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George Lui
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - CardiologyCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsAdult Congenital Heart Disease
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Natalie Shaubie Lui
Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Thoracic Surgery)
BioDr. Lui studied physics as an undergraduate at Harvard before attending medical school at Johns Hopkins. She completed a general surgery residency at the University of California San Francisco, which included two years of research in the UCSF Thoracic Oncology Laboratory and completion of a Master in Advanced Studies in clinical research. Dr. Lui went on to hold a fellowship in Thoracic Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, during which she participated in visiting rotations at Memorial Sloan Kettering and the Mayo Clinic.
Dr. Lui’s surgical practice consists of general thoracic surgery with a focus on thoracic oncology and robotic thoracic surgery. Her research interests include intraoperative molecular imaging for lung cancer localization, increasing rates of lung cancer screening, and using artificial intelligence to predict lung cancer recurrence. She is the recipient of the Donald B. Doty Educational Award in 2019 from the Western Thoracic Surgical Association, the Dwight C. McGoon Award for teaching from the Thoracic Surgery Residents Association in 2020, and the Carolyn E. Reed Traveling Fellowship from the Thoracic Surgery Foundation and Women in Thoracic Surgery in 2022. -
Darren P. Lum
Clinical Assistant Professor, Radiology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPhase Contrast Flow MRI, Valvular Heart Disease, Cardiovascular MRI
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Angela K. Lumba-Brown
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor, PediatricsCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsCurrent research includes evidence-based guidelines for the management and treatment of traumatic brain injury, research establishing an evidence and targeting treatments for the subtypes of concussion, research identifying the best outcomes in pre-hospital care of patients with traumatic brain injury, research on brain performance via sensorimotor and sensory-cognitive synchronization, and research on dynamic visual synchronization as a biomarker for attentional impairments.
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Gabriela Luna-Victoria
Casual - Non-Exempt, Obstetrics Anesthesiology
Current Role at StanfordAdministrative Associate in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine
Administrative support to: Jochen Profit, Gary Darmstadt, Suzan Carmichael, Anca Pasca -
Dennis Lund
Elizabeth Wood Dunlevie Professor, Emeritus
BioDr. Lund was born in Duluth, MN and attended Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He received his general surgical training at the MGH in Boston, and his pediatric surgical training at Boston Children's Hospital. His initial career was spent as a trauma, transplant and general pediatric surgeon at Boston Children's. In 1999, he became Surgeon-in-Chief of the University of Wisconsin Children's Hospital in in Madison, and in 2001 became Chair of General Surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2011, he became Executive Vice President of the Phoenix Children's Medical Group and Surgeon-in-Chief at Phoenix Children's Hospital. Dr. Lund joined the Stanford faculty in Pediatric Surgery and as Associate Dean of the Faculty in Pediatrics and Obstetrics (Clinical Affairs) as well as Chief Medical Officer at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in March, 2015. In March of 2018 and through January of 2019, Dr. Lund served as interim President and CEO of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
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Emma Lundberg
Associate Professor of Bioengineering and of Pathology
BioDr. Emma Lundberg is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Pathology at Stanford University and serves at the Director of the Cell Atlas of the Human Protein Atlas initiative in Sweden, where she is also Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. At the intersection of bioimaging, proteomics, and artificial intelligence, her research aims to define the spatiotemporal organization of the human proteome at both cellular and subcellular level. Dr. Lundberg aims to develop integrated models of human cells to elucidate how variations in protein localization patterns influence cellular function, ultimately enabling the simulation of cell behavior and a systems-level understanding of how biological information is spatially encoded. The Lundberg Lab is responsible for creating the Subcellular Atlas of the Human Protein Atlas database (https://www.proteinatlas.org/). Dr. Lundberg is dedicated to building virtual cell models to simulate cell behavior, and is passionate about engaging the public in her work through citizen science games and computational challenges.
Dr. Lundberg holds a Master’s degree in Bioengineering and a PhD in Biotechnology from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. She has served as Secretary General of the Human Proteome Organization, and is actively involved in advisory roles for numerous open-access databases and cell mapping efforts such as the CZI AI Virtual Cell, Human Cell Atlas consortium, UniProt db, Reactome db, Human Proteome Project and various pharma and biotech companies. As a token of her leadership skills and advocate for open science, she was twice recognized as top 10 under 40 for future leaders in biopharma and omics. -
Matthew Lungren
Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Data Science
BioDr. Matthew Lungren is a physician-scientist and AI leader whose work has helped shape modern multimodal healthcare AI from early research through large-scale deployment. He joined Stanford University in 2014 as clinical research faculty, where he led a fully dedicated pediatric interventional radiology clinical service and established an NIH- and industry-supported clinical AI research program that helped catalyze what became the Stanford Center for AI in Medicine & Imaging. He remains an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford and also holds a part-time clinical appointment at UCSF.
Dr. Lungren has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications with more than 35,000 citations, and he has taught more than 100,000 learners through AI-in-healthcare courses across platforms including Coursera and LinkedIn Learning. His broader contributions include advancing multimodal imaging-plus-EHR approaches, open-sourcing AI-ready medical imaging datasets and models, and serving in national leadership roles across the radiology AI community. After a sabbatical in 2021, he transitioned from academia to industry and joined Microsoft, where he served in senior leadership roles including Chief Scientific Officer for Microsoft Health & Life Sciences. At Microsoft, he founded and led cross-company teams that shipped multimodal healthcare foundation models and agentic, auditable generative AI workflows into production, including healthcare agent orchestration capabilities and major EHR partnerships, and led the health and life sciences partnerships with OpenAI.
Dr. Lungren is also a top rated instructor leading AI in Healthcare courses designed especially for learners with non-technical backgrounds:
Stanford/Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/fundamental-machine-learning-healthcare
LinkedIn Learning: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/an-introduction-to-how-generative-ai-will-transform-healthcare -
Mitchell R. Lunn
Associate Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsLGBTQIA+ health
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Liqun Luo
Ann and Bill Swindells Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Neurobiology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsWe study how neurons are organized into specialized circuits to perform specific functions and how these circuits are assembled during development. We have developed molecular-genetic and viral tools, and are combining them with transcriptomic, proteomic, physiological, and behavioral approaches to study these problems. Topics include: 1) assembly of the fly olfactory circuit; 2) assembly of neural circuits in the mouse brain; 3) organization and function of neural circuits; 4) Tool development.
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Ruben Y. Luo
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsApply top-down mass spectrometry and label-free immunoassay to the study and utilization of biomarker proteoforms in clinical diagnosis.
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Xiangde Luo
Postdoctoral Scholar, Radiation Physics
BioXiangde Luo is a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Ruijiang Li’s lab at Stanford Medicine, where he specializes in computational pathology. His work centers on developing AI‑driven methods for imaging biomarker discovery and precision oncology. Previously, he has developed some deep learning models to enable annotation‑efficient learning and advance biomedical image analysis. For a comprehensive overview of my research, please visit my Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=dD4HLS4AAAAJ. If you’d like to learn more or discuss potential collaborations, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
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XIAOHUA LUO
Affiliate, Institute for Immunity, Transplantation, and Infection Operations
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Immunity, Transplantation, and Infection OperationsBioAcademic Appointments
- Visiting Scholar, Stanford University School of Medicine (Holden Maecker Lab)
- Chief Physician / Associate Professor / Associate Research Scientist, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University
Professional Education
- Visiting Scholar, Karolinska Institutet (Per Ljungman & Markus Maeurer Lab) (2016)
- Ph. D., Peking University Health Science Centre (2009)
- B.Med., Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2001)
Selected Publications:
- Luo XH*, Zhu Y, Duan XQ, Peng W, Pei CX, Yang L, Li Q, Zhao M, Wang L. Histone HIST1 genes and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in a child with γδ T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia by single-cell sequencing. Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 2025 Apr;117(4):qiaf022.
- Shui LP, Zhu Y, Duan XQ, Chen YT, Yang L, Tang XQ, Zhang HB, Xiao Q, Wang L, Liu L, Luo XH*. HBsAg (‐)/HBsAb (‐)/HBeAg (‐)/HBeAb (+)/HBcAb (+) predicts a high risk of hepatitis B reactivation in patients with B ‐ cell lymphoma receiving rituximab based immunochemotherapy. Journal of Medical Virology. 2023 Feb 3.
- Luo XH*, Poiret T, Liu Z, Meng Q, Nagchowdhury A, Ljungman P. Different recovery patterns of CMV-specific and WT1-specific T cells in patients with acute myeloid leukemia undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation: Impact of CMV infection and leukemia relapse. Frontiers in Immunology. 2022;13.
- Luo XH*, Zhu Y, Chen YT, Shui LP, Liu L. CMV Infection and CMV-Specific Immune Reconstitution Following Haploidentical Stem Cell Transplantation: An Update. Frontiers in immunology. 2021;12.
- Luo XH*, Meng Q, Liu Z, Paraschoudi G. Generation of high-affinity CMV-specific T cells for adoptive immunotherapy using IL-2, IL-15, and IL-21. Clinical Immunology. 2020 Aug 1;217:108456.
- Li S, Huang J, Zhang YL, Zhu Y, An YF, Du J, Zhang ZL, Xia Y, Liu L, Wang L, Luo XH*. Wiskott- Aldrich syndrome protein may be critical for CD8+ T cell function following MCMV infection. Cellular immunology. 2019 Apr 1;338:43-50.
- Luo XH, Meng Q, Rao M, Liu Z, Paraschoudi G, Dodoo E, Maeurer M. The impact of inflationary cytomegalovirus-specific memory T cells on anti-tumour immune responses in patients with cancer. Immunology. 2018 Nov;155(3):294-308.
- Zhenjiang L, Rao M, Luo X, Valentini D, von Landenberg A, Meng Q, Sinclair G, Hoffmann N, Karbach J, Altmannsberger HM, Jäger E. Cytokine Networks and Survivin Peptide-Specific Cellular Immune Responses Predict Improved Survival in Patients With Glioblastoma Multiforme. EBioMedicine. 2018 Jul 1;33:49-56.
- Liu Zhenjiang, Martin Rao, Xiaohua Luo, Elisabeth Sandberg, Jiri Bartek Jr, Esther Schoutrop, Anna von Landenberg, Qingda Meng, Davide Valentini, Thomas Poiret, Georges Sinclair, Inti- Harvey Peredo, Ernest Dodoo, and Markus Maeurer*. Mesothelin-specific Immune Responses Predict Survival of Patients With Brain Metastasis. EBioMedicine. 2017 Sep; 23: 20–24.
- Liu Z, Poiret T, Persson O, Meng Q, Rane L, Bartek J, Karbach J, Altmannsberger HM, Illies C, Luo X, Harvey-Peredo I. NY-ESO-1-and survivin-specific T-cell responses in the peripheral blood from patients with glioma. Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy. 2018 Feb 1;67(2):237- 46.
- Liu Z, Meng Q, Bartek Jr J, Poiret T, Persson O, Rane L, Rangelova E, Illies C, Peredo IH, Luo X, Rao MV. Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) from patients with glioma. Oncoimmunology. 2017 Feb 1;6(2):e1252894.
- XH Luo, XJ Huang*, KY Liu, LP Xu, DH Liu. Protective immunity transferred by infusion of CMV- specific CD8+ T cells within donor grafts: its associations with CMV reactivation following unmanipulated allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2010; 16(7):994-1004
- XH Luo, YJ Chang, LP Xu, DH Liu, KY Liu, XJ Huang*. The impact of graft composition on clinical outcomes in unmanipulated HLA-mismatched/haploidentical haematopoietic SCT. Bone Marrow Transplant 2009; 43(1):29-36. -
Tiffany Luong
Postdoctoral Scholar, Infectious Diseases
BioTiffany Luong obtained her Ph.D. from UCSD/SDSU in the lab of Dwayne Roach where she studied the formulation, purification, and application of bacteriophages targeting the ESKAPE pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Currently, her research in the Bollyky Lab focuses on the development of preclinical models to study chronic infections of P. aeruginosa and the immunogenicity of bacteriophages to the mammalian host.
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Garima J. Lupas, PhD, ABPP-CN
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Adult Neurology
BioDr. Garima J. Lupas is a board-certified, fellowship-trained neuropsychologist with Stanford Health Care. She is also a clinical assistant professor (affiliated) in the Department of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Division of Neuropsychology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Lupas specializes in conducting neuropsychological assessments for a variety of conditions, including neurodegenerative diseases, movement disorders, psychiatric disorders, cerebrovascular disease, and infectious neurological diseases. She also performs presurgical evaluations for deep brain stimulation and epilepsy surgical candidates. She takes a comprehensive approach to assessing cognitive and behavioral function, considering each person’s overall well-being and quality of life when making treatment recommendations.
Dr. Lupas has studied the effects of age and dementia on cognitive function, especially memory. Her research has also assessed how age impacts thinking, social, and daily life skills in people with schizophrenia. Additionally, Dr. Lupas has examined the role of culture in identity and intimacy development among young adults from India, China, and the United States.
Dr. Lupas has published her findings in peer-reviewed journals, including The Clinical Neuropsychologist and Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research. She has also presented at numerous conferences across the nation, including meetings of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN), American Psychological Association, and International Neuropsychological Society. Using her expertise in aging, she has authored a book chapter in the Encyclopedia of Geropsychology on depression and cognition in older adults.
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Kevin M Lutley
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioDr. Lutley is a primary care doctor. He is board certified in internal medicine.
For every patient, he creates a customized care plan. Plans focus on helping each person enjoy the best possible health and wellness.
Dr. Lutley has helped advance care through research. He has shared his research discoveries with his peers in invited presentations. Topics include drug prices in community pharmacies and the quality of interactions between patients and resident physicians.
While an internal medicine resident at Stanford, Dr. Lutley served as a member of the Stanford Ambulatory Care Excellence Program. This initiative aims to enhance the quality of outpatient primary care.
Dr. Lutley helps educate the primary care doctors of tomorrow. He is a clinical assistant professor of primary care and population health in the Stanford Department of Medicine, Division of Primary Care.
Before joining Stanford, Dr. Lutley performed needs assessments and care coordination with local public health agencies in Flint, Michigan.
Recognition for his achievements includes induction in the Gold Humanism Honor Society. This national organization honors senior medical students, residents, teachers and others for excellence in clinical care, leadership, and compassion. Additional honors for Dr. Lutley include induction in Alpha Omega Alpha, the honor society in the field of medicine.
From Stanford University, he received the Julian Wolfsohn Award. This honor goes to residents who demonstrate exemplary professionalism, teaching, and dedication to patient care.
Dr. Lutley is a member of the American College of Physicians. -
Amelie Lutz
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Radiology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMolecular imaging in oncology
Peripheral Nerve Imaging
Cellular imaging of musculoskeletal inflammatory diseases
Kinematic musculoskeletal imaging
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Matthias Christian Lutz
Graduate, Medicine, Dermatology
BioI am a medical student at the Technical University of Munich and a Student Researcher at the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign, where I conduct my doctoral research under the supervision of Dr. Paul Schmiedmayer. My work is centered at the intersection of artificial intelligence and medicine, with a strong focus on translating advanced machine learning approaches into clinically meaningful applications.
At Stanford, my research focuses on cardiovascular medicine, where I develop personalized, multimodal large language model (LLM)-based systems to detect early progression of Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) disease and support more precise, data-driven clinical decision-making. By integrating electronic health record data, wearable time-series signals and patient communication, my work aims to create explainable, guideline-aligned AI systems that deliver personalized feedback and smart nudges. The overarching goal is to strengthen health literacy, improve patient activation and enable earlier, more effective prevention of cardiometabolic disease progression.
I ranked among the top 1% nationwide in Germany’s first written medical licensing examination and gained over two years of experience at Brainlab in Clinical Affairs, where I contributed to international clinical trials and regulatory processes in the MedTech sector. These experiences shaped my interest in translational research at the interface of clinical practice, technology development, and implementation.
Beyond my research I am the co-founder and previous chair of OneAIM (one-aim.org), a student-led MedTech initiative that has grown into the largest organization of its kind in Germany, connecting over 500 students across medicine, engineering and computer science through interdisciplinary innovation programs. In parallel, I am actively involved in shaping medical education: As the only student member of the curriculum commission at the Technical University of Munich, I play a leading role in integrating digital medicine into the medical curriculum. I also served as the instructor for the elective course “Neural Networks - AI in Medicine” at LMU Munich, introducing students to the intersection of clinical medicine and artificial intelligence.
My broader goal is to advance clinically grounded, explainable AI systems that not only improve decision-making but also empower patients and physicians, bridging the gap between technological innovation and real-world healthcare impact. -
Hannah Luxenberg-Tono
Affiliate, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioHannah Luxenberg is a researcher in human-computer interaction and implementation science exploring how emerging technologies can support patient pain management in palliative care. Her work focuses on designing and evaluating accessible, patient-centered technologies through interdisciplinary and global collaboration.
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Daphne P. Ly, MD, FACS
Affiliate
Current Research and Scholarly Interests1. Integrate machine learning with electronic health record system to improve work flow and achieve individualize cancer care based on current evidence.
2. Apply Cancer Genetics in cancer treatment and cancer risk reduction. -
Deirdre J. Lyell, M.D.
Dunlevie Endowed Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Professor, by courtesy, of Pediatrics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPreterm labor prevention and management, preeclampsia prevention and treatment, short and long-term impact of surgical techniques at cesarean, depression during pregnancy, fetal heart rate monitoring and long-term neurologic outcome, randomized clinical trials.
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Raquel Leanne Lyn
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
BioDr. Lyn serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor within the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care at Stanford University. Specializing in the comprehensive management of pulmonary hypertension, she completed her fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Stanford in 2021. She furthered her expertise as the 2021-22 Vera Moulton Wall Center eBay Fellow in Pulmonary Vascular Disease.
Today, Dr. Lyn is a member of the Stanford Health Care Adult Pulmonary Hypertension team, serving as a clinician educator and Assistant Director of the Stanford CTEPH program. Her clinical and research interests focus on CTEPH, post-acute PE care and advancing health equity within pulmonary vascular diseases. -
David Lyons
Professor (Research) of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences (General Psychiatry and Psychology-Adult), Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsBehavioral neuroscience
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Zhonglin Lyu
Instructor, Neurosurgery
BioDr. Lyu is an instructor at the Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine. He obtained his PhD at Soochow University, China, where he gained training in designing biomaterials to modulate stem cell behaviors and led multidisciplinary research under the advice of Prof. Hong Chen. During his PhD, he worked as a visiting student researcher at Canary Center for Early Cancer Detection at Stanford University School of Medicine where he gained training in microfluidics and cancer metastasis. Dr. Lyu carried out his postdoctoral research under the guidance of Prof. Jon Park and Wonjae Lee at the Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine. He developed an in vitro microphysiological model of ischaemic stroke and used it as a platform to systematically evaluate the restorative potential of stem cell therapy.
As an instructor, Dr. Lyu's main research interest is to develop in vitro tissue/organ models to mimic human diseases including neurological diseases and cancer metastases. The goal is to use these models to understand disease mechanisms, to evaluate the safety and efficacy of existing drugs, and to look for new therapeutic targets. -
Chelsea Ma, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Dermatology
BioChelsea Ma, M.D. is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology. Dr. Ma received a Bachelor of Arts degree in human biology from Stanford University. She attended medical school at the University of California Davis, and internship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. She completed her dermatology residency at University of California Davis, serving as Chief Resident her final year. She completed a clinical research fellowship, focusing on neutrophilic dermatoses, blistering diseases, melanoma, eczema and psoriasis. Her clinical interests include general dermatology and complex medical dermatology.
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Lora Ma-Fukuda
Director of Digital Media, Communications
Current Role at StanfordDirector of Digital Media, Stanford Medicine Office of Communications
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Michael Ma
Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Pediatric Cardiac Surgery)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOur lab aims to understand the biomechanics that govern a wide spectrum of congenital heart defects, and how those biomechanics change with contemporary operative repair strategies. We simulate operations virtually via CFD, and in ex vivo and in vivo animal models, and analyze how the changes we make alter fluid flow, pressure, and stresses throughout the system. We hope that these experiments can impact and optimize existing techniques that translate quickly to the operating room.
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Qian Ma, MD, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Adult Neurology
Current Research and Scholarly Interestsneurological complications from cancer treatment
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Qianheng Ma
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioQianheng (Jessica) Ma obtained her PhD degree of biostatistics at University of Chicago under the supervision of Prof. Donald Hedeker and is the 2021 recipient of the dissertation grant from Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP). Her current research focus are modern statistical methods and deep learning techniques for mining (multivariate) intensive longitudinal data especially psychological/behavioral measures collected by mobile/wearable devices. Besides research, she loves playing the piano and is good at Jazz improvisation and she can speak fluent Cantonese.
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Quan Maq Ma
Postdoctoral Scholar, Genetics
BioQuan (Maq) Ma is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Genetics at the Stanford School of Medicine. His research focuses on developing high-throughput sequencing technologies to study RNA modifications and identify substrates of RNA-binding proteins using biochemical and chemical biology approaches. Maq is also interested in the role of RNA editing in inflammatory chronic diseases.
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Stephen Ma
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine
BioStephen Ma is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. His undergraduate degree was in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, after which he pursued his MD/PhD at Columbia University. He then moved to Stanford University for his residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Clinical Informatics prior to joining the faculty. His clinical expertise is in the care of adult patients admitted to the inpatient general medicine services.
He is fellowship-trained in clinical informatics with the following areas of focus: 1) the implementation and evaluation of emerging technologies such as ambient AI scribes, 2) clinician-centered analytics and reporting, 3) the development of machine learning algorithms and workflows for standardization of care, and 4) care team communication and on-call scheduling. His overall approach to technology integration into healthcare emphasizes user-centered design, data-driven decision making, and rigorous demonstration of outcomes.
He previously performed his doctoral work in the laboratory of Professor Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic where he developed human cardiac models of disease incorporating patient-derived stem cells, optogenetics, tissue engineering, optoelectronics, and video processing. -
David Maahs
Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics and Professor, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health
BioDr David M. Maahs is the Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics, Division Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology, and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs in Pediatrics at Stanford University and the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. He earned his MD followed by Pediatric Residency at the University of New Mexico. After 3 years on New Mexico’s faculty, Dr. Maahs completed a Pediatric Endocrinology fellowship and a concurrent PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Colorado. He remained on Colorado’s faculty for 10 years, advancing to Professor of Pediatrics before moving to Stanford. Prior to his medical career, Dr. Maahs received a BA and MA in English from the University of Kansas and was inspired to pursue a medical career after serving in the Peace Corps with assignments in Tunisia and the Central African Republic.
Dr. Maahs’ leadership experiences include being a past co-Chair (2013-16) for Protocols and Publications with the Type 1 Diabetes Exchange for which he continues as Director of International Collaborations. This complements his role as President-elect for the International Society of Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD, 2021-25) and Editor-in-Chief for the 2018 ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines. He served on the Professional Practice Committee for the American Diabetes Association (ADA, 2016-18), which writes the annual ADA Standards of Care. Previously, he served on the ADA Scientific Sessions committee representing the Council on Youth. He has also served on national committees for the American Heart Association, the Pediatric Endocrine Society, and multiple journal editorial boards and review committees.
His scholarly interest is improving care and preventing complications in people with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Along with Dr Peter Chase, he is author of the 12th and 13th editions of Understanding Diabetes, or ‘Pink Panther,’ which are the most widely used educational books for children newly diagnosed with T1D, distributed internationally by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund (JDRF). More specifically, he has conducted epidemiologic studies that help generate hypotheses for clinical studies, including trials to develop artificial pancreas systems to improve glucose control, lower disease burden, prevent the complications of diabetes, and reduce disparities in diabetes care. He is author or co-author of over 350 research publications. His multi-disciplinary research has been funded by the JDRF, the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the Helmsley Charitable Trust, and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Dr Maahs is Associate Director for the recently formed and NIDDK P30 funded Stanford University Diabetes Research Center (https://sdrc.stanford.edu). His collaborations extend to his role as Principal Investigator (PI) or steering committee member for NIH funded multi-center clinical trials including the FLEX, PERL, and ACTION studies as well as multiple Artificial Pancreas clinical trials. Education, mentorship, and training leadership includes being Program Director with Dr. Georgeanna Klingensmith on the Barbara Davis Center T32 and K12 training grants in Pediatric Endocrinology while at the University of Colorado. He is the PI on the Stanford NIH funded K12 "Training Research Leaders in Type 1 Diabetes.' Dr Maahs is also the Associate Chair for Academic Affairs for the Department of Pediatrics.
While in the Peace Corps, David met his wife, Christine Walravens, who is also a Pediatrician at Stanford. They enjoy outdoor activities and traveling with their adult children. -
Alex Macario MD MBA
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (MSD)
On Leave from 01/05/2026 To 07/03/2026Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Macario studies health care economics & outcomes, with a special focus on surgery and anesthesia. He is well known for helping develop the field of operating room management, and is keenly interested in the cost-effectiveness analyses of drugs and devices. For the past decade Dr. Macario has added medical education as a research priority to better understand methods to best teach students and residents.
