Stanford University
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John L Kendall
Professor of Emergency Medicine (Adult Clinical/Academic)
BioJohn L. Kendall, MD, FACEP is Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he serves as Director of Academic Affairs, Director of Ultrasound, and Co-Director of Systemwide Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) for Stanford Health Care. A national leader in emergency and critical care ultrasound, he has published extensively on ultrasound education, quality assurance, and clinical applications, authoring more than 75 peer-reviewed publications and multiple textbooks. He is a Director of both the American Board of Emergency Medicine and the American Board of Medical Specialties, and has chaired numerous national committees shaping ultrasound certification and standards. His contributions to education, research, and leadership have been recognized with multiple national awards, including the Distinguished Service Award and Best Research in Medical Education Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the Lifetime Service Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians.
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Joan Kendig
Professor of Biology in the Department of Anesthesia, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy laboratory tries to find out how pharmacologic agents used in the practice of anesthesia (general anesthetic and analgesic agents) lead to therapeutically desireable endpoints including unconsciousness, immobility and absence of pain. The old idea that general anesthetics are uniformly non-specific "membrane stabilizers" is giving way to a new realization that these agents exert specific actions on particular ion channels and intracellular signalling systems.
