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Alan Atkins
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development
BioDr. Al Atkins is a psychiatrist providing talk therapy and medical management in English and Spanish.
Dr. Atkins grew up in California and started his mental health career facilitating therapy at a prison in Buenos Aires. He teamed up with his patients and colleagues to build a climbing wall inside the prison, allowing patients to challenge themselves physically and mentally. After medical school at Brown University, Dr. Atkins completed psychiatry residency and founded a research team dedicated to investigating the healing power of walking in nature. After residency, Dr. Atkins traveled to Colorado to complete a two year fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. There, he served as Chief Fellow and pursued specialized therapy training. Dr. Atkins has been awarded the Kimberly Kelsay Curiosity Award for his enthusiasm for learning from his patients and the Catcher in the Rye award for "going the extra mile" for his Spanish-speaking Unaccompanied Refugee Minor (URM) patients. Some career highlights have included teaching meditation neuroscience to doctors in Cambodia and getting to learn from doctors and patients in Kumasi, Ghana.
Contemplative practice, psychotherapy, humor and nature time permeate both Dr. Atkins' clinical and personal interests. His clinical style involves a slow-moving dynamic emphasizing trust, understanding, and diagnostic humility. He takes an integrative and minimalist approach; often prescribing things like morning walks or returning to a favorite hobby before resorting to medications. -
Scott W. Atlas
Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Atlas investigates the role of government and the private sector in health care quality and access, global trends in health care innovation, and the key economic and civil liberty issues related to health policy. His medical research has centered on advanced applications of new MRI technologies and the key economic issues related to the future of such technology-based advances.
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Altay Atli
Overseas Studies - Istanbul, Bing Overseas Studies
BioDr. Altay Atlı is co-teaching the “Exploring Contemporary Turkey” course at Bing Overseas Studies program hosted by Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is a lecturer at the Graduate School of Business and Department of International Relations of Koç University, as well as the Asian Studies program of Boğaziçi University, and the founding director of “Atlı Global”, an Istanbul-based boutique advisory firm providing consulting and executive training services on global affairs and international business. His areas of academic interest include international political economy, economic diplomacy, business-government relations and the political economy of Turkish foreign policy. A graduate of the German High School (Deutsche Schule) in Istanbul, he completed a B.A. degree in Economics at Boğaziçi University, an M.A. degree in International Business at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, and obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science and International Relations of Boğaziçi University. Dr. Atlı was affiliated with Boğaziçi University’s Asian Studies Center as well as Sabancı University Istanbul Policy Center, and he also worked as research coordinator at Turkey’s Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK). Dr. Atlı was chosen a "Global Emerging Voices Fellow” by Torino World Affairs Institute, in partnership with the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Australian National University, and Stiftung Mercator; and he was recognized as a “Young Academics Fellow” by the Global Relations Forum. He is an expert member at the China Network of Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD) and he regularly appears on programs in channels like Bloomberg, BBC World, Turkish Radio Television (TRT), Ekotürk, TvNet, CGTN, NHK Japan, Channel News Asia, China Radio International, commenting on developments in global affairs and Turkey’s international relations. Dr. Atlı is also involved in sports management and he is currently a board member at the Turkish Handball Federation.
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Aparna Atluru, MD, MBA
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPhysician Mental Health, Resident Mental Health
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Ashish Atreja
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology
BioI work at the intersection of health care technology and artificial intelligence. My primary clinical specialty is Gastroenterology and my focus on AI is broad application and validation of clinical AI across diverse use cases.
After completing a master's in public health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I have completed internal medicine residency, informatics fellowship, and gastroenterology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. I have been working at the intersection of technology and healthcare for the last 25 years, was the first gastroenterologist to receive informatics board certification. In leadership roles, I have led Epic implementations as informaticist, served as the Chief Innovation Officer, Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, and most recently as CIO and inaugural Chief Digital Health Officer at UC Davis Health. For my executive roles, I have been recognized with numerous national honors, including being named one of the Top Digital Health Officers by Becker’s, a Top 40 Healthcare Transformer in 2017, a Top 50 Healthcare Leader by HIMSS in 2021, a Top 30 Health IT Influencer by Health Tech Magazine in 2022, a Top 150 Business Transformer Across global industries by Constellation Research and a top 35 Digital Health officer by Beckers in 2023.
As a digital health entrepreneur, I have successfully licensed technologies, and founded companies originating from academic medical centers. I was the co-founder of Rx.Health, a venture-backed spinout from Mount Sinai Health System that automated digital care delivery for major organizations including UnitedHealthcare and five of the top ten health systems in the U.S., ultimately impacting over 90 million patient lives before its successful acquisition. As a co-founder of GenServe.AI, I am currently working with a team focused on democratizing access to secure Generative AI and autonomous care for all.
I have been NIH-funded since 2014, including for IBD digital monitoring, have published more than 108 peer-reviewed articles and delivered over 250 posters, abstracts, and talks at national meetings. My research focuses on building, implementing, and evaluating digital health and AI-powered solutions aimed at improving patient and population outcomes, for which I am also known as the "App Doctor." -
Laura Attardi
Catharine and Howard Avery Professor of the School of Medicine and Professor of Genetics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOur research is aimed at defining the pathways of p53-mediated apoptosis and tumor suppression, using a combination of biochemical, cell biological, and mouse genetic approaches. Our strategy is to start by generating hypotheses about p53 mechanisms of action using primary mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEFs), and then to test them using gene targeting technology in the mouse.
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Molly Aufdermauer
Academic Grants and Outreach Coordinator, Center for Latin American Studies
Current Role at StanfordAcademic Grants and Outreach Coordinator
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Christopher Wallace Austelle
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioChristopher Wallace Austelle, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist and Clinical Assistant Professor investigating circuit-based treatments for mood and anxiety disorders. As a physician-scientist, he examines how neural circuits underlying emotion and cognition are dynamically coupled with the autonomic nervous system to shape interoception, and how disruptions in these integrated systems contribute to depression and anxiety.
With more than a decade of experience in neuromodulation, Dr. Austelle has worked across research and clinical settings using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), accelerated protocols such as Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy (SAINT), transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS), and implanted vagus nerve stimulation (VNS). His research integrates clinical trials, neuroimaging, and psychophysiology to develop targeted, physiology-informed interventions.
Clinically, he specializes in treatment-resistant depression and anxiety disorders, applying evidence-based neuromodulation strategies for individuals who have not responded to standard treatments. -
Naola Austin
Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioNaola S. Austin M.D., is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. She co-directs the Anesthesia Crisis Resource Management (ACRM) course and teaches a number of simulation courses as faculty with the Center for Immersive and Simulation-based Learning, OB SIM Team, InterCEPT Team, and VA Palo Alto. As a point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) faculty, she teaches neuraxial, transthoracic, lung, gastric, FAST, and other ultrasound techniques. She is also a member of the Stanford Anesthesia Cognitive Aid Program (SACAP), a collaborative group who designs and updates the Stanford Emergency Manual.
She is originally from New Mexico and received her medical degree at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, NY. After completing residency training in Anesthesiology at the University of Washington, she went on to dual fellowship training in Obstetric Anesthesia and Healthcare Simulation.
In addition to her work as a Co-Primary Investigator with the Safety Learning Lab, she has published basic science articles on synapse biology, clinical reviews on cervical spine injury in trauma and burns, and Simulation and Communication in Obstetric care. She has received multiple honors including U.S.-E.U. Exchange Scholar Rogers’ Colloquium Speaker, Resident of the Year, Foundation for Anesthesia Education & Research Scholar, and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.
Naola is an avid gardener, leisure cyclist, and very amateur rock climber. -
Arman Avesta
Affiliate, Rad/Pediatric Radiology
BioI'm a neuroradiologist and data scientist developing AI tools for fetal and pediatric neuroimaging. I'm an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Stanford University and a neuroradiologist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
My research aims to make fetal and pediatric brain MRI faster, sharper, and more reliable. I'm building a real-time system that tracks the moving fetal head mid-scan and steers the scanner to re-acquire motion-degraded slices on the fly — extending my doctoral work on deep-learning segmentation of brain structures and tumors.
Training:
* Harvard Medical School - Boston Children's Hospital: Fellowship - Pediatric Neuroradiology
* Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts General Hospital: Fellowship - Neuroradiology
* Yale University: PhD - Data Science & AI
* Yale School of Medicine - Yale New Haven Hospital: Residency - Diagnostic Radiology
* Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts General Hospital: Postdoc - Neuroscience
* Tehran University Medical School: MD
Outside the hospital, I'm a ballroom dancer and also enjoy calisthenics, hiking, and tennis. -
Danai Avgeri
Affiliate, Law School
BioDanai Avgeri is a Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University and a Postdoctoral Researcher and Teaching Associate in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. She is also an Affiliate Scholar in the Department of International Development at King’s College London. Her research explores how state power and capital intersect to regulate and profit from the (im)mobility of people and commodities, engaging political geography, political economy, critical migration and humanitarian studies, anthropology of the state, infrastructure studies, and critical policy analysis.
She received her PhD in Geography from Queen Mary, University of London, in 2022. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork along the EU–Turkey borderland, her thesis examined how spatio-legal formations such as humanitarian corridors, island hotspots, and containment zones reorganise territorial frameworks, temporalities, and forms of capital accumulation. From 2021 to 2022, she was an Academy Fellow at Chatham House, where she studied migrant access to healthcare during COVID-19 and the intersections of medicalisation and border securitisation. Between 2022 and 2024, she was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography at the University of Cambridge, researching racialised extractivism and refugee rentierism at Europe’s peripheries.
In 2025, Danai began working on a project on the energy–logistics nexus in Eastern Mediterranean ports, extending her focus from the governance of human mobility to the spatial politics of maritime transport, and revealing shared rentier dynamics in border insourcing and energy intermediation.
Alongside her research, she has led academic and public engagement initiatives. At Cambridge, she co-founded the Study Group on Borders, Colonialism, and Migration (2022–24) and convened the international conference Debordering Futures: Racial Capitalism, Coloniality, and Migrant Justice (2024). Her work has been published in leading journals, such as Political Geography and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, and she has shared her insights on platforms including the Undercurrents Podcast and Open Democracy. She is currently working on a book, Hostile Hosts: Bordering Crisis and Refugee Extractivism at Europe’s Frontiers.
Publications
Avgeri, D. (2025) Keeping out by keeping alive: Refugee Rentierism, Racialized Containment and the Humanitarian-Development Nexus in Transit States, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. OnlineFirst, Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02637758251344061
Avgeri, D. (2025). Medicalising Borders, Bordering Health: Governing Asylum-Seekers’ Mobility and Welfare at the Greek Hotspots. In Follis, L., Follis, K., & Burns, N. (Eds.), Migrant and Refugee Access to Health Systems: Challenging (Im)mobilities in Healthcare. Edward Elgar, 70 – 83.
Avgeri, D. (2024). Avgeri, D. (2024). Humanitarian Capitalism: The Labour Regime of Αid and the Surrogate Welfare State in Times of Global Displacement. Political Geography 114. 103 – 167. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629824001161
Avgeri, D. et al. (2024) Debordering Futures, Reclaiming Migrant Narratives, The Other Side of Hope 4(1).
Avgeri, D. (2022). Migration Studies and Colonialism. International Affairs, 98(2), 776 – 778.
Avgeri, D. et al. (2017). Balkan Refugee Trail: A Pathway to European Solidarity. Interkulturelles Zentrum.
Forthcoming:
Avgeri, D. Uncomfortable Methods: Activating the Impasses of Scholar-Activism in Critical Geographies of ‘Migration Crises’. Accepted in Antipode.
Avgeri, D., Bhagat, A., & Morris, J.C. Special Issue: Frontiers of Value in Migration Governance. Forthcoming in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.
In preparation:
Hostile Hosts: Bordering Crisis and Refugee Extractivism at Europe’s Frontiers (manuscript) -
Jennifer Avise, MD
Member, Cardiovascular Institute
BioDr. Avise is a board-certified vascular surgeon specializing in cutting edge treatments of vascular disease. She is a clinical assistant professor in the Department Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine.
She has helped to expand access to expert vascular surgery in the East Bay, establishing Stanford Health Care’s first vascular surgery practices at the medical center in Emeryville and at the Stanford Health Care – ValleyCare hospital in Pleasanton. Dr. Avise serves as the medical director of the Pleasanton vascular laboratory, an IAC accredited facility, where she advances developments in noninvasive testing to aid in early diagnosis of vascular disease.
Her focus is on early detection and disease prevention, minimally invasive (endovascular) techniques, and complex open surgery. She treats a wide variety of conditions, including aortic aneurysm, limb salvage, varicose veins, peripheral vascular disease, carotid disease, complex wound care, and dialysis access. -
Rania Awaad, MD
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAs the Director of the Muslims and Mental Health Lab, Dr. Awaad is dedicated to creating an academic home for the study of mental health as it relates to the Islamic faith and Muslim populations. The lab aims to provide the intellectual resources to clinicians, researchers, trainees, educators, community and religious leaders working with or studying Muslims.
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Aya Awad
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford Cancer Institute
BioI am a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Cancer Institute in the laboratory of Steven Artandi, where my research focuses on telomere biology and telomerase regulation in cancer. My work integrates molecular genetics, biochemistry, and cell-based approaches to understand how dysregulation of telomere maintenance promotes genome instability and tumorigenesis.
I received my PhD in Genetics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where my doctoral research examined the molecular mechanisms by which telomerase activity and telomere structure are regulated at chromosome ends. Through mechanistic studies combining patient-derived cells and molecular analyses, I contributed to defining how telomere elongation and overhang dynamics are controlled.
At Stanford, my research centers on identifying regulatory pathways that control telomerase RNA maturation and activity, with a particular interest in discovering and characterizing small-molecule inhibitors targeting the telomerase pathway as potential cancer therapeutics. More broadly, I aim to translate fundamental insights in telomere biology into strategies for selectively targeting telomere maintenance mechanisms in cancer. -
Princess Awambu
Student Employee, Alumni and Student Class Outreach Admin
Undergraduate, Human Biology
Student Employee-2, Vice Provost for Student AffairsBioPremed student in people-focused mentorship and leadership roles. Exploring research at the intersection of health, culture, and the human zeitgeist to improve lives across global communities.
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Mukta Awasthi
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Med/Hospital Medicine
Staff, Med/Hospital MedicineBioMukta Awasthi, MD completed her medical school training at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Internal Medicine residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She is a board-certified academic hospitalist at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated) within the Stanford Division of Hospital Medicine. She has 25 years of experience in Hospital Medicine and Medical Education. She currently serves as the Medical Director of the Intermediate Intensive Care Unit at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System. She also is the Director of the VA My Life My Story Program at the VA Palo Alto HCS. Her areas of interest include Medical Education, Quality Improvement and Narrative Medicine.
