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Crystal Dawn Unger
Director of Annual Giving, Medical Center Development - Annual Fund
Current Role at StanfordDirector of Annual Giving, Medical Center Development
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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. -
Rob Urstein
Lecturer, Graduate School of Business - Academic Administration
BioRob Urstein is a lecturer in management at Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches courses on innovation in higher education and education technology, at the intersection of the future of learning and the future of work. An experienced academic leader, Urstein has significant professional experience designing and managing academic programs, as well as teaching and advising undergraduates, graduate students, and executives. His teaching, research, and industry experience have focused on technology, lifelong learning, and making education more accessible and equitable for all learners.
He was co-founder of software company Gather Learning (acquired by Mighty Networks), and formerly served as principal at Guild Education, and entrepreneur-in-residence at Entangled Ventures — prior to its acquisition by Guild Education — where he helped launch education technology ventures to equitably transition society to a knowledge economy.
Urstein spent more than 12 years in leadership roles at Stanford, including three years as associate vice provost for undergraduate education. At Stanford Graduate School of Business, Urstein served for eight years as assistant dean, leading the PhD program, and for two years as managing director of global innovation programs, where he managed a portfolio of on-campus and international programs focused on leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship. In 2000–2001 he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Oslo, Norway, working for the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Education. He has been at Stanford since 2004. -
Camille Utterback
Associate Professor of Art and Art History and, by courtesy, of Computer Science
BioCamille Utterback is an internationally acclaimed artist whose interactive installations and reactive sculptures engage participants in a dynamic process of kinesthetic discovery and play. Utterback’s work explores the aesthetic and experiential possibilities of linking computational systems to human movement and gesture in layered and often humorous ways. Her work focuses attention on the continued relevance and richness of the body in our increasingly mediated world.
Her work has been exhibited at galleries, festivals, and museums internationally, including The Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN; The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; ZERO1 The Art & Technology Network, San Jose, CA; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The American Museum of the Moving Image, New York; The NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; The Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Netherlands Institute for Media Art; The Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art; The Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine; and the Ars Electronica Center, Austria. Utterback’s work is in private and public collections including Hewlett Packard, Itaú Cultural Institute in São Paolo, Brazil, and La Caixa Foundation in Barcelona, Spain.
Awards and honors include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2009), a Transmediale International Media Art Festival Award (2005), a Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship (2002) and a commission from the Whitney Museum for the CODeDOC project on their ArtPort website (2002). Utterback holds a US patent for a video tracking system she developed while working as a research fellow at New York University (2004). Her work has been featured in The New York Times (2010, 2009, 2003, 2002, 2001), Art in America (October, 2004), Wired Magazine (February 2004), ARTnews (2001) and many other publications. It is also included in Thames & Hudson’s World of Art – Digital Art book (2003) by Christiane Paul.
Recent public commissions include works for the Liberty Mutual Group, the FOR-SITE Foundation, The Sacramento Airport, The City of San Jose, California, The City of Fontana, California, and the City of St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Other commissions include projects for The American Museum of Natural History in New York, The Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, The Manhattan Children’s Museum, Herman Miller, Shiseido Cosmetics, and other private corporations.
Utterback is currently an Assistant Professor in the Art and Art History Department at Stanford University. She holds a BA in Art from Williams College, and a Masters degree from The Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She currently lives and works in San Francisco. -
PJ Utz
George DeForest Barnett Professor of Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe long-term research goal of the Utz laboratory is to understand autoimmunity, autoantibodies, and how tolerance is broken and can be reestablished.
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Chibuike Uwakwe
MD Student, expected graduation Spring 2028
Ph.D. Student in Bioengineering, admitted Autumn 2025
MSTP Student
Program Leader, EPS - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Tutor, SoM Office of Student ServicesCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsWearable bioelectronics for continuous health monitoring and therapeutics
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Umarkhon Uzakov
Affiliate, Stanford Online High School
BioI am a highly motivated student with a strong academic foundation and a deep curiosity about the natural sciences, particularly Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Computational Biology. I am especially interested in understanding how cellular mechanisms and molecular pathways influence human health and disease. Beyond the classroom, I enjoy engaging in research projects that explore topics such as biotechnology, neurobiology, and environmental science. I’m always open to connecting. I’m particularly interested in opportunities to get involved in research
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Sivakamasundari V
Instructor, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
BioMy research interests are focused on understanding the molecular basis of early development and stem cells, as it is often aberrations in stem cells or signaling mechanisms between tissues that lead to diseased states, including tumor development and cancer progression. Knowledge of stem cells and development is also critical to develop appropriate cell-based therapies for various diseases or injuries. My prior and current works take advantage of both traditional techniques (gene targeting, lineage tracing) and state-of-the-art technologies (Single cell RNA sequencing, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP-seq), Imaging Mass Cytometry) to elucidate fundamental molecular mechanisms underlying signaling in tissue biology.
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Randall Vagelos, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI. Congestive Heart Failure New Medical Therapies Prognostic Evaluation Selection for Cardiac Transplantation II. Screening for Myocardial Necrosis New ECG Monitoring Devices New Serum Markers III. Screening for CAD Patients Who Have Received Radiation Rx Diabetics Being Considered for Renal Transplantation
IV. Advanced coronary and valvular disease, evaluationg candidacy for high risk interventions. -
Homa Vahidi
MD Student with Scholarly Concentration in Informatics & Data-Driven Medicine / Neuroscience, Behavior, and Cognition, expected graduation Spring 2029
BioI was born in Iran and moved to Canada at the age of 15 where I completed my undergraduate and graduate studies in Neuroscience. I primarily have work experience in academic and research settings and have become increasingly passionate about doing research that helps uncover the neural underpinnings of cognition, language, and social behaviours.
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Manish Vaidya
Master of Liberal Arts Student, admitted Autumn 2022
Bio- Dreamer. Entrepreneur, traveler, music lover, photographer & tech geek
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Rupin Vaidya
Masters Student in Chemical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2025
BioHere to learn, share, and meet new people. Feel free to reach out!
HCP Stanford Masters Student in Chemical Engineering, beginning Autumn 2025
Full-Time Process Engineer I at Lummus Technology based in Houston, TX, July 2025
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Arturas Vailionis
Senior Research Scientist - Physical, Stanford Nano Shared Facilities
BioDr. Arturas Vailionis has been an integral part of Stanford University since 2000, serving as the Senior Staff Scientist at Stanford Nano Shared Facilities (SNSF). Within SNSF, he oversees the X-ray Lab, comprising X-ray Diffraction and X-ray Computed Tomography instruments. Additionally, Dr. Vailionis plays a key role as the core lead of the X-ray and Surface Analysis (XSA) group at SNSF. He also holds a Lecturer position in the Materials Science & Engineering Department and serves as a visiting professor at Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania.
Dr. Vailionis earned his PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology, where he focused on the growth and structural characterization of high-Tc superconductor thin films. Subsequently, he conducted research in the group of Prof. Joe Greene at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, investigating atomic structure, morphology, and growth kinetics of semiconductor and nitride thin films using X-ray Diffraction and Scanning Probe Microscopy.
Dr. Vailionis research interests encompass a wide range of X-ray scattering techniques aimed at understanding structural properties of materials at the atomic level, particularly focusing on complex oxide thin films and heterostructures. He has coauthored over 100 publications covering topics such as microstructure, electronic, and magnetic properties in thin films. Additionally, his expertise extends to tomographic imaging of inorganic and biological materials. -
Ravi Vakil
Robert Grimmett Professor of Mathematics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAlgebraic geometry and related subjects. For a complete publication list, see my publication page http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/preprints.html rather than the list here.
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Sharif Vakili, MD, MBA, MS
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
BioSharif Vakili, MD, MBA, MS, (pronouns: he/him), is an internal medicine physician, clinician executive and educator. He practices at Stanford Los Altos Primary Care.
Dr. Vakili has a background in chronic disease management and health systems delivery, believing strongly in a teamwork approach to patient care that empowers patients to navigate the health system as part of their clinical care.
He is active in the research and business communities. His research has been in peer-reviewed journals including NEJM Catalyst, JAMA Network Open and the Annals of Emergency Medicine. He also teaches annually at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Vakili is credited with establishing and coining Remote Patient Intervention (RPI), a model of clinician-supervised AI care delivery first performed at Stanford during a clinical study published in JAMA Network Open. His work has defined the emerging field of Clinical AI, in which artificial intelligence delivers care that would otherwise be performed by a licensed clinician. -
Hannah Valantine
Emeritus Faculty-Univ Med Line, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy lab is focused on understanding the mechanism mediating acute and chronic allograft failure, in particular on the role of microvascular injury in acute allograft failure and the mechanisms of mediating transplant coronary artery disease. 1. Role of microvascular injury in acute allograft failure.
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Brenda Valdes
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2024
Research Assistant, Padilla ProgramCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsBrenda is a developmental Psychologist specializing in longitudinal quantitative methods to study variation in learning and language development. Her research examines how individual and contextual factors shape students’ developmental trajectories across time, with an emphasis on patterns in academic growth.
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Guadalupe Valdés
Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsValdés is the Founder and Executive Director of "English Together" a 501(c)(3) organization. The organization creates rich connections between ordinary speakers of English and low-wage, immigrant workers by preparing volunteers to provide one-on-one “coaching” in workplace English.
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Juan Rafael Valdez
Advanced Lecturer, Language Ctr
BioJuan R. Valdez is a teacher and a writer. He enjoys teaching as a way of helping students to optimally develop their communicative skills, while they also develop a critical sense of who they are, plus a sense of community and coexistence in a diverse and complex world. Juan belongs to the tradition of maroon intellectuals and socionaturalists. These are individuals who like to roam between the city and the wilderness and between science and literature. His studies and writings explore the experiences, visions, and stories of those who walk the earth and leave little trace. His publications include: Tracing Dominican identity: the writings of Pedro Henríquez Ureña (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and En busca de la identidad: la obra de Pedro Henríquez Ureña (Ediciones Katatay, 2015). His latest book Sendas Extraviadas (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-UAM, 2024) is a series of essays on "aimless" walking that explore the possibility of overcoming perilous notions of politics, absurd racism, and consumerist madness. It also proposes strengthening our sense of place and belonging in the world by cultivating our relationship with nature. When Juan is not teaching, studying, or reading, he's hiking, tending to his plants, and having a good laugh.
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Tulio Valdez, MD, MSc
Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (OHNS) and, by courtesy, of Pediatrics
BioDr. Tulio A Valdez is a surgeon scientist with a subspecialty interest in Pediatric Otolaryngology. He attended medical school at Universidad Javeriana in Bogota Colombia before undertaking his residency in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery in Boston. He completed his Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship at Texas Children’s Hospital (2007), Houston and obtained his Master’s in Clinical and Translational Research at the University of Connecticut.
Clinically, Dr. Valdez has an interest in pediatric sleep apnea. He has a special interest in the management of sinus disease in cystic fibrosis. Dr. Valdez has co-authored one textbook and numerous book chapters and scientific manuscripts. Dr. Valdez continues his clinical research in these areas, particularly with a focus on aerodigestive disorders.
Scientifically, Dr. Valdez has developed various imaging methods to diagnose otitis media and cholesteatoma a middle ear condition that can lead to hearing loss. He was part of the Laser Biomedical Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research includes novel imaging modalities to better diagnose ear infections one of the most common pediatric problems. His research has now expanded to include better intraoperative imaging modalities in pediatric patients to improve surgical outcomes without the need for radiation exposure.
Dr. Valdez believes in multi-disciplinary collaborations to tackle medical problems and has co-invented various medical devices and surgical simulation models.
