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Megan DeMott, MD
Affiliate, Physician Assistant Studies
BioMegan DeMott, MD, earned dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Biochemistry and Philosophy from Claremont McKenna College, graduating summa cum laude. She received her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where she served as Chief Resident. She went on to complete a fellowship in Medical Toxicology at the University of California, San Diego.
For the past 15 years, Dr. DeMott has practiced at an indigent care hospital in Brawley, California, where she is dedicated to serving underserved populations. In addition to her clinical work, she mentors Stanford physician assistant students, fostering the next generation of healthcare providers. Her professional interests include medical toxicology, emergency care, and health equity in vulnerable communities. -
Dora Demszky
Assistant Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of Computer Science
BioDr. Demszky is an Assistant Professor in Education Data Science at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. She works on developing natural language processing methods to support equitable and student-centered instruction. She has developed tools to give feedback to teachers on dialogic instructional practices, to analyze representation in textbooks, measure the presence of dialect features in text, among others. Dr Demszky has received her PhD in Linguistics at Stanford University, supervised by Dr Dan Jurafsky. Prior to her PhD, Dr. Demszky received a BA summa cum laude from Princeton University in Linguistics with a minor in Computer Science.
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Stefania Demuro
Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemical and Systems Biology
BioStefania received her master’s degree in pharmaceutical chemistry from the University of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) and later moved to Philadelphia to conduct organic chemistry research at the University of Pennsylvania. Returning to Italy, she completed her Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Bologna in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Technology, focusing on the development of first-in-class triple protein kinase inhibitors for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and related tauopathies (Prof. Andrea Cavalli).
As part of her doctoral training, Stefania spent time at UC San Diego in Prof. Carlo Ballatore’s group, where she developed novel microtubule stabilizers for the treatment of tauopathies.
Drawn to the interconnection between chemistry and biology, and after applying her medicinal chemistry expertise to research in diabetes and neuropathic pain at Stanford ChEM-H, she joined the Chen Lab to investigate the role of ALDH1B1 in tumorigenesis and HIPK4 as a target for male contraception. -
Lyn Denend
Academic Prog Prof Mgr, School of Medicine - MDRP'S - Biodesign Program
Current Role at StanfordDirector for Academic Programs, Stanford Biodesign
Lecturer, Stanford Medicine
