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Ummey Hani, MBBS, MD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurosurgery
BioHani is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University in the Neurosurgical Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Laboratory. She earned her medical degree from Sindh Medical College, Pakistan, and completed her internship at the Aga Khan University, where she was recognized as Class Valedictorian and among the top five interns of 2022. She then pursued a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates in Charlotte, North Carolina, affiliated with Wake Forest University School of Medicine, focusing on spine surgery outcomes and biomechanics. Before joining Stanford, she served as Junior Research Faculty for neuro-oncology research at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan.
Hani’s research spans neuro-oncology, spine surgery, biomechanics, and the application of AI/ML in neurosurgical innovation. With a deep commitment to academic neurosurgery, she is currently working towards securing a neurosurgical residency. -
Ndidi Unaka
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
BioDr. Unaka is the inaugural Chief Health Equity Officer (CHEO) for Stanford Medicine Children’s Health (SMCH) and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. Prior to her transition to SMCH in July 2024, Dr. Unaka was a faculty member in the Division of Hospital Medicine at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. In addition to her clinical role as a pediatric hospitalist, Dr. Unaka served as the Associate Program Director of the Pediatric Residency Program from 2011 – January 2022. She served as the medical director of a 48- bed inpatient unit primarily for patients admitted to the Hospital Medicine service. In this role, Dr. Unaka was involved in several equity-oriented quality improvement initiatives which included work to identify, and address hunger among caregivers of hospitalized children insured by Medicaid.
Dr. Unaka worked on institution-level community health initiatives at Cincinnati Children’s. She served as the Medical Director of Quality Improvement and Data Analytics for Cincinnati Children’s Medicaid- focused, accountable care organization (HealthVine). In this role, she developed and led initiatives designed to improve the quality and efficiency of health care delivery to HealthVine’s patient population and helped lead the change management associated with the movement toward a population-health care model that improves quality, narrows equity gaps, streamlines care, and reduces costs. She helped define appropriate health care delivery, equity, and population health measures and quality benchmarks. Additionally, Dr. Unaka was a faculty lead within Cincinnati Children's Fisher Child Health Equity Center, and she specifically focused on working with operations leaders to ensure equity was embedded within all strategic plans, goals, and metrics across all sites of care. Dr. Unaka partnered with several colleagues to lead system-wide quality improvement initiatives including work accelerated via learning networks. She was the co-lead of Cincinnati Children's Health Equity Network (HEN), an initiative borne out of the pursuit of excellent and equitable health outcomes for youth in Greater Cincinnati. The HEN supports clinical teams seeking to eliminate disparities in child health outcomes by race, ethnicity, and/or socioeconomic status via targeted interventions and best practices by addressing both medical and social factors known to confer poor health outcomes. -
Rudy R. Unni
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine
BioDr. Anirood (Rudy) Unni is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and a board-certified cardiologist specializing in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.
He earned his medical degree from the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University and completed his Internal Medicine and Cardiology training at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in Canada. He subsequently completed advanced fellowship training in Echocardiography at the University of Toronto and in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology at Stanford Health Care before joining the Stanford faculty.
Dr. Unni cares for patients with advanced heart failure, including those being evaluated for or living with heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support devices such as left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). He also serves as an attending physician in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) and on the Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support inpatient service. His clinical and research interests include remote heart failure monitoring, cardiovascular hemodynamics, device therapy for advanced heart failure and cardiovascular medical education. -
Crystal Unzueta, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Unzueta is a board-certified family medicine physician. She specializes in providing primary care services to people of all ages. Her services include annual check-ups, monitoring chronic conditions, and performing minor in-office procedures.
She is also a clinical assistant professor in the Stanford School of Medicine Department of Family Medicine.
Dr. Unzueta’s practice focuses on providing compassionate and comprehensive care. She specializes in providing bilingual and bicultural care for patients in underserved populations. She has traveled to Belize on a medical mission to provide free, basic primary care to vulnerable communities. Her mentoring work includes building a network of Latino medical students to help support each other throughout medical school. She has also worked on numerous volunteer projects, such as researching the benefits of a community yoga program for minorities in underserved areas. -
Alexander Eckehart Urban
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Major Laboratories and Clinical Translational Neurosciences Incubator) and of Genetics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsComplex behavioral and neuropsychiatric phenotypes often have a strong genetic component. This genetic component is often extremely complex and difficult to dissect. The current revolution in genome technology means that we can avail ourselves to tools that make it possible for the first time to begin understanding the complex genetic and epigenetic interactions at the basis of the human mind.
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Alfredo Urdaneta
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioDr. Alfredo Urdaneta is a Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he serves as the Medical Director of Stanford Life Flight. His academic and clinical work focuses on the modernization of prehospital and retrieval critical care systems, the expansion of prolonged field care scope of practice, and the optimization of advanced resuscitation protocols in high-acuity aeromedical environments.
His research program encompasses critical care trial operations and acute resuscitation science. Dr. Urdaneta serves as a site Co-Investigator for National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded clinical trials, including the RECOVER initiative investigating the pathobiology and long-term sequelae of post-acute COVID-19, and the AIMS study focused on acute sepsis sub-phenotyping and precision resuscitation strategies in the intensive care unit.
In the aeromedical and emergency medicine communities, Dr. Urdaneta holds national leadership roles dedicated to governance, clinical standards, and professional ethics. He serves as Chair of the Standards and Research Committee for the Air Medical Physician Association (AMPA) and as Vice Chair of the Ethics Committee for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM). Through these appointments and presentations at national meetings, he helps shape national clinical guidelines, aeromedical safety frameworks, and ethical standards across emergency and transport medicine.
In addition to his civilian academic appointments, Dr. Urdaneta serves as a Colonel (O-6) in the United States Army Reserve Medical Corps. His military career includes serving as the Command Surgeon for the 63d Readiness Division, where he provided executive medical oversight, clinical governance, and readiness management across multi-state operational formations. His extensive background in military operational medicine directly informs his academic scholarship in mass casualty management, austere resuscitation, and the bilateral translation of combat casualty care innovations into civilian trauma and critical care systems.
Dr. Urdaneta earned his B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his M.D. from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed a general surgery internship at the University of Illinois, an emergency medicine residency at UCSF Fresno, and advanced subspecialty fellowship training in Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington.
