Stanford University
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Yifan Gao
Postdoctoral Scholar, Microbiology and Immunology
BioDr. Yifan Gao is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology under Prof. Justin Sonnenburg's advisement. Prior to joining Stanford, she received her Ph.D. from UCLA focusing on Environmental Microbiology and M.S. from UC Berkeley in Environmental Engineering.
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Adrené Garabedian
Engagement Programs Manager, Emergency Medicine
Current Role at StanfordEmergency Medicine Strategy Manager
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Lorenza Garau Paganella
Postdoctoral Scholar, Mechanical Engineering
BioLorenza was born in Italy in 1997 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University with Prof. Chaudhuri, supported by an SNSF fellowship. Her research focuses on engineering biomaterials to investigate cell–extracellular matrix interactions and mechanotransduction in 2D and 3D cell cultures, aiming to advance biomedical understanding of tissue remodeling and disease.
Lorenza obtained her PhD (2024) in Mechanical and Process Engineering from ETH Zurich, where she developed hydrogel scaffolds and protocols for protein isolation to study cell behavior in engineered microenvironments.
Before her PhD, Lorenza completed her MSc at ETH Zurich and BSc at University of Trieste in Process Engineering, graduating both cum laude. During this time her focus was on biomaterials for drug delivery which she complemented with an internship in Roche. She has worked in interdisciplinary teams combining engineering and biology and is motivated by research that bridges fundamental science with clinical impact. -
Zainab Garba-Sani
Affiliate, Health Policy
BioZainab Garba-Sani is a Stanford-affiliated Research Scholar and UK Commonwealth Fund Senior Harkness Fellow (2022–23), working at the intersection of health policy, science, and community-centred practice. Her work focuses on how emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, genomics, and regenerative medicine can be translated responsibly into real-world health impact - particularly for underserved populations and people living with chronic and rare conditions.
Her research and practice are grounded in bridging cutting-edge science and innovation with lived experience - focusing on inclusive design, governance, and real-world implementation. She is the founder of ACCESS AI, an initiative advancing equitable and inclusive approaches to health AI through diverse community engagement, meaningful co-production, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Through this work, she contributes to broader conversations on AI governance, data equity, and the societal implications of innovation.
Alongside this, Garba-Sani collaborates internationally with academic institutions, healthcare systems, civil society, industry, and governments to strengthen innovation pathways and care models for sickle cell and other historically neglected populations, including in low-and middle- income countries. She holds senior advisory and leadership roles across health and research ecosystems and is an advisor to multiple committees focused on gene and cell therapies, regenerative medicine, health equity, and rare diseases. She is Vice Chair of the Sickle Cell Society and was recently the Founding Chair of NHS England’s Sickle Cell Transformation Patient Advisory Group and Co-Chair of Genomics England’s Diverse Data Advisory Board.
Garba-Sani holds an MSc in Health Policy from Imperial College London and brings extensive experience in healthcare leadership, having previously served in senior roles at NHS England, TEDxNHS, and the NHS Muslim Network. Her contributions have been recognised with numerous awards, including the UK Prime Minister’s Points of Light Award. -
Alan M. Garber
Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Professor and Professor of Medicine, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsTopics in the health economics of aging; health, insurance; optimal screening intervals; cost-effectiveness of, coronary surgery in the elderly; health care financing and delivery, in the United States and Japan; coronary heart disease
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Angela Garcia
Roger and Cynthia Lang Professor
BioProfessor Garcia’s work engages historical and institutional processes through which violence and suffering are produced and lived. A central theme is the disproportionate burden of addiction, depression and incarceration among poor families and communities. Her research is oriented toward understanding how attachments, affect, and practices of intimacy are important registers of politics and economy.
Garcia’s most recent book is The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024). Set in Mexico City, it examines how violence precedes and functions in the ways families seek to care for and protect each other. Central to this work are anexos (annexes), informal and coercive rehabilitation clinics for the treatment of drug addiction that are run and utilized by the working poor, and which incorporate violence into their therapeutic practices. Anexos are widespread across Mexico (and increasingly in the United States) and are widely condemned as abusive, illegal, ineffective, and unethical. By situating anexos within a larger social and historical frame, and closely attending to life within and beyond these spaces, Garcia shows that anexos provide refuge from the catastrophic and everyday violence associated with the drug war. The book also demonstrates that anexos are the leading resource for the treatment of drug addiction among Mexico’s poor, and are an essential space of protection for individuals at risk of the intensifying violence in Mexico.
Garcia's first book, The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession Along The Rio Grande (University of California Press, 2010) received awards in anthropology and writing. The Pastoral Clinic explores the relationship between intergenerational heroin use, poverty and colonial history in northern New Mexico. It argues that heroin addiction among Hispanos is a contemporary expression of an enduring history of dispossession, social and intimate fragmentation, and the existential desire for a release from these. Ongoing work in the U.S. explores processes of legal “re-entry” and intimate repair that incarcerated and paroled drug users undertake, particularly within kin networks.
Currently, Garcia is studying the environmental, social, and bodily effects resulting from Mexico City’s ongoing desagüe, the massive drainage project initiated by Spanish colonists in the seventeenth century in the Valley of Mexico. Mexico City’s desagüe speaks to some of the most pressing concerns of our time: water scarcity, humans’ relationship to changing ecologies, and chronic disease. This project examines how the desagüe remakes bodies, neighborhoods, and social worlds.
A second research project concerns the growth and destruction of a New Mexican mining community. Its focus is Santa Rita del Cobre, near Silver City, New Mexico, an area scarred by Conquest, capitalism, and ecological destruction. Using ethnographic and historical methods, this project examines the labors and losses of those who lived in Santa Rita del Cobre. It moves from present to past, from surface to subsurface, unearthing new ways of thinking about environmental and social history. It also reveals the difficult necessity of maintaining our capacities to be resilient when faced with environmental and existential catastrophe. -
Antero Godina Garcia
Professor of Education
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAntero's current research focuses on learning practices in gaming communities; critical literacies and civic identities in ELA classrooms; youth participatory action research; and sociocultural approaches to care and healing in classrooms.
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Cathy Garcia
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford Cancer Institute
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsIslet biology, diabetes, obesity, pancreatic cancer
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Christine N. Garcia
Geoscience Specimen Collections Curator & Manager, Earth Specimen Collection
Current Role at StanfordGeoscience Specimen Collection Curator and Manager
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Chris Garcia
Younger Family Professor and Professor of Structural Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsStructural and functional studies of transmembrane receptor interactions with their ligands in systems relevant to human health and disease - primarily in immunity, infection, and neurobiology. We study these problems using protein engineering, structural, biochemical, and combinatorial biology approaches.
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Gabriel Garcia, MD
Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology) at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe natural history of common viral liver diseases of man is poorly understood, despite the fact that chronic liver diseases of man may result in death from liver failure or hepatocellular carcinoma.
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Patricia Garcia
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology
BioPatricia Garcia, MD is a board certified gastroenterologist and clinical informaticist. She is fellowship trained in neurogastroenterology and specializes in treating disorders of gastrointestinal motility including trouble swallowing, heartburn, reflux, constipation, fecal incontinence and pelvic floor dysfunction. She is also passionate about using digital health technologies and artificial intelligence to improve clinician and care team burden and burnout.
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Valerie Garcia
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2025
BioValerie García is a linguist, educator, and researcher whose work centers on heritage language education, teacher development, and identity development. Currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Education at Stanford University, Valerie brings a strong interdisciplinary background bridging applied linguistics, pedagogy, and sociocultural analysis to her teaching and research.
She earned her M.S. in Applied Linguistics from Georgetown University, where she contributed to projects at the Assessment and Evaluation Language Resource Center (AELRC) and co-authored publications in The Modern Language Journal and the Institute of International Education. Her research has examined heritage language learner identity, multilingual education, and the impacts of language policies across the U.S., including her thesis on the differing perceptions of heritage language programs among administrators and teachers.
As a Spanish teacher and curriculum developer, Valerie has taught at Mountain House High School, Summit Charter Schools, and La Escuelita, where she integrates project-based and culturally responsive instruction aligned with state standards. Her teaching is grounded in linguistic justice and equitable access to world language education.
Valerie’s scholarship has been presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and the National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC) conferences, and her visual research work has been featured in leading textbooks such as Second Language Research and The Art of Language Teaching and the Science of Language Learning.
Fluent in both English and Spanish, Valerie combines her expertise in linguistic research and pedagogy with her commitment to empowering multilingual learners and advancing equity in education. -
Jorge Luis Garcia Perez
Master of Arts Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2025
Graduate Program Assistant, SAL Early Childhood EducationBioJorge is a Fulbright-García Robles Scholar, recipient of the SECIHTI (Mexican Ministry of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation) scholarship for graduate studies abroad, and the Claudio X. González Fellowship at Stanford University, where he is pursuing a master’s degree in Global Comparative Education. He has over six years of experience as a public school teacher and two additional years as a teacher educator in Mexico. He is deeply committed to bridging the gap between classroom realities and policy decisions, striving to improve both the quality and equity of education.
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Leonor García-Bayona
Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe human microbiome is evolving rapidly (i.e. over our lifetimes) following changes in modern lifestyles, especially in industrialized countries. The García-Bayona lab seeks to understand how horizontal gene transfer shapes interactions within the human intestinal microbiota and what the implications of this widespread phenomenon are for community properties relevant to human health (for example, the ability of the gut community to recover after antibiotic treatment). There is currently only a superficial understanding of the different cellular roles of most exchanged genes, the mechanisms governing their spread and their effect community dynamics. Our lab works on bridging the existing gap between the current systems-level observational studies and a mechanistic understanding through bacterial genetics and physiology. We take a bottom-up approach (from genes to communities), incorporating genetics, metagenomics, population analyses and experimental evolution in tractable bacterial consortia.
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Manuel Garcia-Careaga
Clinical Professor Emeritus (Active), Pediatrics - Gastroenterology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsGastroenterology, liver disease in cystic fibrosis patients, percutaneous gastrostomy tube in pediatric population, inflamatory bowel disease, failure to thrive
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Mark Gardiner
Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Data Studies, African Studies, Environmental Justice, Race, Critical Science and Technology Studies, Politics, Institutions, International Development
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Christopher Gardner
Rehnborg Farquhar Professor
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe role of nutrition in individual and societal health, with particular interests in: plant-based diets, differential response to low-carb vs. low-fat weight loss diets by insulin resistance status, chronic disease prevention, randomized controlled trials, human nutrition, community based studies, Community Based Participatory Research, sustainable food movement (animal rights and welfare, global warming, human labor practices), stealth health, nutrition policy, nutrition guidelines
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Justin Gardner
Associate Professor of Psychology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHow does neural activity in the human cortex create our sense of visual perception? We use a combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging, computational modeling and analysis, and psychophysical measurements to link human perception to cortical brain activity.
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Michael J. Gardner, MD
Hatim and Durriya Tyabji Endowed Professor
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Gardner’s investigative program during his academic career has involved a two-pronged approach, including both clinical and basic research. Prior to joining the Orthopaedic Department at Stanford, he was the Director of the Orthopaedic Trauma Research Program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. During his tenure as Director, he organized a highly productive and efficient research program. This resulted in publication of many scientific manuscripts, and numerous ongoing multicenter and single center trials that remain active.
Throughout his career, he has published over 100 peer-reviewed original scientific manuscripts, in addition to over 50 invited manuscripts, brief reports, and review papers. He has edited two published text books, is currently editing two more books, and has co-authored over 30 book chapters. His goals include continuing to be highly active in both clinical and basic research, and to continue attaining grant funding to support this work. -
Rebecca M. Gardner
Ph.D. Student in Epidemiology and Clinical Research, admitted Autumn 2022
BioMy research interests are in maternal nutrition and well-being, with a current focus on hyperemesis gravidarum (HG)—severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy that often causes significant maternal undernutrition and poor antepartum and postpartum mental health, and is the leading cause of hospitalization in early pregnancy. I study HG from several angles: the environmental exposures that may exacerbate it, including ambient air pollution and wildfire smoke, and whether these contribute to HG-related hospitalization; and its downstream consequences for both mothers and children, including hypertensive disorders of pregnancy such as preeclampsia, preterm birth, and neurodevelopmental conditions in childhood such as autism. More broadly, I am interested in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, preterm birth, and gestational diabetes, and their subsequent effects on offspring. Methodologically, I am drawn to applying causal inference methods traditionally used in economics to questions in public health.
Before starting a PhD, I was a biostatistician in the Quantitative Sciences Unit at Stanford for four years where I co-authored over thirty publications, collaborating with clinicians on various domains including developmental behavioral pediatrics, reproductive endocrinology & infertility, oncology, and clinical trials. I completed my MS in Statistics at Brigham Young University in 2016, where I collaborated with cardiologists to develop a new approach to diagnose rheumatic heart disease in pediatric patients in Samoa for my Master's thesis. -
Harold Gardon
Masters Student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, admitted Autumn 2025
BioFrench student specializing in mechanical engineering. Passionate about basketball and aerospace, I am pursuing a Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics and hope to specialize in rocket propulsion.
