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Anna Lembke, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (General Psychiatry and Psychology-Adult)
BioDr. Anna Lembke received her undergraduate degree in Humanities from Yale University and her medical degree from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also Program Director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, and a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Addiction Medicine.
In 2016, she published "Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic (Zuger, 2018).
Dr. Lembke appeared in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives.
Her latest book, "Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence" (Dutton/Penguin Random House, August 2021) was an instant New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller and has been translated into 30 languages. It combines the neuroscience of addiction with the wisdom of recovery to explore the problem of compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world. -
Hendrikus Lemmens
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (MSD)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsClinical Pharmacology of Anesthetics
Morbid Obesity
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Jody Leng
Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated), Multispecialty Anesthesiology
Staff, Multispecialty AnesthesiologyBioDr. Leng is a board-certified anesthesiologist, specializing in regional anesthesiology. She attended medical school at the University of Miami, and completed her anesthesiology residency and Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine (RAAPM) fellowship at Stanford Health Care. Prior to her medical career, she worked as an R&D engineer at a biomedical device startup in Silicon Valley. She currently serves as the Director of RAAPM at the VA in Palo Alto, the Program Director of the RAAPM fellowship, and the Co-Director of the Peer Support and Resiliency in Medicine (PRIME) wellness program at Stanford.
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Theodore Leng, MD, MS, FACS
Professor of Ophthalmology (Ophthalmology Research/Clinical Trials) and, by courtesy, of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (MSD)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Leng was the first surgeon in California to perform a subretinal transplant of adult neural stem cells into patients with macular degeneration and is actively researching cell and gene regenerative therapies for macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, Stargardt disease, and other degenerative conditions of the macula and retina. He also has an active program in imaging informatics, oculomics, and deep learning to identify patients who are at risk for eye and systemic disease. The end goal is earlier detection and rapid treatment to maximize outcomes.
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Marc Leon (aka Hongliang Liang) MD, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery
BioMarc Leon (also known as Hongliang Liang), M.D., Ph.D., previously served as Chief Surgeon, Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery, and Director of the Division of Coronary Artery Surgery at Xijing Hospital in Xi'an, China. Currently, he is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford Hospital. Dr. Leon is a surgeon member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), and the Chinese American Academy of Cardiology (CAAC). His clinical and research expertise includes the surgical management of cardiopulmonary failure, heart valve disease, and ischemic heart disease, along with the application of stem cell therapy for myocardial infarction. Additionally, Dr. Leon is actively engaged in exploring the application of artificial intelligence in the field of cardiovascular diseases.
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Mary Leonard
Arline and Pete Harman Professor, Professor of Pediatrics (Nephrology), of Medicine (Nephrology) and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy multidisciplinary research program is focused on (1) the detrimental effects of glucocorticoids, sarcopenia and inflammation on bone development in pediatric diseases, (2) the long-term effects of childhood cancer on bone and muscle quality, (3) the assessment of renal osteodystrophy using novel micro-imaging techniques, (4) the effects of vitamin D deficiency on physical function and cardiovascular disease, and (5) the evaluation of biomechanical interventions as anabolic bone therapies.
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Stephanie A. Leonard
Assistant Professor (Research) of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Maternal Fetal Medicine) and, by courtesy, of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine
BioStephanie Leonard, PhD, MS, is an Assistant Professor in the Dunlevie Maternal-Fetal Medicine Center for Discovery, Innovation, and Clinical Impact (https://dunleviemfm.stanford.edu/) and holds a courtesy appointment in Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine.
The goal of Dr. Leonard’s research is to advance equitable, positive health experiences and outcomes for pregnant individuals and newborns. She is interested in applying transdisciplinary methods to perinatal health research, with a focus on studying pregnancy-related morbidities in large data sources. Currently, her primary research interests are in building an infrastructure for distributed data network studies of perinatal health and improving treatment of chronic hypertension in pregnancy. To this end, she co-launched the OHDSI Pregnancy and Reproductive Health Work Group (https://www.ohdsi.org/workgroups/) and collaborates closely with the Harvard Program on Perinatal and Pediatric Pharmacoepidemiology (http://www.harvardpreg.org/). She also serves as a collaborator and mentor on a variety of obstetrics studies, including clinical trials, prospective and retrospective observational studies, and qualitative studies. Dr. Leonard's research program is currently funded by NHLBI (K01) and NICHD (U54).
Dr. Leonard trained in epidemiology at UCLA (MS) and UC Berkeley (PhD), where her research focused on nutrition in pregnancy and was completed in partnership with the WIC program and the Nutrition Policy Institute. She completed a postdoc in Neonatal and Developmental Medicine at Stanford as part of the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences. -
Michael Leong
Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Clinical Professor (By courtesy), NeurosurgeryCurrent Research and Scholarly Interests- Intrathecal / Intraspinal Analgesics
- Ziconotide (Prialt)
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John Leppert
Professor of Urology and, by courtesy, of Nephrology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOur research aims to improve the global quality of care for patients with Urologic Cancer with a particular focus on kidney cancer. We are investigating novel proteomic platforms and assays to diagnose kidney cancer and predict response to therapy. We are evaluating the comparative effectiveness of various kidney cancer surgeries and their impact on chronic kidney disease and its downstream effects. We are applying epidemiology, bioinformatics, and health services methods to urologic conditions.
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Amy Leslie
Postdoctoral Scholar, Urology
BioDr. Amy R. Leslie is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Urology in Dr. James D. Brooks's lab. Dr. Leslie received their Ph.D. from UC Davis in Integrative Pathobiology in Dr. Allen C. Gao's lab and B.S. from UC Santa Cruz in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Before coming to Stanford, Amy's prior research focused on characterization of therapeutic resistance in advanced stages of prostate cancer. Currently, Dr. Leslie is investigating how prostate cancer cells evade the immune response through glycosylation alterations to the cancer cell surface using in vitro and in vivo approaches.
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Eric Leslie
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsTranslational research of exercise responses to improve human health and sport performance. Current research emphasizes multi-omic and accelerometry data analysis to characterize the molecular and applied responses to exercise training as well as the biological profiles of elite athletes.
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Ann Leung
Professor of Radiology (Thoracic Imaging)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHigh-resolution computed tomography of the thorax, particularly its application in the setting of acute lung disease in the immunocompromised host; quantitative assessment of abnormalities using thin-section CT; and enhancement characteristics of lung cancers on CT and MRI
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Kenneth Leung, MD, MS
Clinical Assistant Professor, Adult Neurology
BioDr. Leung is a board-certified neurologist who practices both comprehensive neurology and neuromuscular medicine. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology within the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Leung has a particular interest in the diagnosis and management of a broad range of disorders affecting muscle and nerves, including motor neuron disease, neuropathy, neuromuscular junction disorders, and myopathy. He also is an avid clinician educator who develops course work, is involved in education research, and teaches medical students and neurology residents/fellows. He currently serves as Director of the Neurology Clerkship for medical students and Associate Director of the Neuromuscular Medicine Fellowship within the Stanford University School of Medicine.
He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley where he was awarded the 2011 Departmental Citation Award for Excellence in Research in Immunology. In 2016 he earned his medical degree and concurrent master’s degree in applied anatomy from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He then completed his internal medicine internship at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and neurology residency at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. During this time, he developed a passion for neurology education and served on graduate medical education committees for curricular development, trainee well-being and resilience, and quality improvement. For his work in medical education, he was selected as a Harvard Macy Institute Scholar in 2018 and was awarded the 2020 Institute for Medical Education House Staff Excellence in Teaching Award. He was also inducted as a house staff in the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. He then went on to complete a neuromuscular medicine fellowship at Stanford prior to joining as faculty.- -
Krystle Man-Chin Leung, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
BioDr. Leung is a board-certified, fellowship-trained pulmonologist, intensivist, and sleep specialist with Stanford Health Care and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Leung specializes in pulmonology, critical care, and sleep medicine, focusing on sleep-disordered breathing, chronic lung disease, and ventilator management in the intensive care unit (ICU) and at home. Dr. Leung also focuses on patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic respiratory failure, neuromuscular respiratory weakness, obesity hypoventilation syndrome, restrictive lung disease, and sleep apnea. She provides compassionate, patient-centered care, emphasizing shared decision-making and aligning medical treatments with patients’ values and preferences.
Dr. Leung’s research interests include optimizing care for patients who require home ventilation and those who have or have survived critical illnesses. She has prior research experience in prolonged mechanical ventilation, thoracic imaging, and asthma.
Dr. Leung has published her work in numerous peer-reviewed journals and presented at national conferences.
Dr. Leung is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the American Thoracic Society. -
Lawrence Leung
Maureen Lyles D'Ambrogio Professor in the School of Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOur long term interest is to have a better understanding of the natural antithrombotic pathways and the pathophysiology of vascular thrombosis. We have focused on thrombin, the key enzyme in the blood clotting cascade.Our goal is to develop new antithrombotic agents and devise new diagnostic tests for vascular thrombotic disorders.
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Sherman Leung
Affiliate, Department Funds
Resident in Emergency MedicineBioSherman is an emergency medicine resident physician serving patients at Stanford Hospital, Kaiser Permanante Santa Clara, and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Before his career in medicine, Sherman spent time as a software engineer, digital health product manager, and early-stage healthcare investor. He was named to MedTech Boston’s “40 under 40 Healthcare Innovators” for his work on a national care coordination platform serving ACOs, health systems and payers. He was also an early clinical product leader at Pearl Health supporting ACO Reach entities and value-based primary care enablement and Counsel Health focused on designing AI-enabled virtual care pathways. He received an MD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai through the support of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship where he started MD+, a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to empowering aspiring physician-innovators.
While in medical school, he was awarded the Mount Sinai Health System Population Health Fellowship where he designed an integrated primary care and behavioral health model to decrease total cost of care for mental health co-morbidities. At Stanford, he serves as a clinical administrative liaison on a number of committees and workgroups including the Stanford Hospital @ Home Program, Stanford Healthcare Alliance (an employer-based health plan), and reducing unnecessary ED utilization via increasing utilization of alternative sites of care. He cares deeply about leveraging his background in technology to support underserved patient populations and building a more equitable, efficient, and cost-effective healthcare system. -
Christoph Leuze
Casual - Non-Exempt, Rad/Body Imaging
BioDr. Christoph Leuze is director of the Visualization Core at the Stanford Wu Tsai Institute where his research focuses on data visualization, data processing and user interaction. His goal is to leverage Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality to automate creation of guidance and training applications by learning from expert users. He taught the first Stanford course on medical mixed reality development and founded the Stanford Medical Mixed Reality program, an institute-wide initiative to bring together academia, clinic and industry to establish and improve mixed reality applications for patient care.
Dr. Leuze has received multiple prizes for his work in Augmented Reality including the IEEE VR People's choice award for the best AR demo, the TechConnect Award for one of the most promising technological innovations for national security and the prize for the best 3D video at the Ars Electronica Art and Science Festival. Dr. Leuze has studied at Leipzig and Chiba University and received the Otto Hahn medal of the Max Planck Society for his PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. -
Shachar Lev Ari
Visiting Instructor/Lecturer, Genetics
BioI am a member and former Chair of the Department of Health Promotion, in the School of Public Health, in the Faculty of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University, former director, and founder of the Integrative Medicine Center & Research Laboratory at the Tel- Aviv Medical Center, and Head of the Health Promotion Unit in the Integrated Cancer Prevention Center. My training is in cellular biology, integrative medicine, intervention research, and health promotion science. I received the Outstanding Israeli Researcher for Complementary and Integrative Medicine award. The goal of my research is to unravel the biology, physiology, and psychology of health promotion approaches and translate findings into interventions that effectively target salutogenic mechanisms underpinning the biopsychology of well-being. I initiated the "lasting change" study and will co-lead this project in my current role as visiting scholar, at Prof. Michael Snyder's Lab, a global leader in precision health at Stanford University.
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Marc Levenston
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Radiology (Radiological Sciences Laboratory)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy lab's research involves the function, degeneration and repair of musculoskeletal soft tissues, with a focus on meniscal fibrocartilage and articular cartilage. We are particularly interested in the complex interactions between biophysical and biochemical cues in controlling cell behavior, the roles of these interactions in degenerative conditions such as osteoarthritis, and development of tissue engineered 3D model systems for studying physical influences on primary and progenitor cells.
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Lirit Levi
Clinical Instructor, Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)
BioLirit Levi is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery at Stanford. She has made academic contributions through several publications in clinical and translational studies within the field of otolaryngology head and neck surgery.
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Craig Levin
Professor of Radiology (Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford/Nuclear Medicine) and, by courtesy, of Physics, of Electrical Engineering and of Bioengineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMolecular Imaging Instrumentation
Laboratory
Our research interests involve the development of novel instrumentation and software algorithms for in vivo imaging of cellular and molecular signatures of disease in humans and small laboratory animal subjects. -
Eleanor Levin
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCardiovascular Value Based Care, Cardio-Obstetrics, Dyslipidemia Treatment
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Joshua Levin, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
Clinical Associate Professor, NeurosurgeryBioDr. Levin completed a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Michigan in 2007, and a pain medicine fellowship at the Virginia Commonwealth University in 2008. Currently, he is a member of both the departments of orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery at Stanford University, where he also is the director of the PM&R residency program and the associate director of the interventional spine and musculoskeletal medicine fellowship.
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Peter Levin, MD
Clinical Instructor, Ophthalmology
BioDr. Levin is a board-certified, fellowship-trained ophthalmologist with the Stanford Health Care Byers Eye Institute. He is also a clinical instructor in the Department of Ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Levin has focused solely on plastic and reconstructive eye surgery since 1992. He evaluates and cares for conditions such as tear duct problems and eyelid problems, including eyelid growths and cancers. As an established expert, he uses the best techniques to improve eye health and confidence in facial appearance.
Dr. Levin has published research findings in many peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Ophthalmology and Archives of Ophthalmology. He has also shared his expertise at numerous ophthalmology conferences and in books such as Contemporary Issues in Ophthalmology and Ophthalmic Surgical Procedures.
He is a fellow of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He also has a long history of teaching about ophthalmic procedures at Stanford University School of Medicine. -
Deborah J Levine, MD, FCCP, FAST
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
BioDr. Deborah Jo Levine is a board-certified pulmonologist and lung transplantation and pulmonary hypertension specialist. She is a clinical professor of medicine in the Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Levine also serves as director of lung transplant outreach for Stanford Health Care.
Dr. Levine is internationally recognized for her work in lung transplantation and pulmonary hypertension (PH). She has been instrumental in developing international guidelines for defining, diagnosing, and managing antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) after lung transplantation. She has served as chair of pulmonary AMR guidelines for the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation.
Dr. Levine’s research interests include lung allograft monitoring and risk assessment. Her research has also included monitoring lung allograft health using donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA)—a technique pioneered at Stanford Medicine. She has received National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding as a clinical investigator. Dr. Levine is a co-chair of the ALAMO (AlloSure Lung Assessment and Metagenomics Outcomes) Study national registry. She has been involved in many clinical trials in lung transplantation and pulmonary hypertension.
As a respected educator and researcher, Dr. Levine has led and contributed to dozens of abstracts, presentations, and peer-reviewed articles. She has also written several books and book chapters on pulmonary hypertension, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary vascular disorders, and lung transplantation.
Dr. Levine is editor-in-chief for Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension, the quarterly journal of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association. She is an editorial board member of The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation and an ad hoc reviewer for several other industry journals. Dr. Levine also serves as a grant reviewer and section study reviewer for the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Society of Transplantation.
Dr . Levine is a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Society of Transplantation. She is also the chair of the Diffuse Lung Disease and Lung Transplant Network and the incoming vice chair of the Council of Networks for the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST). -
Shana Charlie Levine
Clinical Research Coordinator Associate, Anesthesia - Adult Pain Medicine
Current Role at StanfordCRCA with Dr. Jennifer Hah's Strategies for Pain Alleviation though Research and Knowledge for Long-term Efficacy (SPARKLE✨) Lab
Stanford University School of Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine | Division of Pain Medicine
