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  • Benjamin Richard Jacob

    Benjamin Richard Jacob

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine

    BioBenjamin Jacob, MD, is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine and Stanford School of Medicine. He obtained his MD from the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, TX. He then completed his Internal Medicine/Pediatrics residency at The Ohio State University, before joining the Oncology Hospitalist program at Stanford. His clinical interests include transitions of care around the end of life, medical humanities, ethics and medical education.

  • Charlotte D. Jacobs M.D.

    Charlotte D. Jacobs M.D.

    Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor in the School of Medicine, Emerita

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsClinical Interests: general oncology, sarcomas. Research Interests: clinical trials in solid tumors.

  • Prasanna Jagannathan

    Prasanna Jagannathan

    Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbiology and Immunology

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsWe study innate immunity and immune regulation of Plasmodium Falciparum malaria in children and pregnant women. Our work focuses on understanding how malaria shapes the immune state in individuals following repeated exposure. We are also testing novel interventions to enhance protective immunity against malaria in children via large, randomized controlled trials. Our work in malaria has been based in Eastern Uganda, where malaria transmission is among the highest in the world.

  • Sneha Shah Jain MD, MBA

    Sneha Shah Jain MD, MBA

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine

    BioDr. Sneha S. Jain is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University, where she specializes in general cardiovascular medicine and preventive cardiology. She co-founded and is the director of GUIDE-AI, which focuses on the development, responsible deployment, and pragmatic evaluation of AI tools to augment healthcare delivery and improve patient outcomes across the healthcare enterprise.

    Dr. Jain completed her undergraduate studies in Economics at Duke University, graduating with distinction, before earning her MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and her MBA from Harvard Business School. She completed internal medicine residency training at Columbia/NewYork-Presbyterian, and fellowship training in cardiovascular medicine at Stanford University.

    Dr. Jain serves as an Expert AI Consultant for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, a member of the AHA Expert Panel for the AI Validation Lab, and Co-Director of the Cross-Sectional Artificial Intelligence Working Group at the American College of Cardiology, where she also serves on the Healthcare Innovation Council.

  • Sajid Jalil

    Sajid Jalil

    Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology

    BioDr. Jalil is a board-certified, fellowship-trained transplant hepatologist (liver doctor) and gastroenterologist at the Stanford Health Care Digestive Health Center in San Jose, California. He is also a clinical associate professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, at Stanford University School of Medicine.

    Dr. Jalil has extensive experience helping patients with a range of liver- and digestion-related conditions. He specializes in liver transplantation, and his other clinical interests include all forms of hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver, fatty liver disease, polycystic liver disease, and primary sclerosing cholangitis (swelling and scarring of the bile ducts). He has also volunteered in initiatives to offer free colonoscopy and hepatitis B screenings to underserved ethnic populations.

    His research interests include improving mental health by enhancing treatment access for patients with alcohol use disorder causing alcoholic liver disease. He has also studied swallowing problems, liver disease in pregnancy, living liver donation, and the use of artificial intelligence in treating nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and viral hepatitis. In addition, Dr. Jalil wrote a chapter on bile secretion and cholestasis (diminished bile flow) for the fifth edition of Yamada’s Textbook of Gastroenterology.

    Dr. Jalil has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including World Journal of Hepatology, Liver Transplantation, and the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. Additionally, he has served as a reviewer for Pancreatology and as an abstract reviewer for the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) and the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Physicians. He has presented his research at meetings and conferences worldwide on a range of topics, including the timing of pregnancy after liver transplantation.

    Dr. Jalil is an AGA fellow and a member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, American College of Gastroenterology, and American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

  • Mehrnaz Nicole Jamali MD

    Mehrnaz Nicole Jamali MD

    Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine

    BioDr. M. Nicole Jamali focus has been in leadership, scientific innovation and streamlining business ventures. Over the past 20 years since graduation from Stanford Internal Medicine Residency, she has held National Positions in AMA as Western Caucus Chair and Appointee to Joint Commission Board. She was reelected to Board of Joint Commission three terms for total of 9 years. She helped rewrite multiple TJC Standards including creation of the Stroke Center of excellence standards and annual "new ideas section of the board". At AMA she authored and passed multiple House rules on variety of subjects affecting thousands of providers and healthcare centers. Her experiences in private practice, group practice, Hospitalist, Insurance Directorship lead to multiple innovative projects including first e-prescription covering both meds and DME in 1999 titled eRemedy,. She then created the first wrong site surgery device which was patented. This project lead to creation of first Transplant App called TPOD which was then simplified to TAPP. It was beta tested in USC and perfected in UCSF Transplant.
    Her work with various Insurance companies resulted in streamlined programs and teaching modules improving patient access to health care and millions of dollars in hospital savings of unnecessary admissions.
    Her work in creation and streamlining and connecting with local Primary Care providers resulted in rapid expansion of the Hospitalist program of local Hospital by 300%
    She is currently interested in Haptic and AI technologies in Medicine and providing 24/7 care to our veterans in remote locations or even the battlefield.
    She is currently Clinical Associated Professor and the lead Hospitalist in the new Stanford Cardiovascular Hospitalist Program and enjoys the daily interaction with patients . She truly believes that her mission in life is to be at the bedside of ill patients. She treats them as one of her own family. It is not atypical for her to hand out her personal phone number to make sure they feel safe even when discharged.

  • John Jay Jernick

    John Jay Jernick

    Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHealth services research; guided self-care; health, education; outcome oriented decision processes.

  • Hanlee P. Ji

    Hanlee P. Ji

    Professor of Medicine (Oncology) and, by courtesy of Electrical Engineering

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCancer genomics and genetics, translational applications of next generation sequencing technologies, development of molecular signatures as prognostic and predictive biomarkers in oncology, primary genomic and proteomic technology development, cancer rearrangements, genome sequencing, big data analysis

  • Xiaolin Jia

    Xiaolin Jia

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsQuality improvement, palliative care

  • Can "Angela" Jiang

    Can "Angela" Jiang

    Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health

    BioDr. Can "Angela" Jiang is a board certified family physician who enjoys caring for the whole family, from newborn care to geriatrics. She has special interests in women's health, adolescent health, pediatrics, and medical student education. She specializes in primary care procedures including gynecologic procedures.

    Prior to medical school, Dr. Jiang was a high school biology teacher in Chicago with Teach for America and loves combining her passions for teaching and medicine on a daily basis at Stanford Family Medicine. Dr. Jiang also teaches residents at the Stanford Health Care-O'Connor Hospital residency program and is the director of the O’Connor-Stanford Leaders in Education Residency Program (OSLER). Dr. Jiang is also passionate about community outreach and works with the Stanford Youth Diabetes Coaches Program.

    Outside of clinic, she enjoys hiking, reading, group fitness classes, traveling, and running after her two young kids.

  • Shirley Jiang, MD

    Shirley Jiang, MD

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine

    BioDr. Shirley Jiang is a fellowship-trained, board-certified allergist and immunologist with the Stanford Health Care Allergy, Asthma, and Immunodeficiency Clinic in Atherton. She is also a clinical assistant professor of allergy and immunology in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.

    Dr. Jiang diagnoses and treats a wide range of conditions, including allergies, asthma, eczema, hives, and immunodeficiencies. She specializes in food allergies, medication allergies such as those to penicillin and other antibiotics, and chemotherapy allergies. For each of her patients, she offers a comprehensive care plan tailored to the individual.

    Dr. Jiang’s research interests include evaluating quality-of-life issues related to food allergies, with an emphasis on underserved populations. She is also working with her colleagues to build out and validate a novel chemotherapy desensitization program for patients with cancer who have allergic reactions to chemotherapy.

    Dr. Jiang has published her research in peer-reviewed journals such as Allergy, Frontiers in Immunology, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, and Clinical Reviews in Allergy and Immunology. She has also presented to her peers at international, national, and regional meetings, including the annual meetings of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI), the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI), and the Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Foundation of Northern California (AAIFNC).

    Dr. Jiang is a member of the AAAAI and the ACAAI. She serves as a member of the ACAAI Drug Allergy Committee, working on building out resources for penicillin allergy delabeling for allergists and primary care doctors. She also serves as a member of the AAAAI Adverse Reactions to Drugs, Biologicals, and Vaccines Committee and Adverse Reactions to Foods Committee.