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Diana Naranjo
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Endocrinology
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child DevelopmentBioAs a licensed clinical psychologist working in diabetes and Cystic Fibrosis clinics for the past 10 years, Dr. Naranjo focuses on the psychosocial needs of patients and families with diabetes and CF. Through clinical research, she aims to understand barriers and facilitators to diabetes self-management, how families and individuals with diabetes respond to health technology, and how to best provide services that engage youth and their families. She is a member of the Stanford Diabetes Research Center.
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Jennifer Ni
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Endocrinology
BioI grew up mainly in the Bay Area of California, attending UC Berkeley for undergraduate (Go Bears!) with a major in Bioengineering. After a gap year working at a biotech start up, I traveled to the East Coast for medical school at the University of Pittsburgh, and then back to my birth state of Texas for residency at UT Southwestern. During my experiences in medical school and residency, I discovered that I enjoyed the logic of thinking through signaling pathways to understand the pathophysiology of endocrine disorders. In the future, I hope to combine my background in engineering with my passion for medicine to advance the field of endocrinology, especially in diabetes management. I am very excited to return to the Bay Area for fellowship in Pediatric Endocrinology. Outside of the hospital, I enjoy baking sweet treats, trying new restaurants, and running.
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Jessica L. Ruiz
Instructor, Pediatrics - Endocrinology
BioDr. Jessica Ruiz is a pediatric endocrinologist and Instructor at Stanford University and the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
As a pediatrician-scientist and bioengineer, Dr. Ruiz's scholarly interest is pediatric type 2 diabetes. Her passion is to better predict, prevent and treat type 2 diabetes through digital phenotyping. Dr. Ruiz's vision is to apply data science and machine learning approaches to continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data. Her work seeks to parameterize glucose kinetics to ultimately build CGM-based type 2 diabetes risk profiles. She is also involved in multiple clinical studies using dynamic CGM metrics to inform clinical care for patients with diabetes - including staging of diabetes as it develops.
Clinically, Dr. Ruiz enjoys caring for all pediatric patients seeking general endocrinology and diabetes care.
A native Texan, Dr. Ruiz obtained a B.S. in Bioengineering from Rice University (Houston, TX). She completed her M.D. at Harvard Medical School in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) program (Boston, MA). She remained at Harvard to complete her training in Pediatrics in the Boston Combined Residency Program (Boston Children's Hospital and Boston Medical Center), followed by her training in Pediatric Endocrinology at Boston Children's Hospital. She was on the faculty at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School as an Instructor for 2 years prior to moving to Stanford.
Dr. Ruiz also enjoys mentoring trainees and was formerly a Harvard Medical School Faculty Advisor and Associate Program Director for the Boston Children's Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship Program. -
David Scheinker
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Endocrinology
Clinical Professor, MedicineBioDavid Scheinker is the Executive Director of Systems Design and Collaborative Research at the Stanford Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. He is the Founder and Director of SURF Stanford Medicine, a group that brings together students and faculty from the university with physicians, nurses, and administrators from the hospitals. SURF has implemented and published dozens of projects demonstrating improvements to the quality and efficiency of care. His areas of focus include clinical care delivery, technical improvements to hospital operations, sensor-based and algorithm-enabled telemedicine, and the socioeconomic factors that shape healthcare cost and quality.
Before coming to Stanford, he was a Joint Research Fellow at The MIT Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts General Hospital. He received a PhD in theoretical math from The University of California San Diego under Jim Agler. He advises Carta Healthcare, a healthcare analytics company started by former students. -
Sejal Shah
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Endocrinology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy primary research interest is evaluating whether vitamin D supplementation can positively affect consequences of the metabolic syndrome in overweight and obese adolescents. Other research interests include evaluating the efficacy and biochemical profiles of various types of estrogen replacement in adolescent females.
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Diane Stafford
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Endocrinology
BioDr. Stafford specializes in Pediatric Endocrinology with special interest in disorders of puberty and Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). Her research interests include in medical education curriculum development, faculty development and endocrine dysfunction in PWS.
