Stanford University
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Sarah Derbew
Assistant Professor of Classics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSarah Derbew's research focuses on the literary and artistic representations of black people in ancient Greece. The genres she investigates include ancient Greek tragedy, historiography, satire, and the novel. She also examines artistic renderings of black people in Greek antiquity, focusing on both the objects themselves and the museums in which they are displayed. Her interests extend to the twenty-first century; she has written about the reception of Greco-Roman antiquity in Africa and the African diaspora.
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Stanley Deresinski
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
BioDr. Deresinski received his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and received training in Internal Medicine there and at Stanford, where he also completed a fellowship in Infectious Diseases. For 3 decades, he maintained a private practice in Infectious Disease, HIV, and Travel Medicine and was Hospital Epidemiologist at Sequoia Hospital where he also served as President of the Medical Staff for 2 years. He was also Associate Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and for 14 years was Director of the AIDS Program at the Santa Valley Medical Center, a Stanford-affiliated public teaching hospital. During that time he won several teaching awards at Stanford. In 1987, he founded the AIDS Community Research Consortium, serving as its Medical Director and Chairman of the Board for almost 2 decades. He was also Site Principal Investigator for the Stanford ACTU and the California Collaborative Treatment Group and has worked on AIDS education in Kampala, Uganda. Dr. Deresinski is currently Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Stanford and is Medical Director of the Stanford Antimicrobial Stewardship Program and Chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and of the Specialty Drugs Subcommittee. He has special interests in antimicrobial resistance, optimal antimicrobial use, fungal infections, and infections in immunocomopromised hosts.
Dr. Deresinski has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers as well as number of book chapters. He is a Section Editor of Clinical Infectious Diseases and is a past Chair of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Standards and Practice Guidelines Committee as well as member of the IDSA Board of Directors. He is a member of the HIVMA, in addition to a number of other societies including SHEA and is a Fellow in the American College of Physicians as well as IDSA. He is a past winner of the IDSA Watanakunokorn Clinician of the YearAward. -
Jesse DeRose
Masters Student in Management Science and Engineering, admitted Autumn 2024
Hourly Student Employee- Practitioner Course Program, Ethics In SocietyBioHow can work balance profit and social impact? What if employees were intrinsically motivated to show up every day?
I help leaders answer these questions because we all deserve purposeful work. Whether that’s cultivating emotional intelligence, fostering psychological safety, or removing process friction, healthy work is proven to increase productivity, creativity, and decision-making.
Combining industry research with a decade of experience building digital transformation programs, I help my clients build human-centered solutions that align their people, processes, and technology to make data-driven business decisions. -
Laura T Derry
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine
BioDr. Laura (Trollinger) Derry is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and hospitalist specializing in the care of complex medical and surgical patients. She completed her medical training at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine and Internal Medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she was part of the Health Systems Leadership (HSL) Pathway. She also holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, specializing in health sector management and leadership.
Beyond clinical care, Dr. Derry conducts research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and medicine, exploring how large language models and machine learning can enhance physician decision-making, disease diagnosis, and healthcare delivery. She received one of the inaugural SMART-HM grants through the Stanford Division of Hospital Medicine to support her research. Dr. Derry is actively involved in quality improvement initiatives within the Division of Hospital Medicine and member of the Orthopedics Quality Council. She is a graduate of Stanford Medicine's Realizing Improvement through Team Empowerment (RITE) program and now serves a Cohort Director. She also serves as a faculty advisor and instructor for the Stanford Healthcare Consulting Group (SHCG), mentoring students in healthcare strategy, operations, and quality improvement.
Before her medical career, Dr. Derry worked as a strategy consultant, applying data-driven insights to optimize clinical operations and care delivery. Her expertise in clinical operations, quality improvement, and digital strategy continues to shape her work at Stanford and beyond. -
Atman Desai, MD
Clinical Professor, Neurosurgery
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe Stanford Spine Artificial Intelligence Laboratory develops data-driven technologies to improve diagnosis, surgical planning, and outcomes in spine care. Our research spans predictive modeling, computational imaging, spinal oncology, digital surgery, and real-world functional assessment using wearables. By integrating clinical, imaging, and functional data at scale, we aim to deliver clinically meaningful, patient-centered innovations for complex spinal disease.
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Dimpi Desai, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism
BioDr. Dimpi Desai, MD is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University. She did her residency in Internal Medicine from Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and completed her fellowship in Endocrinology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Her main clinical focus includes diabetes and obesity and preventing their long-term complications. She strongly believes in patient education and involving them in the medical decision-making process. In addition to being a clinician, she is committed to and involved in the medical education of trainees at all levels including medical students, residents and fellows. She is double board certified in internal medicine and endocrinology. -
Gauri Desai
Postdoctoral Scholar, Bioengineering
BioDr. Gauri Desai is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Female Athlete Science and Translational Research Program (FASTR). She is a biomechanist, with a research focus on female-specific biomechanical risk factors for sport-related injuries. She integrates biomechanics principles with physiology to provide an all-round perspective on improving performance and mitigating injury risk in female athletes. Dr. Desai's research complements human subject experiments with insights from computer modeling and simulation, to answer research questions that are challenging to address via human subject research studies alone. Beyond research, she is an active contributor to the sports science community through mentorship and advocacy for women in sport.
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Kaniksha Desai
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism
BioDr. Kaniksha Desai is a board-certified endocrinologist and clinical associate professor at Stanford University. She completed her endocrinology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, with an emphasis on the management of patients with thyroid cancer. Dr. Desai’s clinical practice focuses on the management of patients with thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer. She also maintains board certification in neck ultrasonography.
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Manisha Desai (She/Her/Hers)
Kim and Ping Li Professor, Professor (Research) of Medicine (Quantitative Sciences Unit), of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Desai is the Director of the Quantitative Sciences Unit. She is interested in the application of biostatistical methods to all areas of medicine including oncology, nephrology, and endocrinology. She works on methods for the analysis of epidemiologic studies, clinical trials, and studies with missing observations.
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Priyamvada(Priya) Desai
Rsch Technical Mgr 1, Technology & Digital Solutions
Current Role at StanfordManager, Biomedical Informatics R &D
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Tushar Desai
Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsBasic and translational research in lung stem cell biology, cancer, pulmonary fibrosis, COPD, and acute lung injury/ARDS. Upper airway stem cell CRISPR gene correction followed by autologous stem cell transplantation to treat Cystic fibrosis. Using lung organoids and precision cut lung slice cultures of mouse and human lungs to study molecular regulation of lung stem cells. Using transgenic mice to visualize Wnt protein transmission from niche cell to stem cell in vivo.
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Gaelle Desbordes
Senior Research Engineer, Rad/Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford
Current Role at StanfordSenior Research Engineer
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Catherine Descanzo
Sr. Assistant Head, Access Services (Circulation), University Libraries
BioI have oversight of the daytime and evening circulation, course reserves, and the student staffing programs in Access Services at Cecil H. Green Library. I also am currently leading the Circulation Subgroup as part of Stanford Libraries' migration to the new open source integrated library system called FOLIO.
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John DeSilva
Systems & Network Manager, Electrical Engineering
Current Role at StanfordSystems & Network Manager, David Packard Electrical Engineering Building
