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Katherine T. Ward, MD
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Ward is the Chief of the Geriatrics Section in the Department of Medicine, Division of Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford University School of Medicine, and a Clinical Professor of Medicine. In this leadership role, she supervises program leaders across outpatient, inpatient, and skilled nursing facility settings, bringing them together to provide longitudinal, coordinated care to older adults across the healthcare continuum.
Dr. Ward is a fellowship-trained geriatrician with Stanford in Palo Alto, California, and is board certified in geriatric medicine, hospice and palliative medicine, and internal medicine. Her clinical practice spans all care settings—outpatient clinics, hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities—with a focus on managing the critical transitions between them. She specializes in comprehensive care for older adults, including dementia care, palliative care, geriatric assessment, and best practices in nursing home care. Dr. Ward draws on her extensive experience to teach and implement evidence based models that support care for older adults. Dr. Ward's research interests include early detection of dementia in vulnerable populations, dementia care support programs, and geriatric assessment in diverse populations.
She has published her research in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society; The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy; The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging; and the Journal of Palliative Medicine. She has served as an ad hoc reviewer for several journals, including Geriatrics, and has presented posters at annual meetings of the American Geriatrics Society and the Society of General Internal Medicine.
Dr. Ward is a member of the American College of Physicians and the American Geriatrics Society. -
Victoria Ward
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsGlobal child health, digital health, preterm birth, human trafficking
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Chisondi S. Warioba, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioChisondi S. Warioba, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Division of Pain Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, working in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine with Dr. Sean Mackey and Dr. Kenneth Weber. His research develops machine learning and deep learning approaches for high-dimensional medical data, with an emphasis on cross-species translational neuroscience, resting-state fMRI, and multimodal MRI analysis (NODDI, DKI, and advanced diffusion techniques) to identify brain biomarkers of chronic pain.
He earned his PhD in Medical Physics from the University of Chicago, where his dissertation focused on cross-species mapping of functional connectivity alterations and therapeutic responses in hyperacute ischemic stroke. He completed a triple-major bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology at Westmont College.
Dr. Warioba is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and was awarded an Academic Visitor position at the University of Oxford's Department of Clinical Neurosciences. He received the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award from the Mathematical Association of America for expository excellence. He is committed to mentorship and community engagement, including STEM outreach for underrepresented students and neuroscience public education. -
Roger Warnke
Ronald F. Dorfman, M.B.B.ch., FRCPath, Professor in Hematopathology, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAs an Emeritus Professor, I no longer have a research laboratory and am now fully retired.
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Jenli Dawn Waters, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery
BioDr. Waters is a board-certified, fellowship-trained neurosurgeon with the Neurosurgery Program at Stanford Health Care. She is also a clinical assistant professor of neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Waters specializes in treating a wide range of spinal conditions. These treatments include surgery to relieve numbness or pain related to pressure on the spinal cord and procedures to repair or stabilize the spinal column (spine fusion). Her areas of expertise also include diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury and brain and spinal cancers.
Dr. Waters’ research experience includes helping to develop effective strategies for diagnosing
and treating patients with different neurological cancers, including glioblastomas. As a subspecialty medical expert for spine and neurosurgery, she successfully advocated for insurance coverage of state-of-the-art, minimally invasive approaches to treating epilepsy and brain tumors.
Dr. Waters has published her work in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Neurosurgery and the Journal of Neuro-Oncology. She has also authored and co-authored chapters in numerous books describing neurosurgical techniques and the diagnosis and treatment of various neurological conditions, including brain and spinal cord tumors.
Dr. Waters is a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
