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Vishal Patel
Director for Digital Strategy and Library Technology, School of Medicine - Lane Medical Library
BioVishal Patel joins Lane Medical Library from a career spanning clinical AI product development, healthcare analytics, and luxury wellness hospitality. He holds an MD and PhD (genetics) from Case Western Reserve University and a BS in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech. Most recently, he served as President and Chief Science & Innovation Officer at Sensei, leading technology, R&D, and scientific affairs. His prior work includes building NLP-powered clinical products at Pieces Technologies, teaching clinical informatics at Case Western Reserve, and founding Phronos, a research studio developing computational tools to measure AI's effects on human cognition. At Lane, he leads digital strategy for the library's 43-million-record biomedical search infrastructure, with a focus on augmenting knowledge discovery while preserving the critical role of libraries in the evidence-based practice of medicine and science. He also serves as Vice Chair of the Men's Wellbeing Initiative at the Global Wellness Institute.
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Sarvesh Periyasamy
Affiliate, Department Funds
Resident in Rad/Interventional RadiologyBioResident in the Integrated Interventional Radiology Residency. I completed my Internship in General Surgery at Stanford Health Care (2024).
I am a former MD-PhD student part of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. I earned my PhD in Biomedical Engineering in the Image-Guided Interventions Lab under Dr. Paul Laeseke MD, PhD. My thesis work investigated novel X-ray based image guidance techniques and device development for image-guided interventions.
I am interested in a career where I can integrate advances in physics and engineering research into a translational career as a physician-scientist. My research interests focus on the development and use of advanced imaging techniques to improve diagnosis and intervention of a variety of vascular and oncologic diseases. -
Anthony T. Pho
Affiliate, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
BioAnthony Pho PhD, MPH, ANP-C (he/him) is a primary care nurse practitioner at the Stanford LGBTQ+ Health Program, where in addition to his clinical and precepting responsibilities, he works with Stanford’s Gender Recognition and Affirmative Care through Education (GRACE) initiative as the Senior Clinical Education Lead to promote culturally competent LGBTQ+ care throughout the health enterprise. He was formerly a postdoctoral clinical scholar with The PRIDE Study/PRIDEnet at Stanford School of Medicine where he was an inaugural Propel Postdoctoral Scholar. Dr. Pho earned his PhD from Columbia University School of Nursing, where he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar. He has held an adjunct faculty appointment at NYU Meyers College of Nursing since 2013. Dr. Pho’s doctoral research that explored online health information seeking, eHealth literacy, and human papillomavirus vaccination among transgender and gender diverse people, was awarded the Columbia Nursing Dissertation Excellence Award. He also earned BSN, MSN, and MPH degrees from Johns Hopkins University, and a BA from UC Berkeley.
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Philip A. Pizzo, M.D.
David and Susan Heckerman Professor, Emeritus
BioPhilip Pizzo, MD, is the David and Susan Heckerman Professor Emeritus. Pizzo served as Dean of the Stanford School of Medicine from April 2001 to December 1, 2012. He was Founding Director of the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute from 2012 - 2022. Pizzo began rabbinical studies at the Academy for Jewish Religion, California in 2022 and studies in Spiritual Care and Counseling at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2024.
Dr. Pizzo career focused on the diagnosis, management, prevention and treatment of childhood cancers and the infectious complications that occur in children whose immune systems are compromised by cancer and AIDS. He has been a leader in academic medicine and in longevity and the future of higher education.
Pizzo received his MD degree with Honors and Distinction in Research from the University of Rochester in 1970 and completed an internship and residency at the Boston Children’s Hospital. He was a fellow in pediatric oncology at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and served as head of the NCI’s infectious disease section, chief of pediatric oncology, and scientific director for the Division of Clinical Sciences between. Before joining Stanford in 2001, he was the physician-in-chief of Boston Children’s Hospital and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, where he was also the Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics.
Dr. Pizzo is the author of more than 650 scientific articles and 16 books and monographs. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinion in Pediatrics from 2012 - 2019. He co-led the National Academy of Medicine 2011 report Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education and Research; and “Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences at the End of Life” that was published in 2015.
Pizzo has received numerous awards and honors, including the Public Health Service Outstanding Service Medal in 1995, the Barbara Bohen Pfiefer Award for Scientific Excellence in 1991, the Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Award in 2008, the Ronald McDonald Charities “Award of Excellence” in 2009, and the John and Emma Bonica Public Service Award in 2013. He is the 2012 recipient of the John Howland Award, the highest honor for lifetime achievement bestowed by the American Pediatric Society. In 2019 he received the John Stearns Medal from the New York Academy of Medicine. Pizzo received the 2021 International Immunocompromised Host Society’s Lifetime Distinguished Career Award. He received the Dean’s Medal from the University of Rochester in 2023.
Pizzo has been elected to the Association of American Physicians, the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the American Pediatric Society, the National Academy of Medicine. He has served as Chair of the Association of Academic Health Centers and Chair of the Council of Deans of the Association of American Medical Colleges. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Society for Clinical Oncology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He was President of the International Immunocompromised Host Society between1998 – 2011, and he served on the Governing Board for the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine from 2004 - 2012. Pizzo was elected to the Board of Trustees of the University of Rochester from 2009 - 2022 and the Board of Overseers of Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey from 2010 - 2022. He served Academic Advisory Council for Merritt Hawkins between 2015 - 2022., and the Advisory Board to the Milken Institute Center on Aging from 2015 - 2022. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research from 2012- 2022. In 2015 Pizzo was elected to the Board of Directors of Global Blood Therapeutics through 2023, and in 2019 he was elected to the Board of Directors of Hillel at Stanford through 2023. -
Danielle Polevoi
Instructional Faculty, Physician Assistant Studies
BioDanielle Polevoi is a recently board certified physician assistant who graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine’s Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies program with a concentration in Medical Education. During PA school, she was selected as one of fifteen students nationwide to participate in The PAEA’s Future Educator Fellowship program. She was also chosen by Stanford MSPA faculty as one of three students in the Class of 2022 to represent our program in the AAPA Virtual Challenge Bowl in 2021.
Prior to getting her master's degree, Danielle attended UCLA where she received a B.S. in Biology. In order to gain patient care experience for PA school, she worked as an Emergency Department Scribe at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center and as a medical assistant in a gynecologic surgery group.
Danielle was born and raised in San Francisco. She is eager to begin her career at SHC in the Medical ICU taking care of critically ill patients. -
Ekanath Srihari Rangan
Affiliate, Department Funds
Resident in MedicineCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsCardiovascular, Neurological, and other organ systems health through non-invasive and pervasive - Wear, Watch & Warn - disease severity trajectories; Measure, Monitor, & Modify for Predictive, Preemptive & Preventative health.
Multidisciplinary synergy of collaborative creativity through the joining of forces of technology and intelligence with medicine to overcome intractable diseases.
Coherence of Computation and Compassion for holistic health @ home. -
Adrit Rao
Affiliate, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign Program
BioAdrit is passionate about research at the intersection of deep learning, healthcare, and mobile apps. For the past four years, he has been conducting digital health research at Stanford's Vascular Surgery division. He is also a member of the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign's Digital Health group and serves as a TA for Stanford's CS342 course.
Adrit has co-authored 16 peer-reviewed publications, including 13 as first author. He has presented at several prestigious international conferences, including MICCAI, ICCV, CVPR, and MWSCAS. He developed AutoABI, a patent-pending AI-enabled app for peripheral artery disease diagnosis. He developed the A4 deep learning pipeline for automated abdominal aortic aneurysm measurement which is open-sourced through Stanford AIMI's Comp2Comp. His research also focuses on improving the explainability of computer vision for medical image analysis. He is also a contributor to Stanford Spezi's digital health ecosystem. -
Kelly Ray, NP
Clinical Instructor (Affiliated), School of Medicine - Senior Associate Dean for Medical Student Education
BioKelly Ray, NP, is board certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner and an Emergency Nurse Practitioner. Kelly completed her nurse practitioner training at Georgetown University, and worked in primary care and corporate health before joining Stanford in 2016. She particularly enjoys helping patients with acute medical needs, and maintains clinical interest in wilderness and travel medicine.
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Jenna Reisler
Affiliate, Department Funds
Fellow in Peds/Clinical InformaticsBioJenna Reisler, MD is an Internal Medicine-trained Clinical Informatics Fellow passionate about designing clinical decision support tools that reduce clinician burden and improve patient outcomes. Her work spans AI-integrated CDS for falls prevention, human-centered EHR workflow design, and quality improvement in ambulatory care. Recent projects include a co-investigator role on an EPIC-based falls prevention CDS tool published in Applied Clinical Informatics, and co-PI of an ACGME Back to Bedside–funded home visit program integrating social determinants of health into residency training.
