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Cansu Karakas
Assistant Professor of Pathology (Clinical Pathology)
BioDr. Cansu Karakas is an Assistant Professor, with subspecialty expertise in Breast Pathology. Her academic career spans notable institutions such as MD Anderson Cancer Center and (2010–2017) and NYU (2017-2018). She is passionate about research with a focus on HER2-driven breast cancers, artificial intelligence (AI) applications in breast cancer and identifying resistance mechanisms to guide novel, personalized therapeutic strategies in breast cancer.
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Ioannis Karakikes
Associate Professor (Research) of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe Karakikes Lab aims to uncover fundamental new insights into the molecular mechanisms and functional consequences of pathogenic mutations associated with familial cardiovascular diseases.
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Murat Karakum
Affiliate, Graduate School of Business - Executive Education
BioMurat Karakum leads the engineering organization at Treaty Oak Clean Energy, where he oversees the systems, standards, and technical frameworks that support a multigigawatt portfolio of utility-scale solar and energy storage projects across the United States. His work focuses on building scalable engineering processes, cost and risk controls, and execution models that enable consistent project delivery from early-stage development through construction.
As one of Treaty Oak’s earliest employees, he built the engineering function from the ground up and established the workflows and execution models that now support the company’s 20 GW development pipeline and its transition into an independent power producer. His responsibilities span portfolio-level execution planning, integration across development, transmission, procurement, and construction, and the creation of repeatable systems that support long-term organizational scale.
His executive education includes the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business, which informs his approach to organizational design, systems thinking, and enterprise leadership at scale during periods of rapid growth.
He previously held engineering and leadership roles at SunPower and Kier and Wright, delivering utility-scale energy and infrastructure projects across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. He draws on a multidisciplinary background in civil, structural, electrical, hydrology, and geotechnical engineering to develop integrated designs, standards, and execution frameworks across complex portfolios.
Shaped by his experience at Stanford Graduate School of Business, his work centers on designing engineering systems and organizational capabilities that combine technical rigor with disciplined execution to support the reliable, large-scale deployment of clean energy infrastructure. -
Amer Karam
Clinical Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology - Gynecologic Oncology
BioDr. Amer Karam is a board-certified, fellowship-trained gynecologic surgeon and clinical professor in the Stanford Medicine Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Gynecology Oncology. He specializes in gynecologic oncology, hospice and palliative care, hereditary gynecologic cancers, laparoscopic and robotic gynecologic surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology.
Dr. Karam attended medical school at the American University in Beirut. He completed his internship and residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, before completing a fellowship in gynecologic oncology at the University of California Los Angeles and a fellowship in breast surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Karam has a vested interest in minimally invasive and robotic surgery with a practice centered on this approach for the treatment of patients with gynecologic malignancy and complicated pelvic surgery. He is currently director of Robotic Surgery and Outreach in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology. -
Abraar Karan, MD MS MPH DTM&H
Instructor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
BioI am an Instructor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine with affiliations in the Center for Innovation in Global Health, the King Center on Global Development, and the Woods Institute for the Environment. I worked on the Covid19 outbreak for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in 2020, and the Monkeypox outbreak for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health in 2022-23. I also served on the WHO-commissioned Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response's research team investigating early global spread of Covid19, and helped with policy-writing for the Biden-Harris campaign on reducing Covid19 in schools. I am currently the Principal Investigator of the following studies: a cluster-randomized controlled trial investigating whether air filtration and ventilation can reduce spread of Covid19 in low-income homes in the Bay Area (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05777720); utilizing multiplex assays for detecting exposures to filoviruses in Western Kenya; and assessing H5N1 seroprevalence in high-risk farmworker communities in California. I am also a co-investigator on a study focused on rtPCR based surveillance of H5N1 in humans in Central California.
I completed my internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School in the Global Health Equity program, and have been working in global health since 2008. I co-edited the book, "Protecting the Health of the Poor" (December 2015, Bloomsbury Publishing, https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/protecting-the-health-of-the-poor-9781783605521/); and co-founded Longsleeve insect repellent, winner of the 2018 Harvard Business School New Venture Competition and finalist in the 2019 Harvard President's Challenge. Media/press coverage has included NBC, ABC, BBC, PBS, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Washington Post, New York Times, SF Chronicle, Bloomberg, Boston Globe, ProPublica, WSJ, TIME, Politico, CBC News, Democracy Now, NPR, ESPN, The Atlantic, The Hill, Business Insider, Vice, Mother Jones, Vox, Forbes, Slate, STAT News, MTV News, Mother Jones, Science Friday, TMZ.
For a full list of publications, please see "Publications" tab. For full list of press/media interviews, please see "Media" link.
Teaching Experience:
Teaching Assistant-- Epi 231, Infectious Disease Epidemiology (Winter 2024)
Teaching Assistant-- Epi 237, Practical Approaches to Global Health Research (Autumn 2024)
Teaching Assistant-- Epi 231, Infectious Disease Epidemiology (Winter 2025) -
Barbara A. Karanian Ph.D. School of Engineering, previously Visiting Professor
Adjunct Lecturer, Design Courses
Lecturer, d.schoolBioBarbara A. Karanian, Ph.D. Lecturer and previously Visiting Professor in Mechanical Engineering Design. Barbara's research focuses on four areas within the psychology of work: 1) grounding a blend of theories from social-cognitive psychology, engineering design, and art to show how cognition affects workplace decisions; 2) changing the way people understand how emotions and motivation influence their work; 3) shifting norms of leaders involved in entrepreneurial minded action; 4) developing teaching methods with a storytelling focus in engineering education.
Barbara teaches and studies how a person’s behavior at work is framed around a blend of applied theoretical perspectives from cognitive and social psychology; engineering design thinking and art. Her storytelling methods provides a form to explore and discover the practices of inquiry and apply them to how individuals behave within organizations, and the ways organizations face challenges. Active storytelling and self-reflective observation helps student and industry leaders to iterate and progress from the early, inspirational phases of projects to reality. Founder of the Design Entrepreneuring Studio (http://web.stanford.edu/~karanian/ ), Barbara shows how storytelling fuels design and innovation.
With her students, she co-authored, "The Power of First Moments in Entrepreneurial Storytelling." Findings show that vulnerability amplifies engagement. For ME 236- Tales to Design Cars By- the opportunity to investigate a person’s relationship with cars through the application of research and a generative storytelling focus-students find the inspiration for designing a new automotive experience. For ME 243 Designing Emotion (for Reactive Car Interfaces) students learn to "know" emotion by operationally defining emotions in self and other: to decipher the impact of emotion in the future of driving or mobility experience.
Barbara received her B.A. in the double major of Experimental Psychology and Fine Arts from the College of the Holy Cross, her M.A. in Art Therapy from Lesley University, and her Ph.D. in Educational Studies in Organizational Behavior from Lesley University. She was a Teaching Fellow in Power and Leadership at Harvard University's GSE.
Awards:
2019 "Provoked Emotion in Student Stories Reveal Gendered Perceptions of What it Means to Be Innovative in Engineering," Karanian, B., Parlier, A., Taajamaa, V., Eskandari, M. 1st Place Research Paper - distinction, ASEE Entrepreneurship and Innovation Division
2013 Best Teaching Strategies Paper award, ASEE Entrepreneurship and Innovation Division -
Amarnath K R
Affiliate, Genetics
BioAmarnath K R is a computational scientist and deep learning engineer driving breakthroughs in biomedical AI specializing in the fusion of multi-omics data, deep learning, and clinical statistics to tackle some of medicine’s most complex challenges. His current work at Stanford University's Department of Genetics focuses on developing a deep learning framework for cross-modal cell type label transfer by aligning single-cell RNA-seq and proteomics data in a shared latent space. Using autoencoders and a joint contrasitive-based training, he achieves highly reliable annotation of unlabeled proteomics cells with RNA-derived ground truth. This work enables accurate integration of transcriptomic and proteomic modalities for downstream biological discovery and holds promise for expanding cell atlases.
What sets Amarnath apart is his commitment to both technical excellence and translational impact. From designing novel transformer architectures for histopathology and image inpainting, to developing AI-powered tools for emergency departments in India, his work is grounded in real-world deployment and global health relevance. His projects span continents and disciplines like, from integrating multi-omics datasets to uncover disease mechanisms and predict therapeutic response, to an acoustic classifier for biodiversity, to decoding brain function through neuroinformatics.
With multiple publications, international collaborations, and an unwavering drive to innovate, he represents a new generation of computational scientists shaping the future of personalized, data-driven medicine. -
Gloria M. Kardong MD, DLFAPA, DABPN
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioI attended Stanford University as an undergraduate, then returned to Stanford for my Psychiatry residency and Chief Residency. I then joined the Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. I am an adjunct Clinical Associate Professor. I teach and supervise the residents in the program.
I am also on the Faculty of the Stanford Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program, where I teach and supervise post-graduate Fellows.
I have served an Examiner for the Medical Board of California and do Forensic Psychiatry/Expert Witness work for attorneys as part of my private practice for the past 15 years.
I have been in private practice for 35 years, including 15 years of virtual care. I am licensed in 10 states and can provide telepsychiatry services in all of those states.
Among my specialties are trauma; abuse; PTSD; women's health care-related issues, including pregnacy and post-partum issues, PMS, menopause and hormonal issues across the life span.
I also enjoy treating student health-related concerns and helping impaired professionals.
I treat all psychiatric problems for men, women, adolescents and couples. This includes anxiety, panic, bipolar disorder, ADHD, relationship issues and more. -
MD Emranul Karim
Affiliate, Medicine - Med/Infectious Diseases
Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Medicine - Med/Infectious DiseasesBioDr. Md. Emranul Karim is a Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine at Stanford University, working in the laboratory of Prof. Paul Bollyky. His current research focuses on RNA therapeutics and innovative delivery strategies for infectious and immune-mediated diseases.
Before joining Stanford, Dr. Karim was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he worked with Prof. Allan S. Myerson on developing continuous manufacturing platforms for in vitro transcription (IVT) of messenger RNA. His training at MIT provided expertise in mRNA synthesis, process optimization, and scalable manufacturing.
Dr. Karim’s broader research background lies in nanoparticle-based drug delivery and translational nanomedicine. He has extensive experience in the design and characterization of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) and hybrid nanocarriers for nucleic acid delivery, with applications in vaccines, oncology, and regenerative medicine. He earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from Monash University, where he developed novel nanoparticle platforms for targeted drug and gene delivery to breast cancer.
His long-term vision is to bridge RNA manufacturing and next-generation delivery technologies to accelerate the clinical translation of nucleic acid–based medicines. -
Ziya Karimov
Affiliate, Neurosurgery
Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar,BioZiya Karimov, MD is a Neurosurgery Postdoctoral Scholar at Chang/Park Lab in the Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine. He graduated with an Honours Degree from Ege University Faculty of Medicine (6 years med school, including 1 year Internship) in Izmir, Türkiye. Dr. Karimov ranked top percentile in the Turkish Medical Specialty Exam (TUS) and started the residency at Izmir City Hospital (4th largest hospital in Türkiye). He gained neurosurgery experience in the US top-level centers - Johns Hopkins University, Barrow Neurological Institute, and Lenox Hill Hospital.
Dr. Karimov is interested in Cerebrovascular Surgery, Skull Base Surgery, Neurosurgery Education, and Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience.
He plans to be an academic neurosurgeon and teacher, and build up new programs.
Dr. Karimov serves as a Peer-Reviewer in Springer-Nature, Cureus, Lippincott, MDPI, and other trusted publishers.
Hobbies: Judo, swimming, volleyball, intellectual contest games, brain ring -
Mardi Karin, MD, FACS
Clinical Professor, Surgery - General Surgery
BioDr. Mardi R. Karin is a board certified surgeon with over 20 years of experience, specializing in breast surgery and is Clinical Professor of Surgery in Stanford University Department of Surgery, Section of Surgical Oncology. She was appointed the first Clinical Director of Breast Cancer Care at Stanford Cancer Center South Bay after the new cancer center opened and served in this role from 2016-2019. Dr. Karin specializes in the surgical treatment of breast diseases and cancer. In addition to providing outstanding care, her focus and leadership in breast cancer care includes improving coordinated care for breast cancer treatment both within the Cancer Center and the community.
Dr. Karin has extensive experience in breast surgery, including complex breast cancer skin and nipple sparing procedures in coordination with the plastic surgeon for immediate breast reconstruction and optimal appearance with excellent outcomes. She collaborates closely with Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery to provide the best options to patients, including Oncoplastics for optimal aesthetic appearance with breast conservation treatment, in addition to mastectomy with nipple sparing and immediate breast reconstruction. Her clinical research is focused on improving patient outcomes in different aspects of breast surgery, including nipple sparing mastectomy by utilizing MRI blood flow information to preserve important blood flow to reduce complications. She also is involved with advancing surgical techniques to decrease lymphedema rates after axillary lymph node dissection, with lymphatic preservation and possible LYMPHA procedure by the Plastic Reconstructive Microsurgeons. In addition, she works in close collaboration with Medical Oncology to offer the latest most advanced treatments for breast cancer. -
Terry Karl
Gildred Professor in Latin American Studies, Emerita
BioGildred Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies (Emeritus)
Bass All-University Fellow for Excellence in Teaching (Emeritus)
International War Crimes and Human Rights Investigator
Terry Lynn Karl earned her Ph.D. (with distinction) from Stanford University. After serving on the faculty in the Government Department of Harvard University, she joined Stanford University’s Department of Political Science in 1987. She served as director of the Center for Latin American Studies for twelve years when it was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a “center of excellence.” She currently works as a war crimes/human rights investigator/ expert witness for several judicial systems: the U.S. (Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security/War Crimes Division), Spain, El Salvador, Colombia, and elsewhere, and non-governmental organizations.
An expert in international and comparative politics, Karl has conducted field research, held visiting appointments, or led workshops on oil politics and extractive resources, democratization and/or human rights throughout Latin America, West Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. She has published widely, with special emphasis on the politics of oil-exporting countries and conflict, transitions from authoritarian rule, problems of democratization, South American and Central America politics, the politics of inequality, U.S. foreign policy, and the resolution of civil wars. A multilingual scholar, her work has been translated into at least 25 languages.
Honors for Research and Teaching: Karl was awarded the Latin American Studies Guillermo O’Donnell Prize in March 2023 for her work on democratization and human rights. She previously received a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from the University of San Francisco and the Miriam Roland Volunteer Service Prize from Stanford University for her “exceptional commitment to public service in the cause of human rights and social justice.” The Latin American Studies Association awarded her the Oxfam Martin Diskin Prize in Toronto in 2010 for “excellence in combining scholarship and policy activism.” Karl has won all of Stanford’s major teaching awards offered during her tenure: the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (1989), the Stanford Medal for Faculty Excellence Fostering Undergraduate Research (1994), and the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching (1997), which is the University's highest academic prize. At Harvard, she was chosen as Radcliffe’s “mentor of the year.” She has been recognized for “exceptional teaching throughout her career,” resulting in her permanent appointment as a Stanford Bass All-University Fellow and the Gildred Chair in Latin American Studies. As an untenured professor in 1982, Karl is also known as the first woman to charge a major university with protecting sexual harassers and regain her career, resulting in an apology by Harvard’s President Bacow four decades later and a forthcoming Harvard honor.
Recent Media: Karl has most recently appeared (2020-22) in the Washington Post, Forbes, Politico, Slate, New York Times, NBC, BBC, NPR, Newsweek, Fox News, USA Today, , the Guardian, El Faro, El Comercio, La Prensa Grafica, El Mundo, El Pais, El Nuevo Herald, Just Security, the Conversation, The Council of Foreign Relations, This Day Live, Analitica, El Impulso, Jewish News in Northern California, and the Chronicle of Higher Education on issues ranging from crimes against humanity to the politics of oil to combating sexual harassment.
