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  • Shivam Vedak

    Shivam Vedak

    Affiliate, Department Funds
    Fellow in Graduate Medical Education

    BioShivam Vedak, MD, MBA, is a clinical informatics fellow and internal medicine physician at Stanford Medicine. He holds a B.S. in Biology-Neuroscience from the Schreyer Honors College at The Pennsylvania State University, and an MD/MBA dual-degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He trained in the UIC Internal Medicine Residency program, during which he was selected as the American College of Physicians Outstanding Resident of the Year (2022) for his hospital-wide EHR optimization and education efforts. He also won several international hackathons as head of ImmunoLynk, a pandemic-era collaborative to improve COVID testing accuracy through use of machine learning and blockchain technology.

    Clinically, Dr. Vedak practices as a hospitalist physician at Stanford Health Care. He is passionate about education, digital health, and the practical implementation of novel technologies in the traditionally slow-moving health care industry. This includes improving the quality of medical education surrounding Clinical Informatics, artificial intelligence, and the business of medicine, to ensure that physicians have the appropriate knowledge to safely integrate emerging innovations into their clinical practice.

  • Ophir Vermesh

    Ophir Vermesh

    Affiliate, Department Funds
    Resident in Radiology

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy interests lie at the interface of medicine and technology, engineering new wearable and implantable technologies for earlier cancer detection and continuous monitoring. I am particularly interested in moving promising diagnostic technologies past the proof-of-concept phase and into the clinic.

  • Davis Vigneault

    Davis Vigneault

    Affiliate, Department Funds
    Resident in Radiology

    BioDavis is a resident in diagnostic radiology at Stanford, having received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and his DPhil in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Oxford through the NIH-Oxford Scholars and medical scientist training programs. For his graduate degree, worked on novel algorithms for measuring regional cardiac function from cardiac CT and MR, publishing in Radiology, Medical Image Analysis, and the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, among others. In addition to cardiovascular imaging and deep learning, Davis has a strong interest in open source science, having been a frequent contributor of software to ITK and other libraries in the ITK ecosystem.

  • Joshua Aaron Villarreal

    Joshua Aaron Villarreal

    Affiliate, Department Funds
    Fellow in Graduate Medical Education

    BioDr. Villarreal is a current clinical informatics fellow at Stanford Medicine and first surgical resident to enter the program. He began general surgery training at Stanford in 2020. Dr. Villarreal is a Texas native and hometown is in McAllen TX. He completed medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in 2020 and undergraduate studies in Human Biology at the University of Texas.

    During residency, Dr. Villarreal has published numerous articles in a wide range of surgical fields including: pediatric surgery, liver transplantation, trauma critical care and surgical data science. He currently holds the role as president of the resident led surgical research group Surgeon’s Writing About Trauma (SWAT) and mentors medical students and undergrads in conducting surgical related clinical research. He is a member of the Artificial Intelligence in Surgery research group at Stanford focused on leveraging methods in machine learning in the care of transplant patients.

    His long-term goals are to apply clinical informatics frameworks to optimize surgical care workflows, enhance intraoperative decision making, and increase accessibility of outpatient surgical services to lower income patients.

  • Hanjay Wang

    Hanjay Wang

    Resident in Cardiothoracic Surgery - Thoracic Surgery
    Affiliate, Department Funds

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPrecision surgery: patient-specific bypass grafting and valve repair strategies
    Autonomous robotic surgery
    Photosynthetic therapies to circumvent myocardial ischemia
    Collateral artery formation as protection against myocardial infarction
    Angiogenesis and myocardial regeneration to prevent heart failure
    Tissue engineering to limit ventricular remodeling
    Understanding the biomechanics of injured and failing hearts

  • Tong Wang, MD, PhD

    Tong Wang, MD, PhD

    Affiliate, Department Funds
    Resident in Pathology

    BioResident physician scientist with interests in protein engineering, chemical biology, nucleic acids, epigenetic modifications, assay development, clinical diagnostics, personalized medicine, and laboratory developed tests

  • Zachary Bruce White II

    Zachary Bruce White II

    Affiliate, Department Funds
    Resident in Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy

    BioI’m originally from Birmingham, AL. I completed my undergraduate education at Tuskegee University and majored in Biology/Pre-Health and minored in Bioethics. I also received a Master of Science in Biomedical & Health Sciences from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed medical school at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine. Following graduation from medical school, my intern year was spent in my hometown at Brookwood Baptist Health Transitional Year Program. One of my favorite aspects of radiation oncology at Stanford is the opportunity to give compassionate medical care to our cancer patients while working with the latest state-of-the-art medical technology. In my free time I enjoy playing tennis, exercising, traveling, trying new restaurants, and spending time with my family & friends.

  • Gregory Jamison Wong

    Gregory Jamison Wong

    Affiliate, Department Funds
    Resident in Neurology

    BioNeurology resident with interest in vascular and interventional neurology.

    Undergraduate: University of California, Los Angeles (2014)
    Medical School: Washington University School of Medicine (2020)
    Internship: Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University Medical Center (2021)

  • Douglas Wood

    Douglas Wood

    Software Dvlpr 3, Research Informatics Center (RIC)

    Current Role at StanfordWorking within the School of Medicine, I am developing solutions for the Stanford Bone Marrow Transplant, Lymphoma, and Cancer Institute Research Databases

    My Stanford Projects:

    - Stanford Cancer Center Research Database (SCIRDB)
    Developed a web-based platform to integrate data from the Stanford Cancer Institute (EPIC/Clarity), Stanford Tumor Registry, STRIDE (Tissue Bank & Pre-EPIC Data), and several other systems into a "one-stop shop" for data analysis and annotation by cancer researchers. This cohort-driven system allows users to focus on their patients of interest and provides free-text search of all their notes, reports and narratives as well as a timeline-based view of all events for a patient. Easy exports allow for data analysis in biostatistical tools and the system can perform complex analysis using the open-source R statistical software as a service.

    - Lymphoma Program Project (LPP)
    Rearchitected an existing legacy database system that tracks Stanford's Non-Hodgkins and Hodgkins Lymphoma cases back to the late 1960's. Enables clinicians to track diagnosis, courses of treatment, long-term follow-up, and clinical responses to the diseases.

    - Bone Marrow Transplant Program
    Developed replacement web-enabled database based on legacy system in place since 1980s that enhanced data capture abilities by leveraging data feeds from BMT Clinic and Stanford Hospital. Also enabled electronic form submission to national transplant databank via XML-based web-services.

    - Transplant Arteriosclerosis, Viral and Host Mechanisms
    Developed web-based application and reporting systems Gathered requirements, translated requirements into technical specifications, built reporting tools, designed table schemas, migrated database tables from Access to Oracle, normalizing and validating data in the process. Wrote all SQL scripts for automating data migration.

    - Stanford Asian Pacific Program in Hypertension and Insulin Resistance (SAPPHIRe)
    Provided on-going maintenance for the project by uploading data, generating reports for statistical analysis and modifying table schema to incorporate new measurements such as creatinine.

    - GenePad Project
    Developed a web-based tool for quality assurance of scanned form data that allows users to view scanned input and validate it before storing it into final database tables. The tool dynamically configures itself by examining the structure of the database.

  • Derek Wu

    Derek Wu

    Affiliate, Department Funds
    Fellow in Graduate Medical Education

    BioDerek received his MD degree and completed his Internal Medicine training at Western University. He is interested in point-of-care ultrasound for managing and resuscitating critically ill patients. Derek has investigated deep learning applications for automated interpretation of lung ultrasound and he is interested in medical device innovation.