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  • Rona Giffard

    Rona Giffard

    Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Emerita

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAstrocytes, microglia and neurons interact, and have unique vulnerabilities to injury based on their patterns of gene expression and their functional roles. We focus on the cellular and molecular basis of brain cell injury in stroke. We study the effects of altering miRNA expression, altering levels of heat shock and cell death regulatory proteins. Our goal is to improve outcome by improving mitochondrial function and brain cell survival, and reducing oxidative stress and inflammation.

  • Christophe Gimmler, MD, MFT

    Christophe Gimmler, MD, MFT

    Casual - Non-Exempt, Multispecialty Anesthesiology

    BioChristophe Gimmler, MD, MFT, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine (Affiliated) at Stanford School of Medicine;
    Staff Physician, Medical Service, VA Palo Alto Health Care System;
    Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
    Associated Psychology Faculty, Palo Alto University
    Clinical Monitor, Carhart-Harris Lab; Weill Institute for Neurosciences, UCSF
    Study Physician, Open Mind Collective

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    After establishing and building the hospitalist and consult/liaison medicine service at the VA, Christophe now practices and teaches medical students and house staff in the primary care clinics there. He concurrently practices as a community psychotherapist and specializes in medical professionals. His central interest is the intersection of medicine and psychotherapy and, in particular, the application of psychological frameworks and skills to the practice of medicine, in addition to resiliency and burnout prevention. He developed the Medical Student Resiliency Skills Training program (MedReST) for the Stanford School of Medicine as well as the Resiliency Curriculum Series for the internal medicine residency program. He received as undergraduate degree in biology and psychology and an MD from the University of Virginia, completed his internal medicine residency at Stanford.

    Christophe received a Master’s in Counseling Psychology from Sofia University. He has a private practice psychotherapy practice in Los Altos seeing adults and couples specializing in health care professionals (www.openpaththerapy.one). After completing a certificate in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy at the Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, Christophe works as a Clinical Monitor at the Carhart-Harris Lab at UCSF and the Stanford Anesthesia Dream Project with the Heifets Lab, as well as a study physician at Open Mind Collective in San Francsico.


    Publications:
    Foster Well-being Throughout the Career Trajectory: A Developmental Model of Physician Resilience Training:
    Mayo Clinic Proceedings
    Cordova MJ, Gimmler CE, Osterberg LG
    2020; 95 (12):

    Developing institutional infrastructure for physician wellness: qualitative Insights from VA physicians.
    BMC Health Services Research
    Schwartz, R., Shanafelt, T. D., Gimmler, C., Osterberg, L.
    2020; 20 (1): 7

    Career-Long Skills for Personal and Professional Wellness: A Staged Developmental Model of Veterinarian Resilience Training.
    J Vet Med Education
    Cordova MJ, Gimmler C, Dibbern A, Duesterdieck-Zellmer KF.
    2025 Apr 16

  • Sara Goldhaber-Fiebert

    Sara Goldhaber-Fiebert

    Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy teams' interests are in improving patient safety, harnessing implementation science and medical simulation techniques for training, development, dissemination, implementation and study of these processes. We collaborate nationally and globally on implementation of emergency manuals (context relevant sets of cognitive aids or crisis checklists), for management of crises and freely share team training resources. See http://emergencymanual.stanford.edu and www.emergencymanuals.org

  • Julie Good, MD

    Julie Good, MD

    Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
    Clinical Professor (By courtesy), Pediatrics

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsJulie's academic interests include pediatric palliative care, pain and symptom management for children with life-threatening illness, medical acupuncture, and meaning in medicine (the humanistic side of doctoring)

  • Alex J Goodell

    Alex J Goodell

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

    BioAnesthesiologist and internist interested in artificial intelligence and large language models in medicine. Currently, my primary focus is on developing and evaluating applications of large language models to improve the "user experience" of patients (who spend too much time fighting the system that is tasked with healing them) and doctors (who spend too much time fighting the system that is supposed to help them heal others).

    Interests:
    - Benchmarking LLMs as clinical calculators
    - Medical summarization by LLMs
    - Agentic /tool-using language models
    - GenerativeAI for Medical Education and Simulation
    - Data equity in LLMs
    - Novel benchmarks for clinical LLMs, including simulation
    - Participatory research, open-source software

    I'm a Clinical Scholar in the Dept of Anesthesiology and a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Anesthesiology / Biomedical Data Science in the lab of Nima Aghaeepour.

    I completed medical school at the UC Berkeley - UCSF Joint Medical Program, followed by the Combined Internal Medicine/Anesthesiology Residency at the Stanford School of Medicine, and a fellowship in Anesthesia Informatics at the Stanford AIM Lab.