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  • Filza Hussain MD, FACLP

    Filza Hussain MD, FACLP

    Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Medical Psychiatry
    Clinical Associate Professor (By courtesy), Surgery - Abdominal Transplantation

    BioDr. Filza Hussain completed her medical education at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan, and pursued psychiatry training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where she was awarded the MJ Martin Award for Excellence in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and served as Chief Resident. She completed her fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York City and is a Fellow of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
    Before joining Stanford, she served rural communities across eleven counties in Northwest Wisconsin as the sole outpatient psychiatric provider for a Mayo Clinic satellite practice, while also serving on the board of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and teaching psychopathology as part of Crisis Intervention Training for local law enforcement.
    Dr. Hussain joined Stanford University School of Medicine in 2017. She serves as Lead Psychiatrist for the Liver and Kidney Transplant Programs at Stanford Health Care and holds a courtesy appointment in Abdominal Transplant Surgery. Her clinical work centers on expanding access to transplantation for patients with alcohol-associated liver disease. She contributed to the Stanford Limited Sobriety Pathway and led the development of FRAME-ALD (Fair and Risk-Aligned Model for Evaluation in Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease), a psychosocial risk stratification protocol now in active implementation at Stanford Health Care, built on the principle that all patients with alcohol-associated liver disease deserve individualized, evidence-based evaluation.
    She developed the Immersion Series, an award-winning program bringing specialists from across medicine and surgery to teach Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry fellows, and served as Chair of the Education Committee and Associate Program Director of the fellowship, during which time she grew the program from two to four fellows and helped establish a Psycho-Oncology training track.
    Her scholarly work spans transplant psychiatry, substance use in solid organ transplantation, and medical education. She has presented at national and international meetings and contributed chapters to major texts in transplant psychiatry and neuropsychiatry.
    Dr. Hussain's interests include the role of psychiatric care in promoting equity in transplantation and the relationship between physician identity, wellbeing, and patient care.

  • Yusra Hussain, M.D.

    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

  • Ruth Huttenhain

    Ruth Huttenhain

    Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy group deciphers how G protein-coupled receptors decode extracellular cues into dynamic and context-specific cellular signaling networks to elicit diverse physiologic responses. We exploit quantitative proteomics to capture the spatiotemporal organization of signaling networks combined with functional genomics to study their impact on physiology.

  • Lisa Huynh, M.D.

    Lisa Huynh, M.D.

    Clinical Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery

    BioDr. Huynh is an interventional spine physiatrist at the Stanford University Spine Center and Assistant PM&R Residency Program Director, where she specializes in the comprehensive conservative management of spine disorders. She earned her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where she served as Chief Resident. She then went on to fulfill a fellowship in Interventional Spine at Stanford University. She specializes in non-operative spine and musculoskeletal care, including fluoroscopic and ultrasound guided procedures.

  • Gloria Hwang, MD

    Gloria Hwang, MD


    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsInterventional oncology, pancreatic interventions, image-guided gene therapy.

  • Joo Ha Hwang, MD, PhD

    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.

  • Peter H. Hwang, MD

    Peter H. Hwang, MD

    Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (OHNS) and, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery

    Current Research and Scholarly Interests- Clinical outcomes in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis undergoing endoscopic sinus surgery
    - Development of innovative medical devices for treatment of sinus disorders
    - Founder of CORSICA, a national research registry for sinus cancer

  • Candice Hwang

    Candice Hwang

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine
    Masters Student in Epidemiology and Clinical Research, admitted Autumn 2026

    BioDr. Candice Hwang is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Stanford Division of Hospital Medicine with a passion for improving healthcare in low-resource settings around the world. She completed medical school at Northwestern University, during which she became an NIH Fogarty Global Health Fellow and studied the impact of health policy changes for pregnant women living with HIV in South Africa. She then completed residency at Stanford University, where she created a rotation abroad in Guangzhou, China, to study the uptake of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis to decrease rates of sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men. Currently, Dr. Hwang is pursuing a Master’s in Epidemiology at Stanford University to continue expanding her research in China, with a focus on using digital health interventions to improve primary care quality in rural Dali.