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Tarik F. Massoud, MD, PhD
Professor of Radiology (Neuroimaging and Neurointervention)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy current interests are in molecular and translational imaging of the brain especially in neuro-oncology and cerebrovascular diseases, experimental aspects of neuroimaging, clinical neuroradiology, neuroradiological anatomy, and research education and academic training of radiologists and scientists.
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Martha Meredith Masters
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioM. Meredith Masters is currently the Marc and Laura Andreessen Medical Director for Disaster Relief for the Stanford University School of Medicine and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. In this role, she serves as the medical director for the Office of Emergency Management, providing clinical oversight to disaster planning and response across the Stanford Medicine platform.
Dr. Masters attended medical school at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and trained with the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the University of Wisconsin. Following residency, she completed the Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine Fellowship with the Fire Department of New York.
Prior to joining the Emergency Medicine Faculty at Stanford, Dr. Masters served as the Medical Director for University Hospital EMS in Newark, NJ, and was part of the Emergency Medicine Faculty at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
Dr. Masters’ clinical and research interests are focused on disaster preparedness and mitigation, improving education in disaster medicine, and the ethical delivery of care during crises. -
Amy Li Matecki
Adjunct Clinical Instructor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioDr. Amy (Ying Li) Matecki has been licensed to practice medicine in California since 2002 and completed her Internal Medicine Residency as Chief Resident at Highland Hospital, Alameda Health System, a UCSF affiliate, in 2004. She received her degree in Acupuncture and Chinese medicine from ACCHS in 2009. She was a Faculty Attending Physician at Department of Medicine Residency at Highland Hospital from 2004 to 2019 and Chief of the Integrative Medicine Division from 2014 to 2019. She and her colleagues from allopathic medicine and Chinese Medicine created hospital privilege policy for licensed acupuncturists in 2011 and designed policies, procedures and training methods for acupuncturists to join the medical staff to provide inpatient acupuncture services at Highland Hospital. She helped to create the first Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Residency from 2016 to 2019 at Alameda Health System Highland Hospital. Graduates from this residency program are able to work in allopathic academic teaching hospitals’ inpatient care and outpatient medical centers.
In addition to serving in the public hospital, Dr. Matecki joined Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (ABSMC) Comprehensive Cancer Center in 2004 where she started a community hospital-based acupuncture program to bridge Eastern and Western Medicine. She has been the Medical Director of Integrative Medicine at ABSMC since 2008. Integrating Chinese Medicine into conventional oncology practice, Dr. Matecki and her team not only provide clinical care but also present and publish their findings on safety from using acupuncture and integrative medicine to reduce the pain, nausea and anxiety that frequently accompanies conventional cancer treatments. In many case level observations, Dr. Matecki and her team note that the integration of Chinese Medicine may enhance cancer patients' quality of life.
Dr. Matecki was the principal investigator (PI) for acupuncture research for chronic post-chemotherapy fatigue in collaboration with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She presented her study on the safety of acupuncture for patients with lymphedema at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Breast Cancer Symposium in October 2009. She was co-investigator in a public hospital that studied acupuncture feasibility for Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients which was published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (JACM) in 2017. She is the current PI for a Chinese herbal medicine research project at ABSMC. Following her team’s previous success at Highland hospital, she pioneered the first Sutter Bay Hospital Integrative Medicine TCM Residency training program at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in 2023. https://vitals.sutterhealth.org/east-meets-west-health-system-launches-its-first-traditional-chinese-medicine-clinical-training-program/
Dr. Matecki is an Adjunct Clinical Faculty at Stanford Health Care, a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Society of Integrative Oncology (SIO); Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP); Co-founder of International Center for Integrative Medicine (ICIM); Board member of Society of Chinese American Physician Entrepreneurs (SCAPE); House delegate for California Medical Association (CMA). Matecki is currently serving on the State California Acupuncture Board, first appointed by Governor Jerry Brown in 2016, reappointed by Brown in 2017 and Governor Gavin Newsom in 2021. She served as the California Acupuncture Board President from 2017-2021 and the current board member. https://www.acupuncture.ca.gov/about_us/member_profiles.shtml#matecki . She continues to work on policy and safety guidelines for hospital-based Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine practice with a multidisciplinary team of physicians, nursing staff, acupuncturists and hospital administrators. -
Brittany Elizabeth Matheson, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioBrittany Matheson, PhD, is a clinical assistant professor and licensed clinical psychologist in the Eating Disorders Clinic. She completed her undergraduate degree at Duke University, doctorate from the Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego, and APA clinical internship at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford (LPCH)/Children’s Health Council. Dr. Matheson is a certified family-based treatment (FBT) therapist and consultant. She is also the director of the Stanford Eating Disorder Research Program Data Coordination Center and collaborates with colleagues on NIH-funded randomized clinical trials. Dr. Matheson's research interests include examining the psychosocial, neurocognitive, and familial factors related to disordered eating and excess weight gain in youth. She is interested in the development and implementation of evidence-based treatments for youth with disordered eating as well as better understanding factors that influence pediatric bariatric surgery outcomes. Dr. Matheson has specialized research and clinical expertise in the interplay among obesity, disordered eating, and autism spectrum disorder and is the director of psychological services for the LPCH adolescent metabolic and bariatric surgery program. She conducts comprehensive evaluations and provides evidence-based treatments for individuals across the age-spectrum with eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, and other specified feeding and eating disorders. Her recent research focuses on reducing access to care barriers by digitizing evidence-based treatments and utilizing technology to enhance treatment outcomes.
