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  • Zachary Edmonds, MD, MBA

    Zachary Edmonds, MD, MBA

    Academic Staff - Hourly - CSL, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
    Adjunct Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine

    BioAdjunct Professor of Medicine | Cardiovascular Medicine | Stanford Medicine

    Seasoned clinician with a proven track record of mentoring medtech entrepreneurs and early stage companies in the development of life changing technologies. As the Associate Director of the PAMF Hospital Medicine service line he co-leads a team of 30 physicians across 3 community hospitals in the Bay Area. When not seeing patients, he serves as the Chief Medical Officer at Fogarty Innovation where he mentors a variety of early stage companies. As an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Stanford he works closely with the Biodesign group to teach and mentor students and Biodesign fellows. He co-teaches the Biodesign Innovation graduate course which is offered to Stanford graduate students in the school of medicine, school of engineering and the graduate school of business each winter and spring quarter. Zach holds an MD from the UCLA School of Medicine and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He completed Internal Medicine Residency and the Biodesign Fellowship at Stanford University.

  • Katharine Sears Edwards

    Katharine Sears Edwards

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
    Clinical Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPotential impact of brief behavioral interventions to improve adjustment, coping, medical adherence, and cardiovascular health among cardiac patients.

    Psychosocial challenges of patients with spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD).

    Assessment and training in evidence-based psychological therapies.

  • William Fearon, MD

    William Fearon, MD

    Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Fearon's general research interest is coronary physiology. In particular, he is investigating invasive methods for evaluating the coronary microcirculation. His research is currently funded by an NIH R01 Award.

  • Peter Fitzgerald, MD, PhD

    Peter Fitzgerald, MD, PhD

    Professor (Research) of Medicine (Cardiovascular), Emeritus

    BioDr. Peter Fitzgerald is the Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Technology and the Cardiovascular Core Analysis Laboratory (CCAL) at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is an interventional cardiologist and holds a PhD in engineering. He is a professor in both the Department of Medicine and the Department of Engineering (by courtesy) at Stanford.

    Dr. Fitzgerald has led or participated in more than 175 clinical trials, has published more than 550 manuscripts and book chapters, and lectures worldwide. Over the past two decades, he has trained more than 150 postdoctoral researchers in engineering and medicine. Most recently, Dr. Fitzgerald completed two years of study toward a master’s degree focused on machine learning and agentic principles supporting AI.

    Dr. Fitzgerald has been a principal founder of 24 medical startups in the San Francisco Bay Area and has transitioned 17 of them to large medical device companies. He serves on several boards of directors and advises dozens of medical device startups, as well as multinational healthcare companies, on the design and development of new diagnostic and therapeutic devices in the cardiovascular arena. In 2001, Dr. Fitzgerald was part of the founding team of LVP Capital, a venture firm focused on medical device and biotechnology startups in San Francisco. In 2010, he co-founded Triventures, an early-stage medical technology fund with offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv.

  • Michael B. Fowler, MBBS, FRCP

    Michael B. Fowler, MBBS, FRCP

    Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular), Emeritus

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAdrenergic nervous system; beta-adrenergic function in, heart failure; drugs in heart failure.

  • Victor Froelicher, MD

    Victor Froelicher, MD

    Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular) at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Emeritus

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsScreening of athletes for sudden cardiac death, Computerized ECG and clinical data management; exercise Physiology including expired gas analysis; the effect of chronic and acute exercise on the heart; digital recording of biological signals; diagnostic use of exercise testing; development of Expert Medical System software and educational tools.

  • Prasanth Ganesan

    Prasanth Ganesan

    Basic Life Research Scientist, Medicine - Med/Cardiovascular Medicine

    BioPrash Ganesan is a Research Scientist at Stanford Cardiovascular Medicine. His research is focused on developing novel signal processing and machine learning approaches for investigating and personalizing ablation therapy for patients with atrial fibrillation. He was previously a research fellow at the US National Institutes of Health working on conditions such as cervical cancer and Pneumonia using Deep Learning methods. He was recognized in the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2022 list in Healthcare and Science category. He is a co-inventor of patents on novel mapping approaches for atrial fibrillation. He aspires to become a renowned bioengineering scientist developing innovative methods to improve healthcare globally. In his free time he enjoys hiking, playing badminton, and exploring restaurants and food places.

  • Daniel Aaron Gerber, MD

    Daniel Aaron Gerber, MD

    Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine

    BioDr. Gerber is a critical care cardiologist and medical director of Stanford's cardiac ICU. He has dual subspecialty training in cardiovascular and critical care medicine and additional board certification in echocardiography. He completed his residency in internal medicine, fellowship in cardiovascular medicine, and an additional fellowship in critical care medicine at Stanford University and joined as faculty in 2021 as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Cardiovascular Medicine.

    Dr. Gerber manages the full spectrum of heart and vascular conditions with a focus on critically ill patients with life-threatening cardiovascular disease. He is active in medical education, teaching introductory echocardiography to Stanford medical students and residents, co-directing the Stanford Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Ultrasound Program, and lecturing nationally on critical care echocardiography and point-of-care ultrasonography at the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s annual congress. Finally, Dr. Gerber’s research interests focus on optimizing cardiac intensive care, including working with the Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network (CCCTN) - a national network of tertiary cardiac ICUs coordinated by the TIMI Study Group - and studying acute mechanical circulatory support techniques to improve patient outcomes and care processes.

  • Zaniar Ghazizadeh

    Zaniar Ghazizadeh

    Affiliate, Department Funds
    Fellow in Medicine - Med/Cardiovascular Medicine

    BioZaniar is currently a fellow in Clinical Electrophysiology program at Stanford. He completed his Internal Medicine training at Yale School of Medicine and Cardiology fellowship at Stanford. He received his medical degree from Tehran University of Medical Sciences and spent a few years as a post-doctoral fellow at Weill Cornell Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital before his residency. His research interest lies in the development of in vitro and in vivo platforms for studying heart regeneration and precision medicine. Zaniar’s work is focused on identifying the mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias using several experimental systems ranging from genetically engineered animal models to human pluripotent stem cell derived cardiac cell types. His ultimate goal as a clinician-scientist is to utilize this framework for drug discovery and identifying new therapeutic strategies that can prevent or reverse specific arrhythmias.

  • Joshua Gillard

    Joshua Gillard

    Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine

    BioDr. Josh Gillard is a Canadian biomedical data scientist with experience in bioinformatics, machine learning, and immunology. After completing a BSc and a MSc in Experimental Medicine at McGill university, he relocated to the Netherlands for his PhD in bioinformatics at Radboud University in Nijmegen. During his PhD, he gained experience analyzing and interpreting complex immunological data (bulk and single-cell transcriptomics, high-dimensional cytometry, high-throughput proteomics) derived from human observational or intervention studies (vaccination and experimental human infection). This work revealed molecular and cellular correlates of clinically important endpoints such as disease severity, symptom progression, and antibody responses. In 2022, Josh relocated to Stanford to join the Gaudilliere lab to develop and apply multi-omic data integration and machine learning techniques, establishing that early gestational immune dysregulation can predict preterm birth. Since 2024, in the Ashley lab, Josh is developing deep learning models to investigate aberrant splicing in cardiovascular disease.

  • Diona Gjermeni

    Diona Gjermeni

    Affiliate, Med/Stanford Center for Clinical Research
    Visiting Scholar, Medicine - Med/Cardiovascular Medicine

    BioDiona Gjermeni is a clinical physician with dual specialization in Internal Medicine and Cardiology (board certified in Germany). With a strong focus on clinical research and trials, her previous work primarily revolves around antithrombotic therapy, atrial fibrillation and precision medicine. Currently she is actively engaged as Research Fellow at the Stanford Center for Clinical Research (SCCR), where she is involved in a variety of cardiovascular clinical trials across multiple phases, with particular emphasis on digital health, heart failure, and cardiac arrhythmias. Her research aims to improve patient outcomes through innovative therapies and precision medicine.