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Lucia Angelica Rivera Lara, MD, MPH
Clinical Associate Professor, Adult Neurology
BioDr. Rivera-Lara is a neurocritical care fellowship-trained neurologist and a clinical associate professor in the Department of Neurology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
As a member of the neurocritical care team, Dr. Rivera-Lara expertise focuses on the prompt, careful assessment and treatment of patients who suffer stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, and seizures.
In her research, Dr. Rivera-Lara has studied innovations to control blood flow and relieve intracranial pressure in patients with hemorrhage. Her findings have been published in journals including Critical Care Medicine, Neurocritical Care, Stroke, Seizure, the Journal of Neurosurgery and Anesthesiology, JAMA, and presented at the International Stroke Conference, the Critical Care Conference, and at meetings of the American Academy of Neurology and Neurocritical Care Society.
She has co-authored book chapters on stroke management, neurocritical patient monitoring, antiepileptic drug therapies, brain injury after cardiac arrest, and other topics. In addition, she has served as an editorial reviewer for publications including Neurology, Critical Care Medicine, the Journal of Critical Care, Neurocritical Care and Frontiers of Neurology.
Dr. Rivera-Lara earned a Clinical Reaserch Fellowship Training award from the American Academy of Neurology and American Brain Foundation. She was nominated for the Best Consulting Physician Award, one of only a few clinical honors bestowed annually on physicians and care teams by Johns Hopkins Medicine.
She has served on the INCC committee (Inclusion for Neurocritical Care) at the Neurocritical Care Society since 2021. She is a member of the Latino Faculty Advocacy Group (LFAM) at Stanford Hospital and a Career Advisor for The Latino Medical School Association (LMSA) Neuro Specialty Section Team. She is also a Global Health Faculty Fellow at Stanford University for her work in eliminating health disparities in Latin America. She founded “Conferencias de Cuidado Neurocrítico,” which are bimonthly lectures in Neurocritical Care Emergencies and Stroke Management in Spanish via Zoom, with an audience of more than 100 doctors from Latin American countries such as Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, and others. -
Douglas Rivers
Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
BioDouglas Rivers is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University. He is the president and CEO of YouGov/Polimetrix.
