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Jon B. Lee, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency MedicineBioDr. Lee is board-certified in both Emergency Medicine and Pain Medicine. He works clinically as an attending physician in both the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Division of Pain Medicine at Stanford University.
Dr. Lee offers employs multi-modal medication utilization, injection therapies, radiofrequency ablation, and neuromodulation, to help patients manage their pain and improve their quality of life. Dr. Lee’s academic interests include interventional pain management in acute care settings, ED utilization and management for acute and chronic painful conditions, and transitions of care between inpatient and outpatient settings. -
Sherman Leung
Affiliate, Department Funds
Resident in Emergency MedicineBioSherman is an emergency medicine resident physician serving patients at Stanford Hospital, Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara, and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Before his career in medicine, Sherman spent time as a software engineer, digital health product manager, and early-stage healthcare investor. He received an MD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai through the support of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship and started MD+, a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to empowering aspiring physician-innovators. He cares deeply about leveraging his background in technology to support underserved patient populations and building a more equitable, efficient, and cost-effective healthcare system.
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Michelle P. Lin
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine (Adult Clinical/Academic)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Lin's active NIH-funded research portfolio includes developing a novel patient-reported outcome measure for emergency asthma care; evaluating post-acute transitions and outcomes for high-risk populations; and enhancing health professions workforce diversity and retention. Her prior funded projects have evaluated the impact of value-based care on emergency care delivery and payment; drivers of ED admission rates; and changes in the intensity of emergency care.
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Benjamin Lindquist
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsInternational emergency medicine development and education.
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Angela K. Lumba-Brown
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCurrent research includes evidence-based guidelines for the management and treatment of traumatic brain injury, research establishing an evidence and targeting treatments for the subtypes of concussion, research identifying the best outcomes in pre-hospital care of patients with traumatic brain injury, research on brain performance via sensorimotor and sensory-cognitive synchronization, and research on dynamic visual synchronization as a biomarker for attentional impairments.
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Jose R. Maldonado, MD, FACLP, FACFE
John and Terry Levin Family Professor of Medicine and Professor, by courtesy, of Emergency Medicine and of Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPathophysiology and Management of Delirium, Acute Brain Failure and Cognitive Impairment, Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of Traumatic Brain Injury, Factitious Disorder & Munchausen's Syndrome, Cultural Diversity in Medical Care, Psychiatric Complications of Bone Marrow Transplantation, Conversion Disorder, Depression in the Medically Ill, Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
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Eric Marxmiller
Advanced Lecturer, Emergency Medicine
BioEric Marxmiller has worked in EMS for over 18 years in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Eric works in EMS education at Stanford University and on an ambulance in San Francisco and San Mateo counties. Not exclusive to the Bay Area, Eric has worked in numerous countries coordinating medical operations for sporting events and medical evacuations for a private medical and security firm.
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Martha Meredith Masters
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioM. Meredith Masters is currently the Marc and Laura Andreessen Medical Director for Disaster Relief for the Stanford University School of Medicine and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. In this role, she serves as the medical director for the Office of Emergency Management, providing clinical oversight to disaster planning and response across the Stanford Medicine platform.
Dr. Masters attended medical school at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and trained with the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the University of Wisconsin. Following residency, she completed the Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine Fellowship with the Fire Department of New York.
Prior to joining the Emergency Medicine Faculty at Stanford, Dr. Masters served as the Medical Director for University Hospital EMS in Newark, NJ, and was part of the Emergency Medicine Faculty at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
Dr. Masters’ clinical and research interests are focused on disaster preparedness and mitigation, improving education in disaster medicine, and the ethical delivery of care during crises. -
Emilin Maria Mathew
Stanford Student Employee, Emergency Medicine
BioScientist-activist passionate about designing accessible healthcare solutions.
Portfolio: https://emilinmathew.su.domains/portfolio/index.html -
Waverly Mayer
Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator, Emergency Medicine
Current Role at StanfordAssistant Clinical Research Coordinator
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Esmeralda Melgoza
Postdoctoral Scholar, Emergency Medicine
BioEsmeralda Melgoza, PhD, MPH, CHES is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University's School of Medicine. Her research examines and addresses health inequities in the prehospital setting, with a focus on the Latine/Hispanic population, older adults, and people with limited English proficiency. She is trained in both quantitative and qualitative methods. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Medical Care, SSM-Qualitative Research in Health, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, and Frontiers in Public Health, among others. Her dissertation research was funded by an R36 grant from the National Institute on Aging.
Dr. Melgoza received her PhD in Community Health Sciences from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a minor in Gerontology from the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. Dr. Melgoza is a former Senior Research Analyst at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute and an alumna of the Yale Ciencia Academy at Yale University. She is bilingual in English and Spanish. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, mentoring underrepresented students in academia, hiking, and exploring new coffee shops and restaurants. -
Tsuyoshi (Yoshi) Mitarai
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCritical Care, optimal resource allocations for inpatient care
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Jennifer A. Newberry
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine (Adult Clinical/Academic)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsInterests include global emergency medicine research, emergency obstetric and neonatal care in low- and middle-income countries, gender-based violence, and the intersection of emergency medicine, social justice, and development goals.
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Christine Ngaruiya
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine (Adult Clinical Academic)
BioChristine Ngaruiya, MD, MSc, DTM&H is an Associate Professor in the Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM), and the Population and Global Health Research Director for the department.
Previously she was on faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at Yale University. She completed the Global Health and International Emergency Medicine fellowship in the Yale DEM in 2015, while also matriculating with a Master of Science and Diploma in Tropical Medicine and International Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research interests center on: noncommunicable diseases, barriers to care, community-based participatory research and implementation science with a particular focus on Africa.
Some past honors include: the Emergency Medicine Resident’s Association (EMRA) Augustine D’Orta Award for outstanding community and grassroots involvement, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate and the 2014 Harambe Pfizer Fellow Award for social entrepreneurship, the 2016 University of Nebraska Outstanding International Alumnus award, the 2018 Young Physician award of the Global Emergency Medicine Academy at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the 2019 Yale School of Medicine Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine for clinical excellence and compassionate care, being selected as 1 of 30 WomenLift Health Women Leaders in Global Health in 2021, 1 of 25 US Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum fellows in 2023, and as 1 of 100 National Academy of Sciences US-Africa Frontiers in STEM fellows in 2024.
She has held several national and international leadership positions including with: the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) as current co-chair of the Research Committee (2024-2026), the African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM) and WomenLift Health. She was also a founding member of the Yale Network for Global Noncommunicable Disease (NGN). Her work has been funded by Yale University, the NIH, Gates Foundation, World Bank, USAID, the American Psychiatric Association, among others. She has served on a number of NIH panels related to global NCD topics, and has lectured both nationally and internationally on the same.
She is the global NCD section editor for PLOS Global Public Health, and also a fervent writer in the non-traditional sphere on global NCDs. To that end, she was selected as one of twenty Yale Public Voice Fellows for 2015-2016 from across campus with more than 20 publications in outlets such as Time, Huffington Post, Medium, and The Hill on the topic. -
Robert L Norris Jr
Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEnvironmental toxinology, with special emphasis on envenomations (particularly snake venom poisoning; Airway management techniques; Tactical medicine
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Melissa Ann Pasao
Health Services Research Program Coordinator, Emergency Medicine
Current Role at StanfordManage faculty research labs: Dr. Maame Yaa A. B. Yiadom
Oversee 40-person interdisciplinary team, collaborating with 20 faculty and 8 trainees across 13 states and 5 countries
Coordinate study team use of patient health information data compliant tools, including: SmartSheet, REDCap, Nero Google Cloud Platform, MS Word Package, Box, and Google Drive
Structure and standardize recruitment, screening, interviewing, onboarding, and training processes for research staff
Co-develop and facilitate workflow of the Emergency Department Data Analytics Committee to service 30+ data requests supporting research (clinical, artificial intelligence, digital health, health services), education (trainee clinical performance metrics), clinical operations, and business intelligence
Monitor program and resources with a total budget of over $4M, overseeing 25 studies from study startup through completion including study design, data collection, statistical analysis, results interpretation, manuscript writing
Coordinate submission of 16 manuscripts, 7 presented abstracts, and facilitated 12 grant submissions with 6 awarded by: National Institute of Health; Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence; Stanford Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine & Imaging; Department of Emergency Medicine; Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Research -
Terry Platchek
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
Clinical Professor (By courtesy), Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Clinical Professor, Emergency MedicineCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Platchek's research interest focuses on improving value in healthcare delivery using healthcare model design thinking and a "Lean" business strategy. Dr. Platchek is also interested in effective methods for engaging clinicians in systems-based clinical improvement efforts.
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Liliana Ponce
Casual - Non-Exempt, Emergency Medicine
Current Role at StanfordAssistant Clinical Research Coordinator
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Carl Preiksaitis
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioDr. Carl Preiksaitis is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. He earned his MD from NYU Grossman School of Medicine, completed his Emergency Medicine residency at Stanford University, and subsequently completed a two-year Medical Education Scholarship Fellowship at Stanford. Dr. Preiksaitis also holds a Master of Education in Medical Education from the University of Cincinnati.
Dr. Preiksaitis's research interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence, medical education, and emergency medicine. As Principal Investigator of the Human Experience and Advancement Lab (HEAL), he focuses on leveraging AI and data science to enhance teaching, learning, and clinical practice. His projects include AI-powered analysis of clinical experiences for personalized resident education and the development of AI-assisted tools for evaluating learning resources.
Additionally, Dr. Preiksaitis is passionate about reproductive healthcare in emergency medicine. He has developed curricula for pregnancy disclosure and options counseling in the emergency department and conducts research on the prevalence and characteristics of emergency department visits by pregnant individuals. -
James Quinn
Professor of Emergency Medicine, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Quinn's primary focus is emergency care research with previous experience running large multi-center trials.. He has an extensive research background in clinical decision making involving patients with syncope and in the development and clinical evaluation of tissue adhesives. He is currently focused on the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms to augment physician decision making and personalizing the care of patients.
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Mitesh Rao
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioDr. Mitesh B. Rao, MD, MHS is the Founder and CEO of OMNY, a venture-backed company revolutionizing how healthcare data is shared and valued. A Board-Certified Emergency Medicine Physician, Dr. Rao practices clinically as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford. Most recently, he served as the Chief Patient Safety Officer for Stanford Healthcare where he led Patient Safety, Quality, and System Redesign for the Enterprise. Dr. Rao also served as Director of the Center for Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS), which focused on advancing the science and implementing new innovations in the fields of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement.
Previously, he was trained in leadership and research skills as a Fellow in the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. Subsequent to his time at Yale, he served as the Director of the Patient Safety Education Program at Northwestern Medicine. As a physician leader, he was helped implement systems-level improvements for quality and safety in institutions across the country and overseas that have had lasting effects on patient care provision. He has also led teams serving contracts with various governmental and non-profit agencies such as the Joint Commission Resources, CMS, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, Partners Health Care, and the American College of Surgeons in multiple campaigns and initiatives to improve Patient Safety on a national level.
Dr. Rao also served as the Head of Research and Integration for the health innovation program at Northwestern. In this role, he developed an expertise in improving care provision through innovative methodologies. He spearheaded efforts to integrate innovative technologies into the health system to improve patient care in a variety of settings, including telemedicine and mHealth initiatives. Working both with innovators and researchers across the various schools of the University as well as promising startups from around the country, Dr. Rao helped guide and refine the process for vetting and integrating pilot programs to test new technologies within the clinical venue. He also serves as a mentor to multiple healthcare-focused startups and accelerator groups across the country in order to help guide the development of implementation of innovative solutions that can sustainably impact patient care provision. -
Caroline E. Rassbach
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
Clinical Professor, Emergency MedicineCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsMedical education including learner assessment, program development and mentoring and coaching in medicine.
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Brian Travis Rice
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDeveloping data-driven approaches to defining and comparing chief complaints fro emergency and unscheduled acute care in low- and middle-income countries
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Ashley Christine Rider
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioAshley C. Rider is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. After completing her training in emergency medicine at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA, she pursued a fellowship at Stanford in Simulation Education while simultaneously working on a Master of Education in the Health Professions (MEHP) at Johns Hopkins School of Education. After fellowship, she has stayed on at Stanford to continue her work as simulation faculty as well as serve as an Assistant Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program. Her academic interests include simulation-based education at the UME/GME levels, interprofessional education, operations data as it relates to learner development, quality improvement, resuscitation team dynamics, and social emergency medicine.
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Fran Riley
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioDr. Fran Riley is a physician engineer and Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University. She obtained an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and robotics, she obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Waterloo where she focused on robotics. Driven by her passion for merging medicine and technology, she pursued a Master's degree in Computer Science at The Johns Hopkins University, where she developed a motor controller for an early prototypes of the Da Vinci robot for ENT surgical applications. Dr. Riley's research also focused on utilizing real-time monitoring data to enhance the treatment of traumatic brain injuries in the pediatric intensive care unit.
Following her work in robotics and computer science, Dr. Riley transitioned to the healthcare industry, where she served as a product manager at Microsoft. In this role, she lead multidisciplinary teams to develop multiple features for an electronic medical record dedicated to data analytics. The product was then acquired by GE Healthcare.
Dr. Riley then pursued a medical degree at the University of Vermont, followed by a residency and chief residency at Maimonides Medical Center. She then completed a fellowship in emergency ultrasound at Columbia University Medical Center.
At Stanford, Dr. Riley is an integral part of the Stanford Emergency Medicine Partnership Program (STEPP), utilizing her technical expertise to identify industry partners for research collaborations and product development. She also actively contributes to a hospital-wide committee dedicated to evaluating the use of informatics for clinical care, prioritizing patient safety and high-quality care.
Dr. Riley's clinical research focuses on leveraging artificial intelligence in image recognition for regional wall motion abnormalities, specifically utilizing point-of-care ultrasound to diagnose acute coronary syndrome. -
Christian Rose, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine (Adult Clinical/Academic)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsUncertainty permeates the practice of emergency medicine. I want to answer the question: what do you do when you don't know what to do?
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Alejandra Ruiz
Postdoctoral Scholar, Emergency Medicine
BioDr. Alejandra Ruiz is a physician from Bogotá, Colombia, with experience in high-complexity medical settings, including oncology and intensive care during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is a strong advocate for integrative care, addressing both physical and mental health needs. Currently, Dr. Ruiz is a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Jennifer Newberry’s lab, where she investigates the barriers faced by the Latinx community when seeking mental health support while developing strategies to improve access and connection to mental health services. Deeply committed to community outreach and health advocacy, Dr. Ruiz is dedicated to creating sustainable pathways for underserved populations to receive comprehensive care.
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Kimberly Schertzer
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsInterests include simulation for procedural training, faculty development, and teamwork.
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Donald Schreiber
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research group focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular emergencies including acute myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome and congestive heart failure. We have evaluated novel cardiac markers and point-of-care testing in clinical practice. Current projects also include the diagnosis and treatment of acute pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis. Other interests include spinal cord injury, pneumonia and sepsis.
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Manish I. Shah, MD, MS
Professor of Emergency Medicine (Pediatrics) and, by courtesy, of Pediatrics (Hospital Medicine)
BioI have dedicated my career to improving pediatric prehospital care on local, statewide, national, and international levels through research, education, and advocacy. My primary research interest focuses on integration of pediatric evidence into emergency medical services (EMS) systems. I serve on the Executive Committee of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) as the nodal Principal Investigator (PI) for the Charlotte, Houston, and Milwaukee Prehospital (CHaMP) research node. In addition, I am the PI for the Pediatric Dose Optimization for Seizures in EMS (PediDOSE) clinical trial and co-investigator for the Pediatric Prehospital Airway Resuscitation Trial (Pedi-PART). As an educational researcher, I have obtained several grants to produce an online EMS educational resource for physicians, create the Pediatric Simulation Training of Emergency Prehospital Providers (PediSTEPPs) program, and study the implementation of an EMS training curriculum for the Botswana Ministry of Health. As an EMS advocate, I led the Prehospital and State Partnership domains for the national EMS for Children (EMSC) Innovation and Improvement Center (EIIC), served as an appointed member of the National Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council (NEMSAC), chaired the EMS subcommittee for the American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Emergency Medicine, and directed the EMSC State Partnership in Texas. I have published policy on pediatric readiness in EMS systems and co-chaired the workgroup that created the first-ever national assessment of pediatric readiness of EMS systems for the National Prehospital Pediatric Readiness Project (PPRP).
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Sam Shen
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEmergency Department process improvement
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Shyam Mohan Sivasankar
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioMy interests lie in the intersection of Medicine and Media, Global Pediatric Emergency Medicine Education, Child Abuse Pediatrics, and in Medical Student Education.
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Rebecca Smith-Coggins, MD
Professor (Teaching) of Emergency Medicine, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEffect of work schedule on work performance, mood and, sleep architecture in attending emergency medicine physicians,residents.
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Matthew Strehlow
Professor of Emergency Medicine (Adult Clinical/Academic)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research aims to improve healthcare delivery in LMICs through evidence-based training, emergency care epidemiology, and strengthening maternal and child health via EMS. Partnering with Digital Medic and WHO, I evaluate training methods and develop guidance for health emergencies. I’ve contributed to prehospital care systems in India and other countries. Additionally, I explore EMS as access points for intimate partner violence victims and climate related health emergencies.