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Sierra Hewett Willens
MD Student with Scholarly Concentration in Informatics & Data-Driven Medicine / Women's Health - Sexual & Gender Minority Health, expected graduation Spring 2025
BioSierra Willens is a medical student at Stanford interested in the intersection of healthcare and technology. In 2018 she was awarded a fellowship with Guangzhou Women and Children's Hospital to conduct AI research designed to combat socioeconomic and geographic barriers to medicine through scientific innovation. Her contributions have been recognized through numerous accolades with publications in Cell and Nature Medicine and over 4K citations in the literature. Her projects range from developing AI models for early detection of retinal diseases to predicting preterm birth and craniofacial abnormalities from perinatal ultrasounds, and assessing post-operative surgical outcomes using automated hand keypoint detection. Sierra has published seven chapters, served as a reviewer for medical journals, and was a contributor to the book, “Regenerative Facial Surgery.” Her work on regenerative facial aesthetics earned her PI the Tiffany Award for Best Scientific Presentation. Through these pursuits, he research has earned her the Discovery Grant, Innovation Grant, and a year-long research fellowship from Stanford's MedScholars program. Lastly, Sierra received the Special Projects Initiatives Funding (SPIF) grant for cofounding Stanford's new MEDXBioDesign student initiation: a coalition between Biodesign and Stanford School of Medicine, designed to lead future generations of physicians on how to become critical, impactful collaborators in the sector of health care innovation.
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Francis Robert Willett
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
BioFrank Willett is co-director of the Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory. Our group develops brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to restore movement and communication to people with neurological disorders. Recent contributions include handwriting and speech-based BCIs that set new records for communication speed and accuracy in people with paralysis. More broadly, we are interested in computational approaches to understanding brain function and recordings, with a focus on how the human brain represents movement and language.
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Eve Edelstein
Adjunct Professor, Pediatric Anesthesiology
BioDr. Edelstein’s research and practice focus on the measurable impact of the built environment on human performance, health, wellbeing. Eve’s ongoing collaboration with a national quality improvement study explores the impact of noise in operating rooms with Stanford, Harvard, Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania, and other members of SPA.
Eve's recent work with Google and the International WELL Building Institute, explores how the built environment can support the unique abilities of providers and the people they serve to enhance performance and outcomes.
Dr. Edelstein's clinical service and doctoral research at University College London and the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, and at the Harvard MIT hearing sciences lab developed and used electrophysiological techniques to show the brain’s efferent control of cochlear function. Eve's degrees in in Anthropology (University California Berkeley), and Master of Architecture offer a unique background for her contributions as a Board member of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, the AIA College of Fellows Latrobe Prize on circadian design, the Berkeley Teaching Prize on Neuro-Universal Design, and the Calit2 Strategic Opportunities Award for Virtual Visual and Acoustic hospital design for the University of California San Diego.
Dr. Edelstein co-founded Clinicians for Design and Neuro-Architecture, and contributed to award-winning hospital designs, including master planning through architectural and interior solutions for top-tier academic and medical centers, educational facilities, and building projects in the US, Canada, UK, and China.
