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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.
