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M Bruce MacIver
Professor (Research) of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsWe study drug effects on the nervous system. Cellular, synaptic and molecular drug actions are investigated using electrophysiological and pharmacological tools in cortical/hippocampal brain slice preparations. We are also interested in mechanisms of neuronal integration and synchronization, especially related to patterns of EEG activity seen in vivo and in brain slices.
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Crystal Mackall
Ernest and Amelia Gallo Family Professor and Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsRecent clinical studies, by us and others, have demonstrated that genetically engineered T cells can eradicate cancers resistant to all other therapies. We are identifying new targets for these therapeutics, exploring pathways of resistance to current cell therapies and creating next generation platforms to overcome therapeutic resistance. We have discovered novel insights into the biology of human T cell exhaustion and developed approaches to prevent and reverse this phenomenon.
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Kristen Klepac MacKenzie, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioDr. Kristen MacKenzie is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine. Dr. MacKenzie graduated AOA with a MD from UCSF and then completed her anesthesia residency and pain medicine fellowships at Stanford. She works at the Stanford Pain Management Center with specialty interests in chronic pelvic and abdominal pain, as well as peripartum pain. She is the co-director for the Stanford Pelvic Pain Program as well as part of the Stanford Pelvic Health Center for interdisciplinary, multimodal care.
She completed a Stanford Faculty Medical Humanities Fellowship, focusing on the role of communication and the arts in modern medicine. She serves as the co-director for the Women's Sexual Dysfunction Case Conference. She is active in the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM), and for the 2026-2027 year is serving as the Women in Pain Medicine Shared Interest Group (SIG) Co-Chair as well as a Director-at-large.
Outside of work, she enjoys being outdoors in the Bay Area, trail running, and spending time with her husband and two boys.
Clinical focus:
Pelvic pain, due to multiple causes including:
Dyspareunia
Painful Bladder Syndrome/ Interstitial cystitis/ Dysuria
Endometriosis
Fibroids
Pelvis Congestion Syndrome
Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
Pudendal Nerve Pain
Rectal/Anal Pain
Vulvar Pain/ Vulvodynia/ Vaginismus
Nerve entrapment syndromes, including hernia nerve entrapment
Post-partum and Peri-partum pain
Abdominal pain
Musculoskeletal pain
New Patients: Please have your primary treating provider place a referral to Stanford Pain Clinic and specify Pelvic Pain, Dr. MacKenzie. -
Sean Mackey, M.D., Ph.D.
Redlich Professor, Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine (Adult Pain) and, by courtesy, of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMultiple NIH funded projects to characterize CNS mechanisms of human pain. Comparative effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy and chronic pain self-management within the context of opioid reduction (PCORI funded). Single session pain catastrophizing treatment: comparative efficacy & mechanisms (NIH R01). Development and implementation of an open-source learning healthcare system, CHOIR (http://choir/stanford.edu), to optimize pain care and innovative research in real-world patients.
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Eric Crie Macomber
Research Attorney, Environmental & Natural Resources Law & Policy Program (ENRLP)
BioEric Macomber is a Research Attorney at the Stanford Law School Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment’s Climate and Energy Policy Program. His work focuses on law and policy issues relating to wildfire risk in the wildland-urban interface.
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Courtney MacPhee
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2020
BioI am a 4th year PhD candidate in History under the guidance of David Como. I focus on religious and cultural history of early modern Britain and am particularly interested in ideas of apocalypticism, millenarianism in the English Civil Wars and Revolution, radical sectarian notions of empire, and, more broadly, the messy dynamics between power and resistance in the seventeenth century.
Prior to my time here at Stanford, I received my MA in History with a concentration in Museum Studies from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA under the guidance of Lori Anne Ferrell. My master's thesis is titled "I will write of Cornwall, Cornhell in the West": Prophecy, Itinerancy, and Anna Trapnel's Struggle with Cromwellian Authorities.
Doctoral Oral Examination Committee:
Major Field: Early Modern Britain - David Como
Major field: Modern Britain and its Empire - Priya Satia
Minor field: Colonial America - Caroline Winterer
Minor field: Early Modern Europe - Paula Findlen
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Thomas MaCurdy
Professor of Economics, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
BioThomas MaCurdy is a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research, and he further holds appointments as a Professor of Economics and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. MaCurdy has published numerous articles and reports in professional journals and general-interest public policy venues, and he has served in an editorial capacity for several journals. He is a widely-recognized economist and expert in applied econometrics, who has developed and implemented a wide range of empirical approaches analyzing the impacts of policy in the areas of healthcare and social service programs. MaCurdy directs numerous projects supporting the activities and operations of the Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), General Accounting Office (GAO), and Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), and Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), and he has served as a member of several standing technical review committees for many federal and state government agencies (e.g., CBO, Census, BLS, California Health Benefits Review Program). MaCurdy currently supervises several empirical projects that support CMS regulatory policy responsible for the establishment of Healthcare Exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.
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Ali Madani
Lecturer, English
BioAli Madani is Mellon Fellow in the Humanities and Lecturer in English at Stanford.
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Mohammad Madani
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Radiology
Current Research and Scholarly Interestscardiovascular and thoracic imaging research; interested trainees or collaborators may contact me at mmadani@stanford.edu
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Grzegorz M. Madejski
Lecturer, Physics
BioMy English-speaking friends know me as Greg. I was born in Poland, but my college and graduate education was in the US, respectively at MIT and Harvard. After spending 14 years at NASA/Goddard, I arrived in Stanford in 2000. My research interests are mainly in extragalactic high-energy astrophysics. This includes (1) studies of active galactic nuclei, and an associated formation and evolution of relativistic jets; and (2) studies of clusters of galaxies, and in particular the processes responsible for the heating of the X-ray emitting intra-cluster gas. Besides taking advantage of data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Observatory, I am involved in analyzing and interpreting observations performed with X-ray satellites such as NuSTAR, a recently-launched NASA satellite, sensitive in the hard X-ray band, and Hitomi, a joint Japanese - US X-ray astronomy mission.
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Ajay Madhok
Affiliate, Graduate School of Business - Academic Administration
BioAjay Madhok is a growth architect who has driven innovation from both sides—helping established organizations evolve and launching startups to challenge the status quo. His expertise lies in translating bold ideas into scalable products and high-growth platforms.
He currently serves as EVP of Business Strategy at Angel Studios and Managing Partner at the Angel Acceleration Fund. Ajay is also the co-founder of Celerity, a YC-style accelerator for story-tech ventures, and founding partner of ReViz, a creative-tech spinout enabling Gen Z to remix and co-create culturally relevant content using AI.
At Stanford, Ajay is a Distinguished Scholar at mediaX, where he researches corporate innovation and organizational resilience. His current work focuses on building “purpose-built ventures” by combining startup agility with institutional assets. He also explores decentralized trust and crypto-enabled ecosystems as drivers of next-generation economic models.
Ajay is an advisor to Playground Global and a member of the Technology Advisory Council at Harman International (a Samsung company). He has contributed to foundational digital identity protocols (XRI/XDI) and serves as Vice-Chair of the Comms Committee at Trust over IP, a Linux Foundation initiative advancing digital trust standards.
He earned his B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and an M.S. in Mathematics from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.
