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Varalakshmi Niranjan, MD, MBA, Dip ABLM, Dip ABOM
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Varalakshmi Niranjan is triple boarded in Internal Medicine, Obesity Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine and an Author, practicing with Stanford healthcare. Dr. Niranjan practices obesity medicine and lifestyle medicine. Her clinical focus is on prevention and management of chronic diseases including Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, Obesity and Chronic Kidney Disease. She is the Founder and Program Director of Cardio metabolic and Lifestyle Medicine program called SMILES - Stanford Metabolic Intervention with Lifestyle Empowerment Support Group.
She is the clinical lead for the ICDP (Improvement Capability Development Program), a joint venture between the Department of Quality for Stanford Healthcare and the Stanford School of Medicine on the management of obesity. She is also the clinical lead for VBC (Value based care) project on MASLD (Metabolic Associated Steatotic Liver Disease) Dr. Niranjan has a special interest in global public health and has conducted a variety of health awareness and wellness camps in rural India.
Dr. Niranjan was the Regional Medical Director of population health for Saint Francis Healthcare Partners in Hartford, Connecticut before joining Stanford University. In her administrative role, she led many projects to improve patient safety and quality. Her research interests include ways to facilitate the teaching of lifestyle medicine, for which she received a Kaiser grant. She also received Food as Medicine Essentials Grant to implement Lifestyle Medicine education for the medical and ancillary staff at the University of Connecticut. She conducts workshops nationwide to teach primary care providers how to manage obesity with lifestyle interventions and medications. She also wrote a guidebook that offers a step-by-step approach for providers to help their patients manage obesity.
Dr. Niranjan has published her work in many peer-reviewed journals, including International Journal of Clinical Practice, Obesity Pillars, and Journal of General Internal Medicine. She is a reviewer for Obesity Pillars and Journal of Brown Hospital Medicine and has presented her work at professional meetings and conferences nationwide. In addition, she has authored several books and e-books, including a health education book and an e-cookbook of vegetarian soups for weight loss.
Dr. Niranjan is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Obesity Medicine Association. She is also a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and Society of General Internal Medicine. -
Jeff Nirschl
Affiliate, Biomedical Data Science
BioJeff Nirschl, M.D., Ph.D. is an Instructor in Pathology at Stanford University, Stanford, CA with clinical expertise in Neuropathology. He completed his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Dr. Erika Holzbaur. During his thesis research, he investigated axonal transport and genetic forms of parkinsonism. He also developed computational image analysis workflows for fluorescence microscopy and digital pathology. His research interests include molecular motors and the neuronal cytoskeleton, the regulation of axonal transport in neurodegeneration, digital pathology, and quantitative image analysis using machine learning.
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Akira Nishii
Masters Student in Biomedical Data Science, admitted Autumn 2024
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI'm interested in the challenges that arise in healthcare and biomedicine when applying machine learning to data-scarce and safety-critical settings. This broad interest motivates me to work on topics surrounding self-supervised learning and synthetic data.
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Dwight Nishimura
Addie and Al Macovski Professor, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly Interestsmedical imaging, magnetic resonance imaging
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Seiji Nishino
Professor (Research) of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe research focus of the Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology (SCN) Laboratory is the study of the sleep and circadian physiology using various animal models. A portion of the research is carried out using rodent models of narcolepsy and circadian rhythm sleep disorders. The laboratory also carries out pharmacological studies aiming to develop new treatments for these sleep disorders.
