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Rebecca Sands
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Sands currently serves as the Clinical Section Chief of Palliative Care at Stanford University, where she directly supervises 13 physicians and oversees the inpatient and outpatient clinical programs at Stanford Health Care. She graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in 2001 with a BA in Chemistry. She then attended Midwestern University, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine from 2002-2006. She completed a residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, a public teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. She went on to complete her Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) fellowship at the Harvard combined program at Massachusetts General Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute in 2011. She spent 8 years at the University of Pittsburgh where she served as core teaching faculty and the HPM Fellowship Program Director. Since her recruitment to Stanford, her focus has been on programmatic expansion of clinical Palliative Care services across healthcare settings and throughout the trajectory of the serious illness experience. This has included recruitment of dually boarded faculty, development of an Emergency Palliative Care program, and many other new and innovative initiatives.
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Gerald Sarkes
Clinical Research Coordinator, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordClinical Research Coordinator
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Varsha Sivagami Sathappan
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine
BioDr. Varsha Sathappan is a hospitalist and Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. She earned her M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine residency at UC San Diego, where she pursued the Clinician Educator pathway. Her clinical interests include transitions of care and health equity. She is also passionate about medical education and curriculum development.
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Anuja Anand Sathe
Instructor, Medicine - Oncology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in understanding the determinants of therapeutic resistance in cancer. I investigate the composition of the tumor microenvironment and adaptive responses to therapy using single-cell and spatial approaches.
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Neda Sattarnezhad Oskouei, MD, MS
Instructor, Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology
BioDr. Neda Sattarnezhad Oskouei is a board-certified neurologist and neuroimmunologist specializing in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and neuroimmunological disorders, including Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO), MOG Antibody Disease (MOGAD), optic neuritis, transverse myelitis, autoimmune encephalitis, neuro-rheumatological conditions, and neuroinfectious diseases. Her research focuses on understanding the role of pathogens in triggering autoimmunity, with a particular emphasis on the role of Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) in the development of MS.
Dr. Sattarnezhad earned her MD degree with honors from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. She completed a research fellowship in Multiple Sclerosis at the Brigham MS Center, Harvard Medical School, before pursuing her residency in adult neurology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She further specialized by completing a clinical fellowship in Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology at Stanford University as a Sylvia Lawry Fellow of the National MS Society, during which she also earned a master’s degree in Epidemiology and Clinical Research. She subsequently completed a fellowship in immunology and rheumatology at Stanford.
Her research and training have been supported by the National MS Society (NMSS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). -
Amelia Sattler, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCurrently working on projects identifying effective use of actual patient encounters in undergraduate medical education. Specifically interested in the role of actual patient encounters in the training of shared decision making. Also interested in medical student empathy and physician wellness.
Also working on many different projects in the realm of quality improvement and population health in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health. -
Anjali Bhatt Saxena, MD FASN
Clinical Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Med/Nephrology
BioDr. Anjali Bhatt Saxena, MD is a Clinical Professor of Medicine (Affiliated) at Stanford University School of Medicine and the Director of Peritoneal Dialysis at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California. She has served as the Medical Director for an independent Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) Clinic in San Jose, CA since 2004, overseeing a large Peritoneal Dialysis clinic.
Dr. Saxena's clinical and research interests are in the area of home dialysis, including Peritoneal Dialysis and Home Hemodialysis. She is devoted to sharing her home dialysis expertise through research and education worldwide. She has been a key faculty member of Home Dialysis University (HDU) since 2007, providing home dialysis education to hundreds of US Nephrology Fellows and Nephrologists at all levels of experience; in 2024 she became HDU Program Director. She serves on the ASN Home Dialysis Steering Committee and is a founding member of the International Home Dialysis Consortium (ISN-ISPD). She has delivered numerous invited lectures at international meetings and has published scholarly work on PD in various peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Saxena is dedicated to the growth of PD worldwide; she is the immediate past-Treasurer for the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) and Past-President of the N. American Chapter of ISPD. She is an Educational Ambassador for the ISN, and with colleagues supported the growth of PD in low income areas of Sri Lanka. -
John Scandling
Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsTolerance induction in clinical kidney transplantation
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Lidia Schapira
Professor of Medicine (Oncology)
BioDr. Schapira is a medical oncologist with clinical expertise in the treatment of breast cancer. As the inaugural Director of Stanford's Cancer Survivorship Program, she has developed a thriving research and clinical program focused on optimizing health outcomes for people living with and beyond cancer. Dr. Schapira is interested in training future generations of physician-scientists as well as the broader community of practicing physicians through the design of innovative educational programs. Dr. Schapira's advocacy for people with cancer led to her appointment as Editor-in-Chief of the American Society of Clinical Oncology's website for the public,Cancer.Net, a position she held from 2015 until-2021. She served on the Board of Directors of the American Psychosocial Oncology Society and as Chair of the Psychosocial Interest Group of the Multinational Society for Supportive Care in Cancer. Dr. Schapira is particularily committed to reducing inequities in cancer outcomes and improve access to cancer care and cancer clinical trials. Dr. Schapira has published numerous manuscripts, lectures both nationally and internationally on issues of cancer survivorship and served as Associate Editor of the narrative section, Art of Oncology, for the Journal of Clinical Oncology from 2013 until 2023.
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David Scheinker
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Endocrinology
Clinical Professor, MedicineBioDavid Scheinker is the Executive Director of Systems Design and Collaborative Research at the Stanford Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. He is the Founder and Director of SURF Stanford Medicine, a group that brings together students and faculty from the university with physicians, nurses, and administrators from the hospitals. SURF has implemented and published dozens of projects demonstrating improvements to the quality and efficiency of care. His areas of focus include clinical care delivery, technical improvements to hospital operations, sensor-based and algorithm-enabled telemedicine, and the socioeconomic factors that shape healthcare cost and quality.
Before coming to Stanford, he was a Joint Research Fellow at The MIT Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts General Hospital. He received a PhD in theoretical math from The University of California San Diego under Jim Agler. He advises Carta Healthcare, a healthcare analytics company started by former students. -
Erika Schillinger
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy passion is clinical skills education: the patient's experience of health and healthcare, doctor-patient communication, professionalism and physical exam. I am focused on curriculum design and innovation, having helped develop the Continuity of Care Clerkship, the clinical skills curriculum in Practice of Medicine, the Family Medicine core clerkship, outpatient faculty development modules and the SHIELD course (Stanford Healthcare Innovations and Experiential Learning Directive).
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Paul Schmiedmayer
Instructor, Computational Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Schmiedmayer develops open-source agentic AI systems and multimodal foundation models that transform electronic health records, wearable sensors, and patient-generated data into personalized healthcare. His research builds the next generation of interoperable computational medicine infrastructure, enabling scalable, privacy-preserving, patient-facing AI for cardiometabolic disease prevention and the translation of AI into routine clinical practice.
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Ingela Schnittger, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy main research continues to be in the field of echocardiography. Several areas of research are currently being pursued.
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Gary Schoolnik
Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsStructure-function analysis of bacterial adhesion proteins and toxins; design and synthesis of synthetic antigens; immunobiology of human papillomaviruses
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John S. Schroeder, MD
Professor (Clinical) of Medicine (Cardiovascular), Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly Interests1. Clinical Pharmocology of Cardiovascular Drugs
(a) Calcium Channel Blockers
(b) Agents for Heart Failure
(c) Anti-atherosclerotic Effects of Cardiovascular Drugs, e.g. Calcium Channel Blockers
2. Cardiac Transplantation/Congestive Heart Failure
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Joseph Schroers-Martin
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Oncology)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMedical heme/onc focused on molecular cancer diagnostics and novel biomarkers.
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Kevin Schulman
Professor of Medicine (Hospital Medicine), by courtesy, of Health Policy and of Operations, Information and Technology at the Graduate School of Business
BioDr. Schulman is a Professor of Medicine, and, by courtesy, Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He serves as an Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine. He is the Faculty Director of Stanford’s new applied master degree program, the Master of Science in Clinical Informatics Management program. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and has an appointment in the Department of Health Policy (by courtesy).
Dr. Schulman is a health economist/health services researcher working at the intersection of business, medicine and technology. With over 500 publications, he has had a broad impact on several areas of health policy (Scopus h-index=83). His research has appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Health Affairs. He is the editor-in-chief of Health Management, Policy and Innovation (www.HMPI.Org), and Senior Associate Editor of Health Service Research (HSR).
He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, the New York University School of Medicine, and The Wharton Health Care Management Program. He is an elected member of ASCI and AAP. -
Jake Scott, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on vaccine safety and effectiveness, antimicrobial stewardship, and diagnostic stewardship. Recent work includes a systematic review of COVID-19, RSV, and influenza vaccines in the New England Journal of Medicine, participation in NIH-funded RECOVER and ACTIV-6 studies, and projects using biomarkers and test-ordering strategies to optimize antibiotic use and reduce unnecessary testing.
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Susan Meyhak Seav
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism
Clinical Assistant Professor (By courtesy), NeurosurgeryBioDr. Seav is a board-certified endocrinologist and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Endocrinology at Stanford and, by courtesy, the Department of Neurosurgery. She graduated from Harvard University with an honors degree in molecular and cellular biology before completing her medical education and residency at the University of California, San Diego. She then completed her endocrinology fellowship at Stanford University.
She has a special interest in disorders that involve the pituitary and adrenal glands such as acromegaly, Cushing disease, hypopituitarism, and functional adrenal adenomas. Dr. Seav is determined to provide her patients with personalized, evidence-based medicine that will allow them to live their best lives. In addition to caring for patients, Dr. Seav is also passionate about medical education and devoted a chief medical residency year teaching medical students, interns, and residents.
In-person and telehealth appointments with Dr. Seav are available at Stanford Endocrinology Clinic at Hoover Pavilion, Pituitary Center at Stanford Neurosciences Health Center, and the Stanford Brain Tumor Center at Stanford Cancer Center. -
Rebecca Seekamp, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsInterested in complementary/alternative medicine, international health, international adoption medicine and providing full spectrum health care.
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Niraj Sehgal
Clinical Professor, Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsQuality Improvement & Patient Safety, Teamwork & Communication, Leadership
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Deborah Sellmeyer
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism
BioDr. Sellmeyer is an internationally recognized expert in Metabolic Bone Disease. She is a renowned clinician who joined the Stanford faculty in 2018 as a Professor of Medicine. She has been recognized for her clinical excellence with induction into the Miller Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence while she was at Johns Hopkins. In addition to her clinical expertise, Dr. Sellmeyer maintains a research program that centers on the effect of nutrition and environmental factors on skeletal metabolism which she has investigated through both smaller CRC-based trials and large multi-center trials. Studies she has conducted have investigated the role of dietary sodium chloride, source of dietary protein (animal, vegetable, dairy, soy), role of dietary potassium and alkaline potassium salts, targeted thoracic exercises on kyphosis, whether structured exercise can prevent bone loss in premenopausal women treated for breast cancer, and studies validating nutritional assessment questionnaires. Her expertise as a clinical researcher has enabled development of a multi-disciplinary translational research team including basic scientists in the orthopedic department, junior faculty members with K grant funding, and basic scientists in the endocrine division to develop translational projects studying the effects of osteoporosis medications on basic elements of skeletal biology utilizing bone biopsies from treated individuals as well as clinical trials of novel therapies for rare bone disorders. Dr. Sellmeyer also is a esteemed educator, having received multiple teaching awards.
