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Payal Mapara, PsyD
Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioDr. Payal Mapara is a licensed clinical psychologist and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Division of Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Mapara's clinical expertise centers on the psychological management of chronic pain, along with cognitive behavioral therapy for mood and anxiety disorders. Her areas of expertise also include stress management, coping with chronic health conditions, and substance use disorders. She uses evidence-based approaches including cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness-based interventions, and motivational interviewing to help patients restore function, manage symptoms, and improve their quality of life. Her approach is grounded in a whole-health perspective that sees each person beyond their diagnosis, with the goal of helping patients build the tools to live a life aligned with their personal values.
Dr. Mapara's research interests have centered on advancing behavioral approaches to chronic pain management with a focus on improving outcomes through integrated, collaborative models of care. Her scholarly work includes a book chapter on cognitive behavioral and acceptance-based approaches to pain in primary care and she has presented on chronic pain and opioid safety at national conferences.
Dr. Mapara is a member of the American Psychological Association, the California Psychological Association, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the Asian American Psychological Association, and the American Association of Pain Psychology. -
Robert Marcus
Professor (Clinical) of Medicine (Endocrinology, Gerontology and Metabolism), Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI have been retired since 2008 and no longer conduct research
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Edward R. Mariano, MD, MAS, FASA, FASRA
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (MSD)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy clinical research interests include the development of techniques and patient care pathways to improve postoperative pain control and other surgical outcomes. I am particularly interested in using regional anesthesiology, the science and practice of modulating nerve transmission in the central neuraxis or within peripheral nerves, to produce target-specific and opioid-sparing pain relief and enhance recovery after surgery or injury.
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Ivana Maric
Assistant Professor (Research) of Pediatrics (Neonatology)
BioIvana Maric is an Assistant Professor in the Pediatrics Department at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on applying machine learning to improving maternal and neonatal health. Her main focus has been on developing machine learning models for early prediction of adverse outcomes of pregnancy from omics and electronic health records data, that could guide development of low-cost, point of care diagnostic tools. Her main interest is in solutions that are applicable worldwide and especially in low-resource settings. Previously, her research focused on information theory, a mathematical discipline tightly related to statistics and machine learning. She is a recipient of the 2021 Rosenkranz Prize awarded for innovative work to improve health in low- or middle-income countries. She is also a recipient of the 2026 WSPR Best Global Health Abstract Award, 2025 McCormick Faculty Award, the 2025 Reckitt/Mead Johnson Junior Faculty Award from the Western Society for Pediatric Research (WSPR), and the co-recipient of the 2013 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award. She received BS degree from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, MS and PhD at Rutgers University and postdoctoral training at Stanford University.
