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Roxanne Rassti
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioRoxanne Rassti, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a faculty member of the Stanford Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, where she provides didactic instruction and supervision in forensic assessment, violence risk evaluation, and criminal responsibility.
A licensed forensic and clinical psychologist, Dr. Rassti has more than a decade of specialized experience conducting forensic evaluations within courts, secure psychiatric hospitals, and justice-involved settings. Her evaluation practice spans competency to stand trial, not guilty by reason of insanity, Mentally Disordered Offender commitments, mental health diversion, mitigation, juvenile transfer, and Franklin resentencing, as well as structured violence and sexual-offense risk assessment. She has provided expert testimony in hundreds of court proceedings and parole hearings across California.
Dr. Rassti is co-owner of Central Coast Evaluation Services, where she conducts criminal and civil forensic evaluations, serves as a Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME), and performs independent medical evaluations. POST-certified, she also specializes in public-safety work, including fitness-for-duty determinations, pre-employment psychological screenings, and trainings for police departments. She previously served for eight years as a Senior Psychologist Specialist in Forensics at the California Department of State Hospitals - Atascadero, evaluating high-acuity patients with severe mental illness and co-occurring forensic-legal needs.
Committed to training forensic clinicians, Dr. Rassti has supervised and provided didactic instruction for Stanford psychiatry fellows and psychology predoctoral interns in forensic assessment, report writing, and testimony preparation. She holds adjunct faculty appointments in psychology at California Polytechnic State University, where she teaches forensic psychology and abnormal psychology, and at Colorado State University.
Her scholarship addresses emerging issues at the intersection of psychology and law, including a forthcoming chapter on deepfake evidence and authenticity challenges for judges and juries in Advances in Psychology and Law (Springer). She is a member of the American Psychology-Law Society and the American Psychological Association, and volunteers with the California Western Innocence & Justice Clinic.
Ph.D., Colorado State University -
John Ratliff, MD, FACS
Professor of Neurosurgery and, by courtesy, of Orthopaedic Surgery
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research interests focus upon preventing complications in spine surgery, assessing patient outcomes after spine surgery procedures, and developing population-based metrics for assessing surgical outcomes.
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Emily Ratner
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsClinical effectiveness of acupuncture in medical conditions, use of acupuncture in perioperative settings to reduce opiate and antiemetic use, use of acupuncture in pregnancy for the treatment of nausea, vomiting and other conditions, use of acupuncture in the treatment of the side effects in cancer patients.
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Anna Ratuski
Postdoctoral Scholar, Comparative Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAnna Ratuski has published on refinement of euthanasia procedures for rodents and the use of environmental enrichment for rats and mice housed in laboratories. She is currently working on 3Rs initiatives for animals used in research, with a particular focus on mice.
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Vishnu Ravi
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Vishnu Ravi combines his expertise as a board-certified, practicing internal medicine physician, senior software engineer, and board-certified clinical informaticist to create transformative solutions for healthcare.
As the Technology Architect for Stanford Medicine Catalyst, the Stanford School of Medicine's flagship innovation program, he designs, develops, and implements innovations including AI-driven platforms for Parkinson's care, chronic cardiovascular disease management, and precision pharmacogenomics that are helping patients receive more personalized and effective care.
At the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign, Vishnu helps lead the center's digital health initiatives spanning education, research, and translation. To support this work, he co-founded Stanford Spezi, an open-source framework and ecosystem for building modular, standards-based digital health solutions that is now used by leading healthcare institutions and companies worldwide.
Vishnu also instructs Stanford's CS342/MED253 Building for Digital Health, an innovative course that brings together computer science, engineering, and medical students with clinical faculty to develop real-world healthcare applications. In 2025, he helped lead the international expansion of this program, with a successful launch at Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He is also deeply involved in the effort to weave AI into the medical school curriculum at Stanford.
Vishnu's entrepreneurial experience includes co-founding a TechStars-backed startup and developing COVID-19 solutions deployed internationally. He has pioneered clinical AI applications, creating conversational agents and advanced analytics for unstructured health data, while contributing to international mobile health data standards. He serves as a technical consultant to companies including Google and speaks regularly at industry conferences.
Alongside his technology work, Vishnu maintains his connection to clinical practice as an Internal Medicine physician providing comprehensive primary care to a diverse patient population at Stanford Health Care.
