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.
