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Maike van Niekerk, PhD
MD Student with Scholarly Concentration in Community Health / Surgery, expected graduation Spring 2026
BioMaike van Niekerk is pursuing an MD at Stanford School of Medicine as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.
Maike earned her bachelor’s degree in cancer- and global health-focused nursing at Dalhousie University as a Schulich Leader Scholar, and her Ph.D. in Psychiatry at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Upon completing her Ph.D., she worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization advising on guideline development for integrating mental and physical healthcare in low-resource settings. Her research expertises are in the development and implementation of biopsychosocial models of care.
At Stanford, she is working alongside Dr. Tileston and members of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Research Program to develop new models of care for pediatric patients with scoliosis, aimed at improving mental and physical health outcomes in this patient population.
Maike aspires to improve healthcare access for underserved communities by pioneering holistic treatment programs combining insights from medicine, psychiatry, and nursing to improve care for diverse patient populations. -
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 3K 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 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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Timothy Ting-Hsuan Wu
MD Student, expected graduation Spring 2024
Ph.D. Student in Biochemistry, admitted Summer 2021
MSTP Student
Casual - Non-Exempt, Medicine - Med/Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care MedicineCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsMolecular and cellular basis of lung development, renewal and disease;
Single cell analysis of SARS-CoV-2 lung infection;
Vascular inflammation and immune dysregulation in pulmonary hypertension.
