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Minang (Mintu) Turakhia
Clinical Professor, Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Turakhia has an active clinical research program, with funding from AHA, VA, NIH, the medical device industry, and foundations. His research program aims to improve the treatment of heart rhythm disorders, with an emphasis on atrial fibrillation, by evaluating quality and variation of care, comparative and cost-effectiveness of therapies, and risk prediction. Dr. Turakhia has extensive expertise in using large administrative and claims databases for this work. His TREAT-AF retrospective study of over 500,000 patients with newly-diagnosed AF is the largest known research cohort of AF patients. He has served as study PI or chairman of several prominent single- and multicenter trials in atrial fibrillation, investigational devices for electrophysiology procedures, digital health interventions, and sensor technologies.
His other research interests include technology assessment of new device-based therapies and the impact of changing health policy and reform on the delivery of arrhythmia care. Dr. Turakhia is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and Heart Rhythm Society. -
Laura Turner-Essel, PhD
Program Manager, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Current Role at StanfordProgram Manager, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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Yousef Turshani MD FAAP
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Pediatrics - General Pediatrics
BioYousef Turshani MD is Chief Medical Officer at San Mateo Medical Center, part of the County of San Mateo leadership team. He cares for pediatrics outpatients at Fair Oaks Health Center in Redwood City. He is a pediatric nocturnist at San Francisco General Hospital, where he holds a faculty appointment at UCSF. Dr Turshani facilitates the County Health connection with Stanford va iMPACt: Mid-peninsula Pediatric Advocacy Coalition. https://med.stanford.edu/childhealthequity/engagement/impactcoalition.html
Born to Libyan immigrants in Louisville, KY, he developed his passion for teaching and global health as a medical student at the University of Chicago. His pediatric residency began with UCLA's "Community Health and Advocacy Training" and completed at UCSF in 2009 when he joined the UCSF faculty as a neonatal hospitalist at California Pacific Medical Center, directing the newborn nursery rotation for medical students. He spent the next part of his career as a global health clinician until returning to California in 2014 with his wife, a human rights attorney, to continue their social justice work domestically.
Professional Affiliations:
-UC-San Francisco: Associate Clinical Professor [volunteer], Department of Pediatrics. Affiliate Faculty member at Institute for Global Health Sciences, HEAL Initiative Mentor
-American Board of Pediatrics: Director
International experiences include
-Former Chair of Pediatrics at the only hospital on Saipan (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands)
-HIV consultant in Zimbabwe for "Doctors without Borders" collaborating with ICRC, UNICEF and partners to hand over a Pediatric HIV project to the Ministry of Health.
-Evaluating community health workers in Nicaragua
-Disaster relief work in Iceland and Peru -
Helena Turton
Postdoctoral Scholar, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
BioHelena is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Professor Edda Spiekerkoetter's laboratory in the School of Medicine. Her main focus is investigating right ventricular adaption and maladaptation in response to an increased afterload. She is also interested in left and right ventricular interdependence in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) . Helena completed her PhD in Pulmonary Vascular Biology under the supervision of Dr Roger Thompson, Professor Allan Lawrie, and Professor Sheila Francis at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research focus also includes the investigation of dsRNA signalling in pulmonary vascular remodelling in PAH and pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD).
