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Lawrence Fung MD PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Major Laboratories & Clinical Translational Neurosciences Incubator)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Lawrence Fung is a physician-scientist specializing in autism and neurodiversity. Dr. Fung is an associate professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University. He is the director of the Stanford Neurodiversity Project (SNP), director of the Neurodiversity Clinic, and PI at the Fung Lab. Dr. Fung’s research traverses from multi-modal neuroimaging studies to a new conceptualization of neurodiversity and its application to clinical, educational, and employment settings. His lab has two main arms of research: (1) neurobiology of autism and (2) neurodiversity.
The neurobiology arm of his lab focuses on advancing the understanding of the thalamocortical circuits and their socio-communicative and cognitive functions in people on the spectrum by using novel neuroimaging and bioanalytical technologies. The findings of his neurobiology research efforts were published in top journals in our field, such as Molecular Psychiatry, Translational Psychiatry, and Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Using a community-based participatory research approach, Dr. Fung’s team devises and implements novel interventions to improve the lives of neurodiverse individuals by maximizing their potential and productivity. He has developed and assessed several psychoeducational interventions, including the Developing Inclusive and Vocational Educational Resources for Success and Employment (DIVERSE) curriculum.
Dr. Fung is also the founding director of the SNP, a special initiative of the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford. Since 2017, the SNP has organized various events, including the Stanford Neurodiversity Summit, which brings thousands of people together yearly to share visions, innovations, and inspirations about maximizing the potential of neurodiversity. Each summer, about 100 high-school students join us at the SNP’s Research, Education, and Advocacy Camp for High Schoolers (SNP-REACH), to learn how to develop neurodiversity advocacy projects. Dr. Fung also teaches a neurodiversity design thinking course at Stanford. Clinically, Dr. Fung has applied the SBMN to his clinical work and is teaching a CME course focusing on delivering neurodiversity-affirmative care to neurodivergent patients. -
David Furman
Affiliate, Institute for Immunity, Transplantation, and Infection Operations
BioDavid Furman is the Director of the Stanford 1,000 Immunomes Project and the Buck Institute Artificial Intelligence Platform. Dr. Furman obtained his Doctoral degree in Biochemistry and Immunology (summa cum laude) from the School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, for his work on cancer immune-surveillance. During his Postdoc at the laboratory of Professor Mark M Davis (Stanford), he conducted cutting-edge research in Data Science and Systems Immunology to answer scientific questions with strong potential for translational medicine, including the effect of aging, gender and common viral infections in immune system functioning. Dr. Furman’s work focuses in Data Science applied to inflammation and aging. Before joining as an Adjunct Investigator at the National Scientific and Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dr. Furman was Senior Scientist at the Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection (ITI), Stanford, and his work involved the use of high-bandwidth/high-throughput technologies and Machine Learning tools to better define the health of the human immune system and its implications on age-related disease.
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Adam Furst
Casual, CV Med - Clinical Trials
BioAdam Furst, JD, MS, is a Biostatistician of the S-SPIRE Center. Adam received his master's degree in biostatistics from the University of California (Davis), and his law degree from the University of Colorado (Boulder). He has served as a biostatistician on various grant-funded studies and clinical trials working with diverse teams including statisticians, doctors, surgeons, radiologists, dosimetrists, epidemiologists and other investigators. He is passionate about collaborative research to advance data and evidence-based practice in medicine and healthcare policy in general.
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Ansgar Furst
Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated), Psych/Public Mental Health & Population Sciences
Staff, Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesBioDr. Furst is a Clinical Associate Professor (affiliated) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a Principal Investigator and Director of the California War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC) Advanced Fellowship Post-Doctoral program and Associate Director of Neuroimaging. He is also a Senior Research Scientist at the Polytrauma System of Care (PSC) at VA Palo Alto Health Care System. Dr. Furst serves as Associate Editor for the journal Frontiers in Neurology and is a member of the editorial board of NEUROLOGY. His research focuses on chronic multisymptom illness, traumatic brain injury, sleep, pain and neurodegenerative diseases.
For more information please visit:
https://med.stanford.edu/furstlab.html
Member of:
Center for Sleep and Circadian Sciences
https://med.stanford.edu/cscs.html
Faculty Affiliate:
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Yoshitaka Furuta
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHuman brain organoids and neurodevelopmental disorders
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David M. Gaba, M.D.
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (MSD), Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly Interests1) Human Performance in Health Care, 2) Patient Safety in health care, 3) Simulation training in health care, 4) Organizational issues in safety in health care.
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Idan Gabdank
Senior Biocuration Scientist, Biomedical Data Science
Current Role at StanfordManage data wrangling and curation for innovative cutting-edge single cell and CRISPR screen experiments within the Billion Cell Project funded by CZI, serving as a key member of the Lattice team at Stanford working in close collaboration with CZI and academy labs to ensure standardized data processing and quality control across high-throughput experimental datasets. Integrate AI tools and automate cloud-based pipelines for data validation and curation, streamlining quality assurance processes and reducing manual oversight requirements while maintaining data integrity standards.
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Julieta Gabiola
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsIn the Philippines where hypertension and prehypertension are prevalent and medication not affordable, we are looking into prevention of hypertension through education and lifestyle modification as a practical alternatives.
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Xavier Gaeta MD PhD
Instructor, Pediatrics - Nephrology
BioDr. Xavier Gaeta is an Instructor in the division of Pediatric Nephrology and a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Calvin J. Kuo. His research interests include using three-dimensional human kidney organoids and genetic engineering techniques to model human kidney disease, kidney development, and cancer in vitro.
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John V. Gahagan, MD, FACS, FASCRS
Clinical Associate Professor, Surgery - General Surgery
BioJohn V. Gahagan MD is a Clinical Associate Professor in Colon & Rectal Surgery. He leads the Colon & Rectal Surgery residency program as Program Director and serves as Chief of Surgery and the Medical Director of Supply Chain at the Stanford Tri-Valley Hospital. He joined Stanford in 2019 to build the Stanford Colon & Rectal Surgery practice in the East Bay at Stanford Tri-Valley in Pleasanton and at Stanford Health Care – Emeryville. He has training in advanced minimally invasive surgical techniques including robotic and laparoscopic surgery. He has authored several textbook chapters and original articles in peer-reviewed journals. His clinical practice is focused on the surgical treatment of colon and rectal cancers, inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease), and benign colon and anorectal diseases (diverticulitis, hemorrhoids, fistulas, fissures). He believes in patient-centered care and multi-disciplinary approach to the treatment of diseases of the colon, rectum and anus.
Dr. Gahagan is passionate about surgical education. He serves as an Associate Program Director of the Stanford General Surgery Residency Training Program. In that role, he oversees resident evaluation and feedback. He led the revamp of the program’s evaluation process and Clinical Competency Committee – work that has been presented at the Association of Program Directors in Surgery (APDS) and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). In 2021, he established the Stanford General Surgery Endoscopy rotation, giving general surgery residents an opportunity to gain endoscopy experience by collaborating with faculty gastroenterologists and fulfilling their graduation requirements. In 2026, he established the Colon & Rectal Surgery residency program at Stanford and serves as the Program Director. At the time of accreditation, this program was the only ACGME accredited Colon & Rectal Surgery residency program in Northern California. In addition, he is the General Surgery Rotation Director for the Stanford Tri-Valley Family Medicine Residency. On a national level, he is an associate question writer for the American Board of Colon & Rectal Surgery and serves on the USMLE Step 3 Test Development committee and the USMLE Management Committee.
He also serves in various administrative roles, including as Chief of Surgery at the Stanford Tri-Valley Hospital. In 2025, he was appointment Medical Director of Supply Chain for the Stanford Tri-Valley Hospital. He is a member of the Stanford Medicine Partners Quality and Credentialing Committee, the Stanford Tri-Valley Operating Room Committee and the Stanford Tri-Valley Medical Executive Committee. -
Megan Galán
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine
BioMegan Galán, M.D., M.S., is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at Stanford. She studied History of Science and Medicine at Yale, earned her M.S. through the UC Berkeley–UCSF Joint Medical Program, and received her M.D. from UCSF before completing her internal medicine residency at Stanford. Her work focuses on equitable, compassionate care for hospitalized patients, particularly those experiencing homelessness, substance use disorders, and justice involvement. She is committed to advancing health equity through advocacy, teaching, and quality improvement, fostering collaboration and patient-centered care.
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Francisco Galdos
Fellow in Pediatrics - Cardiology
BioFrancisco earned his undergraduate degree in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology from Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude. He subsequently completed his MD/PhD at Stanford University School of Medicine. During his doctoral training under the mentorship of Dr. Sean Wu, Francisco published one of the first comprehensive maps of human cardiac cell development using pluripotent stem cell-based models. His research contributed to the development of machine learning tools and genetic tracing systems that identified and characterized human left ventricular cardiomyocytes in vitro, enabling the modeling of left ventricular development in hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Francisco has authored multiple first-author publications and has been awarded funding from both internal sources and the NIH (F30, T32). He has received numerous accolades for his work, including the prestigious Harold Weintraub Award, and has presented his research at various national conferences. As part of the accelerated research pathway at Stanford, Francisco is focused on the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms underlying heart failure and heart development in congenital heart disease, with the ultimate goal of developing novel therapeutics for pediatric patients.
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Susan Galel
Associate Professor of Pathology at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsTransfusion-transmitted infections and donor screening for infectious diseases. National policies for blood banks. Enhancement of transfusion safety and effectiveness, with a focus on quality assurance in blood banking and transfusion therapy; transfusion medicine education; pediatric and adult transfusion therapy.
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Kristin Galetta, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Adult Neurology
BioDr. Galetta is a board-certified neurologist within the Neurohospitalist and Neuroimmunology divisions. She completed a multiple sclerosis (MS) fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
She has extensive experience diagnosing and treating patients with autoimmune neurologic conditions including multiple sclerosis, optic neuritis, autoimmune encephalitis and transverse myelitis. Her research interests are focused on understanding best treatment strategies for patients with multiple sclerosis and more rare autoimmune neurologic conditions. She also has an interest in medical education improvement.
She has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Neurological Sciences and Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. She is a peer reviewer for multiple prestigious journals, including Neurology and Frontiers in Neurology. -
Rodrigo B. Galindo
CAPE Simulation Lab Manager and Operations Specialist, Pediatrics - Neonatology
Current Role at StanfordRodrigo Galindo manages technology and supports research and education for simulation programs at the Center for Advanced Pediatric & Perinatal Education (CAPE) (http://cape.stanford.edu) within the School of Medicine/Pediatrics/Neonatology division. He also assists with collaborative quality improvement initiatives between CAPE and the departments of Labor & Delivery, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and Obstetrics at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
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Julia Alexsandra Galiza Soares
MD Student, expected graduation Spring 2031
BioHighly motivated neuroscience major with hands-on experience in biological research settings and an interest in using molecular and animal model systems to investigate the impact of opioids in the brain. Currently a Life Science Research Professional at Stanford planning to pursue an MD-PhD.
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Moises Gallegos MD MPH MEHP
Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
BioMoises grew up in Southern California, part of a first-generation family in the US, born to immigrant parents from Mexico. He attended Harvard College where he studied Neurobiology and a minor concentration in Mind/Brain/Behavior. He earned his MD from Stanford School of Medicine and concurrently earned a Masters in Public Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed residency and was Chief Resident at Baylor College of Medicine while working at Ben Taub General Hospital. He began his academic career as Assistant Professor in the Henry JN Taub Department of Emergency Medicine at Ben Taub and rejoined the Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine in 2019 as a Clinical Assistant Professor. He is the Clerkship Director for EMED301A, the required/core Emergency Medicine rotation, and serves as core faculty for the EM Residency. He most recently completed coursework to obtain a Master of Education in the Health Professions and Post-Masters Certificate in Evidence-Based Teaching in the Health Professions from Johns Hopkins University School of Education.
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Stephen J. Galli, MD
Emeritus Faculty, Academic Council, Pathology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe goals of Dr. Galli's laboratory were to understand the regulation of mast cell and basophil development and function, and to develop and use genetic approaches to elucidate the roles of these cells in health and disease. We studied both the roles of mast cells, basophils, and IgE in normal physiology and host defense, e.g., in responses to parasites and in enhancing resistance to venoms, and also their roles in pathology, e.g., anaphylaxis, food allergy, and asthma, both in mice and humans.
