Stanford University
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Mitesh Rao
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioDr. Mitesh B. Rao, MD, MHS is the Founder and CEO of OMNY, a venture-backed company revolutionizing how healthcare data is shared and valued. A Board-Certified Emergency Medicine Physician, Dr. Rao practices clinically as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford. Most recently, he served as the Chief Patient Safety Officer for Stanford Healthcare where he led Patient Safety, Quality, and System Redesign for the Enterprise. Dr. Rao also served as Director of the Center for Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS), which focused on advancing the science and implementing new innovations in the fields of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement.
Previously, he was trained in leadership and research skills as a Fellow in the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. Subsequent to his time at Yale, he served as the Director of the Patient Safety Education Program at Northwestern Medicine. As a physician leader, he was helped implement systems-level improvements for quality and safety in institutions across the country and overseas that have had lasting effects on patient care provision. He has also led teams serving contracts with various governmental and non-profit agencies such as the Joint Commission Resources, CMS, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, Partners Health Care, and the American College of Surgeons in multiple campaigns and initiatives to improve Patient Safety on a national level.
Dr. Rao also served as the Head of Research and Integration for the health innovation program at Northwestern. In this role, he developed an expertise in improving care provision through innovative methodologies. He spearheaded efforts to integrate innovative technologies into the health system to improve patient care in a variety of settings, including telemedicine and mHealth initiatives. Working both with innovators and researchers across the various schools of the University as well as promising startups from around the country, Dr. Rao helped guide and refine the process for vetting and integrating pilot programs to test new technologies within the clinical venue. He also serves as a mentor to multiple healthcare-focused startups and accelerator groups across the country in order to help guide the development of implementation of innovative solutions that can sustainably impact patient care provision. -
Serena Rao
Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration, Vice Provost and Dean of Research
BioSerena is the Senior Associate Dean in the Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Research (VPDoR) at Stanford University. Reporting directly to the Dean, Serena supports Stanford's interdisciplinary labs, centers, institutes, and research-support offices. She guides their strategic activities, advises on operational challenges, and oversees all administrative activities. She also plays a key role in facilitating strategy development and leading the implementation of the university's research initiatives.
Serena’s extensive experience at Stanford includes over six years in the University Budget Office, where she was a vital member of the Provost’s Budget Group. In this capacity, she led complex analytical projects that informed strategic decisions for senior leadership and contributed significantly to the development of Stanford's annual consolidated budget. Prior to higher education, Serena managed city-wide infrastructure planning initiatives, annual capital budgets, and long-term debt forecasts for the Mayor's Office of Management and Budget in New York City.
Serena earned her Doctor of Education (Ed.D. ) degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Passionate about higher education and working in service to learning, Serena takes pride in getting things done effectively and creatively and excels in operating at both strategic and tactical levels. -
Yuan James Rao
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology (Radiation Therapy)
BioDr. Yuan James Rao is a board-certified radiation oncologist with Stanford Health Care. He is also an associate professor of radiation oncology and the associate director of proton therapy in the Department of Radiation Oncology, Division of Radiation Therapy at Stanford University School of Medicine.
As a radiation oncologist, Dr. Rao treats chest (thoracic) and head and neck cancers. He specializes in using proton therapy, a type of high-energy radiation therapy that precisely targets cancer cells while sparing surrounding tissue. The proton therapies he uses include 3D conformal radiation therapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy, and stereotactic body radiation therapy. He also uses brachytherapy, which treats cancer by placing radiation sources inside or very close to a tumor.
Dr. Rao’s research interests include the use of proton therapy in treating various cancers. He has also studied the role of machine learning and advanced imaging techniques to improve radiation treatments. In addition, Dr. Rao has investigated ways to integrate immunotherapy into radiation treatment regimens.
Dr. Rao has published his work in and served as an ad hoc reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Cancer, Frontiers in Oncology, Advances in Radiation Oncology, and PLOS One. In addition, he has co-written chapters in books including Perez & Brady’s Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology and Pocket Guide to Radiation Oncology. He has presented his work nationally and internationally, including at meetings of the American Brachytherapy Society (ABS), American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), and European Society for Radiation Oncology.
Dr. Rao is a member of the ABS and ASTRO. -
Esa Rasanen
Visiting Scholar, Chemical and Systems Biology Operations
Affiliate, SPARK at StanfordBioI am a Professor of Physics at Tampere University with a background in quantum physics and dynamics, and broad experience in multidisciplinary research at the interface of physics, engineering, and medical sciences. My work has increasingly focused on computational cardiology, electrocardiography, and physiological signal analysis, where our team develops algorithms and software for extracting clinically meaningful information from complex biosignals. I have been involved in both academic research and applied innovation, including clinical validation studies and technology translation in healthcare and wearables. I am particularly interested in problems where rigorous physical modeling, data-driven methods, and real-world medical applications intersect.
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Vaughn Rasberry
Associate Professor of English and of African and African American Studies
BioVaughn Rasberry studies African American literature, global Cold War culture, the European Enlightenment and its critics, postcolonial theory, and philosophical theories of modernity. As a Fulbright scholar in 2008-09, he taught in the American Studies department at the Humboldt University Berlin and lectured on African American literature throughout Germany. His current book project, Race and the Totalitarian Century, questions the notion that desegregation prompted African American writers and activists to acquiesce in the normative claims of postwar liberalism. Challenging accounts that portray black cultural workers in various postures of reaction to larger forces--namely U.S. liberalism or Soviet communism--his project argues instead that many writers were involved in a complex national and global dialogue with totalitarianism, the defining geopolitical discourse of the twentieth century.
His article, "'Now Describing You': James Baldwin and Cold War Liberalism," appears in an edited volume titled James Baldwin: America and Beyond (University of Michigan Press, 2011). A review essay, "Black Cultural Politics at the End of History," appears in the winter 2012 issue of American Literary History. An article, "Invoking Totalitarianism: Liberal Democracy versus the Global Jihad in Boualem Sansal's The German Mujahid," appears in the spring 2014 special issue of Novel: a Forum on Fiction. For Black History Month, he published an op-ed essay, "The Shape of African American Geopolitics," in Al Jazeera English.
An Annenberg Faculty Fellow at Stanford (2012-14), he has also received fellowships from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh.
Vaughn also teaches in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) and the programs in Modern Thought and Literature, African and African American Studies, and American Studies.
