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  • Shripad Tuljapurkar

    Shripad Tuljapurkar

    The Dean and Virginia Morrison Professor of Population Studies

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsStochastic dynamics of human and natural populations; prehistoric societies; probability forecasts including sex ratios, mortality, aging and fiscal balance; life history evolution.

  • Serdar Tumgoren

    Serdar Tumgoren

    Lecturer, Communication

    BioSerdar Tumgoren teaches data journalism in the Stanford Graduate Journalism Program and is an associate director for Big Local News, a project at Stanford that fosters collaborative data journalism and provides tools and platforms to help local newsrooms extend their reach.

    Prior to joining Stanford in 2018, Serdar worked at The Associated Press, The Washington Post and Congressional Quarterly, with a focus on political and election-related data and Web applications.

    A graduate of Georgetown University, Serdar began his career as a local government reporter in California, Connecticut, and New Jersey.

    He is passionate about open source tools and platforms that help journalists uncover data-driven stories. He co-founded the OpenElections project, a volunteer effort to gather and standardize U.S. election data, and created datakit, a customizable tool to help journalists simplify and standardize their data analysis workflows.

  • Sailesh Tummala, MD

    Sailesh Tummala, MD

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery

    BioDr. Sailesh Tummala is an orthopaedic surgeon at Stanford Health Care with fellowship training in orthopaedic sports medicine and shoulder surgery. He is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.

    Dr. Tummala is a former collegiate basketball player who understands how to care for athletes and active patients of all ages. He specializes in nonoperative care and minimally invasive along with complex reconstructive surgeries of the shoulders, knees, and elbows. As a collegiate student-athlete, he received the national Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Award for exemplary service to his community, advocacy, and academic excellence. These values continue to define his approach to patient care.

    Dr. Tummala treats acute and chronic conditions, sports injuries, and traumatic injuries with a focus on putting his patients’ needs and goals first. He has expertise in joint preservation and replacement, tendon and ligament repair and reconstruction, cartilage restoration, and fracture care.

    Dr. Tummala’s research interests include developing novel surgical approaches, addressing psychosocial barriers to effective patient care, and studying biomechanics in sports injuries. He has authored over a hundred peer-reviewed publications in journals such as The American Journal of Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, and The Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. Dr. Tummala has also written multiple book chapters, received grant funding, and given more than 100 presentations at regional, national, and international conferences. His research, passion for sports medicine, and advocacy efforts have been featured on ABC, CBS, ESPN, and other media outlets.

    Dr. Tummala is a member of the American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine, the Arthroscopy Association of North America, and the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons. He also assists with Stanford University’s football team, men's basketball team, and takes care of multiple junior colleges and high schools across the Bay Area.

  • Minang (Mintu) Turakhia

    Minang (Mintu) Turakhia


    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Turakhia has an active clinical research program, with funding from AHA, VA, NIH, the medical device industry, and foundations. His research program aims to improve the treatment of heart rhythm disorders, with an emphasis on atrial fibrillation, by evaluating quality and variation of care, comparative and cost-effectiveness of therapies, and risk prediction. Dr. Turakhia has extensive expertise in using large administrative and claims databases for this work. His TREAT-AF retrospective study of over 500,000 patients with newly-diagnosed AF is the largest known research cohort of AF patients. He has served as study PI or chairman of several prominent single- and multicenter trials in atrial fibrillation, investigational devices for electrophysiology procedures, digital health interventions, and sensor technologies.

    His other research interests include technology assessment of new device-based therapies and the impact of changing health policy and reform on the delivery of arrhythmia care. Dr. Turakhia is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and Heart Rhythm Society.