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Shivam Vedak
Affiliate, Department Funds
Fellow in Graduate Medical EducationBioShivam Vedak, MD, MBA is a second-year Clinical Informatics Fellow and Internal Medicine Physician at Stanford Medicine. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology-Neuroscience from the Schreyer Honors College at The Pennsylvania State University and a dual MD/MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He completed his training in the UIC Internal Medicine Residency program, where he was recognized as the institution’s American College of Physicians Outstanding Resident of the Year in 2022.
Clinically, Dr. Vedak practices as a hospitalist at Stanford Health Care. His research and operational work centers on integrating generative artificial intelligence into clinical workflows, collaborating with the Stanford Emerging Applications Lab (SEAL) and the Stanford Health Care Data Science Team (DSatSHC). He is passionate about advancing medical education on artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies, ensuring that physicians have the knowledge and skills to safely and effectively implement these innovations in their clinical practice. Dr. Vedak has been an invited speaker and panelist at several academic medical centers and conferences nationwide, where he has delivered interactive workshops and engaging didactic sessions on the fundamentals of large language models (LLMs) and how to effectively interact with them via prompting for both clinical and non-clinical applications. -
Gabriel Velez, MD, PhD
Affiliate, Department Funds
Resident in OphthalmologyBioGabriel Velez is a PGY3 ophthalmology resident at Stanford. He received his bachelor’s degree in molecular biology from Winona State University in 2014. He completed his MD and PhD degrees at the University of Iowa. His PhD research focused on studying the structure of the calpain-5 (CAPN5) protein and its role in the development of Neovascular Inflammatory Vitreoretinopathy (NIV), a rare blinding eye disease. His research interests include translational proteomics, retinal disease, ocular oncology, structural biology, biophysical chemistry, drug design, and bioinformatics.
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Joshua Aaron Villarreal
Affiliate, Department Funds
Fellow in Graduate Medical EducationBioDr. Villarreal is a current clinical informatics fellow at Stanford Medicine and first surgical resident to enter the program. He began general surgery training at Stanford in 2020. Dr. Villarreal is a Texas native and hometown is in McAllen TX. He completed medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in 2020 and undergraduate studies in Human Biology at the University of Texas.
During residency, Dr. Villarreal has published numerous articles in a wide range of surgical fields including: pediatric surgery, liver transplantation, trauma critical care and surgical data science. He currently holds the role as president of the resident led surgical research group Surgeon’s Writing About Trauma (SWAT) and mentors medical students and undergrads in conducting surgical related clinical research. He is a member of the Artificial Intelligence in Surgery research group at Stanford focused on leveraging methods in machine learning in the care of transplant patients.
His long-term goals are to apply clinical informatics frameworks to optimize surgical care workflows, enhance intraoperative decision making, and increase accessibility of outpatient surgical services to lower income patients.
