School of Medicine
Showing 251-300 of 665 Results
-
Anita Honkanen
Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPatient Safety and Simulation
Effective Use of Health Care Resources -
Steven K. Howard
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOur laboratory is active in the study of human performance of medical personnel. We are actively involved in teaching health care personnel the techniques of crisis resource management (CRM) using realistic simulation. Research on sleep deprivation and fatigue and the performance of health care personnel is also an active area of study.
-
Samantha Huestis
Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly Interests- Employ outcomes tracking to delineate risk & resilience factors in youth with pediatric pain.
- Understand the role of peers, parents/caregivers, & systems (e.g., family, school, hospital, community) in the management of pediatric pain conditions.
- Improve functioning, behavioral health, and quality of life in youth with discomfort and their families through provision of evidence-based therapies.
- Empower families & sensitize providers to the importance of therapeutic collaborations. -
Andrea J Ibarra
Instructor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioDr. Ibarra is a board-certified anesthesiologist with a focused research interest in preeclampsia and brain health. She completed her anesthesiology training at the University of Pittsburgh in 2019. Committed to bridging clinical excellence with rigorous scientific inquiry, Dr. Ibarra earned a master's degree in clinical research at Pitt. In 2023, her research promise was recognized with the prestigious SOAP-FAER Mentored Research Training Grant, which investigated the long-term neurological implications of preeclampsia. Her research portfolio centers on the intersection of anesthesia, women's health outcomes, and cognitive function, contributing to the growing body of evidence in perioperative neuroscience.
Outside of her clinical and academic pursuits, Dr. Ibarra is passionate about cooking and travel, drawing inspiration from diverse cultures around the world. -
Tomin James
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioMy work involves designing and developing AI/ML-based algorithms to find answers for cutting-edge problems using multi-disciplinary data. This involves data from space-borne and ground-based instruments for astrophysics and space science studies, high-speed imaging data for behavioral neuroscience experiments, multi-omics data for finding biomarkers affecting population health, clinical data for detecting health anomalies, and EHR data for patient trajectory prediction and personalized medicine.
-
Behnaz Jarrahi, PhD
Affiliate, Anesthesia - Adult Pain Medicine
BioDr. Behnaz Jarrahi is a neuroscientist whose research combines neuroimaging and advanced data analysis with philosophical inquiry into the nature of mind and consciousness. She earned an M.S. in Management from Stanford and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from ETH. Prior to that, she completed a bachelor's and a master's degree in biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan, as well as additional bachelor's degrees in mathematics, chemistry, and brain science with honors. Her passion for studying the brain and understanding the mind led her to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship at the UCLA Semel Institute for Human Neuroscience and the Stanford University School of Medicine. More recently, Dr. Jarrahi has served as an instructor and principal investigator of an NIH-funded K25 research project. Alongside her work in neuroscience, she continues to explore interests in neurophilosophy and recently earned an M.A. in philosophy, focusing on the philosophy of mind and cognitive science.
Selected Honors & Awards
• 2020 – 2025: NIH K25 Career Development Award, National Institutes of Health (NIDA)
• 2019 – 2022: Invited Grant Reviewer, National Institutes of Health (NIDA and NINDS)
• 2019: SFN-IBRO World Congress Travel Award, Society for Neuroscience
• 2018 & 2019: Abstract of Distinction, American Academy of Neurology
• 2018 & 2023: Invited Session Co-Chair for Brain Imaging, IEEE EMBS
• 2016 – 2019: NIH T32 Training Program in Pain and Substance Use Disorder -
Michele Jehenson
Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioDr Jehenson is an avid lover of wildlife and the outdoors. She finds peace and balance in the mountains, summer and winter.
She lives in Los Gatos , CA where she maintains a private practice at the Bay Area Pain and Wellness Center.
She is a commentators on Health Revolution Radio and is an advocate for integrative, non-surgical treament for facial pain. -
Aleesha Jethwa
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioDr Jethwa is a postdoctoral fellow working in Dr Sultan's lab, within the Obstetric Anesthesiology Department. She is funded by the R90 HEAL/Pain Cohort grant. Her research focuses on the peripartum period and how targeted interventions can alter recovery trajectories.
Dr Jethwa previously worked as a resident anesthesiologist in the UK for 7 years including rotations in Internal Medicine, Obstetrics, and Pain Medicine and completed a Masters in Education at the University of Pennsylvania focused on medical education. -
Praveen Kalra
Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioDr. Praveen Kalra is Board Certified in Anesthesia and in Critical Care. He specializes in trauma, orthopedic, brain and spine surgery, urology, and cancer surgery. He was appointed Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiology (FASA) in 2023. Appointed Medical Director of Sustainability for Stanford Healthcare in Dec 2023.
His professional interests include devising protocols for patient safety, informed consent, reducing the impact of anesthetics on the environment, addressing climate change by reducing green house gas emissions in the health care setting, resident education to emphasize evidence based safe care and mentoring medical students. He has been in practice for over 18 years.
Received the Inaugural Sustainability Ambassador Award in 2022 at SHC for removing Desflurane (anesthetic gas with highest global warming potential) from the OR and undertaking multiple initiatives such as creating a Green Team at SHC, an elective Green Rotation for residents, green curriculum video series and addressing plastic & biohazardous waste in the OR. Current projects are focused on decommissioning nitrous oxide pipelines in the OR. As Medical Director of Sustainability, I work on collaborating with experts, fostering clinician engagement in change management, and spearheading transformative initiatives.
Dr. Kalra completed his residency in Anesthesia from Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and a fellowship in Critical Care from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. -
Komal Kamra
Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPediatric Cardiac Anesthesia
Transesophageal Echocardiography
Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Clinical Informatics -
Ming Jeffrey Kao, PhD, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly Interests1. Patient-reported outcomes. Efficient, multi-feature item-response theory (IRT) based computerized adaptive testing (CAT) algorithm using item banks from PROMIS and NIH Toolbox
2. Activity monitoring. Novel analytic framework for physical activity monitoring in the context of pain.
3. Operations research. Multi-variable discrete and continuous optimization for Lean Hospital Management
4. National trends in pain medication prescription -
Joan Kendig
Professor of Biology in the Department of Anesthesia, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy laboratory tries to find out how pharmacologic agents used in the practice of anesthesia (general anesthetic and analgesic agents) lead to therapeutically desireable endpoints including unconsciousness, immobility and absence of pain. The old idea that general anesthetics are uniformly non-specific "membrane stabilizers" is giving way to a new realization that these agents exert specific actions on particular ion channels and intracellular signalling systems.
-
Cynthia Khoo
Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioDr. Khoo serves as the Associate Program Director of Career Development for the Stanford Anesthesia Residency and Co-Director of the Division of Global Health Equity. In her residency role, she leads the Anesthesiology Leadership Pathways at Stanford (ALPS), a comprehensive mentorship initiative spanning advocacy, research, community engagement, global health, innovation, medical education and quality improvement.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s MD-PhD program, Dr. Khoo completed her residency and regional anesthesia fellowship at Stanford. Her global health work focuses on promoting safe, equitable perioperative care through high-tech education, including immersive reality simulations for crisis management in Tanzania and Guyana. She supports bi-directional partnerships that facilitate resident rotations and host international scholars at Stanford. Her current research focuses on enhancing clinical research quality in low-resource settings across Rwanda, Vietnam, Guyana, and Tanzania. Dr. Khoo specializes clinically in regional, orthopedic, and thoracic anesthesia. -
Samsuk Kim, PhD.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioDr. Samsuk Kim is a dual research and clinical T32 fellow at Stanford University. She earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Detroit Mercy and completed external research training at the University of Michigan (Kratz Lab), where she studied psychosocial factors—such as mindfulness and pain acceptance—in chronic pain. She also completed an APA-accredited internship at the VA Boston Healthcare System. Clinically, Dr. Kim specializes in pain management, health promotion, adjustment-related challenges, and emotional regulation. She draws from a range of evidence-based treatments, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness-based interventions, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and interpersonal psychotherapy. Her current research focuses on understanding the bidirectional relationship between sleep and pain and developing personalized, digital interventions to improve outcomes in both domains.
