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I Lehman
William M. Hume Professor in the School of Medicine, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsWe study Herpes simplex virus type 1 as a model eukaryotic chromosome for the analysis of eukaryotic DNA replication and recombination
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John Leikauf
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in better understanding the heterogeneous cognitive and electrophysiological abnormalities in children with ADHD and the many other conditions that commonly co-occur with ADHD. The long-term goal is to be able to better target treatments to specific deficits in order to promote long-term health and well-being and improve outcomes that matter to individuals and families suffering from these disorders.
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Ramrada Lekwuttikarn MD
Clinical Instructor, Dermatology
BioRamrada Lekwuttikarn, MD is a subspecialty-trained pediatric dermatologist and clinical investigator in the Division of Pediatric Dermatology at Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. She serves as a Research Scientist and Clinical Instructor, with clinical and research expertise focused on vascular anomalies, genetic skin disorders, and inflammatory skin diseases.
Dr. Lekwuttikarn received her medical degree from Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand, where she also completed pediatric residency training. She subsequently completed fellowship training in pediatric dermatology at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, followed by clinical research fellowships at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford faculty, she served as Chief of the Pediatric Dermatology Division and Assistant Professor at Ramathibodi Hospital.
Her research centers on genotype-guided therapies, targeted molecular treatments, and translational clinical trials for complex pediatric dermatologic conditions. She serves as a sub-investigator on multiple Phase II and III clinical trials, including studies investigating MEK inhibitors, PI3K pathway inhibitors, topical statins, and novel biologic therapies for vascular anomalies, epidermolysis bullosa, and inflammatory skin diseases. Her work has been presented at international conferences including the Society for Pediatric Dermatology and the ISSVA World Congress, and published in peer-reviewed journals such as JAMA Dermatology, The Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Pediatrics, and The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Dr. Lekwuttikarn is committed to advancing innovative, precision-based therapies while delivering compassionate, multidisciplinary care for children with complex skin disorders. -
Anna Lembke, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (General Psychiatry and Psychology-Adult)
BioDr. Anna Lembke received her undergraduate degree in Humanities from Yale University and her medical degree from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also Program Director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, and a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Addiction Medicine.
In 2016, she published "Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic (Zuger, 2018).
Dr. Lembke appeared in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives.
Her latest book, "Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence" (Dutton/Penguin Random House, August 2021) was an instant New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller and has been translated into 30 languages. It combines the neuroscience of addiction with the wisdom of recovery to explore the problem of compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world. -
Hendrikus Lemmens
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (MSD)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsClinical Pharmacology of Anesthetics
Morbid Obesity
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Jody Leng
Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated), Multispecialty Anesthesiology
Staff, Multispecialty AnesthesiologyBioDr. Leng is a board-certified anesthesiologist, specializing in regional anesthesiology. She attended medical school at the University of Miami, and completed her anesthesiology residency and Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine (RAAPM) fellowship at Stanford Health Care. Prior to her medical career, she worked as an R&D engineer at a biomedical device startup in Silicon Valley. She currently serves as the Director of RAAPM at the VA in Palo Alto, the Program Director of the RAAPM fellowship, and the Co-Director of the Peer Support and Resiliency in Medicine (PRIME) wellness program at Stanford.
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Theodore Leng, MD, MS, FACS
Professor of Ophthalmology (Ophthalmology Research/Clinical Trials) and, by courtesy, of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (MSD)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Leng was the first surgeon in California to perform a subretinal transplant of adult neural stem cells into patients with macular degeneration and is actively researching cell and gene regenerative therapies for macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, Stargardt disease, and other degenerative conditions of the macula and retina. He also has an active program in imaging informatics, oculomics, and deep learning to identify patients who are at risk for eye and systemic disease. The end goal is earlier detection and rapid treatment to maximize outcomes.
