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Cybele A. Renault, MD, DTM&H, FIDSA
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
BioDr. Renault has devoted her career to caring for vulnerable patient populations, both domestically and overseas. She completed her medical school and residency training at the University of Chicago, caring for underserved patients on Chicago's South Side, followed by a Chief Resident year at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, the public hospital serving the uninsured in Chicago. She began her career in global health as an Infectious Diseases fellow at Stanford, validating low-cost HIV diagnostics in Burkina Faso, and providing clinical service and teaching in India and Zimbabwe as a fellow, and later in Thailand, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and Ethiopia as one of our Infectious Diseases faculty. Her clinical work is focused on caring for our Veteran population, working to empower Veterans to engage in their care, often in the setting of significant mental illness.
Dr. Renault is most passionate about medical education and program development to combat global antimicrobial resistance through antimicrobial stewardship, to create opportunities for the Internal Medicine residents centering on caring for vulnerable patient populations, and to develop impactful and sustainable programs in collaboration with our low- and middle-income partners for our Center for Innovation in Global Health. She served as Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program for 4 years prior to transitioning to her current role as Program Lead for Global Health, for which she leads the Global Health Track for the Internal Medicine residency program and develops global health initiatives for the Department of Medicine. She co-founded and has been director of the Stanford 2-week intensive global health course since its inception in 2012, she has structured trainee and faculty rotations based on evolving needs of our partner sites in Uganda, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, and Sri Lanka, and she is leading Stanford's Internal Medicine virtual case-based education initiative to support our newest medical school partner in Negele Arsi, Ethiopia.
Dr. Renault strives to augment Stanford's contributions and support for underserved patient populations in the United States. She established resident rotations in Shiprock, New Mexico and Chinle, Arizona through the Indian Health Service, and she is Faculty Advisor for the Internal Medicine Health Equity, Advocacy and Research concentration in the residency program. She also aspires to improve resources for women physicians. In 2016, Dr. Renault established the GME Women in Medicine Leadership Council, with the intention of creating community and encouraging conversations about professional and personal life decisions as women in the field of medicine. She is passionate about mentoring through sharing personal experiences, creating an environment that encourages reflection, and building skills to address challenges unique to women in medicine.
In 2022, in recognition of her passion for medical education and her success in program development, Dr. Renault was asked to join the leadership at Palo Alto Veterans Health Care System as Deputy Designated Education Officer in the Office of Education. In this role, she works with rotation directors to optimize their respective rotations to offer robust educational opportunities for trainees across specialties who are rotating at the Palo Alto VA. -
Mara Rendi, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor, Pathology
BioDr. Rendi is a breast and gynecologic pathologist with a focus on the education of medical students, residents, and practicing pathologists. Her areas of interest include the utilization of molecular testing in breast cancer, management of high-risk lesions, ancillary testing to aid in the use of novel therapeutics, and development and delivery of effective pathology education to medical students. She is a nationally and internationally known medical educator having won multiple teaching awards for her innovative strategies in pathology education. She is actively involved in undergraduate medical education, resident education, and continuing medical education for practicing pathologists as well as a practicing breast and gynecologic pathologist.
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Kavita Renduchintala
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine
BioKavita Renduchintala, MD is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) and completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at LAC + USC Medicine Center in Los Angeles.
Dr. Renduchintala’s clinical background includes caring for hospitalized patients across a range of internal medicine settings. Before joining Stanford, she worked at the University of Chicago, where she provided both general medicine and oncologic hospitalist care. She has also held roles in oncologic hospitalist medicine at Moffitt Cancer Center and in surgical co-management at Keck Hospital of USC.
Her academic interests focus on medical education, with a particular focus on transitions that occur during medical training. She is dedicated to supporting trainees and enhancing the learning environment in academic hospital medicine. Her research has also explored vaccine uptake among cancer survivors. -
Nathan Reticker-Flynn, PhD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (OHNS)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsTo metastasize throughout our bodies, tumors subvert and co-opt our immune systems. Our lab seeks to uncover how these processes occur and develops therapies to put a stop to them.
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Julia Retzky, MD
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
BioDr. Julia Retzky, MD, is a fellowship-trained sports medicine surgeon at Stanford Health Care. She is also an assistant professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Division of Sports Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Retzky specializes in arthroscopic surgery of the hip, knee and shoulder, with a particular interest in caring for the female athlete. She treats anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and other ligament injuries, meniscus and cartilage damage, labral tears of the hip and shoulder, and rotator cuff and shoulder conditions.
Dr. Retzky's research centers on ACL injury and the prevention of post-traumatic osteoarthritis following ACL injury. During a dedicated research year in residency, she identified several strategies that slowed the development of arthritis following ACL rupture in mice.
Dr. Retzky’s research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including The American Journal of Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy. She has also presented to her peers at international, national, and regional meetings, including annual meetings of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine and the Orthopaedic Research Society.
Dr. Retzky is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM), and the International Society for Hip Arthroscopy (ISHA) – The Hip Preservation Society. She has served as an assistant team physician for the New York Liberty (WNBA) and the New York Red Bulls (MLS), and as head team physician for New York City Public School Athletic League (PSAL) football. -
Chloe Reuter
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Medical GeneticsBioChloe Reuter is a Genetic Counselor and Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is Principal Investigator of an NIH-funded research program focused on developing frameworks for the clinical translation of multi-omic technologies in rare diseases.
Ms. Reuter provides genetic counseling care at the Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases, specializing in inherited cardiovascular conditions including cardiomyopathies, arrhythmia syndromes, and sudden cardiac death. She has expertise in interpreting complex genomic results from multi-gene panels, exome sequencing, and whole genome sequencing for patients with rare and undiagnosed diseases.
Ms. Reuter's research centers on translating cutting-edge genomic technologies into clinical practice. She develops frameworks for integrating multi-omic data (genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics) into diagnostic workflows and contributes to evidence-based guidelines for variant interpretation and clinical curation. Her work addresses the ethical and practical challenges of implementing these technologies, with particular focus on patient engagement, equitable access to precision medicine, and protocols for returning complex research results. She also conducts genetic counseling practice research, examining patient experiences, psychosocial assessment tools, and healthcare delivery models including telehealth services.
She has contributed to multiple national genomics initiatives including the Undiagnosed Diseases Network and the GREGoR Consortium, applying comprehensive genomic approaches to solve medical mysteries and improve diagnostic outcomes for patients with rare diseases. -
Samantha Reyes
Postdoctoral Scholar, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford
BioResearch Interests: Preclinical and clinical PET imaging, novel tracer validation in vivo, neuroinflammation, proteomics, theranostics and pharmacokinetic modeling
Samantha is an NIH T32 SMIS Postdoctoral Scholar who completed her PhD in Biomedical Physics in Dr. Michelle James' laboratory at Stanford, where her doctoral work focused on the development and translational validation of novel PET radiotracers for non-invasive imaging of neuroinflammation. She led the preclinical development and validation of two GPR84-targeted PET radiotracers for imaging innate immune activation in a murine model of multiple sclerosis, and also led the clinical data analysis for the first whole-body TSPO-PET/MRI study in female patients with ME/CFS. She is well-versed in preclinical and clinical PET quantitation, pharmacokinetic modeling, autoradiography, and cell-based assays. Her postdoctoral research applies her molecular imaging expertise to gynecological cancers, with a focus on using proteomics-driven biomarker discovery and novel theranostic radioligands to characterize the tumor microenvironment and improve response to therapy in women's cancer. -
Eman Rezk
Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Rad/Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford
BioPostdoctoral researcher, Royal Society of Canada award recipient, and NSERC scholar, specializing in AI-driven healthcare solutions with a focus on equitable diagnostics.
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Andrew Rezvani, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine (Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsClinical research in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation
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James H Rhee
Clinical Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
BioDr. Rhee is a physiatrist and a clinical assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation. For patients with spine and musculoskeletal conditions, he focuses on providing exceptional care emphasizing minimally invasive solutions designed to optimize symptom managementand patient function.
Building on his background in engineering and on his specialized medical training and experience, Dr. Rhee welcomes opportunities to combine medical, mechanical, and interpersonal approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of each patient. He offers a full range of treatment modalities, including epidural steroid injection procedures, sacroiliac and facet joint injections, trigger point and soft tissue injections, orthopedic joint injections, and more. He also provides medial branch blocks and radiofrequency ablations, and performs electrodiagnostic studies.
Among the wide range of conditions that Dr. Rhee treats are bursitis, herniated discs, radiculopathy, sciatica, spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, and spondylosis. He also has treated many forms of joint and muscle pain: facet joint, back, neck, hip, and sacroiliac joint pain.
Dr. Rhee’s experience encompasses short-term and long-term care for both acute and chronic conditions, including musculoskeletal injuries, spinal problems, mixed spine-neck and spine-shoulder disorders, and peripheral damage. Many of the cases he treats are injury-related, while a significant number of others are associated with aging. Another portion of his patient population presents with conditions stemming from developmental anomalies.
Prior to joining Stanford Health Care, Dr. Rhee was in private practice in the Bay Area. Previously, he also served in the US Army as a troop medical clinic officer-in-charge and as a brigade surgeon.
Dr. Rhee is board certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and a member of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, North American Spine Society, and Spine Intervention Society.
