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Katherine T. Ward, MD
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Ward is the Chief of the Geriatrics Section in the Department of Medicine, Division of Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford University School of Medicine, and a Clinical Professor of Medicine. In this leadership role, she supervises program leaders across outpatient, inpatient, and skilled nursing facility settings, bringing them together to provide longitudinal, coordinated care to older adults across the healthcare continuum.
Dr. Ward is a fellowship-trained geriatrician with Stanford in Palo Alto, California, and is board certified in geriatric medicine, hospice and palliative medicine, and internal medicine. Her clinical practice spans all care settings—outpatient clinics, hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities—with a focus on managing the critical transitions between them. She specializes in comprehensive care for older adults, including dementia care, palliative care, geriatric assessment, and best practices in nursing home care. Dr. Ward draws on her extensive experience to teach and implement evidence based models that support care for older adults. Dr. Ward's research interests include early detection of dementia in vulnerable populations, dementia care support programs, and geriatric assessment in diverse populations.
She has published her research in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society; The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy; The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging; and the Journal of Palliative Medicine. She has served as an ad hoc reviewer for several journals, including Geriatrics, and has presented posters at annual meetings of the American Geriatrics Society and the Society of General Internal Medicine.
Dr. Ward is a member of the American College of Physicians and the American Geriatrics Society. -
Tracey Dawn Ward
Office and Program Coordinator, Academic Advising Operations
Current Role at StanfordOffice and Program Coordinator, Office of Academic Advising
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Victoria Ward
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsGlobal child health, digital health, preterm birth, human trafficking
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Chisondi S. Warioba, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioChisondi S. Warioba, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Division of Pain Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, working in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine with Dr. Sean Mackey and Dr. Kenneth Weber. His research develops machine learning and deep learning approaches for high-dimensional medical data, with an emphasis on cross-species translational neuroscience, resting-state fMRI, and multimodal MRI analysis (NODDI, DKI, and advanced diffusion techniques) to identify brain biomarkers of chronic pain.
He earned his PhD in Medical Physics from the University of Chicago, where his dissertation focused on cross-species mapping of functional connectivity alterations and therapeutic responses in hyperacute ischemic stroke. He completed a triple-major bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology at Westmont College.
Dr. Warioba is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and was awarded an Academic Visitor position at the University of Oxford's Department of Clinical Neurosciences. He received the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award from the Mathematical Association of America for expository excellence. He is committed to mentorship and community engagement, including STEM outreach for underrepresented students and neuroscience public education. -
Jessica C. Warner, MPA, PA-C
Affiliate, IT Services
BioJessica Warner, MPA, PA-C is an advanced practice provider who specializes in cardiothoracic surgery. She completed her physician assistant degree at Samuel Merritt University. Prior to this she completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Washington. She has a special interest in coronary artery revascularization and coronary artery bypass surgery, including endoscopic vessel harvesting.
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Meghan Warner
Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
BioMeghan is a Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE) Lecturer and a sociologist. She uses qualitative methods to study bodies as sites for the reproduction of gender inequality. More specifically, she studies sexual violence, family formation, and pregnancy and childbirth. Her work can be found in Sociological Perspectives, Contexts, and The Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
In her dissertation, she uses interviews, surveys, and observations to study how women in the SF Bay Area prepare for and experience their first births. This research is supported by grants from the American Sociological Association, the Center for Institutional Courage, the Stanford Ethnography Lab, and the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. -
Roger Warnke
Ronald F. Dorfman, M.B.B.ch., FRCPath, Professor in Hematopathology, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAs an Emeritus Professor, I no longer have a research laboratory and am now fully retired.
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Dāshaun Washington
Lecturer, English
BioDāshaun Washington is a poet from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His work has received support from the Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lighthouse Works, and Ucross Foundation. His poems have appeared in Poem-a-Day, New England Review, Poetry, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He lives in San Francisco.
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Thomas A Wasow
Clarence Irving Lewis Professor in Philosophy and Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus and Academic Secretary to the University, Emeritus
BioTom Wasow joined the Stanford faculty as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy in 1973. He was educated at Reed College (BA in mathematics, 1967) and MIT (PhD in Linguistics, 1972). Between college and graduate school, he was a Fulbright fellow in Germany. Prior to coming to Stanford, he taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. His early research was on the theory of grammar, particularly syntax. Later, he did work in psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, and sociolinguistics. He is a fellow of both the Linguistic Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At Stanford, he received the Dinkelspiel Award for contributions to undergraduate education, and was named a Bass Fellow in Undergraduate Education.
Wasow served as Dean of Undergraduate Studies from 1987 to 1991, as Associate Dean for Graduate Policy in the office of the Dean of Research (1996-2000), as Chair of the Faculty Senate (2003-2004), and, after retiring from the faculty, as Academic Secretary to the University (2017-2024). He also chaired the committee that created the Symbolic Systems Program, and chaired that program for a total of thirteen years between 1992 and 2015.
Aside from his work at Stanford, he has been active with organizations that provide housing and services to Bay Area people experiencing homelessness. He currently serves on the board of Abode Housing Development.
