Stanford University
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Michal Ruprecht
Affiliate, Senior Associate Dean for Global Health
BioMichal Ruprecht is a health journalist and fourth-year medical student at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He is the 2025 AAAS Mass Media Fellow at NPR and the Stanford University School of Medicine Global Health Media Fellow. He will join the Journalism Program this fall as part of the master's cohort, followed by an internship at CNN Health.
He is particularly interested in how disruptive medical journalism improves scientific and medical understanding. He previously interned at ABC News, MedPage Today and the American Public Health Association.
At ABC News, he led coverage of maternal mortality among Black women, childhood bereavement and gun violence. While at MedPage, he was the first reporter to cover Stanford’s incoming class of surgery residents, highlighting the attention they received for being nearly all women. He also published an investigation into the widespread culture of piracy among medical students.
Prior to that, Michal was a beat reporter, assistant editor and investigative reporter for The Michigan Daily, the University of Michigan’s independent daily student newspaper. At The Daily, he spearheaded a seven-month investigation into the culture of silence among student researchers and led the paper’s research beat.
Beyond reporting, Michal was an Association of Health Care Journalists American Cities Health Journalism Fellow and serves on the Society of Professional Journalists Student Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists Membership Committee and was a STAT News Summit Fellow.
His research explores interventions rooted in equity and inclusion to drive positive change in underserved communities.
Michal graduated with honors and a B.S. in neuroscience from the University of Michigan in 2022, where he leveraged community action and social change to partner with individuals affected by the Flint water crisis. He wrote his senior thesis on a membrane protein and created three ceramic sculptures of the channel.
Michal is a member of the Arnold P. Gold Humanism Honor Society. He serves on the boards of the Michigan Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Riley’s Way Foundation.
He can be reached at mruprecht@umich.edu, on Bluesky @michalruprecht.com or on Signal at @mrup.01. -
Kathleen M. Sakamoto
Shelagh Galligan Professor in the School of Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on the molecular pathways that regulate normal and aberrant blood cell development, including acute leukemia and bone marrow failure syndromes. We are also studying novel drugs for treatment of cancer.
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Thomas Sandholm
Sr. Software Developer, Translational Research Operations
Current Role at StanfordI am a senior software architect and developer in the Division of Computational Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, and a member of the Boussard Lab. I specialize in Translational Research Operations, helping make AI-based health-care research available for clinical use and patient care.
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Austin Schoeffler
Affiliate, Department Funds
Fellow in Peds/Clinical InformaticsBioAustin Schoeffler, M.D., is an emergency medicine physician and clinical informatics fellow at Stanford University. Dr. Schoeffler earned his M.D. from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at University Hospitals/Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He is currently pursuing a two-year fellowship in Clinical Informatics at Stanford, focusing on the integration of machine learning and digital health solutions within emergency care.
Dr. Schoeffler has a strong background in both clinical operations and digital innovation. He has assisted on projects leveraging AI-driven facial recognition software for depression screening in the emergency department, and is currently critically evaluating the impact of ambient AI scribes on clinical care and helping to create the first AI benchmark for emergency medicine. His operational experience includes governance and workflow optimization at his previous institution, where he contributed to initiatives enhancing patient care delivery and hospital efficiency.
His scholarly interests center on responsible AI integration, innovation, building the future of digital health technology, and expanding access to populations not traditionally reached by existing clinical infrastructure. He is committed to fostering industry-academic partnerships, rigorously evaluating emerging AI tools, and benchmarking AI products for deployment in acute care settings. Clinically, he is passionate about evidence-based care, digital health, and the development of novel care delivery models in emergency medicine. -
Birgitt Schuele
Associate Professor (Research) of Pathology and, by courtesy, of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe Schuele lab focuses on neurogenetics, human stem cell modeling, and gene therapy approaches to uncover disease mechanisms and pathways involved in neurodegeneration in Parkinson's, Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
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Candice Schultz
Clinical Instructor (Affiliated), School of Medicine - Senior Associate Dean for Medical Student Education
BioCandice Schultz, PA is a physician assistant at Stanford Health Care's Breast Cancer Program.
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Bobak Seddighzadeh
Affiliate, Department Funds
Fellow in Peds/Clinical InformaticsBioOver the past 13 years, Dr. Seddighzadeh has advanced biomedical innovation at Harvard, Stanford, and the Mayo Clinic, integrating emerging technologies with clinical medicine to improve patient care.
Dr. Seddighzadeh’s expertise spans genomic medicine, clinical informatics, and clinical AI. He has built enterprise-level clinical decision support systems that improve care at scale, and as part of the Stanford GUIDE-AI group and the Nigam Shah Lab, he focuses on developing AI-enabled clinical platforms for Stanford’s hospitals and clinics. His work in clinical AI includes implementation, evaluation, and safety guardrails. He also contributes to precision medicine efforts that use multi-omic data to identify disease subtypes and enable more individualized care. As part of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, he helped build one of the world’s first complete human cell atlases.
In clinical practice, Dr. Seddighzadeh is committed to delivering outstanding internal medicine care to hospitalized patients. He approaches medicine as a craft, continually sharpening diagnostic reasoning and therapeutic decision-making in service of the best possible outcomes. He also values prevention and partners with patients to build sustainable habits that support long-term health and health span.
At New York University, Dr. Seddighzadeh received the Degree Representative Award, an honor conferred by the faculty recognizing the single graduating student with the highest overall academic achievement. He later earned a full-tuition scholarship from the founding dean to attend the University of Nevada, where he graduated with top honors in medicine. He went on to complete his internal medicine residency at Mayo Clinic where he was selected for the Resident Leadership Academy, a specialized program for residents identified across the Mayo Clinic enterprise as future leaders. There he also developed and launched the AI and Medicine Residency Track. He is currently a Clinical Informatics Fellow and internal medicine hospitalist at Stanford University. -
Athena Serapio
Senior Events Manager, Chief of Staff
Current Role at StanfordSenior Event Manager, Stanford Cancer Institute
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Benjamin LZ Shou
Resident in Cardiothoracic Surgery - Thoracic Surgery
Affiliate, Department FundsBioBenjamin 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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Armandeep Singh
Affiliate, School of Medicine - Biomedical Ethics
BioArmandeep Singh is a rising senior at the University of Toronto, pursuing a double major in Human Biology and Biochemistry, and aspires to become a physician. Originally from Punjab, India, he is passionate about medicine, education, mentorship, and helping others feel supported and capable. As a Scholar in Stanford’s Storytelling and Medicine Program’s Class of 2026, he is exploring the role of storytelling in medicine. His interest in storytelling comes from his own life experiences and from the people he has met through teaching, research, and community service. His participation in Yale’s Foundations of Bioethics program deepened his interest in clinical ethics, public health, and the human side of healthcare. His research interests include cardiovascular health in South Asian communities and the use of immersive virtual reality to make complex scientific concepts more accessible and engaging. Armandeep’s interest in medicine was also shaped by his father’s illness and recovery, which showed him the difference a compassionate physician can make in a family’s life. He hopes to become a physician who sees patients and their families as whole people shaped by their stories, circumstances, and lived experiences.
