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John Hennessy
President Emeritus, Shriram Family Director of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program, James F. and Mary Lynn Gibbons Professor and Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Computer Science
BioJohn L. Hennessy joined Stanford’s faculty in 1977 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering. He rose through the academic ranks to full professorship in 1986 and was the inaugural Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1987 to 2004.
From 1983 to 1993, Dr. Hennessy was director of the Computer Systems Laboratory, a research and teaching center operated by the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science that fosters research in computer systems design. He served as chair of computer science from 1994 to 1996 and, in 1996, was named dean of the School of Engineering. As dean, he launched a five-year plan that laid the groundwork for new activities in bioengineering and biomedical engineering. In 1999, he was named provost, the university’s chief academic and financial officer. As provost, he continued his efforts to foster interdisciplinary activities in the biosciences and bioengineering and oversaw improvements in faculty and staff compensation. In October 2000, he was inaugurated as Stanford University’s 10th president, a position he held until 2016. In 2016, he cofounded the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program, which provides scholarships and leadership development for a global community of scholars enrolled in graduate programs at Stanford. The program admitted it's first class in 2018 and will provide full scholarships for up to 100 100 students every year.
A pioneer in computer architecture, in 1981 Dr. Hennessy drew together researchers to focus on a computer architecture known as RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer), a technology that has revolutionized the computer industry by increasing performance while reducing costs. In addition to his role in the basic research, Dr. Hennessy helped transfer this technology to industry. In 1984, he cofounded MIPS Computer Systems, now MIPS Technologies, which designs microprocessors. In recent years, his research has focused on the architecture of high-performance computers.
Dr. Hennessy is a recipient of the 2000 IEEE John von Neumann Medal, the 2000 ASEE Benjamin Garver Lamme Award, the 2001 ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award, the 2001 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, a 2004 NEC C&C Prize for lifetime achievement in computer science and engineering, a 2005 Founders Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the 2012 IEEE Medal of Honor, IEEE's highest award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, and he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
He has lectured and published widely and is the co-author of two internationally used undergraduate and graduate textbooks on computer architecture design. Dr. Hennessy earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University and his master’s and doctoral degrees in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. -
Heather Henri, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Heather Henri is a Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.
A graduate of Stanford University and the Harvard Medical School, she is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. A Biological Sciences major at Stanford, Dr. Henri was awarded the President’s Award for Academic Excellence. She received an American Heart Association Internship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and completed two Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellowships at the NIH.
Following medical school, she completed Internship and Residency at Stanford Hospital, then joined the Stanford Medical Group and was subsequently appointed Clinic Chief at the Blake Wilbur Clinic.
In 2013, Dr. Henri was one of two physicians selected to launch Stanford Concierge Medicine. During her 15-year tenure as a full time Internist at Stanford, she consistently received the highest tier of patient satisfaction scores.
Dr. Henri has served on Stanford’s General Internal Medicine Executive Committee and the Appointment and Promotions Committee. She was a member of the California Academic Collaborative on Chronic Care and co-authored the chapter “Hypertension: Context and Management” in the leading Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. She served on the Outcomes Research Advisory Board for Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE)– the world’s largest private source of funding for research dedicated to the prevention and treatment of food allergy. In addition, Dr. Henri was named a “Top Reviewer” by the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Henri works closely with the American College of Physicians (ACP) – the world’s largest medical society for Internists- and is one of the three Primary Care physicians in the country serving on the ACP 2027 Scientific Program Advisory Committee. She served for four years as the Director of the ACP Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification Course held in San Francisco. Dr. Henri was a member of the ACP Internal Medicine Essentials Text and Online Questions Editorial Review Board, and authored educational material for the ACP’s Medical Knowledge and Self-Assessment Program. Dr. Henri has given several lectures for the ACP and reviewed podcasts created by the ACP for physician continuing education. In 2025 and 2026 Dr. Henri served as a Curriculum Subspecialty Editor.
Dr. Henri feels that comprehensive proactive preventive care and excellent personalized patient-physician communication are the foundations of her medical practice. She is pleased to see patients once a month at Stanford's Express Care, and otherwise as a Stanford Trusted Community Concierge Physician at the medical practice of Caras Health in Portola Valley. -
Lisa Henriksen
Associate Professor (Research) of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center)
Sr Research Engineer, Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research CenterCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research aims to improve our understanding of the health risks associated with exposure to tobacco marketing and provide a scientific rationale for new policies to reduce it. I also study use of media to promote and discourage adolescent tobacco use, and the impact of tobacco advertising on urge and craving to smoke.
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Rod Hentz
Professor of Surgery, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly Interests1. Nerve regeneration and repair, evaluation of repair methods, modalities to enhance peripheral nerve regeneration, development of improved methods to analyze nerve regeneration.
2. Implementation of functional neuromuscular stimulation to paralytic deformities.
3. Computer modeling of upper limb function.
