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Erika Veidis
Human and Planetary Health Program Manager, Primary Care and Population Health
BioErika Veidis is the Planetary Health Program Manager for the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health. Before joining the CIGH team, she spent three years at the Planetary Health Alliance, a non-profit organization housed at Harvard University focused on understanding and addressing the intersections between global environmental challenges and public health. In this role, she managed a global network of universities, NGOs, research institutes, and government entities and led community engagement, outreach, and education efforts. In addition to her work with the PHA, Erika conducted research in environmental economics, with a particular focus on microplastics and grassroots campaigns targeting relevant governmental and corporate policies, and worked in regenerative agriculture in rural Wisconsin. Most recently, Erika helped to launch a project highlighting Indigenous place names across California with the California Institute for Community, Art & Nature. Erika graduated from Harvard in 2015 with a BA in Government and Mind/Brain/Behavior, holds an MBA from Cal Poly, and serves on the board of the Harvard Alumni for Agriculture and Food.
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Felipe Vences Catalan
Instructor, Medicine - Oncology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy current research focuses on understanding the biology of cancer, more specifically how Tetraspanin molecules contribute to the development and spread of cancer. I am also interested in unraveling the interaction of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment and how we can use immunotherapy to treat lymphoma and breast cancer aiming towards translational medicine.
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Elena Vendrame
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on understanding the host-pathogen interactions. In particular I study the interaction between natural killer cells and HIV.
