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Mahendra T. Bhati
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Clinical Professor, NeurosurgeryBioDr. Bhati is an interventional psychiatrist with expertise in psychiatric diagnosis, psychopharmacology, and neuromodulation. He completed postdoctoral research studying language abnormalities and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) evoked potentials in schizophrenia. He was a principal investigator for the DSM-5 academic field trials, and his research experiences included roles in the first controlled clinical trials of TMS and deep brain stimulation (DBS) for treatment of depression. He was the founding Chief of Interventional Psychiatry at Stanford where he performs consultations and provides pharmacological and neuromodulatory treatments. His current research interests include studying magnetic resonance imaging and augmented reality to target TMS, vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for treatment-resistant depression, DBS for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and depression, responsive neurostimulation (RNS) for treatment of impulse and fear-related disorders, and focused ultrasound (FUS) for treatment-resistant OCD and depression. Dr. Bhati seeks to train more providers in mental healthcare and founded a clinical fellowship in Interventional Psychiatry at Stanford.
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Richa Bhatia, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Bhatia is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. She leads the Adult Anxiety clinic at Stanford in Palo Alto. She is a dual Board-certified child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist with nearly two decades of clinical experience caring for patients with various psychiatric conditions. Her work has been cited in Time magazine, Scientific American, and the Atlantic, and her professional opinions have been quoted in media such as CNBC, The Guardian, U.S. News and World Report, The Wall Street Journal, and others. Dr. Bhatia served as President-Elect of Northern California Psychiatric Society and is Immediate Past President of the Association of Women Psychiatrists. She is the co-author of the chapter on Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders in the recent Study Guide to DSM-5 TR, a companion volume to DSM-5 TR. She is a public mental health educator and for her work in this arena, she was honored with the 2021 Jerilyn Ross Clinician Advocate Award by the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. She has also been a recipient of the Marian Butterfield award. Her other roles include serving as Section Editor for Current Opinion in Psychiatry, a Wolters Kluwer journal, for the last 8 years. She also served as Associate Editor of Current Psychiatry for 6 years. She is often invited to give talks at national, regional and local conferences and organizations.
She takes a whole-person approach, utilizing active, empathic listening and aimed at understanding the biological, psychological, social, and other factors affecting an individual’s mental health. She integrates judicious medication management with psychotherapy. Her psychotherapy approach is informed by various evidence-based psychotherapies such as psychodynamic therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness-based, self-compassion-focused interventions. Dr. Bhatia’s other professional interests include ruling out medical conditions mimicking anxiety and other psychiatric disorders, the intersection of technology and mental health, bullying prevention, and compassion and empathy cultivation- she has also authored publications on these topics. -
Ritwik Bhatia, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Adult Neurology
BioDr. Bhatia is a board-certified, fellowship-trained neurologist with Stanford Health Care and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Division of Neurocritical Care at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Bhatia joined Stanford in 2024 after completing Neurocritical Care fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. He provides critical care to patients following acute neurological injuries, such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, intracranial hemorrhage, and other disorders affecting the brain, spinal cord, and nervous system. He strives to provide excellent patient care in multidisciplinary teams. He enjoys teaching and is the physician lead for simulation for Advanced Practice Providers in Neurocritical Care. He currently serves as the Unit Based Medical Director for the Neurosciences ICU at Stanford Hospital, leading the unit's initiatives in quality and patient safety.
Dr. Bhatia’s research interests include longitudinal outcomes for patients with moderate-severe acute acquired brain injury requiring intensive care unit admission. He is developing a neurointensive care recovery clinic at Stanford Healthcare to follow these patients through transitions of care and support neurorecovery.
Dr. Bhatia has published in several peer-reviewed journals, including Neurology, Journal of Neurosurgery, and Stroke. He has presented at national meetings for the American Academy of Neurology, Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology, and American Epilepsy Society. He has served as a guideline ambassador for the American Heart Association and is a member of the Neurorecovery Clinic Section of the Neurocritical Care Society. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with family and friends. -
Siddharth M. Bhatia
Undergraduate, Computer Science
BioUndergraduate studying Computer Science! My web site: https://sidmb.com/.
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Ritu Bhatnagar
Senior Laboratory Counsel, Legal Services
BioRitu Bhatnagar is a Senior Laboratory Counsel, representing Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory managed and operated by Stanford.
Prior to coming to Stanford, Ms. Bhatnagar served as the Deputy General Counsel and Vice President of Appirio Inc., a cloud solutions implementation company, where she oversaw the company’s worldwide legal, governance and compliance-related matters. Ms. Bhatnagar previously was a technology transactions attorney at the Silicon Valley office of Latham & Watkins, LLP, where her practice focused on general business counseling, intellectual property, commercial contracts, licensing, and mergers and acquisitions.
Ms. Bhatnagar graduated from Stanford University with a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree (honors and distinction, Phi Beta Kappa). She holds her law degree from University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University. After graduating from law school, Ms. Bhatnagar served as a judicial law clerk for the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in Boston.
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Shweta Bhatnagar
Assistant Vice President, Government Affairs, Office of Government Affairs
Current Role at StanfordAssistant Vice President Government Affairs
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Ami Bhatt
Professor of Medicine (Hematology) and of Genetics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe Bhatt lab is exploring how the microbiota is intertwined with states of health and disease. We apply the most modern genetic tools in an effort to deconvolute the mechanism of human diseases.
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Apurva Bhatt, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioApurva Bhatt, M.D., is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her role spans the General Adult Psychiatry Division, Child Psychiatry Division, and Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing.
Dr. Bhatt specializes in early psychosis evaluation and treatment. She is the Director of the Child INSPIRE clinic and currently provides clinical care in both the Stanford Children’s Hospital Child INSPIRE early psychosis clinic and the Stanford Health Care INSPIRE clinic and INSPIRE360 Coordinated Specialty Care/Wraparound program. She contributes to early psychosis program development in California (through EPI-CAL as the Psychiatric Provider Team Lead) and nationally (through PEPPNET). She is also co-chair of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Adolescent Psychiatry Committee and Early Psychosis work group.
Dr. Bhatt is also a school psychiatrist, providing school clinical consultations for the Redwood City School District through the Stanford Redwood City Sequoia School Mental Health Collaborative. She also provides clinical consultations to schools in the Los Altos School district, and supervises child and adolescent psychiatry fellows providing consultation to Los Altos, Redwood City, and Mountain View schools.
Dr. Bhatt’s research interests include Asian American and South Asian youth mental health and prevention of youth suicide. She enjoys teaching and mentoring students and trainees, and currently is a mentor through the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. -
Hilarey Ransom Bhatt
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Bhatt is an expert clinician, educator, and health system leader in the specialty of internal medicine. She earned her MD from University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and completed her training at UCSF’s Internal Medicine residency program. Dr. Bhatt is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Bhatt cares for people ages 18 and up. She practices at Stanford Express Care in Palo Alto and San Jose, where she serves as the Medical Director of the clinic. She has a particular interest in the care of medically complex patients and in teaching and practicing evidence-based medicine. She believes that the patient-clinician relationship is the foundation of good care and strives to develop respectful and collaborative relationships with all her patients.
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Jayanta Bhattacharya
Professor of Health Policy, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on the constraints that vulnerable populations face in making decisions that affect their health status, as well as the effects of government policies and programs designed to benefit vulnerable populations.
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Surjendu Bhattacharyya
Project Scientist, LCLS - Linac Coherent Light Source
BioI am currently a Research Associate at SLAC’s LCLS SRD Chemical Science Department. My research focuses on time-resolved dynamics in the gas phase, with a particular interest employing novel experimental techniques to investigate the dynamics of molecules, radicals, and ions. These techniques include Coulomb explosion imaging, MeV electron diffraction (MeV-UED), X-ray scattering, X-ray absorption, and photoelectron spectroscopy. This work aims to improve the fundamental understanding of energy, environmental, biological, and atmospheric processes.
I am currently adapting a pyrolysis source to a time-of-flight spectrometer to perform time-resolved studies of radicals using UV, high harmonic generation (HHG), and X-rays. Additionally, I plan to integrate the pyrolysis setup with MeV-UED to investigate structural molecular dynamics through diffraction measurements. -
Achintya K. Bhowmik, PhD
Adjunct Professor, OHNS/Otology & Neurotology Division
BioDr. Achin Bhowmik serves on the faculty of Stanford University as an adjunct professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, where he advises research and lectures in the areas of sensory augmentation, computational perception, cognitive neuroscience, and intelligent systems. He is also an affiliate faculty member of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Human Performance Alliance, and has served as a mentor for the Stanford Institutes of Medicine Summer Research Program.
Dr. Bhowmik is the chief technology officer and executive vice president of engineering at Starkey Hearing Technologies, a privately-held medical devices company with over 6,000 employees and operations in over 100 countries worldwide. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s technology strategy, research and development, engineering and program management departments, and leading the drive to transform hearing aids into multifunction wearable health and communication devices with advanced sensors and artificial intelligence.
Previously, Dr. Bhowmik was the vice president and general manager of Perceptual Computing at Intel, where he was responsible for the R&D, engineering, operations, and businesses in the areas of 3D sensing and interactive computing, including Intel RealSense, computer vision and artificial intelligence, autonomous robots and drones, and immersive virtual and mixed reality devices.
Dr. Bhowmik serves as an industry representative for the US FDA Digital Health Advisory Committee. He is a member of the Forbes Technology Council, board of directors for Mojo Vision, RealSense, Astranu, and OpenCV. He also serves on the board of trustees for the National Captioning Institute and on advisory boards for the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership at the University of California, Berkeley, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He is also on the board of advisors for several technology startup companies.
He has also held adjunct and guest professor positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Liquid Crystal Institute of the Kent State University, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. He received his Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, PhD from Auburn University, and attended the Executive Program at Stanford University. He has authored over 200 publications, including three books and 98 granted patents globally.
Dr. Bhowmik is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences (AAIS), and the Society for Information Display (SID), where he previously served as President. His other honors include the Artificial Intelligence Excellence award by the Business Intelligence Group, Gold Globee award for “the Most Innovative Person of the Year in Healthcare”, the Misties Award, Top 25 Healthcare Technology CTOs by the Healthcare Technology Report, Notable Leaders in Healthcare by Twin Cities Business, the Healthcare Heroes award by the Business Journals, the Industrial Distinguished Leader award from the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association, TIME’s Best Inventions, and the Red Dot Design award. -
Rohan Tan Bhowmik
Masters Student in Computer Science, admitted Autumn 2024
BioI am an undergraduate student at Stanford University studying Computer Science and Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on artificial intelligence. I am constantly seeking to learn and develop new machine-learning techniques and build applications based on them, especially in the areas of health, environment, and human-computer interaction. I’m especially interested in brain-inspired computing for energy-efficient systems.
As a software engineering intern at AMD AI Group since June 2024, I’ve gained expertise in machine learning compilers and optimized model performance across diverse hardware architectures. I unified AI/ML model implementations for high-performance computing on CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators. I also developed masked and causal attention modules on Torch-MLIR and IREE, enabling models like LLaMa and Stable Diffusion on the AMD stack.
My other recent projects include the development of 1) a wildfire prediction method by analyzing trends in environmental, meteorological, and geological data with an aim to mitigate the impact of California’s devastating wildfire seasons, 2) a respiratory disease exacerbation prediction system based on a novel spatio-temporal artificial intelligence algorithm and local environmental sensor network, 3) a machine learning technique for automating patient facial condition assessment and surgery planning, 4) blood alcohol level estimation using infrared imaging and deep neural networks, and 5) a novel image recognition framework utilizing a quantum optical convolutional neural network.
I have published papers based on my research in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Environmental Management, IEEE Access, Electronics, and Facial Plastic Surgery & Aesthetic Medicine. I have won top national awards in the USA Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Junior Math, Computing, and Biology Olympiads and was named Regeneron STS Top 300 Finalist in 2023.
Outside of academics, I play clarinet, tennis, and volunteer with organizations to help sensory-deficient individuals, including the Baker Institute for Children with Hearing Loss, Starkey Hearing Foundation, and VocaliD. -
Nidhi Bhutani
Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe long-term goal of our research is to understand the fundamental mechanisms that govern and reprogram cellular fate during development, regeneration and disease.
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Vinod (Vinny) K. Bhutani
Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology) at the Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsNeonatology; newborn jaundice, bilirubin biology and kernicterus prevention; pulmonary physiology, pulmonary functions and neonatal ventilation. To promote newborn screening for G6PD deficiency in USA.
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Kaiwen Bian
Life Science Research Professional 1, Ophthalmology Research/Clinical Trials
BioVisiting researcher, with interest in the cross section of cognitive science, neuroscience, and computer science / statistics, working on various naturalistic control, planning, and imitation problems.
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Y. Katherine Bianco
Clinical Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology - Maternal Fetal Medicine
BioI am Latinx Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist and Medical Geneticist and a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University. I direct the Maternal Heart Program at Stanford Children’s Hospital and Clinics, leading a multidisciplinary team caring for complex cardiac conditions in pregnancy. I am dedicated educator and mentor, that have trained more than 50 trainees spanning from high school students to junior faculty. I serve in the Dean’s Office for Faculty Professional Development and Engagement and oversees the OBGYN Advance and Promotions, where i support advances programs to support faculty growth, mentorship, and academic success. My work integrates genetics, cardiology, and maternal health to improve outcomes for women and families. My clinical interest in pregnancies complicated with birth defects has led my underlying research interests in genomic abnormalities in the human trophoblast carrying to faulty placentation. The latter began with initial work during K12 and KO8 funding. I took a great interest in the human placenta as it carries potential advantages over other tissues sources: first, this highly metabolically active organ is the potential source of many transcripts. Second, the placenta forms at a very early stage of embryonic development, potentially allowing detection of primary alterations as compared to secondary changes that may mask the underlying causal phenomena. Finally, studying early placentation may provide targets for development of novel molecular approaches, such as up-regulate or down-regulate genes, the protein products of which could potentially serve as molecular surrogates for diagnosis and treatment of pregnancy complication such as miscarriages, pre-eclampsia, pregnancy induced hypertension and intrauterine growth retardation. This work has led to the first Trisomy 21, Trisomy 18, trisomy 13 cell lines established from human placentas making it possible to apply gene editing in the early stages of human trophoblast development.
As my primary clinical responsibility involves treating patients needing medical care and support through their high risk pregnancies, I am interested in factors that may impact outcomes, such as prenatal screening and diagnosis, maternal heart conditions, labor and delivery management, and safety approaches for the second stage of labor.
With regards to my interest in fetal medicine, I have worked in collaboration with other specialists such as radiologists and pediatric cardiologists utilizing imagining studies to assess and determine successful perinatal care and fetal survival.
. My career has been defined by a commitment to addressing the most pressing drivers of maternal morbidity and mortality, particularly cardiovascular disease in pregnancy. I have led multidisciplinary maternal cardiac programs at UCSF and Stanford, impacting over 600 high-risk pregnancies and demonstrating how team-based care transforms outcomes.
Beyond clinical innovation, my work spans translational science and global health. I have contributed to advancing prenatal diagnostics—validating tools for non-invasive prenatal testing, improving detection of conditions like Down syndrome. Globally, I’ve led training initiatives in countries with high maternal mortality, such as India, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica, building capacity through education and simulation.
Equally central is mentorship. I have mentored over 50 trainees across all levels, fostering diversity and advancing women in medicine. My work goes beyond language access to cultural humility, improving care for diverse populations.
As a physician who bridges worlds—from my modest beginnings in a lower-middle-income country, through medical training in the U.S., to leading at Stanford—I know that diverse paths shape stronger futures. I believe that every mother’s life saved is a generation empowered—and through science, mentorship, and equity, -
John Bickar
Manager, Development Operations, Stanford Web Services
BioManager, Development Operations in Stanford Web Services (University IT). Supervises staff responsible for full stack development, and mentors on effective communication as well as efficient development, deployment, and security strategies.
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Deeksha Suresh Bidare
Affiliate, Department Professorship Funds
Fellow in Peds/Clinical InformaticsBioDr. Deeksha S. Bidare is a general surgery resident physician at Stanford Healthcare, and she has completed three years of clinical training. She is currently in the Professional Development years of her residency training, during which she will complete an ACGME fellowship in Clinical Informatics within the Stanford Department of Pediatrics. Her clinical focus within the Department of Surgery is on Acute Care Surgery, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care in which she intends to pursue fellowship training after residency. Her research interests within the Clinical Informatics realm include the utilization of EHR and LLM tools to facilitate patient data collection and analysis both in and outside of the operating room.
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Alex Bien
Accel System Operator I, Accelerator
BioI am a 2022 graduate with a B.S. in physics from the University of Maryland at College Park, and I currently operate the world's longest and most powerful linear particle accelerator administrated by Stanford University under the direction of the US Department of Energy. Here I interface directly with the machinery, controls, and safety systems for three linear accelerator facilities: FACET-II where electron-pair beams are shot thru hot plasma to study novel wakefield acceleration techniques, LCLS where coherent x-rays of very high energy (and inversely low wavelength) probe deep into matter for imaging at atomic scales, and LCLS-II where commissioning is underway to produce a much more powerful megahertz rep rate superconducting beam that can leverage the same XFEL mechanism to (instead of just taking snapshots) also resolve the dynamics of chemical reactions in situ.
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Anna Bigelow
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
BioAnna Bigelow is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. She received her MA from Columbia University (1995) and PhD in Religious Studies from UC Santa Barbara (2004) with a focus on South Asian Islam. Her book, Sharing the Sacred: Practicing Pluralism in Muslim North India (Oxford University Press, 2010) is a study of a Muslim majority community in Indian Punjab and the shared sacred and civic spaces in that community. Bigelow's current projects include a comparative study of shared sacred sites in India and Turkey and an edited volume on material objects in Islamic cultures.
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Ugo Biggeri
Overseas Studies - Florence, Bing Overseas Studies
BioUgo Biggeri is the representative for Europe of Global Alliance for Banking on Values, a global
network of sustainable banks and also President of shareholders for change, the network of
European institutional investors that promotes active shareholding on Environmental Social
and Governance issues. He was among the founders of Banca Etica in Italy of which he was
president up to 2019 (1,2 billion € portfolio credit) and up to 2023 also president of Etica Sgr
(Investment managing company – 7 €billion of assets) .
He has a degree and PhD in physics, specialization in Sustainable Development (Trento) and
in Business Management (Bocconi. Milano).
Since 2009 he is teaching Ethical Finance and Microcredit at the University of Florence
Always committed to the issues of social justice and ecology, both at family level and with his
work, promoting actions and campaign with Italian NGOs. -
Nasrin Biglari
Academic Technology Specialist, School of Medicine - Post Grad Med Education (CME)
Current Role at StanfordStanford Continuing Medical Education Website Coordinator/Developer
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Elisabeth Bik
Affiliate, Med/SPRC - Division
BioElisabeth Bik, PhD is a Dutch-American microbiologist who has worked for 15 years at Stanford University and 2 years in industry. Since 2019, she is a science integrity volunteer and consultant who scans the biomedical literature for images or other data of concern. She has found problems in over 9,000 scientific papers, and her work resulted in over 1,800 retractions and another 1,200 corrections. For her work in science communication and exposing research misconduct, she received the 2021 John Maddox Prize and the 2024 Einstein Foundation Award.
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Vasiliki (Vicky) Bikia
Postdoc Res Affiliate, Biomedical Data Science
Postdoc Res Affiliate-2, Biomedical Data ScienceBioDr. Vasiliki Bikia is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University, jointly affiliated with the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and the Department of Biomedical Data Science, where she works under the mentorship of Prof. Roxana Daneshjou. She holds an Advanced Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece (2017), and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (2021). Her doctoral work focused on addressing the clinical need for non-invasive cardiovascular monitoring by combining machine learning with physics-based numerical modeling.
Dr. Bikia's research centers on the development of large multimodal models to improve patient outcome prediction. She is also passionate about building patient-facing chatbots that help individuals better understand complex medical information, ultimately aiming to enhance communication and empower patients in their care journey. Moreover, she has contributed to the Stanford Spezi framework, designing and prototyping the Spezi Data Pipeline tool for enhanced digital health data accessibility and analysis workflows. -
Adrien Gabriel Bilal
Assistant Professor of Economics, Center Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Assistant Professor, by courtesy, of Environmental Social Sciences
BioAdrien Bilal is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He is a macroeconomist who works on topics related to climate change, spatial and labor economics.
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Mary Sheridan Bilbao, MPAS, PA-C
Physician Asst-Rsch, Cardiothoracic Surgery
BioMary Sheridan Bilbao, MPAS, PA-C, FAPACVS, is an accomplished advanced practice provider specializing in Cardiothoracic Surgery. She earned both her Undergraduate degree and Masters of Physician Assistant Studies at Marywood University. With extensive experience in cardiothoracic surgery, Mary became an integral part of our team in 2014.
Her expertise spans both in-patient and outpatient care, where she actively participates in surgical procedures and contributes to various studies and laboratory research. Mary's proficiency extends to open and endoscopic vein harvesting, radial artery harvesting, valve replacements, minimally invasive aortic and mitral valve repair/replacements, ascending aorta/aortic dissection/aortic arch repair/replacements, redo surgeries, coronary artery bypass grafting (off and on-pump), robotic-assisted minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting, minimally invasive myocardial bridge unroofing, heart/lung transplants, VADs, and ECMO.
Beyond her clinical duties, Mary plays a crucial role in training new PAs, NPs, APP fellows, residents, and medical students in various surgical skills. In the clinic, she performs history & physicals, pre-op evaluations, orders/interprets studies & labs, and coordinates in-patient and out-patient care.
Since January 2015, Mary has been the driving force behind the Stanford Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery's Human Biorepository Tissue Bank. This initiative has amassed over 1,000 human cardiothoracic tissue samples, fostering approved studies to advance cardiovascular and pulmonary disease research. Collaborating with over 30 partners and Stanford labs, Mary's goal is to facilitate research by providing cardiothoracic tissue samples to researchers and scientists across Stanford Medicine.
Currently, Mary holds the position of Principal Academic and Clinical Integration Developer in the CT Surgery Department, further highlighting her leadership role in our institution. In this capacity, she plays a pivotal role in curating and developing marketing materials and outreach strategies for the department. Mary's dedication extends beyond clinical excellence; she actively contributes to fostering academic growth and enhancing the department's visibility. Her strategic approach to marketing ensures that the department's achievements and advancements in cardiothoracic surgery are effectively communicated to the broader medical community and the public, reinforcing our commitment to excellence in patient care, research, and education.
Furthermore, Mary has been an esteemed member of Dr. Joseph Woo's Stanford Advanced Cardiovascular Therapeutics and Surgical Biomechanics Translational Research Laboratory (Woo Lab) since 2012. Her involvement in numerous clinical trials and published research underscores her commitment to advancing the field of cardiovascular medicine. Learn more about Woo Lab at http://med.stanford.edu/woolab.html. -
Rebecca Bilden
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioRebecca Bilden, PhD, MSc is a T32 Postdoctoral Fellow in Pain and Substance Use at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she conducts research under the mentorship of Drs. Keith Humphreys and Brian Bateman. Dr. Bilden is a health services researcher and decision scientist whose work focuses on improving access to treatment for substance use disorders through evidence-based policy and simulation modeling. By integrating qualitative insights into models, she analyzes system dynamics and develops strategies to improve care delivery within complex healthcare systems.
Dr. Bilden earned her PhD in Health Services Research and Policy from the University of Pittsburgh, an MSc in Applied Data Science and Statistics from the University of Exeter, and a BA in Pure and Applied Mathematics from Boston University. Her current research focuses on evaluating opioid-related policies, improving treatment retention among people with substance use disorders, and expanding access to care in carceral settings.
