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Antonio Omuro, MD
Joseph D. Grant Professor
BioDr. Antonio M. Omuro, MD, FAAN, is the Chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Omuro is an internationally renowned neurologist and neuro-oncologist. Before assuming his role at Stanford, he held notable leadership positions at prestigious institutions including Yale University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. His research endeavors are concentrated on clinical and translational studies, where he collaborates closely with basic scientists to pioneer innovative therapies for challenging neuro-oncologic diseases such as gliomas and primary CNS lymphomas. He is also a highly esteemed educator and practicing clinician, delivering state-of-the-art and compassionate care to patients with brain tumors and neurological complications of cancers. -
Yoshikazu Ono
Visiting Instructor/Lecturer, Cardiothoracic Surgery
BioYoshikazu Ono is a pediatric cardiovascular surgeon who is board certified by The Japanese Board of Cardiovascular Surgery.
He graduated from Nagoya City University in 2015 and began his internship at Nagoya City East Medical Center. He then completed his residency in cardiovascular surgery at the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center. He completed a fellowship in pediatric cardiovascular surgery at the same institution after a three-year residency.
His main interests are congenital cardiac defects and mechanical support in children. He is dedicated to improving the safety and durability of surgical treatments and ventricular assist devices for these patients. -
John Openshaw
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research laboratory addresses questions at the intersection of infectious diseases and environmental change. We use field, laboratory, and computational approaches and our work ranges from basic epidemiologic and risk-factor studies to serologic surveys to developing new data collection tools and pathways.
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Marily Oppezzo
Instructor, Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center
BioMarily Oppezzo is a behavioral and learning scientist. She completed her doctorate in Educational Psychology at Stanford in 2013. She also is a registered dietitian and has her master's of nutritional science. She completed her dietetic internship at the Palo Alto Veterans Hospital, and currently consults as a sports dietitian for Stanford's Runsafe program. Her research interests leverage her interdisciplinary training, with a focus on how to get people to change to improve their health and well-being. Specifically, these areas include: using social media to motivate physical activity changes in those with or at risk for heart disease; culturally tailoring nutrition and physical activity recommendations and education materials for an Alaskan native population; how walking can be used to improve people's cognitive and creative thinking; and applying learning theories to medical education topics.
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Chi Mong Christopher Or
Clinical Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology
BioDr. Or is a board-certified ophthalmologist and family medicine physician. He received advanced uveitis training through the uveitis and medical retina fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine. Prior to residency, he also completed a fellowship in optical coherence tomography (OCT) research at the New England Eye Center. Dr. Or treats patients at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford Health Care and Menlo Medical Clinic in Menlo Park. He is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Or treats many eye diseases, including age-related macular degeneration, cataracts, and uveitis. He emphasizes using imaging to diagnose and monitor the progression of eye conditions.
His research interests include eye imaging methods such as OCT and OCT angiography (OCTA). Dr. Or has studied these imaging techniques for years, first as a research assistant, then as a fellow, and now as a principal investigator. He has studied using these imaging techniques for diagnosing and monitoring age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and uveitis.
He is actively involved in clinical trials for optical imaging and serves as principal investigator in clinical trials assessing different medications to treat eye diseases.
Dr. Or has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on topics such as optical imaging, autoimmune eye diseases, and vascular eye diseases. His research has appeared in prestigious journals including Clinical Ophthalmology, Ocular Immunology and Inflammation, Retina, the American Journal of Ophthalmology, and many other ophthalmology journals worldwide.
He is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Retina Specialists, and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). Dr. Or has presented his research at various national and international meeting several times. -
Nnamdi Orakpo, MD, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine
BioNnamdi Orakpo's path to becoming a bilingual Sleep Medicine Psychiatrist & Interventional Psychiatrist was far from conventional. Originally, he was focused on a professional basketball career in Australia and New Zealand. However, his father's guidance led him to pursue higher education.
At the University of North Texas, Dr. Orakpo completed a doctorate in Gerontology before attending medical school in Mexico and completing his residency in Psychiatry at Garnet Health Medical Center in New York. He graduated from Sleep Medicine fellowship training at Stanford University, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Sleep Medicine in Sleep Medicine (2023), where he is currently teaching as a Clinician Educator.
Dr. Orakpo has published numerous articles in SLEEP, Frontiers Journal of Psychiatry, Frontiers Journal of Human Neuroscience, and has collaborated with Stanford University colleagues on a textbook on clinical sleep medicine, where he authored the chapters on chronic insomnia, isolated sleep paralysis, sleep enuresis, sleep related eating disorder, sexsomnia, and exploding head syndrome. His research and clinical practice have centered around sleep medicine. He conducted a pioneering study on using Virtual Reality Neurofeedback as a treatment for chronic pain and insomnia. This work was supported by an institutional grant and has contributed to the field of sleep medicine.
Beyond his clinical work, Dr. Orakpo is an active researcher and educator. He has published articles in several academic journals and co-authored a textbook on clinical sleep medicine. He is also a member of several professional organizations, including the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the California Sleep Society. -
Sabrina Orique
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioSabrina Orique, PhD, RN, AOCNS, is a hematology/oncology clinical nurse specialist at Stanford Health Care. She serves as adjunct faculty for Fresno Pacific University in the MSN FNP program. Her program of research entails patient safety with a focus on delivery of nursing care. Her published work includes missed nursing care, situation awareness, and early recognition of clinical deterioration. She has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master of Science in Nursing from California State University, Fresno. She earned her PhD in nursing from the University of Missouri, Columbia and is a 2015 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar. She is a member of the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, Oncology Nursing Society, and Sigma Theta Tau. She is certified as an oncology nurse and advanced oncology clinical nurse specialist by the Oncology Nursing Certification Cooperation.
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Lisa A. Orloff, MD, FACS, FACE
Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (OHNS)
BioLisa A. Orloff, MD, FACS, FACE, is Director of the Endocrine Head & Neck Surgery Program and Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery, Division of Head & Neck Surgery, at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is Director of the Stanford Thyroid Tumor Program within the Stanford Cancer Center. Her clinical practice focuses on the surgical management of thyroid and parathyroid tumors and disorders.
Dr. Orloff is an internationally recognized leader in the field of endocrine head and neck surgery. She is also an expert in the application of ultrasonography to the diagnosis and management of diseases of the head and neck, with an emphasis on thyroid cancer. Dr. Orloff performs minimally invasive ultrasound-guided procedures such as radiofrequency ablation for the nonsurgical management of appropriate thyroid pathology. Her background in microvascular and laryngeal surgical techniques lends a unique level of refinement to her endocrine surgical practice. A major component of her clinical work is the management of persistent or recurrent thyroid cancer. Dr. Orloff’s multidisciplinary approach to the management of endocrine head and neck disease involves collaboration with her colleagues in other specialties at Stanford and throughout the country. Dr. Orloff also studies the regeneration of tissue that has been lost as a result of cancer therapies.
Dr. Orloff received her bachelor’s degree at Stanford, and her medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed her residency in Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery at the University of Washington and a visiting fellowship in Microvascular & Reconstructive Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford, she was the Robert K. Werbe Distinguished Professor in Head & Neck Cancer, and Chief of the Division of Head & Neck Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF.)
Dr. Orloff served three consecutive terms as the Chair of the American Academy of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Endocrine Surgery committee, and served for many years as a voting member of the FDA’s Panel to evaluate medical devices for Otolaryngology. She holds leadership roles within the American Head and Neck Society, the American Thyroid Association, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and the American College of Surgeons. She is co-chair of the ACS Thyroid, Parathyroid, and Neck Ultrasound training program and a member of the ACS National Ultrasound Faculty executive board. She is also a member of such influential teams as the National Cancer Institute (NCI) steering committee on Thyroid Cancer Clinical Trials and the Endocrine Surgery Committee of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE). She authored the leading textbook, Head and Neck Ultrasonography (Plural Publishing), as a reference for clinicians; the second edition was published in 2017. Dr. Orloff is a former Fulbright scholar.
