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Vimala Bharadwaj
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioDr. Bharadwaj grew up in India and came to the United States for her graduate studies. She completed her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Arizona State University. Her doctoral work focused on preclinical studies investigating nanoparticle delivery across the blood-brain barrier after traumatic brain injury. In 2018, she joined Drs. Porreca and Anderson laboratories at the University of Arizona for postdoctoral training. Her postdoctoral work focused on identifying the critical role of dorsal pons neurons in the migraine pain pathway. Currently, she continues her migraine research in Dr. Yeomans’s lab at Stanford Medicine. Dr. Bharadwaj is also currently involved in post-traumatic headache research in Dr. David Clark's laboratory at the Veterans Affairs (Palo Alto). Recently, she was awarded the prestigious International Headache Society Fellowship for investigating mechanisms for migraine pain generation. Over the years, she has held several leadership positions including serving as the communications director for Stanford Postdoctoral Association, as a diversity, equity, and inclusion Ally for the American Headache Society, and as an assistant editorial team member for the Headache journal.
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Emma Elizabeth Biggs
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy main research interests are in the field of chronic pain and learning. I am interested in understanding how processes related to learning can contribute to the development, spreading, and treatment of chronic pain. I am especially interested in understanding how fear and pain interact across complex brain networks.
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Austen Brooks Casey
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioAusten Brooks Casey, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (advisor: Boris Dov Heifets, MD, PhD). He originates from western North Carolina, and has had a long-standing interest in drug discovery for major depression and schizophrenia, which was invigorated by initial coursework in organic chemistry and biochemistry. Austen trained at Northeastern University (advisor: Raymond G. Booth, PhD) where he studied the medicinal chemistry and pharmacology of novel ligands targeting serotonergic G protein-coupled receptors. Currently, he is investigating neural circuits activated by psychedelic drugs, with the long-term goal of using modern techniques in neuroscience to complement drug design efforts toward the development of novel antidepressant and antipsychotic medications.
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Karlyn Edwards
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAdapting and testing psychological interventions for chronic pain and opioid misuse, identifying patients factors related to psychological and medication treatment responsiveness, latent variable modeling, brief digital psychological interventions, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness
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Tuuli Maria Hietamies
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioTuuli Hietamies, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Anaesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine. Her research interests include studying psychedelics and utilising these in the context of brain injury and rehabilitation.
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Theresa Lii, M.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Masters Student in Epidemiology and Clinical Research, admitted Autumn 2021Current Research and Scholarly InterestsKetamine for acute and chronic pain management
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Ayesha Sujan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioAyesha Sujan, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Before joining Stanford University, she completed a year-long postdoctoral fellowship in the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, her doctoral training in the Department of Psychological and Brian Sciences at Indiana University – Bloomington, her clinical internship at the Medical University of South Carolina, her master’s degree in Human Development from Cornell University, and her bachelor’s degree from Tulane University. Though her training has focused on psychological science, her training spans multiple disciplines, including epidemiology and pharmacology.
Broadly speaking, she conducts translational research focused on preventing early exposure to risk factors from having adverse consequences on child development. Her research initially focused on early-life adversities, particularly abuse and neglect, and then expanded to include the prenatal period. Though she studies the consequences of a number of pregnancy-related risk factors, her work mainly focuses on prenatal exposure to psychoactive substances (e.g., opioids and antidepressants) and risk for adverse birth outcomes (e.g., preterm birth) and neurodevelopmental problems (e.g., autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder). She uses real-world health care data because women cannot be randomly assigned to use psychoactive substances during pregnancy due to ethical concerns about exposing developing offspring to potentially harmful substances. Given that people who use psychoactive substances during pregnancy differ from those who do not, she uses innovative methods that help account for these differences and seeks converging evidence across multiple methods. For example, one method she uses compares children who were exposed during pregnancy to their own siblings who were not exposed. This method accounts for all genetic and environmental factors shared by the siblings and, thus, provides a strong test of the consequences of substance exposure during pregnancy. Her research has important clinical implications. For example, a paper she published in JAMA suggests that adverse outcomes associated with prenatal exposure to antidepressants are largely due to background factors rather than medication exposure itself. This finding could provide reassurance to people considering antidepressant use during pregnancy. Her hope is that her research will inform policies and practices and will, thereby, help improve the health and wellbeing of mothers and their children. -
Feng Xie
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioFeng Xie is currently a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine, and he recently graduated with a joint Ph.D. degree from Duke University and the National University of Singapore. He previously obtained his bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2017. During his Ph.D. study, he utilized interpretable machine learning tools in acute and emergency care settings and published six first-author research papers in high-impact journals. Specifically, he developed a novel informatics framework called AutoScore, which automatically generates interpretable clinical scores from electronic health records. This open-source software package has been used by local and international researchers, downloaded about 400 times per month from the CRAN platform, and the first paper published in 2020 has garnered around 40 citations. His research interests include machine learning, clinical informatics and decision-making, predictive models, electronic health records, and risk stratification in acute care settings.
