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  • Philip Chung

    Philip Chung

    Instructor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

    BioPhilip Chung is a physician-scientist, general anesthesiologist, and healthcare AI researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine. He develops and evaluates AI systems that leverage electronic health records to support perioperative decision-making and patient safety. His research interests include large language models, healthcare foundation models, clinical AI evaluation, perioperative outcomes research, and the safe translation of AI technologies into real-world clinical practice. His work has been published in leading journals including NEJM AI, JAMA Surgery, Nature Medicine, and The Lancet Digital Health. In addition to his clinical practice at Stanford Hospital, he is also a member of Nima Aghaeepour’s laboratory.

  • Sarah Church

    Sarah Church

    Professor of Physics, Emerita

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsExperimental & Observational Astrophysics and Cosmology

  • Kirk Churukian

    Kirk Churukian

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Surgery - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

    BioKirk A. Churukian MD, FACS is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Dr. Churukian completed training in general surgery, plastic surgery, and hand surgery. He was board certified in general surgery and is currently board certified in plastic surgery.

    Dr. Churukian is a member of several local, state, and national professional societies and has practiced in the Los Gatos/San Jose areas for more than 20 years. He tries to bring a friendly, creative, and patient focused approach to his cosmetic and reconstructive surgery practice.

    In addition to his private cosmetic practice, Dr. Churukian serves the community as a trauma specialist at San Jose Regional Medical Center. At this level II Trauma Center, he specializes in facial and orbital fracture repair and complex reconstructive surgery of the trunk and extremities. He also maintains an ongoing commitment to enhancing self-image with breast reconstruction for cancer survivors.

    Dr. Churukian grew up as a first generation eldest son of Armenian parents in Southern California and attended the University of Southern California, graduating with a degree in Psychobiology. Always interested in athletics, He participated in swimming and water polo throughout high school and played club water polo in college. This interest in aquatics was transferred to his children, all of whom are swimmers, and two of whom are avid water polo players. He currently resides in Menlo Park, California and is currently still married to his first wife ;-). He enjoys supporting Stanford athletics, except when the USC Trojans come to town!

  • Karlene Cimprich

    Karlene Cimprich

    Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and, by courtesy, of Biochemistry

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsGenomic instability contributes to many diseases, but it also underlies many natural processes. The Cimprich lab is focused on understanding how mammalian cells maintain genomic stability in the context of DNA replication stress and DNA damage. We are interested in the molecular mechanisms underlying the cellular response to replication stress and DNA damage as well as the links between DNA damage and replication stress to human disease.

  • John M. Cioffi

    John M. Cioffi

    Hitachi America Professor in the School of Engineering, Emeritus

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCioffi researches and teaches in the area of digital transmission. He introduced the basic transmission methods that are a foundation for all modern broadband internet connectivity, which corresponding patents are Stanford Engineering's all-time #2 royalty generator (after #1 search engine). Roughly half his career was spent in industry during various periods as Stanford student or faculty. He has been primary advisor for over 90 Stanford PhD students, and taught communications to 1000's.

  • Robin Cisco, MD

    Robin Cisco, MD

    Clinical Associate Professor, Surgery - General Surgery

    BioDr. Robin Cisco is a board certified general surgeon and fellowship-trained endocrine surgeon. She specializes in surgery of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands and has expertise in lymph node dissection for thyroid cancer. Dr Cisco received her medical degree at Duke University before moving to Stanford for general surgery residency. During her residency, she completed a two-year research fellowship in surgical oncology, with a focus on cancer immunology.

    After residency, she completed an endocrine surgery fellowship with the internationally recognized UCSF Division of Endocrine Surgery. She is the author of multiple publications related to endocrine surgery and surgical oncology and has an interest in minimally invasive approaches to thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal surgery. She is currently the Physician Leader of Stanford's Endocrine Oncology Cancer Care Program (CCP).

    Dr. Cisco focuses on providing outstanding surgical care in an environment that is supportive of her patients and their families. She enjoys patient education and preoperative counseling, and seeks to lessen the anxiety that often comes with a recommendation for surgery. She currently sees patients both in San Jose at Stanford's Cancer Center South Bay and in Palo Alto in the Endocrine Oncology and Surgery clinic.