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Jenna Forsyth
Academic Program Professional, Medicine - Med/Infectious Diseases
BioJenna is a research scientist with the School of Medicine and affiliated with the King Center for Global Development, the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Doerr School of Sustainability. She completed her PhD with the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources and obtained her Master's in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington. Her research brings together principles of environmental science, epidemiology, and behavior change. She develops and evaluates interventions to minimize exposures to contaminants and disease vectors in low-income countries. Her most recent research has focused on lead exposure in South Asia.
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Virginia Fowkes
Senior Lecturer in Medicine (Family and Community Medicine)
Sr. Research Scholar, Primary Care and Population HealthCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsEvaluation of academic-community programs for health professionals in medically underserved areas
Training of health professionals for medically underserved areas/populations
Program development in medical education (Family Medicine and (AHECs)
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Jason Fries
Research Engineer, Med/BMIR
Current Role at StanfordI'm currently working as a staff research scientist in the Shah Lab and research scientist at Snorkel AI. My interests fall in the intersection of computer science and medical informatics. My research interests include:
• Foundation models and generative AI for healthcare
• Data-centric AI, focusing on training data curation, data generation, and quality assessment
• Learning with limited labeled data (e.g., weak supervision, zero/few-shot learning)
• Human-in-the-loop machine learning systems -
Adam Furst
Casual, CV Med - Clinical Trials
BioAdam Furst, JD, MS, is a Biostatistician of the S-SPIRE Center. Adam received his master's degree in biostatistics from the University of California (Davis), and his law degree from the University of Colorado (Boulder). He has served as a biostatistician on various grant-funded studies and clinical trials working with diverse teams including statisticians, doctors, surgeons, radiologists, dosimetrists, epidemiologists and other investigators. He is passionate about collaborative research to advance data and evidence-based practice in medicine and healthcare policy in general.
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Prasanth Ganesan
Basic Life Research Scientist, Medicine - Med/Cardiovascular Medicine
BioPrash Ganesan is a Research Scientist at Stanford Cardiovascular Medicine. His research is focused on developing novel signal processing and machine learning approaches for investigating and personalizing ablation therapy for patients with atrial fibrillation. He was previously a research fellow at the US National Institutes of Health working on conditions such as cervical cancer and Pneumonia using Deep Learning methods. He was recognized in the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2022 list in Healthcare and Science category. He is a co-inventor of patents on novel mapping approaches for atrial fibrillation. He aspires to become a renowned bioengineering scientist developing innovative methods to improve healthcare globally. In his free time he enjoys hiking, playing badminton, and exploring restaurants and food places.
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Christophe Gimmler, MD, MFT
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Primary Care and Population Health
BioChristophe Gimmler, MD, MFT, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine (Affiliated) at Stanford School of Medicine;
Staff Physician, Medical Service, VA Palo Alto Health Care System;
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
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After establishing and building the hospitalist and consult/liaison medicine service at the VA, Christophe now practices and teaches medical students and house staff in the primary care clinics there. He concurrently practices as a community psychotherapist and specializes in medical professionals. His central interest is the intersection of medicine and psychotherapy and, in particular, the application of psychological frameworks and skills to the practice of medicine, in addition to resiliency and burnout prevention. He developed the Medical Student Resiliency Skills Training program (MedReST) for the Stanford School of Medicine as well as the Resiliency Curriculum Series for the internal medicine residency program. He received as undergraduate degree in biology and psychology and an MD from the University of Virginia, completed his internal medicine residency at Stanford, and received a Master’s in Counseling Psychology from Sofia University.
Publications:
Foster Well-being Throughout the Career Trajectory: A Developmental Model of Physician Resilience Training:
Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Cordova MJ, Gimmler CE, Osterberg LG
2020; 95 (12):
Developing institutional infrastructure for physician wellness: qualitative Insights from VA physicians.
BMC Health Services Research
Schwartz, R., Shanafelt, T. D., Gimmler, C., Osterberg, L.
2020; 20 (1): 7 -
Thomas Glynn
Adjunct Lecturer, Med/Stanford Prevention Research Center
BioBiosketch - Thomas J. Glynn, M.A., M.S., Ph.D. (psych.)
Dr. Glynn is, from 2014 to the present, Adjunct Lecturer, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine and Executive Team Member, Mayo Clinic Global Bridges Initiative. From 1998 to 2014, he was Director, Cancer Science and Trends and Director, International Cancer Control at the American Cancer Society (ACS). In these positions, he advised the ACS about emerging research and policy issues in cancer prevention and control, recommended cancer prevention and control research and policies, and participated in the development of an international cancer control program aimed at promoting cancer prevention-related research, advocacy, treatment, and policy change, particularly in middle- and low-income nations.
Prior to the ACS, Dr. Glynn was, from 1991 to 1994, Associate Director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Cancer Control Science Program and, from 1991 to 1998, Chief of the NCI's Cancer Control Extramural Research Branch. There, he directed a national program of research aimed at reducing the incidence and prevalence of cancer, primarily through dietary change, tobacco use reduction, and adherence to cancer screening guidelines. From 1983 to 1991, he was Research Director for the NCI's Smoking, Tobacco, and Cancer Program and from 1978 to 1983, he was a Research Psychologist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Dr. Glynn has published widely on cancer and tobacco use prevention and control, both in the scientific literature and for consumer, professional, and patient education and is co-developer of the 4A (now 5A) protocol for the treatment of tobacco dependence. In addition to his work at the ACS and NCI, he has served as a consultant on cancer control and tobacco issues to such groups as the National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine, the National Research Council, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the WHO, a variety of pharmaceutical organizations, and national, state and local governments.
He has also served as a Senior Scientific Reviewer for the U.S. Surgeon General's Reports on Tobacco and Health, as Director of the World Health Organization Study of Health, Economic, and Policy Implications of Tobacco Growth and Consumption in Developing Countries, and has been active in tobacco control programs in Eastern Europe, Central America, and India. He is a Fellow of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and his awards include the U.S. National Institutes of Health Merit Award, the Polish Ministry of Health Service Award, the Guatemala National Council for Tobacco Prevention and Control Meritorious Service Award, the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco John Slade Award, and the American Society of Preventive Oncology Joseph W. Cullen Memorial Award. -
Amit Gohil
Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Med/Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
Staff, Medicine - Med/Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care MedicineBioMy main practice is at County Hospital of Santa Clara, where my time is split between Pulmonary Clinic, Pulmonary Physiology Lab and Medical Intensive Care.
Other Clinical Interests include neurocritical care, Mab therapy for asthma,. and management of toxin induced pulmonary hypertension
My research interests are moving into the use of Data Science to answer clinical questions. I am currently in the process of becoming familiar with R as a coding language to examine large clinical data sets and hope to move into machine learning algorithms to improve the pulmonary health of our county population. -
belal hakim
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Med/Nephrology
BioBelal grew up in Fremont and later lived in Singapore where he completed his secondary education. He received his bachelors in Biological Psychology and then his medical degree from Tufts University. He completed his internal medicine and chief residency at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center which solidified his interest in care for the medically underserved. His current research interests include improving diuretic management in advanced CKD and hemodialysis as well as CKD care for underserved communities
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Josef Hardi
Software Dvlpr 3, Med/BMIR
BioI'm a software engineer with a keen interest in data science. I have over 10 years’ experience in software development and 5 years in the data processing. Currently, I work as a backend developer for the Stanford Center of Biomedical Informatics Research; tackling issues in data and metadata management and interoperability. I also actively engage in the work of converting health and claim records to the OMOP common data model as part of my collaboration with the Stanford Population Health Sciences. I have experience with Java, Python, R, RDF, OWL, OBDA, Schema.org and Elasticsearch.
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Michael K. Helms, PhD, MBA
Director, Research Development, Team Science, Medicine
Current Role at StanfordDirector of Research Development, Team Science
Department of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine -
Stephanie Henry
Assistant Division Manager and Director of Finance, Medicine - Med/Infectious Diseases
Current Role at StanfordAssistant Division Manager, Director of Finance
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Christian Hoerner
Sr Research Scientist-Basic Life, Medicine - Med/Oncology
Current Role at StanfordSenior Scientist and Lab Manager, Alice Fan Lab
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Laura Holdsworth
Sr Research Scholar, Primary Care and Population Health
Current Role at StanfordSenior Research Scholar
