching, and research.
Dr. Rohatgi has written on LLMs for clinical text summarization and pharmacogenomics, multimodal in-context learning (presented at NeurIPS), promises and limitations of AI, and digital twins. She will be the keynote speaker on AI in Healthcare at 2026 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Sustainable Innovation in Technology. In her upcoming book, Dr. Rohatgi shares a blueprint for AI in medicine: where AI can help and how, global health AI trends, and tackling costs. Her unique lens spans clinical experience in rural India to Silicon Valley, managing patients in medical and surgical specialties, research on millions of patient records, investigator for clinical trials, patient experience, clinical triage, and health system operations. Dr. Rohatgi is passionate about innovative, value-based, sustainable solutions, and exploring new frontiers in healthcare.
