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Helen J. Wood
Affiliate, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Helen Wood (she/her) is a clinical psychologist licensed in Vermont and Pennsylvania. She works for INSPIRE training and is also a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Vermont, Department of Psychological Science. Dr. Wood was previously the psychologist for outpatient psychosis services, including a first-episode psychosis service, at an academic medical center in southwest Pennsylvania, where she led CBTp implementation. She has worked as program director for an adult psychosis inpatient unit, as well as in outpatient services in the US and in the UK’s National Health Service. She co-chairs the North American CBTp Network’s early psychosis working group. Dr. Wood values collaboration with people bringing lived experience knowledge to clinical, training, and research contexts. Dr. Wood’s clinical and research interests focus on understanding the experience of psychosis and improving services and/or other forms of support. Dr. Wood has a BA Hons in History, Theology and Religious Studies from the University of Cambridge, an MSc in Experimental Psychology from the University of Sussex, and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Canterbury Christ Church University, all in the UK.
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Tracey Woodruff
Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
BioMy research is devoted to identify and addressing environmental pollution exposures - petrochemicals, pesticides, plastics and other toxic contaminants - and the impacts on health. I focus on filling critical gaps in knowledge that will result in structural changes that improve health and reduce inequities. I collaborate across disciplines to create systemic solutions that integrate environmental health, public policy, and healthcare for significant public health advancements. My research expertise encompasses all aspects of understanding and characterizing environmental chemical exposures and their health impacts, especially on vulnerable and susceptible populations due to life stage, such as pregnant women and children, and demographics, such as poverty and race/ethnicity. I led multidisciplinary investigations to: identify and measure human exposures to environmental contaminants via modeling and biomonitoring including advanced methods for nontargeted analysis; identify biological mechanisms using in vitro and in vivo systems; assess the impact of multiple chemical exposures on pregnancy and child outcomes via epidemiology studies; and develop and apply methods for translating research findings into improved clinical care and public policy.
I have extensive expertise and experience in translating science into clinical and policy decision-making. I led the development of the Navigation Guide Systematic Review Methodology, the first systematic review method for environmental health science, developed in collaboration with multiple collaborators from international, national, and state governments, community groups, and the clinical community, integrates best practices from clinical medicine and environmental health evaluation. I continue to collaborate on systematic reviews including pesticides and Parkinson’s, and methodological improvements. I am widely recognized for my expertise in the use of science in decision making for environmental chemicals. I’ve been invited to testify before Congress and the State of California multiple times and I lead our Science Action Network that engages in bring best available science to regulatory decision-making. I have also collaborated with other faculty on empirical research to identify how industries adversely influence the scientific process.
Before Stanford, I was a Professor at UCSF and Director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment. I now with UCSF co-lead the UCSF/Stanford Environmental Research and Translation for Health Center funded by a NIEHS P30 mechanism. Prior to UCSF I served for over 10 years in the Office of Policy at the US Environmental Protection Agency. -
Emily Woods
Postdoctoral Scholar, Pathology
Current Research and Scholarly Interestsdevelopment of activity-based probes for specific diagnosis and treatment of Staphylococcus aureus infections and for detection of bacterial ear infections (otitis media)
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Mulate Zerihun Workeneh
Postdoctoral Scholar, Critical Care
BioDr. Mulate Zerihun Workeneh is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Dr. Bereketeab Haileselassie’s laboratory in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. He earned a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, where he developed peptide therapeutics that target mitochondrial protein-protein interactions involved in cardiovascular disease. Dr. Workeneh’s research uses medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, peptide engineering, computational modeling and mitochondrial biology to understand how the disease occurs and to develop new ways to treat it. During his doctoral training, he designed and evaluated novel linear and macrocyclic peptide inhibitors that alter mitochondrial dynamics to mitigate mitochondrial dysfunction and cardiovascular injury. His work at Stanford is focused on defining the role of mitochondrial dynamics in endothelial dysfunction in sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS). He is working to develop peptide-based therapeutics that maintain mitochondrial function, improve vascular health and prevent organ failure in critically ill patients by integrating approaches in chemical biology, molecular and cellular biology, and translational drug discovery. Dr. Workeneh has publications in leading medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, and mitochondrial biology journals and is an inventor on patents related to mitochondrial protein-protein interaction inhibitors. His goal is to translate advances in mitochondrial biology into first-in-class therapeutics for cardiovascular disease, sepsis, and other disorders linked to mitochondrial dysfunction. He is excited to work across disciplines at Stanford to help push biomedical research forward.
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Michael Wornow
Affiliate, Computational Medicine
BioMichael is a computer science PhD student focused on developing and operationalizing large-scale pretrained models ("foundation models") in healthcare. He is advised by Nigam Shah and Chris Re and is supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
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Britt Wray
Instructor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Wray is the Director of CIRCLE at Stanford Psychiatry, a research and action initiative focused on Community-minded Interventions for Resilience, Climate Leadership and Emotional wellbeing in the Stanford School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the mental health impacts of climate change on young people ('emerging adults') and frontline community members, community-minded psychosocial support interventions, and public engagement for improved mental and planetary health. Wray focuses on co-designing and evaluating evidence-based climate distress (climate anxiety/eco-anxiety) interventions with impacted communities and international networks of Integrated Youth Services using a health equity lens, and brings expertise in conceptual models of climate distress, different measurement modalities for climate impact exposures on mental health, community-engaged research, and co-design methods. Previously, Wray was a Human and Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She is the author of two books; her latest Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Anxiety, is an impassioned generational perspective on how to stay sane amid climate disruption and was a finalist for the 2022 Governor General’s Award. She is the recipient of the 2025 American Climate Leadership Awards (Runner Up), 2023 Canadian Eco-Hero Award and top award winner of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications, given by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Her first book is Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics and Risks of De-Extinction (Greystone Books 2017) and was named a "best book of the year" by The New Yorker. Dr Wray holds a PhD in Science Communication from the University of Copenhagen. She has hosted and produced several science radio programs, podcasts and television programs for international broadcasters including the BBC and CBC, and she has spoken at TED and the World Economic Forum. She is the Founder of Unthinkable (unthinkable.substack.com), a newsletter about building courage and taking meaningful action on the far side of climate grief.
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Ana Vanessa Adams Wren
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Gastroenterology
Clinical Associate Professor (By courtesy), Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child DevelopmentBioClinical Focus:
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Child and Adolescent Psychology
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Sherry M. Wren, MD, FACS, FCS(ECSA), FISS
Professor of Surgery (General Surgery)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOur research interests are primarily in global surgery,robotics,surgical oncology, especially gastrointestinal cancers.
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Hannah Wright
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioHannah Wright, MMS, PA-C has been a practicing physician assistant since 2010. She received her PA education at Stanford and earned a Master of Medical Science degree from Saint Francis University. She has worked in Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Gynecology. Since 2013 she has worked in the Stanford Express Care Clinic. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Clerkship Education in the Stanford Masters of Science in PA Studies Program.
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Adela Wu
Clinical Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Wu's current research aims include integrating palliative care practices and communication training in surgical subspecialties and surgical education, investigating quality-of-life metrics and patient outcomes, and identifying and mitigating disparities in treatment patterns for surgical pathologies and utilization of palliative care resources.
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Bryan Wu, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
BioDr. Wu is a board-certified cardiologist at Stanford Health Care. He is also a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. His areas of clinical focus include general and preventive cardiology with a particular interest in cardiac imaging. Dr. Wu has board certification in echocardiography, cardiovascular CT, and cardiac nuclear imaging.
Dr. Wu speaks fluent Chinese and Spanish and embraces racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity in his clinical care. He has international clinical/research experiences in Italy and Mexico, and truly enjoys meeting and working with people from distinctive backgrounds.
Dr. Wu is passionate about clinical research. He has pursued scholarly work on the utilization of therapeutic drug monitoring for antihypertensive therapy and statins to help patients from low socioeconomic backgrounds improve their medication adherence. He is also involved in research on advanced cardiac imaging and has actively investigated the applications of cardiac CT in electrophysiology interventions.
Dr. Wu’s research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the International Journal of Cardiology and Journal of Vascular Surgery. He has presented his work at regional and national meetings, including the American Heart Association’s annual Scientific Sessions.
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Caren Yu-Ju Wu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurosurgery
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsBasic, translational, immunological and clinical research
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Han Wu
Affiliate, Adult Neurology
BioWorking on clinical data pipelines and large-scale neurophysiology datasets (EEG/PSG), leveraging the OMOP common data model to enable cohort construction, analytics, and data-driven research in neurology.
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Hsi-Yang Wu
Member, Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in how the brain matures to control the bladder and external sphincter to achieve urinary continence. Using functional MRI of the brain, we are investigating if certain patterns of activity will predict which children will respond to therapy for incontinence.
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Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD
Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Simon H. Stertzer, MD, Professor and Professor of Radiology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDrug discovery, drug screening, and disease modeling using iPSC.
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Joy Wu
Gerald M. Reaven, MD Professor of Endocrinology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy laboratory focuses on the pathways that regulate the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells into the osteoblast and adipocyte lineages. We are also studying the role of osteoblasts in the hematopoietic and cancer niches in the bone marrow microenvironment.
