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Michelle Ping Lin
Clinical Instructor, Emergency Medicine
BioI am emergency physician-scientist working to transform acute care delivery to best meet the needs of those who experience the greatest barriers to accessing health 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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Jason Lowe
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor, PediatricsCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsUse of telemedicine to facilitate handoffs between disparate institutions.
Use of 360 video and virtual reality as a training medium.
Use of virtual reality and other tech platforms to distract pediatric patients from painful procedures. -
Angela K. Lumba-Brown
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor (By courtesy), Neurosurgery
Clinical Associate Professor, PediatricsCurrent 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, FAPM
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
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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Tsuyoshi (Yoshi) Mitarai
Clinical Associate 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
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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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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Terry Platchek
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
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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James Quinn
Professor of Emergency Medicine
On Partial Leave from 04/04/2022 To 04/04/2023Current 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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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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Mr 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 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, procedural competence, interprofessional education, resuscitation team leadership, social emergency medicine, and quality improvement.
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Christian Rose, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
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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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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Alan Schroeder
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Critical Care
Clinical Professor, Emergency MedicineBioDr. Schroeder is the associate chief for research in the division of pediatric hospital medicine at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, and a clinical professor in the division of hospital medicine and the division of critical care. His research interests focus on identifying areas where we can “safely do less” in healthcare, striving to ensure that children get the healthcare that they need while avoiding excessive tests and treatments that only cause harm. Dr. Schroeder is currently involved in multiple projects involving common conditions and interventions in pediatrics such as head trauma, bronchiolitis, UTI, meningitis, febrile infant management, and third molar extractions. He is a co-chair of the Lown RightCare Alliance Pediatric Council, co-chair of the Academic Pediatric Association’s Healthcare Value Special Interest Group, an editor of the Yearbook of Pediatrics and an associate editor for the journal Hospital Pediatrics. Dr. Schroeder provides clinical care for children in the PICU and the pediatric ward.
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Sam Shen
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEmergency Department process improvement
Digital Health
ED operations
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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
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Strehlow's research is focused on global health and global emergency care. Working with in-country partners, he aims to identify the epidemiology of emergencies in developing countries and leverage the growth of emergency care systems in innovative ways to improve the overall health of the population. Specific examples include improving patient flow between the community and different level facilities and using emergency call center infrastructure to combat gender based violence.
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Brian Suffoletto
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Suffoletto is an emergency physician and NIH-funded investigator with a focus on collecting novel forms of longitudinal and remote data to inform temporal risk prediction and inform just-in-time adaptive interventions
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N. Nounou Taleghani MD, PhD
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioDr. Nounou Taleghani completed her undergraduate education at UCLA, graduating in 1986, and subsequently earned both her M.D. and Ph.D. (Neuroscience) degrees at the Chicago Medical School.
She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine in 1999 and joined the faculty of the Department of Surgery at Stanford as a Board Certified Emergency Medicine specialist in the same year.
She briefly left Stanford in August 2005 and joined the faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College, where she served as the Associate Dean for Clinical Curriculum for the Qatar campus and was responsible for the implementation, management and coordination of the WCMC-Q undergraduate clinical curriculum, including the third year clerkships and the fourth year electives. Under her leadership, WCMC-Q developed a pioneering, multilingual program in medical interpreting designed to assist medical students as they interacted with patients in their clinical courses at the local teaching hospital. Dr. Taleghani has received many awards for teaching, including several Excellence in Teaching awards, both at Stanford and at Cornell.
She re-joined the faculty of the Stanford School of Medicine in Fall 2009 as Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and as an Attending Physician in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Stanford Hospital. She holds an appointment in the medical school, and taught in the clinical curriculum as part of the Educator for CARE faculty for 10 Years. She now serves as Assistant Dean for Academic Advising in the School of Medicine and is the founder and director of the Center for Specialty Career Advising .
Dr. Taleghani is the Director for Medical Student Education for the Department of Emergency Medicine and overseas all the courses her department teaches in the Medical School, including being the inaugural required Clerkship Director for the EMED Clerkship. She also served as the founding Director for the Rapid Assessment Program , MD in triage for the Emergency Department.
Aside from her clinical and academic responsibilities at Stanford, Dr. Taleghani is also involved in many organizations around the Bay Area including serving as
Medical Director, Palo Alto Fire Department from 1999–2005,
Volunteer Medical Director, Susan G Koman 3 Day Walk, SF from 2003-2010
Volunteer Medical Provider for the Painted Turtle Camp
Volunteer Medical Director, AVON, Breast Cancer Walk, SF 2012-2015.
She is also one of the VTML’s, team medical liaison for the National Football League. -
Kristel Tjandra
Postdoctoral Scholar, Emergency Medicine
BioDr. Kristel Tjandra is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in the School of Medicine at Stanford University. Working at the interface between clinical chemistry and microbiology, her research focuses on advancing the diagnosis of bloodstream infection to slow down the spread of resistant organisms.
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Milana Trounce
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioDr. Boukhman Trounce graduated from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and went on to complete her emergency medicine residency and fellowship in Disaster Medicine and Bioterrorism Response at Harvard Medical School. She worked with the Center for Integration of Medicine and Technology (CIMT), a consortium of Harvard teaching hospitals and MIT, where she led BioSecurity related projects in conjunction with the US State Department. She also received her MBA from Stanford Business School.
After Harvard she joined UCSF as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and was Medical Director for Disaster Response. For the past 11 years, she has been at Stanford Medical School, where she is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine.
She directs the BioSecurity program at Stanford, focused on protecting society from pandemics and other threats posed by infectious organisms, with a specific emphasis on approaches to interrupting transmission of infectious organisms in various settings. The background for the approach is outlined in her briefings at the Hoover Institute (see in publications list below). Stanford BioSecurity facilitates the creation of interdisciplinary solutions by bringing together experts in biology, medicine, public health, disaster management, policy, engineering, technology, and business. https://med.stanford.edu/biosecurity/about.html
At Stanford, over the past ten years she has established and directed a class on BioSecurity and Pandemic Resilience , which examines ways of building global societal resilience to pandemics and other biothreats and has educated over a thousand students. She has also taught an online Harvard course on medical response to biological terrorism, educating thousands of physicians globally.
She has served as a spokeswoman for the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and is a founding Chair of BioSecurity at ACEP. In addition to her academic research and speaking at national conferences, she also consults nationally and internationally to healthcare systems, governments, and other organizations. -
Vance Vanier, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPrimary and secondary prevention of disease through the use of preventive genomic medicine. Patients who have greater insight into their genetic risk for different diseases may change their lifestyles and decrease their probablity of succumbing to conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular events. Personalized screening regimens for those at increased genetic risk, such as for colon cancer, is another important application worthy of validation.
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Rebecca D. Walker
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsInterests include international development in emergency care, healthcare disparities, wilderness medicine, human rights, administration
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Nancy Ewen Wang
Professor of Emergency Medicine and, by courtesy, of Pediatrics (Hospital Medicine)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests- Disparities in Emergency Medical Services for children.
- Efficacy of novel interventions for pediatric access to care.
- Teaching and supporting community-initiated interventions and programs internationally. -
Eric A Weiss, MD, FACEP
Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy focus of research is wilderness medicine, including hypothermia, heat illness, altitude illness, improvised medical care in austere environments and wound care. I also have a strong interest in Disaster Medicine, Travel Medicine and International Health, and Pandemics.
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Eric Weiss
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsIgnorance of Hepatitis A Among Travelers (writing up data).Travelers Neglecting to Seek Pre Travel Medicine Advice (writing up data).Fluoroquinolones in the Treatment of Complicated Urinary Tract Infections (new ED study)
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Sarah R. Williams MD, MHPE, ACC
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsExploring ways to incorporate coaching into medical education.
Investigating ways to innovate medical education training across specialties.
Investigating applications of clinician-performed point-of-care ultrasound for emergency and critical care patients.
Improving safety of transitions of care between providers during sign-out. -
Jennifer Wilson MD, MS
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEmergency critical care & resuscitation, ARDS, sepsis
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Samuel Yang, MD, FACEP
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Yang's research is focused on bridging the translational gap at the interface of molecular biology, genome science, engineering, and acute care medicine. The investigative interest of the Yang lab falls within the general theme of developing integrative systems-level approaches for precision diagnostics, as well as data driven knowledge discoveries, to improve the health outcome and our understanding of complex critical illnesses. Using sepsis and COVID-19 as the disease models with complex host-pathogen dynamics, the goals of the Yang lab are divided into 2 areas:
1) Developing high-content, near-patient, diagnostic system for rapid broad pathogen detection and characterization.
2) Integrating multi-omics molecular and phenotypic data layers with novel computational approaches into advanced diagnostics and predictive analytics for acute infections. -
Maame Yaa A. B. Yiadom
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
BioDr. Yiadom is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University and researcher with expertise in emergency care clinical operations and timely emergency care delivery. She was first trained in health care policy in Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. She subsequently worked as a healthcare industry management consultant here in New York City for CSC Global Health Solutions Group, and was the Dean’s Office Chief of Staff at Drexel Medical School in Philadelphia. She completed her medical education at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, a Masters in Public Health (MPH) at Harvard with additional health policy training from Johns Hopkins. She subsequently did residency at Mass General and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals’ Harvard affiliated program, and completed a Masters of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI) at Vanderbilt University.
Dr. Yiadom is the Principal Investigator for the Stanford Emergency Care Health Services Research Data Coordinating Center (HSR-DCC). Her research focuses on applications of evidence-based medicine to optimize clinical operations to target patient pathophysiology for time-sensitive conditions. STEMI is her prototype disease. Her group's primary methodologies include clinical practice epidemiology, workflow variability analysis, and clinically applied artificial intelligence. Current work includes refining clinical process, using informatics to support evidence-based practice, and performance measurement to identify real-world care improvement opportunities. Her research is supported by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and ED Benchmarking Alliance. She is the Founding Director of the Emergency Department Operations Study Group (EDOSG), and on the Board of Directors for the Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance (EDBA). The lab website is: https://yiadom-hsrdcc.com
Her interest in population health via emergency care have extended to Haiti, Guyana and Ghana. She and her husband Ryan Van Cleave (Airforce veteran, elementary school teacher, a training pilot, and Northern California native) have 3 children. -
Ken Zafren, MD FAAEM FACEP FAWM
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHigh altitude medicine, AMS, HACE, HAPE, cold injuries, including hypothermia and frostbite, emergency medical services, wilderness medicine, mountain rescue, thrombosis, international medicine, travel medicine, emergency medicine, resuscitation
