Stanford University
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Rudy R. Unni
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine
BioDr. Anirood (Rudy) Unni is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and a board-certified cardiologist specializing in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.
He earned his medical degree from the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University and completed his Internal Medicine and Cardiology training at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in Canada. He subsequently completed advanced fellowship training in Echocardiography at the University of Toronto and in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology at Stanford Health Care before joining the Stanford faculty.
Dr. Unni cares for patients with advanced heart failure, including those being evaluated for or living with heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support devices such as left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). He also serves as an attending physician in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) and on the Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support inpatient service. His clinical and research interests include remote heart failure monitoring, cardiovascular hemodynamics, device therapy for advanced heart failure and cardiovascular medical education. -
Crystal Unzueta, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Unzueta is a board-certified family medicine physician. She specializes in providing primary care services to people of all ages. Her services include annual check-ups, monitoring chronic conditions, and performing minor in-office procedures.
She is also a clinical assistant professor in the Stanford School of Medicine Department of Family Medicine.
Dr. Unzueta’s practice focuses on providing compassionate and comprehensive care. She specializes in providing bilingual and bicultural care for patients in underserved populations. She has traveled to Belize on a medical mission to provide free, basic primary care to vulnerable communities. Her mentoring work includes building a network of Latino medical students to help support each other throughout medical school. She has also worked on numerous volunteer projects, such as researching the benefits of a community yoga program for minorities in underserved areas. -
Alexander Eckehart Urban
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Major Laboratories and Clinical Translational Neurosciences Incubator) and of Genetics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsComplex behavioral and neuropsychiatric phenotypes often have a strong genetic component. This genetic component is often extremely complex and difficult to dissect. The current revolution in genome technology means that we can avail ourselves to tools that make it possible for the first time to begin understanding the complex genetic and epigenetic interactions at the basis of the human mind.
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Alfredo Urdaneta
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioDr. Alfredo Urdaneta is a Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he serves as the Medical Director of Stanford Life Flight. His academic and clinical work focuses on the modernization of prehospital and retrieval critical care systems, the expansion of prolonged field care scope of practice, and the optimization of advanced resuscitation protocols in high-acuity aeromedical environments.
His research program encompasses critical care trial operations and acute resuscitation science. Dr. Urdaneta serves as a site Co-Investigator for National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded clinical trials, including the RECOVER initiative investigating the pathobiology and long-term sequelae of post-acute COVID-19, and the AIMS study focused on acute sepsis sub-phenotyping and precision resuscitation strategies in the intensive care unit.
In the aeromedical and emergency medicine communities, Dr. Urdaneta holds national leadership roles dedicated to governance, clinical standards, and professional ethics. He serves as Chair of the Standards and Research Committee for the Air Medical Physician Association (AMPA) and as Vice Chair of the Ethics Committee for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM). Through these appointments and presentations at national meetings, he helps shape national clinical guidelines, aeromedical safety frameworks, and ethical standards across emergency and transport medicine.
In addition to his civilian academic appointments, Dr. Urdaneta serves as a Colonel (O-6) in the United States Army Reserve Medical Corps. His military career includes serving as the Command Surgeon for the 63d Readiness Division, where he provided executive medical oversight, clinical governance, and readiness management across multi-state operational formations. His extensive background in military operational medicine directly informs his academic scholarship in mass casualty management, austere resuscitation, and the bilateral translation of combat casualty care innovations into civilian trauma and critical care systems.
Dr. Urdaneta earned his B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his M.D. from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed a general surgery internship at the University of Illinois, an emergency medicine residency at UCSF Fresno, and advanced subspecialty fellowship training in Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington. -
Camille Utterback
Associate Professor of Art and Art History and, by courtesy, of Computer Science
BioCamille Utterback is an internationally acclaimed artist whose interactive installations and reactive sculptures engage participants in a dynamic process of kinesthetic discovery and play. Utterback’s work explores the aesthetic and experiential possibilities of linking computational systems to human movement and gesture in layered and often humorous ways. Her work focuses attention on the continued relevance and richness of the body in our increasingly mediated world.
Her work has been exhibited at galleries, festivals, and museums internationally, including The Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN; The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; ZERO1 The Art & Technology Network, San Jose, CA; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The American Museum of the Moving Image, New York; The NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; The Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Netherlands Institute for Media Art; The Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art; The Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine; and the Ars Electronica Center, Austria. Utterback’s work is in private and public collections including Hewlett Packard, Itaú Cultural Institute in São Paolo, Brazil, and La Caixa Foundation in Barcelona, Spain.
Awards and honors include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2009), a Transmediale International Media Art Festival Award (2005), a Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship (2002) and a commission from the Whitney Museum for the CODeDOC project on their ArtPort website (2002). Utterback holds a US patent for a video tracking system she developed while working as a research fellow at New York University (2004). Her work has been featured in The New York Times (2010, 2009, 2003, 2002, 2001), Art in America (October, 2004), Wired Magazine (February 2004), ARTnews (2001) and many other publications. It is also included in Thames & Hudson’s World of Art – Digital Art book (2003) by Christiane Paul.
Recent public commissions include works for the Liberty Mutual Group, the FOR-SITE Foundation, The Sacramento Airport, The City of San Jose, California, The City of Fontana, California, and the City of St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Other commissions include projects for The American Museum of Natural History in New York, The Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, The Manhattan Children’s Museum, Herman Miller, Shiseido Cosmetics, and other private corporations.
Utterback is currently an Assistant Professor in the Art and Art History Department at Stanford University. She holds a BA in Art from Williams College, and a Masters degree from The Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She currently lives and works in San Francisco. -
PJ Utz
George DeForest Barnett Professor of Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe long-term research goal of the Utz laboratory is to understand autoimmunity, autoantibodies, and how tolerance is broken and can be reestablished.
