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Philip A. Pizzo, M.D.
David and Susan Heckerman Professor, Emeritus
BioPhilip Pizzo, MD, is the David and Susan Heckerman Professor Emeritus. Pizzo served as Dean of the Stanford School of Medicine from April 2001 to December 1, 2012. He was Founding Director of the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute from 2012 - 2022. Pizzo began rabbinical studies at the Academy for Jewish Religion, California in 2022 and studies in Spiritual Care and Counseling at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2024.
Dr. Pizzo career focused on the diagnosis, management, prevention and treatment of childhood cancers and the infectious complications that occur in children whose immune systems are compromised by cancer and AIDS. He has been a leader in academic medicine and in longevity and the future of higher education.
Pizzo received his MD degree with Honors and Distinction in Research from the University of Rochester in 1970 and completed an internship and residency at the Boston Children’s Hospital. He was a fellow in pediatric oncology at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and served as head of the NCI’s infectious disease section, chief of pediatric oncology, and scientific director for the Division of Clinical Sciences between. Before joining Stanford in 2001, he was the physician-in-chief of Boston Children’s Hospital and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, where he was also the Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics.
Dr. Pizzo is the author of more than 650 scientific articles and 16 books and monographs. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinion in Pediatrics from 2012 - 2019. He co-led the National Academy of Medicine 2011 report Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education and Research; and “Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences at the End of Life” that was published in 2015.
Pizzo has received numerous awards and honors, including the Public Health Service Outstanding Service Medal in 1995, the Barbara Bohen Pfiefer Award for Scientific Excellence in 1991, the Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Award in 2008, the Ronald McDonald Charities “Award of Excellence” in 2009, and the John and Emma Bonica Public Service Award in 2013. He is the 2012 recipient of the John Howland Award, the highest honor for lifetime achievement bestowed by the American Pediatric Society. In 2019 he received the John Stearns Medal from the New York Academy of Medicine. Pizzo received the 2021 International Immunocompromised Host Society’s Lifetime Distinguished Career Award. He received the Dean’s Medal from the University of Rochester in 2023.
Pizzo has been elected to the Association of American Physicians, the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the American Pediatric Society, the National Academy of Medicine. He has served as Chair of the Association of Academic Health Centers and Chair of the Council of Deans of the Association of American Medical Colleges. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Society for Clinical Oncology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He was President of the International Immunocompromised Host Society between1998 – 2011, and he served on the Governing Board for the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine from 2004 - 2012. Pizzo was elected to the Board of Trustees of the University of Rochester from 2009 - 2022 and the Board of Overseers of Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey from 2010 - 2022. He served Academic Advisory Council for Merritt Hawkins between 2015 - 2022., and the Advisory Board to the Milken Institute Center on Aging from 2015 - 2022. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research from 2012- 2022. In 2015 Pizzo was elected to the Board of Directors of Global Blood Therapeutics through 2023, and in 2019 he was elected to the Board of Directors of Hillel at Stanford through 2023. -
Julia Rachel Plank
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioI am a postdoctoral researcher in the BRain Imaging, Development, and GEnetics (BRIDGE) Laboratory in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Currently my work focuses on the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for improving understanding of the neuropathophysiology underlying neuropsychiatric disorders with a genetic basis.
My PhD investigated the use of neuroimaging techniques (diffusion MRI, quantitative magnetization transfer, magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, electroencephalography) for detection of neuroinflammation in human participants.
My research interests are centered on the clinical applications of MRI for elucidation of pathology and improving diagnosis and treatment. -
Thomas G Plante
Emeritus Adjunct Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioThomas G. Plante, Ph.D., ABPP is an emeritus adjunct professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also the Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J. University Professor, professor of psychology and, by courtesy, religious studies and The Jesuit School of Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, and directs the Applied Spirituality Institute at Santa Clara University. He has served as vice-chair of the National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Youth for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and is past-president of the Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (Division 36) of the American Psychological Association (APA). He has published 29 books including, Spiritually Informed Therapy: Wisdom and Evidence Based Strategies That Work, Contemporary Clinical Psychology, Graduating with Honor: Best Practices to Promote Ethics Development in College Students, Living Ethically in an Unethical World, Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: A Decade of Crisis, 2002-2012, and Spiritual Practices in Psychotherapy: Thirteen Tools for Enhancing Psychological Health. He is editor of the APA journal, Spirituality in Clinical Practice. He has published over 275 scholarly professional journal articles and book chapters as well. He has been frequently featured in most major national and international media outlets. Time Magazine featured him in a 2005 profile and referred to him in a 2002 cover story about clerical abuse as one of “three leading American Catholics.” He teaches courses in psychopathology, health psychology, the psychology of religion and spirituality, and professional ethics and maintains a private clinical practice as a licensed psychologist in Menlo Park, CA. He is best reached at tplante@scu.edu.
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Terry Platchek
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
Clinical Professor (By courtesy), Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Clinical Professor, Emergency MedicineCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Platchek's research interest focuses on improving value in healthcare delivery using healthcare model design thinking and a "Lean" business strategy. Dr. Platchek is also interested in effective methods for engaging clinicians in systems-based clinical improvement efforts.
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Tino Pleiner
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe Pleiner lab combines mechanistic cell biology, structural biochemistry and protein engineering to dissect the pathways and molecular machines that mature human membrane proteins to a fully functional state. We also develop alpaca-derived and synthetic nanobodies as tools to modulate intracellular pathways that globally regulate protein homeostasis in health and disease.
