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Minang (Mintu) Turakhia
Clinical Professor, Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Turakhia has an active clinical research program, with funding from AHA, VA, NIH, the medical device industry, and foundations. His research program aims to improve the treatment of heart rhythm disorders, with an emphasis on atrial fibrillation, by evaluating quality and variation of care, comparative and cost-effectiveness of therapies, and risk prediction. Dr. Turakhia has extensive expertise in using large administrative and claims databases for this work. His TREAT-AF retrospective study of over 500,000 patients with newly-diagnosed AF is the largest known research cohort of AF patients. He has served as study PI or chairman of several prominent single- and multicenter trials in atrial fibrillation, investigational devices for electrophysiology procedures, digital health interventions, and sensor technologies.
His other research interests include technology assessment of new device-based therapies and the impact of changing health policy and reform on the delivery of arrhythmia care. Dr. Turakhia is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and Heart Rhythm Society. -
Carolyn Turcotte
Postdoctoral Scholar, Developmental Biology
BioCarolyn Turcotte is a postdoctoral fellow in the Villeneuve lab that studies meiotic homolog pairing using an interspecies hybrid model system. She earned her PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she worked in Jeff Sekelsky's lab and studied spontaneous meiotic nondisjunction in Drosophila.
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Janice Marie Turi
Web and Communications Specialist, Ophthalmology Operations
Current Role at StanfordSr. Manager, Web and Communications
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Kate Turk
Affiliate, Department Funds
Resident in PediatricsBioKate Turk, MD is a resident physician in Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her academic interests include sustainable pediatric global health, health policy, and innovative public health technology.
Dr. Turk is part of Stanford’s Global Health Scholarly Concentration and is focused on the development of community-driven and evidence-based interventions to improve pediatric outcomes in resource-limited settings. Her current project is based in Cusco, Peru, in collaboration with the Cusco Ministry of Health, EsSalud network, and local clinical partners. Her work aims to strengthen frontline pediatric provider capacity, including the implementation and evaluation of digital clinical decision support tools and educational platforms, across the province of Cusco. Some of her prior global health projects have included developing a curriculum to improve stroke prevention education in Huaral, Peru and partnering with Global Brigades Inc. to improve access to regular medical care, clean water, and public health infrastructure within Nicaragua and Panama. She was recognized as Stanford’s 2025-2026 Zlotnick Global Health Scholar.
Additional projects include working with the Washington State legislature and Department of Health to implement prescription label translation in pharmacies across the state, organizing a 6-part lecture series focused on teaching advocacy and community organizing techniques using the lens of food insecurity to California-based pediatrics residents, and leading/participating in various groups focused on mentorship for students underrepresented in medicine, language justice, and global health.
Dr. Turk received her medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWOSM), where she developed a strong foundation in clinical care and a commitment to health equity. At the UWSOM, she completed the Latinx Health and Global Health pathways, and graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha honors. -
Rachel Turn
Postdoctoral Scholar, Microbiology and Immunology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsExpertise in cell bio, small GTPases, cell signaling, primary cilia, G0
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Laura Turner-Essel, PhD
Program Manager, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Current Role at StanfordProgram Manager, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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Yousef Turshani MD FAAP
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Pediatrics - General Pediatrics
BioYousef Turshani MD is Chief Medical Officer at San Mateo Medical Center, part of the County of San Mateo leadership team. He cares for pediatrics outpatients at Fair Oaks Health Center in Redwood City. He is a pediatric nocturnist at San Francisco General Hospital, where he holds a faculty appointment at UCSF. Dr Turshani facilitates the County Health connection with Stanford va iMPACt: Mid-peninsula Pediatric Advocacy Coalition. https://med.stanford.edu/childhealthequity/engagement/impactcoalition.html
Born to Libyan immigrants in Louisville, KY, he developed his passion for teaching and global health as a medical student at the University of Chicago. His pediatric residency began with UCLA's "Community Health and Advocacy Training" and completed at UCSF in 2009 when he joined the UCSF faculty as a neonatal hospitalist at California Pacific Medical Center, directing the newborn nursery rotation for medical students. He spent the next part of his career as a global health clinician until returning to California in 2014 with his wife, a human rights attorney, to continue their social justice work domestically.
Professional Affiliations:
-UC-San Francisco: Associate Clinical Professor [volunteer], Department of Pediatrics. Affiliate Faculty member at Institute for Global Health Sciences, HEAL Initiative Mentor
-American Board of Pediatrics: Director
International experiences include
-Former Chair of Pediatrics at the only hospital on Saipan (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands)
-HIV consultant in Zimbabwe for "Doctors without Borders" collaborating with ICRC, UNICEF and partners to hand over a Pediatric HIV project to the Ministry of Health.
-Evaluating community health workers in Nicaragua
-Disaster relief work in Iceland and Peru -
Mirela Tuzovic, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
BioDr. Mirela Tuzovic is a board-certified, fellowship-trained cardiologist and medical director of the Stanford Health Care Center for Marfan Syndrome and Related Aortic Disorders. Dr. Tuzovic is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Tuzovic diagnoses and treats a wide range of cardiovascular conditions, including aortic disorders, Marfan syndrome and other heritable thoracic aortic disorders, and cardiovascular disease. She also specializes in cardiovascular imaging and structural echocardiology. For each of her patients, she offers a comprehensive, personalized care plan.
Dr. Tuzovic’s research interests include the diagnosis and management of patients with aortic disease as well as cardiovascular imaging. As a structural echocardiographer, she is involved in multiple clinical trials for transcatheter valve repair and replacement through the Stanford Health Care Structural Heart Program. Her prior research focus has included echocardiography and cardio-oncology.
Dr. Tuzovic has published her research in peer-reviewed journals such as Circulation, the American Journal of Cardiology, Echocardiography, and JACC: CardioOncology.
Dr. Tuzovic is a member of the American College of Cardiology, the American Society of Echocardiography, and the Montalcino Aortic Consortium. -
Dona Tversky
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDona A. Tversky, MD, MPH is a psychiatrist and clinical educator whose work focuses on the intersection of psychodynamic psychotherapy and community-based preventive mental health. Her mission centers on the creation of psychologically healthy environments—at both the individual and systemic levels—to foster resilience and expand the scope of preventive psychiatric care. At Stanford, Dr. Tversky focuses on the training of future clinicians and the dissemination of psychiatric literacy. She serves as a clinical supervisor for residents in psychodynamic psychotherapy and teaches "How to Think Like a Shrink" for both Stanford undergraduates and the Stanford Continuing Studies program.
In her community-based work, Dr. Tversky serves as an educator and psychiatric consultant for the integrated behavioral health team at Ravenswood Family Health Center in East Palo Alto. Her current initiatives bridge clinical care with environmental design to promote wellness; these include a collaborative project to connect the Ravenswood clinic to the Baylands Bay Trail and a partnership with the Stanford d.school, Peninsula Healthcare Connection, and Palo Alto Medical Foundation to develop a psychology-informed clinic for unhoused individuals near the Stanford campus. -
Nichole Tyson MD
Clinical Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Clinical Professor (By courtesy), PediatricsBioNichole Tyson MD is a Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine. She specializes in Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (PAG). For over 20 years, Dr. Tyson has partnered with girls and their families as they journey from childhood through adolescence and into adulthood. Dr. Tyson enjoys solving complex problems as well as common concerns that can be overlooked and challenging to girls and young women. She is been recognized locally, nationally and internationally a leader in the field and skilled and experienced surgeon caring for patients with endometriosis, adnexal masses and variations in urogenital anatomy.
As a Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecologist, she specializes in problems such as abnormal periods, hormone management and adolescent contraception in people with underlying medical conditions, pelvic masses, differences of sex development and complex utero-vaginal anatomy.
She has been a leader on a number of national medical committees, including Vice President of the North American Society of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (NASPAG), immediate past-chair of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopy (AAGL) Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology special interest group and associate member of the Contraception Committee for the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO). She is an active contributor to the peer reviewed literature in pediatric and adolescent gynecology, obstetrics and gynecology, contraception and laparoscopic surgery. Dr. Tyson also has extensive experience with the consumer press as an adolescent gynecology expert for numerous online articles in such magazines as Seventeen, Self and NY Times.
She is the Chief of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology at Stanford Children's Hospital and the Director of Mentorship and Coaching for the Ob/Gyn Department. She is passionate about teaching, mentorship and coaching, working closely with medical students, residents and fellows. She is an innovator in education, both developing and and implementing numerous curricula in Gynecology, Pediatric Adolescent Gynecology, Simulation education, Surgical Coaching and Leadership and Professionalism. She is currently working as a chief editor for two PAG textbooks-one titled PAG essentials and the other, the first ever PAG surgical textbook, both due for publication in 2024-2025. -
Tatsuya Uchida
Affiliate, Neurosurgery
Visiting Scholar, NeurosurgeryBioTatsuya Uchida is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University. He completed 5-year neurosurgery training and obtained the board certification in Japan. He completed his PhD curriculum at the University of Tokyo in March 2023. He is also a board-certified doctor of neuroendovascular therapy and stroke.
His primary research focuses on medical imaging technology, particularly 3D fusion of multiple imaging modalities for surgical simulation and face anonymization technique using head images. He is flexible, focused, reliable and eager to learn, and have a strong passion for Medical 3D image research. -
Zhainib A. Amir
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2020
BioI received my B.S. in Microbiology, and M.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology from San Francisco State University. Currently, I am a Biology Ph.D. student with an emphasis in Cell, Molecular and Organismal Biology at Stanford University. I am interested in a range of topics, from cell biology to cancer immunology, however, my research interests lie primarily in understanding the cellular mechanisms at play in genetic and autoimmune diseases.
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Suji Uhm, MD, MPH
Clinical Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology
BioDr. Suji Uhm is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist at Stanford Health Care. She also serves as a clinical associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Gynecology & Gynecologic Specialties at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Uhm offers a wide range of gynecologic services, including gynecologic care, routine and complex contraceptive and abortion services, and wellness exams. She strives to provide safe, patient-centered care and often cares for patients who have medical conditions that complicate contraceptive use or report prior negative experiences.
Dr. Uhm’s research focuses on assessing the safety and effectiveness of contraceptive methods. She has been an investigator in multiple industry-sponsored and National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded studies, including the evaluation of extending the use of a subdermal implant, nonhormonal IUD, vaginal ring, and contraceptive patch.
Dr. Uhm has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including Contraception, Nature, and The American Journal of Surgery. She has also presented to colleagues at regional, national, and international meetings, including the Society of Family Planning (SFP) annual meeting.
Dr. Uhm is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and SFP. She is also a member of the National Abortion Federation and Physicians for Reproductive Health. -
Mirko Uljarevic
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Affiliate, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child DevelopmentBioI am a medically trained researcher focused academic with a background in developmental psychopathology, psychometrics and big data science. My research takes a life-span perspective and is driven by the urgent need to improve outcomes for people with autism and other neuropsychiatric (NPD) disorders and neurodevelopmental conditions (NDD). My primary research interest has focused on combining cutting-edge psychometric procedures and a big data approach to better understand structure of clinical phenotypes across autism and other NPD and NDD and on using this knowledge to improve existing and develop new clinical assessments that are more effective for screening and diagnosis, tracking the natural and treatment-related symptom progression and for use in genetic and neurobiological studies. In addition to my focus on the development of outcome measures, I have collaborated with leading psychopathology researchers and groups in the United States, Europe and Australia on numerous projects spanning a range of topics including genetics, treatment and employment, with a particular focus on understanding risk and resilience factors underpinning poor mental health outcomes in adolescents and adults. Most recently, through several competitively funded projects, I have led the statistical analyses to uncover the latent structure of social and communication and restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRB) clinical phenotypes across NPD and NDD. These findings have enabled us to (i) start capturing and characterizing a highly variable social functioning phenotype across a range of disorders and understanding mechanisms underpinning this variability, (ii) combine phenotypic and genetic units of analyses to advance our understanding of the genetic architecture of RRB, and (iii) focus on identification and characterization of subgroups of individuals that share distinct symptom profiles and demonstrate clinical utility and neurobiological validity. Importantly, this work has provided key information for developing a programmatic line of research aimed at developing novel, comprehensive assessment protocols that combine parent and clinician reports, objective functioning indicators and incorporate state-of-the-art psychometric, mobile and connected technologies and procedures.
I am a co-director of the recently established Program for Psychometrics and Measurement-Based Care (https://med.stanford.edu/sppmc.html) that aims to bring together world-leading expertise in clinical science, psychometrics, and big data analytics to bridge the gap between the science of measurement development and clinical practice and bring improvements to both clinical care and research. -
Ummey Hani, MBBS, MD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurosurgery
BioHani is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University in the Neurosurgical Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Laboratory. She earned her medical degree from Sindh Medical College, Pakistan, and completed her internship at the Aga Khan University, where she was recognized as Class Valedictorian and among the top five interns of 2022. She then pursued a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates in Charlotte, North Carolina, affiliated with Wake Forest University School of Medicine, focusing on spine surgery outcomes and biomechanics. Before joining Stanford, she served as Junior Research Faculty for neuro-oncology research at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan.
Hani’s research spans neuro-oncology, spine surgery, biomechanics, and the application of AI/ML in neurosurgical innovation. With a deep commitment to academic neurosurgery, she is currently working towards securing a neurosurgical residency. -
Ndidi Unaka
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
BioDr. Unaka is the inaugural Chief Health Equity Officer (CHEO) for Stanford Medicine Children’s Health (SMCH) and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. Prior to her transition to SMCH in July 2024, Dr. Unaka was a faculty member in the Division of Hospital Medicine at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. In addition to her clinical role as a pediatric hospitalist, Dr. Unaka served as the Associate Program Director of the Pediatric Residency Program from 2011 – January 2022. She served as the medical director of a 48- bed inpatient unit primarily for patients admitted to the Hospital Medicine service. In this role, Dr. Unaka was involved in several equity-oriented quality improvement initiatives which included work to identify, and address hunger among caregivers of hospitalized children insured by Medicaid.
Dr. Unaka worked on institution-level community health initiatives at Cincinnati Children’s. She served as the Medical Director of Quality Improvement and Data Analytics for Cincinnati Children’s Medicaid- focused, accountable care organization (HealthVine). In this role, she developed and led initiatives designed to improve the quality and efficiency of health care delivery to HealthVine’s patient population and helped lead the change management associated with the movement toward a population-health care model that improves quality, narrows equity gaps, streamlines care, and reduces costs. She helped define appropriate health care delivery, equity, and population health measures and quality benchmarks. Additionally, Dr. Unaka was a faculty lead within Cincinnati Children's Fisher Child Health Equity Center, and she specifically focused on working with operations leaders to ensure equity was embedded within all strategic plans, goals, and metrics across all sites of care. Dr. Unaka partnered with several colleagues to lead system-wide quality improvement initiatives including work accelerated via learning networks. She was the co-lead of Cincinnati Children's Health Equity Network (HEN), an initiative borne out of the pursuit of excellent and equitable health outcomes for youth in Greater Cincinnati. The HEN supports clinical teams seeking to eliminate disparities in child health outcomes by race, ethnicity, and/or socioeconomic status via targeted interventions and best practices by addressing both medical and social factors known to confer poor health outcomes. -
Crystal Unzueta, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Unzueta is a board-certified family medicine physician. She specializes in providing primary care services to people of all ages. Her services include annual check-ups, monitoring chronic conditions, and performing minor in-office procedures.
She is also a clinical assistant professor in the Stanford School of Medicine Department of Family Medicine.
Dr. Unzueta’s practice focuses on providing compassionate and comprehensive care. She specializes in providing bilingual and bicultural care for patients in underserved populations. She has traveled to Belize on a medical mission to provide free, basic primary care to vulnerable communities. Her mentoring work includes building a network of Latino medical students to help support each other throughout medical school. She has also worked on numerous volunteer projects, such as researching the benefits of a community yoga program for minorities in underserved areas. -
Alexander Eckehart Urban
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Major Laboratories and Clinical Translational Neurosciences Incubator) and of Genetics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsComplex behavioral and neuropsychiatric phenotypes often have a strong genetic component. This genetic component is often extremely complex and difficult to dissect. The current revolution in genome technology means that we can avail ourselves to tools that make it possible for the first time to begin understanding the complex genetic and epigenetic interactions at the basis of the human mind.
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PJ Utz
George DeForest Barnett Professor of Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe long-term research goal of the Utz laboratory is to understand autoimmunity, autoantibodies, and how tolerance is broken and can be reestablished.
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Chibuike Uwakwe
MD Student, expected graduation Spring 2028
Ph.D. Student in Bioengineering, admitted Autumn 2025
MSTP Student
Tutor, SoM Office of Student ServicesCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsWearable bioelectronics for continuous health monitoring and therapeutics
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Sivakamasundari V
Instructor, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
BioMy research interests are focused on understanding the molecular basis of early development and stem cells, as it is often aberrations in stem cells or signaling mechanisms between tissues that lead to diseased states, including tumor development and cancer progression. Knowledge of stem cells and development is also critical to develop appropriate cell-based therapies for various diseases or injuries. My prior and current works take advantage of both traditional techniques (gene targeting, lineage tracing) and state-of-the-art technologies (Single cell RNA sequencing, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP-seq), Imaging Mass Cytometry) to elucidate fundamental molecular mechanisms underlying signaling in tissue biology.
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Randall Vagelos, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI. Congestive Heart Failure New Medical Therapies Prognostic Evaluation Selection for Cardiac Transplantation II. Screening for Myocardial Necrosis New ECG Monitoring Devices New Serum Markers III. Screening for CAD Patients Who Have Received Radiation Rx Diabetics Being Considered for Renal Transplantation
IV. Advanced coronary and valvular disease, evaluationg candidacy for high risk interventions. -
Homa Vahidi
MD Student with Scholarly Concentration in Informatics & Data-Driven Medicine / Neuroscience, Behavior, and Cognition, expected graduation Spring 2029
BioI was born in Iran and moved to Canada at the age of 15 where I completed my undergraduate and graduate studies in Neuroscience. I primarily have work experience in academic and research settings and have become increasingly passionate about doing research that helps uncover the neural underpinnings of cognition, language, and social behaviours.
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Sharif Vakili, MD, MBA, MS
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioSharif Vakili, MD, MBA, MS, (pronouns: he/him), is an internal medicine physician, clinician executive and educator. He practices at Stanford Los Altos Primary Care.
Dr. Vakili has a background in chronic disease management and health systems delivery, believing strongly in a teamwork approach to patient care that empowers patients to navigate the health system as part of their clinical care.
He is active in the research and business communities. His research has been in peer-reviewed journals including NEJM Catalyst, JAMA Network Open and the Annals of Emergency Medicine. He also teaches annually at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Vakili is credited with establishing and coining Remote Patient Intervention (RPI), a model of clinician-supervised AI care delivery first performed at Stanford during a clinical study published in JAMA Network Open. His work has defined the emerging field of Clinical AI, in which artificial intelligence delivers care that would otherwise be performed by a licensed practitioner. -
Hannah Valantine
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy lab is focused on understanding the mechanism mediating acute and chronic allograft failure, in particular on the role of microvascular injury in acute allograft failure and the mechanisms of mediating transplant coronary artery disease. 1. Role of microvascular injury in acute allograft failure.
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Tulio Valdez, MD, MSc
Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (OHNS) and, by courtesy, of Pediatrics
BioDr. Tulio A Valdez is a surgeon scientist with a subspecialty interest in Pediatric Otolaryngology. He attended medical school at Universidad Javeriana in Bogota Colombia before undertaking his residency in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery in Boston. He completed his Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship at Texas Children’s Hospital (2007), Houston and obtained his Master’s in Clinical and Translational Research at the University of Connecticut.
Clinically, Dr. Valdez has an interest in pediatric sleep apnea. He has a special interest in the management of sinus disease in cystic fibrosis. Dr. Valdez has co-authored one textbook and numerous book chapters and scientific manuscripts. Dr. Valdez continues his clinical research in these areas, particularly with a focus on aerodigestive disorders.
Scientifically, Dr. Valdez has developed various imaging methods to diagnose otitis media and cholesteatoma a middle ear condition that can lead to hearing loss. He was part of the Laser Biomedical Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research includes novel imaging modalities to better diagnose ear infections one of the most common pediatric problems. His research has now expanded to include better intraoperative imaging modalities in pediatric patients to improve surgical outcomes without the need for radiation exposure.
Dr. Valdez believes in multi-disciplinary collaborations to tackle medical problems and has co-invented various medical devices and surgical simulation models. -
Keara E. Valentine
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioKeara E. Valentine, Psy.D., is a clinical assistant professor at Stanford University School of Medicine in the Psychosocial Treatment Clinic and OCD Clinic, where she specializes in the assessment and treatment of OCD and related disorders. Dr. Valentine utilizes behavioral-based therapies including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) with children, adolescents, and adults experiencing anxiety-related disorders.
Dr. Valentine completed an APA accredited pre-doctoral internship at Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital, where she complete a rotation in OCD and anxiety disorders and a rotation in Eating Disorders. Dr. Valentine has experience working with individuals with OCD, anxiety, and/or eating disorders at various levels of care including outpatient, partial hospitalization, residential, and inpatient. -
Axel Valle, PsyD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Axel Valle is a licensed clinical psychologist providing individual psychotherapy in English and Spanish. He specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxiety disorders, with additional expertise in working with high-performance athletes.
Dr. Valle brings a distinctive international clinical background to his practice. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from The Wright Institute in Berkeley. He also holds a Master’s degree in crisis and trauma from Tel Aviv University and is a licensed clinical psychologist in Mexico City, his place of origin. -
Eline van Beest
Affiliate, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign Program
BioEline founded the TUDelft spin-off and MedTech scale-up NightBalance in 2009 with a new therapy for sleep apnea. NightBalance was acquired by Philips in 2018. Currently, she Operating Partner at Thuja Capital and CEO of Hybridize Therapeutics, a spin-off from the LUMC that develops RNA-based therapies for kidney diseases. Besides that she is part of the Investment Committee of the Deep Tech Fund of EZ & InvestNL, the VGZ Voorop in Zorg Fonds and the Graduate Ventures Pre Seed Fund and is a member of the Supervisory Board of Yes!Delft (a leading tech incubator in Europe supporting 280 startups).
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Laura van Dam
Postdoctoral Scholar, Immunology and Rheumatology
BioI am both trained as a biomedical researcher and medical doctor in internal medicine and strive to close the gap between the clinic and fundamental sciences with translational research. My focus is to study the mechanisms of autoimmune diseases and to translate research insights into therapeutics targeting autoimmunity. I have received my PhD in 2022 in Leiden for studying neutrophil extracellular traps and autoreactive B cells in renal autoimmune diseases. My postdoctoral research project in the Robinson lab focuses on investigating the underlying molecular mechanisms of the pathogenesis of ANCA-associated vasculitis. I particularly aim to identify potential microbial triggers and molecular mimicry in ANCA-associated vasculitis, by characterizing the nasal microbiome and sequencing T cells and B cells of ANCA-associated vasculitis patients.
