School of Medicine
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Farzad Azimpour
Casual - Non-Exempt, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign Program
BioFarzad leads Edwards Lifesciences’ strategic innovation and future therapies incubator in the Advanced Technology unit as Senior Vice President. He’s a cardiologist by background, bringing academic, start-up, and industry experience applying needs-driven innovation discipline to define and solve high-impact challenges in cardiovascular disease.
Within his role, Farzad heads the Edwards Lifesciences Innovation Fellowship Program for cardiovascular physicians and surgeons, in partnership with the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF). Academically, Farzad serves as Associate Director, Lead for Design at Stanford University’s Mussallem Center for Biodesign.
In January of 2025, Farzad was selected to serve as a member of the Board of Directors for the Edwards Lifesciences Foundation.
He previously served as Director of Health at the global design and innovation firm IDEO, and Chief Medical Officer of an American College of Cardiology Foundation and venture capital-backed health technology start-up focused on heart failure.
Farzad completed his training in medicine and cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic and the University of Minnesota / Lillehei Heart Institute respectively, served as Chief Cardiology Fellow and NIH T32 Research Fellow designing and testing advanced cardiovascular technologies, and operated as the St. Jude Medical and Dean’s Innovation Fellow at Stanford Biodesign.
He holds patents and patents pending in the fields of interventional cardiology, cardiac electrophysiology, and robotic surgery.
Farzad earned both his bachelor’s degree in biological sciences and his MD from the University of Texas at Austin, and his post-doc in Biodesign from Stanford University School of Medicine.
He is a recipient of Phi Beta Kappa distinction and the Arnold P. Gold Humanism in Medicine Award. -
Michelle de Haaff
Casual - Non-Exempt, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign Program
Current Role at StanfordAssistant Director of Digital Health
Co-Instructor Biodesign for Digital Health (Fall) and Biodesign for Societal Health (Winter)
Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign -
Juan Antonio Delgado San Martin
Affiliate, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign Program
BioI specialise in computational approaches to uncover insights from large mobile health datasets for cardiovascular risk assessment. I am also interested in survival models, PKPD modelling, language models (including data mining in EHR and genAI), and web app development for other researchers to use. I have extensive experience in industry implementing ML approaches and designing ML-centric industry-scale production software architectures, including MLOps & CICD.
In the academic domain, I share my time between Imperial College London and Stanford research projects. In the industrial domain, I help industrial startups like ValueBase and Aktana —and charities such as Cancer Research UK (CRUK)—extract greater value from advanced data analyses.
The rest of my time is dedicated to teaching companies how to design effective data ecosystems within Google Cloud on behalf of Google. -
Lyn Denend
Academic Prog Prof Mgr, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign Program
Current Role at StanfordDirector for Academic Programs, Stanford Biodesign
Lecturer, Stanford Medicine -
Krista Donaldson
Casual - Non-Exempt, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign Program
Current Role at StanfordDirector of Innovation to Impact, Byers Center for Biodesign
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Paul Goldschmidt
Affiliate, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign Program
BioBachelor of Science - Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Class Tutor - Experimental Physics
Software Engineer / Student Researcher - Stanford Biodesign Digital Health
Founder, CEO @ Dotreflection GmbH - Startup for large-scale medical communication platforms
Member - Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN)
Member - German Physical Society
Scholar, Spokesperson - German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) -
David Grüning
Affiliate, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign Program
BioI'm a researcher at Stanford's Digital Health Team within the Center for Biodesign and at the Max-Planck Institute at the Center for Adaptive Rationality. In my research I focus on digital interventions for well-being and user autonomy through app-based tools and on-platform interventions.
Besides my academic affiliations, I'm the Scientific Director of the one sec app (https://one-sec.app) and Structured app (https://structured.app), and the Science Board Director at the Prosocial Design Network (https://www.prosocialdesign.org), leading their research on digital interventions and creating frameworks and guidelines for use by researchers and practitioners in the field. -
Carolyn Heller
Academic Operations Mgr 3, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign Program
Current Role at StanfordDirector, Finance and Administration, Stanford Biodesign
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Linda Lucian
Sr. Manager, Translational Programs, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign Program
Current Role at StanfordPrimary Biodesign role of Translation Project Manager for the eight internal funding programs administered through Biodesign. Stanford- Coulter TRPP Award, NIH funded Spectrum-Medtech Award, Wu Tsai Neuroscience:Translate Award, Innovation Fellowship Extension Award, Innovation Course Extension Award, Faculty Fellowship Award, NEXT Award, and Robert Howard Next Step Award.
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Adrit Rao
Affiliate, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign Program
BioAdrit is passionate about research at the intersection of deep learning, healthcare, and mobile apps. For the past four years, he has been conducting digital health research at Stanford's Vascular Surgery division. He is also a member of the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign's Digital Health group and serves as a TA for Stanford's CS342 course.
Adrit has co-authored 16 peer-reviewed publications, including 13 as first author. He has presented at several prestigious international conferences, including MICCAI, ICCV, CVPR, and MWSCAS. He developed AutoABI, a patent-pending AI-enabled app for peripheral artery disease diagnosis. He developed the A4 deep learning pipeline for automated abdominal aortic aneurysm measurement which is open-sourced through Stanford AIMI's Comp2Comp. His research also focuses on improving the explainability of computer vision for medical image analysis. He is also a contributor to Stanford Spezi's digital health ecosystem. -
Daniela Rodriguez Martinez
Assistant Manager, Communications, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign Program
Current Role at StanfordAssistant Manager, Communications @Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign
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Paul Schmiedmayer
Instructor, Biodesign Program
Research Engineer, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign ProgramCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Schmiedmayer's research investigates scalable, intelligent, data-driven systems that leverage patient data and connected devices to provide real-time, personalized healthcare. He aims to validate these solutions by deploying AI-based models on resource-constrained, patient-facing devices, such as smartphones and smart devices, ensuring that personalized medicine is both cost-effective and privacy-preserving.
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Meghan Stawitcke
Fellowships Manager, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign Program
Current Role at StanfordI am currently the Fellowships Manager at Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. Prior to this, I was the Education Program Manager in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal & Developmental Medicine, overseeing three clinical fellowships: Neonatology, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, and Clinical Informatics.
