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Louis Newman
Spring CSP Instructor
BioLOUIS E. NEWMAN is Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Dean of Academic Advising. Before coming to Stanford, Newman was a faculty member for more than three decades at Carleton College, a private liberal arts college in Minnesota. In his most recent post at Carleton, Newman served as Associate Dean of the College and Director of Advising. In that position, Newman helped redesign Carleton’s academic advising program, oversaw its Center for Community and Civic Engagement, promoted faculty-student research opportunities and worked on the coordination of curricular and research support. Additionally, he oversaw Carleton’s Institutional Review Board, supervised the director of the Writing Program and co-chaired a committee on Creating Inclusive Community at Carleton.
Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus at Carleton College, and is one of the country’s leading scholars of Jewish ethics. He is the author of Past Imperatives: Studies in the History and Theory of Jewish Ethics (SUNY Press, 1998) and of An Introduction to Jewish Ethics (Prentice Hall, 2005). He has also co-edited, with Elliot Dorff, two anthologies, Contemporary Jewish Ethics and Morality (Oxford University Press, 1995) and Contemporary Jewish Theology (Oxford University Press, 1999). He is co-editor (with Elliot Dorff) of three volumes in the Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices series (Jewish Publication Society, 2008/09) that address contemporary moral issues from a range of Jewish perspectives. His most recent book is Repentance: The Meaning and Practice of Teshuvah (Jewish Lights, 2010).
From 2010-2013 he served as the Humphrey Doermann Professor of Liberal Learning and the Director of the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching. Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, he received his B.A. in philosophy and Hebrew and his M.A. in philosophy from the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in Judaic Studies from Brown University and has been teaching at Carleton ever since to great student reviews.
He was the first president of the Society of Jewish Ethics, an organization he helped found. He has also been actively involved in the educational programs of several community organizations. He serves on the International Council of the New Israel Fund. He served as president of the board of directors of the St. Paul Talmud Torah from 1994-96, and as president of the board of Beth Jacob Congregation (Conservative) from 2009-11.
Louis Newman is married to Rabbi Amy Eilberg. Together they have three children with whom he loves to travel. He still gets his fingers dirty reading the New York Times print edition every morning. -
Jordan L. Newmark, MD, QME
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsClinical Interests:
Chronic & perioperative pain, interdisciplinary & procedural pain treatment, trauma anesthesia, spine surgery anesthesia, CRPS, nerve injury
Academic Interests:
- Graduate & undergraduate medical education, medical simulation & immersive learning, performance assessment & evaluation, adult learning theory, clinician selection processes, patient safety & quality of care, health equity -
William Newsome
Harman Family Provostial Professor and Professor of Neurobiology and, by courtesy, of Psychology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsNeural processes that mediate visual perception and visually-based decision making. Influence of reward history on decision making.
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Jessica Ng, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Adult Neurology
BioDr. Ng is a board-certified, fellowship-trained neurologist with Stanford Health Care Movement Disorders Center and Stanford Health Care Neurology in Pleasanton. She is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Ng provides comprehensive care for people with movement disorders. She diagnoses and treats a wide range of movement disorders, including ataxia, atypical parkinsonism, dystonia, essential tremor, Huntington’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease. She specializes in assessing patients for minimally invasive treatments, including botulinum toxin therapy, deep brain stimulation (DBS), and MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS).
Dr. Ng’s research interests include assessing treatment and diagnostic tools for Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders.
Dr. Ng has presented to her peers at international and national meetings, including the International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, the American Academy of Neurology, and the American Epilepsy Society. She is also a passionate clinician educator who has given lectures to medical students, physician assistant students, residents, and community physicians.
Dr. Ng is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society. -
Christine Ngaruiya
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine (Adult Clinical Academic)
BioChristine Ngaruiya, MD, MSc, DTM&H is the Director of the Stanford EM International Global and Population Health Section (SEMI), and Associate Professor, in the Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM).
Previously she was on faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at Yale University. She completed the Global Health and International Emergency Medicine fellowship in the Yale DEM in 2015, while also matriculating with a Master of Science and Diploma in Tropical Medicine and International Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research interests center on: noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), barriers to care, community-based participatory research and implementation science with a particular focus on Africa.
Some past honors include: the Emergency Medicine Resident’s Association (EMRA) Augustine D’Orta Award for outstanding community and grassroots involvement, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate and the 2014 Harambe Pfizer Fellow Award for social entrepreneurship, the 2016 University of Nebraska Outstanding International Alumnus award, the 2018 Young Physician award of the Global Emergency Medicine Academy at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the 2019 Yale School of Medicine Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine for clinical excellence and compassionate care, being selected as 1 of 30 WomenLift Health Women Leaders in Global Health in 2021, 1 of 25 US Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum fellows in 2023, and as 1 of 100 National Academy of Sciences US-Africa Frontiers in STEM fellows in 2024.
She has held several national and international leadership positions including with: the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) as current co-chair of the Research Committee (2024-2026), the African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM) and WomenLift Health. She was also a founding member of the Yale Network for Global Noncommunicable Disease (NGN). Her work has been funded by Yale University, the NIH (top 100 in Emergency Medicine), Gates Foundation, World Bank, USAID, the American Psychiatric Association, among others. She has served on a number of NIH panels related to global NCD topics, and has lectured both nationally and internationally on the same. Currently, she is a member of a World Health Organization (WHO) group developing an implementation science research agenda for global NCDs.
She is the global NCD section editor for PLOS Global Public Health, and also a fervent writer in the non-traditional sphere on global NCDs. To that end, she was selected as one of twenty Yale Public Voice Fellows for 2015-2016 from across campus with more than 20 publications in outlets such as Time, Huffington Post, Medium, and The Hill on the topic. -
David Nguyen
Research Scientist
BioDavid’s research explores new and better ways to measure the modern and digital economy. He is particularly interested in advancing economic metrics and statistics on economic output and welfare.
Prior to joining the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, David worked as an economist at the OECD in Paris, and as a senior economist at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). As a research associate, he remains affiliated to the London-based Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE). David received his PhD from the London School of Economics.
