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Danielle Scarano
Masters Student in Physician Assistant Studies, admitted Autumn 2022
BioDanielle Scarano is a student in the Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies program at Stanford School of Medicine. She led the development of science instructional content and resources for Newsela, an educational technology platform for students grades 2-12. Danielle also served as the Foundational Science Lead at Brilliant.org, where she led the development of the site's foundational science courses and content. Prior to her time at Brilliant, Danielle helped establish a school in the Bay Area. As the founding science teacher at Summit Tamalpais, she developed a project-based learning curriculum that engages students in scientific inquiry.
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J. Bradley Segal
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Fellow in Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Resident in Neurology & Neurological SciencesBioBrad Segal, MD, MBE is a resident in Child Neurology at Stanford. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School where he also received a master’s degree in Bioethics. He attended college at UC San Diego where he double majored in philosophy and neuroscience.
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Sara Shams
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Fellow in Radiology
Resident in RadiologyBiohttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara_Shams2
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Brian Soetikno
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Resident in OphthalmologyBioBrian Soetikno grew up in Union City, CA. He received his BS in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, where he studied biomedical optics under the mentorship of Lihong Wang, PhD. In the summer of 2013, he entered the Medical Scientist (MD/PhD) Training Program at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. He completed a PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 2018 under the combined mentorship of Amani Fawzi, MD and Hao Zhang, PhD, which focused on retinal imaging. Specifically, his dissertation described advances in functional optical coherence tomography (OCT), including retinal oximetry with visible-light OCT and OCT angiography. He graduated with his MD in 2020 and joined the Stanford Ophthalmology Advance Research (SOAR) residency. Brian aspires to ultimately pursue a career in academic ophthalmology, where he hopes to combine his passion for engineering, innovation, and ocular surgery.
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Sulaiman Somani
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Resident in MedicineCurrent Research and Scholarly Interestscomputer vision, personalized medicine, cardiology, clinical informatics
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Natasha Z. Rabinowitz Steele
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Resident in MedicineBioMD, University of Washington
MPH, The George Washington University
BA, Mount Holyoke College -
Kathryn Stephens
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Resident in Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesBioKathryn C. Stephens, MD, is currently a resident in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She completed a BA in anthropology at Harvard University, an MD at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and an internship year in Obstetrics & Gynecology residency at the Texas Tech Health Science Center in El Paso.
During her time at Harvard, she conducted research with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI in Boston) on the role of mobile clinics’ in providing primary care and preventative screenings to medically underserved areas. She continued her interest in providing care in resource-limited settings after college as she worked for one year in a women’s crisis center in Bangalore, India. During medical school, she held leadership roles in the Global Health Interest Group and continued her work in free clinics both locally and abroad in Panama, Honduras, and Guatemala. She conducted research on obstetric emergencies such as placenta accreta, which informed her understanding of birth trauma and its impact on women’s mental health. During her time in Ob/Gyn residency, she was awarded for the top score on the annual knowledge exam in her program as a first-year resident. Prior to beginning her training at Stanford, she had the privilege of contributing to several projects in the in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences' Race and Mental Health Lab as the lab's Research Coordinator. One such project included writing a curriculum for active bystander intervention of workplace discrimination (i.e. "Upstander Bias Training"), which has been taught to several departments within the Stanford School of Medicine.
Her areas of clinical and research interest include women’s reproductive psychiatry, the intersection of race, culture and mental health, integrative approaches to wellness and community psychiatry. -
Thomas Yang Sun
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Fellow in Medicine
Resident in MedicineBioDr. Sun is a chief fellow and third-year fellow in Hematology & Oncology at Stanford.
He graduated summa cum laude with honors in philosophy from Columbia University, and received his medical degree from Yale University. He spent an additional year while in medical school in the basic science laboratory of Dr. Valentina Greco investigating the tumor microenvironment as a potential target for antitumor therapy.
In residency and fellowship at Stanford, he led clinical research to help advance the treatment of aggressive lung cancers including small-cell lung cancer and other high grade neuroendocrine tumors. He has published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Science and The Journal of Thoracic Oncology, among others. He is currently a co-investigator in an investigator-initiated phase 1 trial in small cell lung cancer.
He will be joining the Pleasanton hematology/oncology practice of Stanford Medicine Partners in Aug 2023. He is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin.
Google scholar profile:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=BCTgndkAAAAJ
