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Daniel Z Fang
Affiliate, Med/Hospital Medicine
BioDaniel Z Fang, MD, FACP completed his medical school training at UC San Diego School of Medicine and residency at Stanford University. He is a board-certified academic hospitalist at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated) within the Stanford Division of Hospital Medicine.
As Assistant DCOS for Acute Care Hospital Operations, he provides administrative and clinical guidance to clinical service staff in the areas of inpatient performance, patient flow optimization, policy review, project planning, and process improvement initiatives. His professional interests include healthcare administration and quality improvement. -
Diana Farid
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Vaden Health Center
BioDiana Farid MD, MPH is a physician, filmmaker, an award-winning author and poet. She is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Faculty in the Medical Humanities and Arts Program at Stanford's School of Medicine. After earning a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies at UC Berkeley, MD at Northwestern University, and Family Medicine specialty training at UCLA, she was awarded a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Child and Family Health Leadership Fellowship, during which she earned a Masters in Public Health focused on community health and storytelling.
Since then, Diana has continued to care for patients while creating and championing the vital role of story and the arts in medicine and health. After serving as a physician consultant for television shows like Grey's Anatomy, she produced the feature length documentary film, American Rhythms, exploring the positive impact of music on elementary school student health. At Stanford, she has integrated medicine and the mediums of film, creative writing, and poetry into student and community experiences while leading and presenting arts programs across Stanford. As Assistant Director of Stanford School of Medicine’s Program in Bioethics and Film, she produced film screenings and panel discussions exploring films with vital bioethical implications. She established the first Stanford Film and Medicine Interest group for medical students to study film as a health promotion tool and has mentored medical student film projects. She produced the Stanford Medicine and the Muse, Medical Humanities and the Arts' 2018 Frankenstein@200 year-long cross-campus film screening and panel series.
Her poetry has been featured in gallery exhibits, storytelling events, anthologies, and journals. Her multi-award-winning picture book, When You Breathe (Abrams), melds respiratory science with poetry. Her novel written in verse, Wave (Abrams), celebrating medicine, music and poetry and noted as “Raw and powerful…Rich, layered and heart-rending” — Kirkus, has won numerous awards including the Cybils Award for Novel in Verse, was named a Best Middle Grade Book of 2022 by the School Library Journal, and is on state education board reading lists across the United States. Her latest picture book, The Light of Home (Scholastic) is a lyrical story about painting and belonging. Her debut board book Already All the Love (Little Bee Books) is a poem for presence. She is an Editorial Board Member for poetry for the medical humanities journal, The Pharos. In 2025, she created a first-of-its-kind Women in Medicine participatory poem for the Stanford School of Medicine. In 2026, she is co-teaching Peds 129: Little Libraries: Improving Children’s Literacy through Service and Storytelling. For 2025-2026, she is one of the inaugural artsCatalyst Fellows of the Stanford Arts Institute. -
C. Garrison Fathman
Professor of Medicine (Immunology and Rheumatology), Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy lab of molecular and cellular immunology is interested in research in the general field of T cell activation and autoimmunity. We have identified and characterized a gene (GRAIL) that seems to control regulatory T cell (Treg) responsiveness by inhibiting the Treg IL-2 receptor desensitization. We have characterized a gene (Deaf1) that plays a major role in peripheral tolerance in T1D. Using PBC gene expression, we have provisionally identified a signature of risk and progression in T1D.
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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.
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David Feldman
Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Gerontology and Metabolism), Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsStudies of the role of the vitamin D receptor in the action of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, the active vitamin D hormone. Current efforts are evaluating the vitamin D receptor in breast and prostate cancer, osteoporosis and rickets.
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Dean W. Felsher
Professor of Medicine (Oncology) and of Pathology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy laboratory studies the molecular basis of cancer with a focus on understanding when cancer can be reversed through targeted oncogene inactivation.
