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Aaron Tyler O'Dea Short
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Psych/General Psychiatry and Psychology (Adult)
BioDr. Aaron Short is a Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated) in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine and Medical Director of the Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program at the Menlo Park Division of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System.
Board-certified in Adult and Geriatric Psychiatry, Dr. Short cares for adults and older adults with complex psychiatric and medical conditions. His interests include neurocognitive disorders, behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, late-life mood disorders, neuropsychiatric complications of medical illness, and psychodynamic psychotherapy. He emphasizes evidence-based, compassionate, patient-centered care and interdisciplinary collaboration.
His clinical experience spans outpatient psychiatry, home-based psychiatric care and primary care programs, inpatient psychiatry, long-term care consultation, geriatric psychiatry e-consultations, and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). From 2015 to 2026, he provided ECT at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (MEDVAMC) in Houston. He served as a consultant to VA Community Living Centers.
Dr. Short has served the Veterans Health Administration since 2011, integrating clinical care, education, and leadership. At VA Palo Alto, he leads interdisciplinary mental health services, strengthening operations, quality improvement, and training. Previously, he was Associate Director of the Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program at the MEDVAMC. His faculty appointments include Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, with leadership roles in psychiatry residency, geriatric medicine fellowship, and postgraduate physician assistant training. He mentors and supervises Stanford psychiatry residents and physician assistant students.
He earned a BS in Neuroscience and BA in Spanish, with a minor in Latin American Studies, at Tulane University. He also completed undergraduate coursework at Tufts University, Emory University, the University of Buenos Aires, and the University of Havana. During the summers of 2004 and 2005, he served as Assistant to the Director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). His early research included Chagas disease laboratory work at the University of Buenos Aires.
He earned his MD and MPH in Health Systems Management at Tulane, completed psychiatry residency at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital, serving as Chief Resident, and completed a Geriatric Psychiatry fellowship at BCM. Additional training includes psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Florida Psychoanalytic Center and transcranial magnetic stimulation at the Medical University of South Carolina.
His academic contributions include a VA MIRECC-supported educational initiative in Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) training, a coauthored book chapter on early-life trauma and suicide, and invited geriatric psychiatry presentations at institutional, regional, and international levels. His honors include the 2026 Tulane Medical Alumni Association Young Alumni Leadership Award; the 2025 Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching and Evaluation and 2020 Outstanding Educator Award from BCM; the PGY-3 Clinical Service Award and Exemplary Teaching Award during residency; and the 2015 award for "Exceptional Therapeutic Skill, Psychodynamic Understanding, and Aptitude for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy" from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Florida Psychoanalytic Institute. He was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society in 2014.
A Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Short is committed to advancing geriatric mental healthcare, developing future clinicians, and strengthening integrated psychiatric services. -
Jade Shorter, MD, MSHP
Clinical Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology
BioJade M. Shorter, MD, MSHP, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Complex Family Planning at Stanford University School of Medicine. She serves as the Medical Director of Ambulatory Gynecology, Associate Division Director of Gynecology and Gynecologic Specialties, and Director of Stanford's Early Pregnancy Clinic. Dr. Shorter specializes in early pregnancy care, miscarriage management, pregnancy of unknown location, ectopic pregnancy, contraception, and office-based ultrasound. She is committed to providing compassionate, evidence-based care that supports patients through complex reproductive health decisions and periods of uncertainty.
An internationally recognized expert in early pregnancy care and pregnancy loss, Dr. Shorter co-chaired the Early Pregnancy Assessment Clinics Special Interest Group for the Society of Family Planning for five years and has mentored physicians and junior faculty across the United States in developing Early Pregnancy Assessment Clinics at their own institutions. Her scholarly work focuses on early pregnancy complications, reproductive health equity, and patient-centered approaches to care, and she has been invited to present her work at national and international conferences. Dr. Shorter's work is dedicated to improving and expanding access to high-quality early pregnancy care and advancing patient-centered models that improve outcomes and experiences for patients with early pregnancy complications. -
Linda M. Dairiki Shortliffe
Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor in the School of Medicine, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe timing for intervention in obstruction in the infant and child is poorly understood.Our group has been interested in trying to define the risks that may be involved in obstructive and infectious uropathies and discovering early signs of damage to the urinary tract and kidney. We have explored ways of imaging the urinary tract using nonionizing radiation (US, MRI). We have studied the relationships of sex steroid hormones, pregnancy, reflux, urinary tract infection and urinary tract function.
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Benjamin LZ Shou
Resident in Cardiothoracic Surgery - Thoracic Surgery
BioBenjamin Shou is a resident in the integrated cardiothoracic surgery program. He attended medical school at Johns Hopkins and completed his undergraduate degree at University of California, Los Angeles, in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology with a concentration in Computational Biology. His academic interests include adult cardiac surgery, imaging, and artificial intelligence in healthcare.
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John Shoven
Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, Economics
BioJohn B. Shoven is former Trione Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics, Emeritus at Stanford. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and was the Buzz and Barbara McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in public finance and corporate finance and has published on Social Security, health economics, corporate and personal taxation, mutual funds, pension plans, economic demography and applied general equilibrium economics. His books include The Real Deal: The History and Future of Social Security, Yale University Press, 1999 and The Evolving Pension System, Brookings Institution Press, 2005. His most recent book is co-authored with former Secretary of State and Treasury George Shultz and deals with both Social Security and health care reform in the U.S. (Putting Our House in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform, WWNorton, 2008). He also recently published a research paper on new ways of measuring age (“New Age Thinking: Alternative Ways of Measuring Age, Their Relationship to Labor Force Participation, Government Policies and GDP,” NBER Working Paper No. 13476. October 2007). His journal publications appear in such places as the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the Journal of Public Economics. In total, he has published more than one hundred professional articles and twenty books.
Professor Shoven is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of the Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security, and an award winning teacher at Stanford. He received his Ph.D in Economics from Yale University in 1973 and has been associated with Stanford ever since. He was Dean of Humanities and Sciences from 1993 to 1998. He was Chairman of the Board of Cadence Design Systems for 18 years.
Focal Areas: Education, Energy and Environment, Health, Housing and Infrastructure, Inequality, Innovation and Technology, Money and Finance, Taxes and Public Spending, Work -
Talya Shragai
Staff, Biology
Special Initiatives Manager, Disease Ecology In A Changing World, ContingentBioTalya is the Research and Program Manager for the Disease Ecology in a Changing World program where she works on projects that improve both human health and the health of the environment.
She earned her PhD in Medical Entomology at Cornell University, studying how mosquitos adapt and behave in novel environments in Colombia, Puerto Rico, and New York. Following her PhD, Talya worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Global Emergency Public Health and Global Immunization programs. Her work at the CDC combined capacity building, operational research, and collaborating with Ministries of Health across Africa, Latin America, and Asia to improve outbreak response and vaccine coverage around the world.
Talya is passionate about research that provides innovative, practical solutions to improve health. -
Joseph Shrager
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
On Leave from 2026-08-31 To 2027-01-17Current Research and Scholarly InterestsIn clinical research, Dr. Shrager studies outcomes in several areas within Thoracic Surgery including: parenchyma-sparing operations and minimally invasive resections for lung cancer, subsolid lung cancers, thymectomy for myasthenia gravis and thymoma, diaphragm plication, and treatment of emphysema.
Dr. Shrager's lab is focused on the impact of disease states upon the diaphragm. His group published the seminal paper (NEJM) describing diaphragm atrophy assoc'd with mechanical ventilation.
