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Timur Absalyamov
Affiliate, Medicine - Med/Stanford Prevention Research Center
BioTimur Absalyamov holds a Doctorate in Economics and a Master’s degree in Sports Ethics and Integrity. He has conducted academic research at multiple universities and has gained professional experience working in Russian soccer, as well as an independent sports management consultant.
Throughout his career, he has received several prestigious scholarships and awards, including the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, Fulbright Scholarship, Sverker Åström Foundation Scholarship, 4x British Petroleum Scholarship, and the Oxford Russia Fund Scholarship. Timur’s areas of expertise include sports ethics, sports and geopolitics, public funding of professional sports, and issues of sports and sustainability. -
Lucia Aronica
Casual Employee, Medicine - Med/Stanford Prevention Research Center
BioFor over seventeen years, my research has focused on the field of epigenetics, examining how environmental factors influence gene expression and health outcomes. Unlike fixed genetic sequences, epigenetic modifications exhibit remarkable flexibility, serving as cellular memory systems that respond to dietary patterns, stress levels, and environmental exposures. This dynamic characteristic creates significant potential for personalized medicine approaches, as epigenetic markers can indicate susceptibility to lifestyle-associated conditions including metabolic disorders, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.
I currently lead the epigenetic analysis component of the DIETFITS study directed by Dr. Christopher Gardner, a landmark clinical trial comparing low-carbohydrate versus low-fat dietary interventions for weight management. My research aims to characterize how sustained weight loss modifies gene activity through epigenetic mechanisms, and whether these molecular signatures might inform individualized nutritional recommendations.
At Stanford, I teach courses in Nutritional Genomics and Epigenetics through Stanford Continuing Studies, Stanford Sports Medicine, and the Stanford Center for Professional Development. My educational approach integrates rigorous scientific evidence with clear explanations of complex biological concepts, making epigenetic science accessible to interdisciplinary audiences.
My scientific contributions include publications in peer-reviewed journals examining the relationship between nutrition, epigenetic modifications, and health outcomes. I also collaborate with academic and industry partners to advance precision health initiatives, serving as a scientific advisor to genomics researchers and technology innovators working at the intersection of epigenetics and personalized health.
My research is guided by the principle that understanding the molecular dialogue between our environment and our genes can transform how we approach health optimization and disease prevention through evidence-based lifestyle interventions. -
Michael Baiocchi
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and, by courtesy, of Statistics and of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center)
BioProfessor Baiocchi is a PhD statistician in Stanford University's Epidemiology and Population Health Department. He thinks a lot about behavioral interventions and how to rigorously evaluate if and how they work. Methodologically, his work focuses on creating statistically rigorous methods for causal inference that are transparent and easy to critique. He designed -- and was the principle investigator for -- two large randomized studies of interventions to prevent sexual assault in the settlements of Nairobi, Kenya.
Professor Baiocchi is an interventional statistician (i.e., grounded in both the creation and evaluation of interventions). The unifying idea in his research is that he brings rigorous, quantitative approaches to bear upon messy, real-world questions to better people's lives. -
Narges Baniasadi
Academic Staff - Hourly - CSL, Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center
BioDr. Narges Baniasadi is founder and executive director of Emergence program at Stanford. She develops educational and translational programs for improving societal health through entrepreneurship. She is also Adjunct Professor with the Department of Medicine where she teaches impact entrepreneurship in the areas related to Prevention and Health Equity. Narges has led multiple initiatives and businesses in the intersection of Technology and Life Sciences for more than a decade. She founded Bina, a pioneering Bioinformatics company, out of a decade of research at Stanford and UC Berkeley. Bina developed high performance computing platforms and AI solutions for cancer research and genomics analysis. Later, upon acquisition of Bina by Roche, she led the clinical software development and AI research as VP of Informatics at Roche Sequencing until 2018.
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Ilias Chrissochoidis
Affiliate, Medicine - Med/Stanford Prevention Research Center
BioIlias Chrissochoidis is a scholar, author, composer and pianist. He received his Ph.D. in Music from Stanford University where he has been teaching since 1997 (as Lecturer since 2005). A Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow at Stanford's Humanities Center (2001-2), he was appointed a 2010 Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, and, in 2010-11, Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress. In 2009, he became the first musicologist to be hired at an Economics department (University College London) and in 2015 he joined the Berlin Social Science Center. As a Research Associate at the Center for Economic Learning and Social Evolution, he engaged in innovative research on game theory applications in Wagner’s operas. A leading expert on Handel, he also has championed Greek composer Nicolas Astrinidis and introduced Spyros P. Skouras in American and film historiography, editing his memoirs. Chrissochoidis has received over 30 grants and fellowships from world-renowened universities and research centers, professional societies, private foundations, and the Greek state. He has authored more than 50 research articles and essays, which can be found in leading musicological journals. In recognition of his musicological activity, the Academy of Athens awarded him a special commendation in 2005. As an author, Chrissochoidis has written six non-academic books in Greek and has published dozens of articles on educational, social, and political issues in the Stanford Daily, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and in the Greek newspapers Ta Nea, Kathimerini, Sunday Vima, and Vima Ideon. Composing music since his teens, he has written extensively for the piano and has released four albums of instrumental music. His listening-oriented course "A practical introduction to music theory and harmony" has been offered through Stanford Continuing Studies since 2005.
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Colette DeJong
Clinical Instructor (Affiliated), Medicine - Med/Cardiovascular Medicine
Staff, Medicine - Med/Stanford Prevention Research CenterBioDr. Colette DeJong is general cardiologist and health services researcher at the VA Palo Alto. A graduate of Brown University and the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, Dr. DeJong completed an internal medicine residency, chief residency, and fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at UCSF, as well as a two-year editorial fellowship at JAMA Internal Medicine and a research fellowship at the UCSF Center for Healthcare Value. Dr. DeJong’s research focuses on improving access to effective cardiovascular therapies. She is interested in developing and evaluating novel strategies to improve care delivery, such as cardiovascular combination pills (“polypills”). Dr. DeJong served as the principal investigator of a pilot clinical trial of heart failure polypills at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
