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Pooja Kakar
Member, Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAs a breastfeeding medicine physician, I am passionate about advocating for mother-infant dyads and supporting their breastfeeding journeys. Additionally, I am interested studying and addressing disparities in initiation and duration of breastfeeding, particularly in lower-resourced populations, by building and advancing community partnerships.
I am also interested in the use of digital health tools to advance upstream determinants of health in community-based settings. My current funded research projects include: 1) Providing a telehealth-based, weight control program to children with obesity from lower-income, racial and ethnic minority families (Gardner GOALS) and 2) Assessing and addressing disparities in healthy behaviors in families from under-resourced settings through the use of a secure, multilingual mobile neighborhood app (Our Voice: Beyond Clinic Walls). -
Anusha Murali Kakolu, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development
BioAnusha Murali Kakolu, PhD (she/her) received her PhD in clinical psychology from Palo Alto University and completed her predoctoral pediatric psychology residency at the Cleveland Clinic, followed by a postdoctoral residency at Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center. She also holds a master’s degree in mental health counseling and behavioral medicine from Boston University School of Medicine.
Anusha’s research and clinical work focus particularly on pediatric health psychology and anxiety. She has a strong commitment to supporting diverse youth and their families, especially those with complex medical conditions. Her training spans multiple specialties, including solid organ transplant, nephrology, endocrinology, genetic conditions, hematology, and oncology.
Anusha is also a passionate educator, serving as adjunct faculty in the doctoral and master’s programs at various universities. She is deeply dedicated to teaching, mentorship, and the supervision of students and trainees and is actively involved in several mentorship programs with the APA. She is an avid baker and yogi and enjoys reading and traveling -
Sharada Kalanidhi
Director of Data Science, Biochemistry - Genome Center
Current Role at StanfordParaphrasing the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck: the essential thing is to pose problems in the right framework.
Sharada is developing a new field, Mathematical Medicine, which applies pure mathematical frameworks to genomic and multi-omic data for quantitative, personalized diagnosis. This approach explores alternatives to prevailing cohort-based statistical paradigms, particularly in complex clinical cases that have resisted standard methods.
The mathematician Mikhail Gromov has said, “This area does not yet exist. It will have to be invented.” Mathematical Medicine represents one possible construction of such an area.
This field is focused on the development of an intermediate translation layer between cohort-based statistical models and individualized multi-omic diagnosis and clinical decision-making. Without this mathematical layer, the clinical adoption of multi-omic data- particularly for complex cases- has been limited. As a result, many complex, multi-system conditions remain undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for long periods, delaying effective treatment and, in some cases, allowing disease processes to worsen.
Further information on this field, including opportunities for early philanthropic partnerships, is available at: https://mathmed-2026.web.app/ -
Anusha Kalbasi, MD
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology (Radiation Therapy)
BioDr. Kalbasi is a physician-scientist at the Stanford Cancer Institute. In the clinic, Dr. Kalbasi is a radiation oncologist specializing in the treatment of patients with sarcoma and other solid tumors, with expertise in early phase clinical trials related to immunotherapy, cellular therapy, and radiation therapy.
The Kalbasi laboratory studies cancer immunology, with a focus on understanding—and re-engineering—the molecular conversations that immune cells have with one another and with cancer cells, especially through cytokines. By mapping how these signals are sent, received, and interpreted within immune cells and cancer cells, the lab aims to design next-generation immunotherapies that deliver the right messages at the right time—making cancer-fighting cells more potent, more persistent, and more precise. -
Agnieszka Kalinowski
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioI am a translational physician-scientist committed to understanding the pathophysiology of schizophrenia to identify disease-modifying therapeutic interventions. I examined the role of C4 protein activation in clinical samples from individuals with schizophrenia compared to controls, its relationship to C4 CNV and effect on blood brain barrier permeability using in vitro model systems. I contributed to identifying LINE-1 insertions in postmortem brain samples of individuals with schizophrenia and C4 copy number variation (CNV) in pediatric patients with neuropsychiatric symptoms. Since accumulating evidence points to the synapses as the locus of pathology in schizophrenia, I am focusing my current research effort to defining the underlying abnormality in synapses in schizophrenia using a combination of in vitro iPS based model systems and postmortem brain samples, and applying cutting-edge techniques like spatial transcriptomics and array tomography.
