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Kirsten Stasio
Adjunct Lecturer, Atmosphere and Energy
BioKirsten Stasio is CEO of the Nevada Clean Energy Fund (NCEF), Nevada's nonprofit green bank. She also serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University, where she co-teaches Understand Energy, a course that gives students the knowledge and tools to engage in the energy and sustainability sectors.
Throughout her career, Kirsten has strived to translate her life-long passion for environmental sustainability into real impact across the policy, education, corporate, and investment sectors. Before joining NCEF, Kirsten worked at MAP Energy, an energy investment firm, where she helped scale investments in renewable energy across the US. Her early career began at the World Resources Institute (WRI), a non-profit, where she worked with policymakers and other stakeholders to implement climate finance solutions. While getting her graduate degree at Stanford, Kirsten worked at Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) where she helped launched a new energy efficiency initiative with large businesses in the Bay Area. Kirsten also worked at Apple to implement energy measures at Apple's headquarters, retail stores, and data centers.
Kirsten began teaching at Stanford in early 2015 after graduating from Stanford with an MBA and an MS degree in the Emmet-Interdisciplinary Program on Environment and Resources (E-IPER). Kirsten also earned a dual BA in International Relations and French from the University of California, Davis.
The origins of Kirsten's passion for sustainability trace back to her childhood when she spent time on her family’s fourth-generation ranch in the Sierra Nevada foothills, a place where she enjoys spending time today with her husband and daughter. -
Christopher Stave
Information Services Librarian, School of Medicine - Lane Medical Library
Current Role at StanfordGraduate/Clinical Education Librarian, Lane Medical Library
Library laison to the departments of Graduate Medical Education, Surgery, Pediatrics, and Emergency Medicine. -
Meghan Stawitcke
Fellowships Manager, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign Program
Current Role at StanfordI am currently the Fellowships Manager at Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. Prior to this, I was the Education Program Manager in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal & Developmental Medicine, overseeing three clinical fellowships: Neonatology, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, and Clinical Informatics.
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Margaret Stedman
Sr Research Engineer, Medicine - Med/Nephrology
Current Role at StanfordStaff Biostatistician
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Laura Stefanescu
Overseas Studies - Florence, Bing Overseas Studies
BioLaura Stefanescu is an art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance art and particularly fifteenth-century Florence, interested in the interplay between art, theater, music, and religious experience. She has received her PhD from the University of Sheffield (2020), where she has subsequently worked as Research Associate on Prof. Tim Shephard’s project "Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Music in a Year of Italian Printed Books", funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Her publications include the co-authored article “Music, Silence, and the Senses in a Late Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours,” in Renaissance Studies (2017) and the co-authored book Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy c. 1420-1540 (Harvey Miller, 2020). Laura was the 2023-2024 Francesco de Dombrowski Fellow at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence and is currently Teaching Assistant at the Breyer Center for Overseas Studies in Florence, Stanford University.
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Laurel Stell
Research Engineer, Biomedical Data Science
Current Role at StanfordInvestigating non-glycemic genetic effects on HbA1c using the Veterans Administration Million Veteran Program (MVP). HbA1c is a widely used test that reflects average blood sugar level for the past two to three months. It is well known that certain genetic blood conditions, such as sickle cell disease, can cause HbA1c to be a misleading indicator of blood glucose levels. I am investigating the extent to which genetic variants can have this effect even without a diagnosis of one of these conditions. I am also investigating whether these effects are impacting clinical diagnosis and treatment of diabetes, and whether such impacts are reflected in health outcomes.
The impact of these variants has potentially been overlooked because they are very rare in populations with European genetic ancestry. As with the variant for sickle cell disease, they only persist when they provide an evolutionary advantage, such as protecting against malaria infection and its symptoms. Consequently, the genetic variants that I am analyzing do not appear in most genetic biobanks frequently enough to enable my analyses. MVP, however, includes genetic data for over 100,000 Veterans with African genetic ancestry, making it an ideal resource for this research. Since these variants are common among individuals with African genetic ancestry but practically non-existent in European genetic ancestry, this research may provide insight into racial health disparities in the US, particularly in T2D prevalence and outcomes. Preprint available at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.26.24307947v1
Member of the department's JEDI Committee since its inception in 2021, providing assistance wherever I can. -
Matthew D. Stephen
Overseas Studies - Berlin, Bing Overseas Studies
BioMatthew studied political science, history and classics at the University of Otago (2003-2006, B.A. (Hons), M.A., 2007-2008) before writing a PhD at the Free University Berlin (2009-2013) where he graduated summa cum laude. He is currently a Senior Researcher at the Department of Global Governance at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and held Visiting Professorships at the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg in 2018-2019 and 2021. His research focuses on international power shifts and international institutions, and has been published in journals such as the European Journal of International Relations, Global Governance, International Studies Review, and International Studies Quarterly. He is fascinated by Berlin, where he has lived since 2009.