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Ruth Margaret Gibson
Visiting Scholar, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Affiliate, Pediatrics - NeonatologyBioDr. Ruth Gibson, PhD, is a scholar at Stanford University. She holds appointments at the Center for Innovation and Global Health (CIGH) and the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). Dr. Gibson’s research focuses on war, blockades, and sanctions and their impacts on maternal and child health. Her expertise is in geopolitically complex regions of the world, crises, and what all of this means for human health.
Dr. Gibson’s research is published in internationally renowned outlets such as The Lancet and The Lancet Global Health. She publishes research on issues such as foreign aid withdrawal and impacts on mothers and children, humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, and sanctions against Iran. Her insights have been highlighted by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and TIME. Dr. Gibson responds quickly to producers, journalists, and media outlets seeking expert analysis of critical issues in war, peace, and human lives.
She is currently co-leading a Lancet Series on Global Health and Foreign Engagement with Professor Gary Darmstadt. She leads worldwide international panels on critical issues in global health – geopolitical crisis and their impacts on health – through the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) and Stanford’s CIGH. Dr. Gibson collaborates with the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights to develop a universal monitoring system to assess the impact of sanctions on human rights. Her research has been cited in UN General Assembly meetings. She also worked on war crimes investigations with the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab and on the International Criminal Court's prosecution of war crimes.
Dr. Gibson spent a decade working internationally, engaging in humanitarian and global health initiatives across eight countries on five continents – including conflict zones. Dr. Gibson is fluent in English and proficient in Mandarin Chinese (如詩 吉布森), French, and Spanish. She holds a postdoctoral fellowship from Stanford University, a PhD from the University of British Columbia, an Honors Bachelor of Science, and a Master of Science from the University of Toronto.
Dr. Gibson can be reached at rmgibson@stanford.edu
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Rona Giffard
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAstrocytes, microglia and neurons interact, and have unique vulnerabilities to injury based on their patterns of gene expression and their functional roles. We focus on the cellular and molecular basis of brain cell injury in stroke. We study the effects of altering miRNA expression, altering levels of heat shock and cell death regulatory proteins. Our goal is to improve outcome by improving mitochondrial function and brain cell survival, and reducing oxidative stress and inflammation.
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Rachel Gilgoff
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Allergy and Clinical Immunology
BioAs a board-certified general pediatrician, child abuse pediatrician, and integrative medicine specialist, Dr. Gilgoff brings a multidisciplinary, whole-family approach to ACEs, toxic stress, healing, and well-being. She is currently an advisor with the California Aces Aware Initiative, UCLA-UCSF ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network (UCAAN), and the Center for Youth Wellness, a program of Safe and Sound, as well as an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the co-founder of the National Committee on Asthma and Toxic Stress and co-PI on “Systems-based, Multidisciplinary Assessment of Adversity and Toxic Stress for Individualized Care (The SYSTEMAATIC Project),” an ACEs and Precision Medicine research project through the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine (CIAPM). She co-created the “Stress Busters: Clinical Strategies for Preventing and Mitigating Toxic Stress,” a free, on-line course to help clinicians develop their clinical response to childhood adversity and toxic stress. In tandem, she led the development of the ACEs Aware Stress Busters Resource Webpage, sharing tools and resources to prevent and heal toxic stress for all of us. Dr. Gilgoff is dedicated to conducting translational research and promoting patient-centered, individualized, multidisciplinary clinical care to address health issues resulting from child abuse and toxic stress.
Board Certification:
American Board of Physician Specialties, Integrative Medicine (2022)
American Board of Pediatrics, Child Abuse Pediatrics (2011)
American Board of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics (2004)
Professional Education
Fellowship:
Integrative Psychiatry Institute, Integrative Psychiatry (2023)
Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine (2022)
Stanford University Medical Center, Pediatric Integrative Medicine (2021)
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and UC Davis, Child Abuse Pediatrics (2007)
Residency:
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (2004)
Medical Education:
Keck School of Medicine, USC (2001)
Selected Publications
Gilgoff R, Marshall J, Kotz K, Ismail S, Harsamizadeh Tehrani S,…; ACEs Aware Patient Advisors; ACEs Aware Community Partner Council. (2025) “Stress Busters Toolkit for Community Based Organizations: Strategies to help clients prevent and heal from toxic stress.” California ACEs Aware Initiative, Office of the California Surgeon General, and the California Department of Health Care Services. https://www.acesaware.org/managestress/cbotoolkit/
Gilgoff, R., Mengelkoch, S,, Elbers, J., Kotz, K., Radin, A., Pasumarthi, I., Murthy, R., Sindher, S., Burke Harris, N., Slavich, G.E. (2024) The Stress Phenotyping Framework: A Multidisciplinary Biobehavioral Approach for Assessing and Therapeutically Targeting Maladaptive Stress Physiology. Stress. 27 (1).
Gilgoff R, Schwartz T, Owen M, Bhushan D, Burke Harris N. (2023) Opportunities to Treat Toxic Stress. Pediatrics. Jan 1;151(1):e2021055591.
Jeung, J., Hessler Jones, D., Frame, L., Gilgoff, R., Long, D., Thakur, N., Koita, K., Bucci, M., Burke Harris, N. (2022) A Caregiver-Child Intervention for Mitigating Toxic Stress (“The Resiliency Clinic”): A Pilot Study. Matern Child Health J.
Bhushan D, Kotz K, McCall J, Wirtz S, Gilgoff R, Dube SR, Powers C, Olson-Morgan J, Galeste M, Patterson K, Harris L, Mills A, Bethell C, Burke Harris N. (2020) Office of the California Surgeon General. Roadmap for Resilience: The California Surgeon General’s Report on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Toxic Stress, and Health. Office of the California Surgeon General.
Gilgoff R, Singh L, Koita K, Gentile B, Marques SS. (2020) Adverse Childhood Experiences, Outcomes, and Interventions. Pediatr Clin North Am. Apr;67(2):259-273. -
Harcharan Gill
Kathryn Simmons Stamey Professor, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsBenign Prostatic Hyperplasia- Evaluation and development of new minimally invasive techniques
Endourology: developing, designing and evaluating new instruments
Bladder cancer: outcomes of treatment
BPH: cryotherapy and HIFU
