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Laura Michele Hack
Clinical Instructor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, PsychiatryBioDr. Laura Hack is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Clinical Instructor under the mentorship of Drs. Leanne Williams, Alan Schatzberg, and Ruth O’Hara. She is a translational clinician with a research passion for integrating multiple types of biological and environmental data using advanced analytic techniques into a neuroscience-based taxonomy of mood, anxiety, and stressor-related disorders. Laura envisions herself as a ‘psychiatrist of the future,’ incorporating genetic information, brain imaging, blood-based markers, and data from wearable sensors into diagnostic and treatment decisions to help relieve the suffering that arises from our current trial-and-error approach.
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Antonina Hafner
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Developmental Biology
BioI am a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Alistair Boettiger in the Department of Developmental Biology. I have always been interested in understanding regulatory mechanisms that lead to tissue or cell type specific gene expression. During my PhD in the lab of Galit Lahav at Harvard Medical School, I studied how temporal dynamics of a tumor suppressor transcription factor, p53 regulate the dynamics of gene expression in response to DNA damage. In the Boettiger lab, I'm interested how specificity between enhancer-promoter interactions is achieved using super-resolution microscopy.
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Sarah Louise Hagerty
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry
BioSarah Hagerty, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and the Sierra Pacific Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. She graduated with a BA in Psychology from Carleton College. Recently, she completed dual PhDs in Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience at University of Colorado Boulder and pre-doctoral clinical internship at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. Broadly, Sarah is interested in identifying clinically meaningful patient subtypes based on multimodal data, which could inform personalized interventions. Ultimately, Sarah imagines a new way of conceptualizing psychiatric diagnoses, such that an understanding of biology and behavior yield precision diagnostic insights on a more nuanced, individualized basis. Sarah sees her clinical work as a rich source for scientific hypotheses and personal inspiration, and clinical interactions serve as an important reminder of her dedication to reduce human suffering and increase fulfillment through her program of research A native of Colorado, Sarah is happiest when she's on a hiking trail, playing soccer, or spending time with family.
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Haijing Wu Hallenbeck
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry
BioHaijing Hallenbeck, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for PTSD at VA Palo Alto Health Care System, in conjunction with Stanford University School of Medicine. After completing her internship at VA Palo Alto Health Care System, she earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. Haijing's graduate work focused on using mobile app technology for the assessment of depression. As a postdoctoral fellow, she is investigating how this technology can be adapted for purposes of treatment, particularly for PTSD and depression. She is interested in optimizing mobile apps to improve both mental health symptoms and psychosocial functioning for individuals.
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Meghan Halley
Research Scholar, School of Medicine - Biomedical Ethics
BioI am a medical anthropologist with a background in public health and a passion for research that engages the voices of patients and families in improving population health and healthcare delivery. I am a proud Midwesterner, with a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a PhD and MPH from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. My broad research interests include the psychosocial dimensions of health and illness, the well-being of children and families, and medical decision-making, particularly in the context of complex illness. I also am a perpetual student of the art of grant writing, and I love supporting scientists in developing this critical skill. At the Center for Biomedical Ethics, my research examines the ethical and economic implications of genome sequencing for diagnosis of children with rare diseases and their families. My work examines the ethical implications of varying approaches to economic evaluation and their relation to reimbursement and equitable access to new genomic technologies. I am also interested in the development of new tools for measurement of the costs and benefits of new genomic technologies that reflect patient values.
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Sahar Harati
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry
BioSahar Harati, Ph.D., graduated with a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Emory University. She received her Master’s degree in Computer Science from the same university and her Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Iran. Her research interests are broadly Machine Learning and Data Mining with applications to Mental Health and Biomedical Informatics. For her thesis, she utilized advanced signal processing and machine learning techniques to study longitudinal data collected from patients recovering from Major Depressive Disorder when treated by Deep Brain Stimulation. Her research goal is to improve human mental well-being by developing computational techniques to find objective biomarkers of depression. She joined PanLab to work on interdisciplinary projects to develop predictive models of depression from physiological and behavioral measures.
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Felix J. Hartmann
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
BioDr. Hartmann received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Molecular Biotechnology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany and his PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland for his research on T cell effector functions in human autoimmune diseases. Following his time in Zurich, Dr. Hartmann has joined Stanford University School of Medicine as a postdoctoral fellow. He is supported by fellowships from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), the Novartis Foundation for biomedical research, and EMBO.
Dr. Hartmann’s research focuses on combining single-cell and imaging proteomic technologies (mass cytometry and multiplexed ion beam imaging) with novel biological assays to reveal tumor-immune cell interactions that impact clinical outcome in human cancer. Most recently, he has developed a novel approach that enables analysis of cellular metabolism in individual cells and with spatial resolution in human tissues. -
Alesha Heath
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry
BioDr. Alesha Heath is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford School of Medicine and the MIRECC the VA Palo Alto. She earned her PhD from the University of Western Australia and Sorbonne University.
Dr. Heath's research has been primarily focused on the mechanisms and applications of brain stimulation therapies, in particular repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. Her research involves both basic and clinical components with the aim of improving the efficacy of these therapies for the treatment of disorders such as depression and Alzheimer's disease. -
John Hickey
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Microbiology and Immunology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in engineering and using tools which can capture the complex interactions of the immune system more holistically. Understanding the immune system at a systems level will be even more critical as we try to engineer it for therapy. This will enable unique innovations in therapies overcoming several challenges of current immunotherapies: (1) ineffective for a large subset of patients, (2) non-specific, causing immunocompromised or autoimmune states, (3) costly, (4) not well modeled or predicted by in vitro tests and animal models, and (5) treat symptoms rather than cure disease.
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Derek Holman
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am currently applying bioinformatic transcriptomic analysis and fourier-transform infrared spectromicroscopy to better understand the consequences of redox stress in cells derived from control patients, and patients with inherited mitochondrial dysfunctions.
