Stanford University
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George Toye
Adjunct Professor
BioGeorge Toye, Ph.D., P.E., is adjunct professor in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.
While teaching advanced project-based engineering design thinking and STEM-based innovations at the graduate level as part of ME310, he also contributes to research in varied topics in engineering education, and effective globally-distributed team collaborations. As well, he remains active in entrepreneurship and varied advising/consulting work.
George earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with minor in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Since 1983, he has enjoyed volunteering annually to organize regional and state-level Mathcounts competitions to promote mathematics education amongst middle-school aged students. -
Rick Trachok
Lecturer
BioRick Trachok is Senior Counsel with McDonald Carano, focusing his practice on international regulatory and gaming law. Mr. Trachok has an extensive background in gaming law, particularly from the international perspective. He has been involved in many acquisitions and joint ventures of European, Russian, and Latin American companies on behalf of European clients.
Mr. Trachok has served as Chairman of Compliance for the German gaming Group, Merkur AG, formerly Gauselmann AG, from 1997 through present. He also served as Chairman of the Global Compliance and Governance Committee for the world’s largest gaming manufacturer and lottery company, International Game Technology (IGT), a UK PLC traded on the NYSE, from 2004 - 2025.
Mr. Trachok has been recognized by his peers and consistently is included in the annual Best Lawyers rankings for Gaming Law, Energy Law and was designated lawyer of the year for Administrative and Legislative Law in 2021 and for Gaming Law in 2022.
Mr. Trachok was an adjunct professor at the Nevada School of Law (1981-1987). He served 15 years as an adjunct professor at UNR, teaching construction law in the graduate construction management program (1988-2003). and the University of San Francisco School of Law from 2006 to 2013, teaching the Laws of International Trade. Mr. Trachok is currently a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 2018 - present, teaching the Law of International Trade, 1L Contracts, Contracts for LLMs, Secured Transactions and Gaming Law. Mr. Trachok is the founding Executive Director of the University of Nevada, Reno, Center for Constitutional Law.
Mr. Trachok is a member of the advisory boards for the Berkeley Center for Law and Business and the Civil Justice Research Initiative. He is a governor’s appointee for the Davidson Academy, and a member of the Guinn Center for Public Policy Board of Directors, The Nature Conservancy Advisory Board, and the KUNR Public Radio Advisory Board.
Mr. Trachok has served as the Chair of the Nevada Board of Bar Examiners since 2000 and has been a member of the board since 1991. He also was a member of the University of Nevada System Board of Regents, serving as its Vice-chair from 2013-2015 and its Chair from 2015-2017. Mr. Trachok served as a First Lieutenant in the USMC from 1974-1977.
Education
B.Sc., University of Nevada (1974)
J.D., California Western School of Law (1980)
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Michael Tracy
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine
BioDr. Tracy is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Pediatric Pulmonary. His clinical interests include care for children with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), chronic respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation, childhood interstitial lung disease, and cystic fibrosis. He serves as the director Pediatric Pulmonary BPD Program, and co-director of the Cardiac and Respiratory care for Infants with BPD (CRIB) Program. He is the medical director of the Stanford Technology Assisted Respiratory (STAR) Program and the physician lead for the inpatient Pulmonary consult service at LPCH. Dr. Tracy is currently involved in clinical research to improve care for infants with BPD. With regard to medical education, he was formerly a chief resident in pediatrics at LPCH, and served as a faculty coach in the pediatric residency program.
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Nicholas Trakul, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor, Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy
BioDr. Nicholas Trakul is a radiation oncologist with Stanford Medicine Cancer Center and clinical associate professor of Radiation Oncology-Radiation Therapy with Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Trakul serves as Medical Director for Stanford Medicine Radiation Oncology in Pleasanton and for the Stanford Medicine I Sutter Health Cancer Collaborative in Castro Valley.
Dr. Trakul completed residency training at Stanford in 2013 and then joined the faculty at the University of Southern California, where he specialized in head and neck and central nervous system malignancies, with an emphasis on stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR/SBRT). He is widely published as first author in peer-reviewed journals. His research focus involves the creation of novel clinical databases as well as outcomes in the treatment of head and neck, gastrointestinal and thoracic malignancies. In 2017, Dr. Trakul returned to Stanford Medicine, becoming the Medical Director of Stanford Medicine Radiation Oncology in Pleasanton. In 2020, he was named Medical Director of Stanford Radiation Oncology Network Sites. Dr. Trakul served as medical directorship of Eden Radiation Oncology Center from 2022 to 2023, the first site to become operation under the Stanford/Sutter Cancer Collaborative. In 2024, he was named Vice Chair and Director of the Radiation Oncology Network. In November of 2024, Dr. Trakul was named Medical Director of Alta Bates Herrick Radiation Oncology. He is focused on providing access to high quality radiation therapy, collaboration with community health care systems and creating/maintaining productive and high engagement workplace culture. He believes in providing personalized, high-quality care, and bringing new technology to the East Bay, allowing patients to access cancer care while staying connected to their communities and support networks.
