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Luigi Pistaferri
Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
BioLuigi Pistaferri is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University, a research fellow of NBER, CEPR and IZA, the "Ralph Landau" Senior Fellow at SIEPR, and one of the co-editors of the American Economic Review. His papers are on the intersection between labor economics and macroeconomics. Pistaferri holds a PhD in Economics from University College, London, and a Doctorate in Economic Sciences from IUN in Naples (Italy), where he was born in 1968. Pistaferri joined Stanford University in 1999 after finishing his PhD and has been a member of the faculty ever since, with the exception of one year sabbatical spent at EIEF in Rome.
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Sharon Pitteri
Professor (Research) of Radiology (Diagnostic Sciences Laboratory)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe Pitteri laboratory is focused on the discovery and validation of proteins that can be used as molecular indicators of risk, diagnosis, progression, and recurrence of cancer. Proteomic technologies, predominantly mass spectrometry, are used to identify proteins in the blood that are differentially regulated and/or post-translationally modified with disease state. Using human plasma samples, tumor tissue, cancer cell lines, and genetically engineered mouse models, the origins of these proteins are being investigated. A major goal of this research is to define novel molecular signatures for breast and ovarian cancers, including particular sub-types of these diseases. This laboratory is also focused on the identification of proteins with expression restricted to the surface of cancer cells which can be used as novel targets for molecular imaging technologies.
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- Rainer Pitthan
Affiliate, Fundamental Physics Directorate
BioPoly-math offspring and sibling of a poly-math family.
ret Stanford 1979-2005, many positions incl. Department Head
CERN Fellow 1989-1990, 1999-2001
Faculty Naval Postgraduate School 1973-1979, ran 120MeV Electron Linac
NATO Fellow 1973-1974, NSF Fellow 1974-1979
Promotion Dr. rer. nat. (Dr.Sci.)
Asst. Prof. Technical University Darmstadt, 1971-1973
Co-President Academic Senate, 1970-1972, TU Darmstadt
Central Planner TU Darmstadt 1969-1971
Pre-doctoral Research Assistant. TU Darmstadt 1967-1969
MS (Dipl.Phys.) in Technical Nuclear Physics and Reactor Tech, 1965-1967
B.S. (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry), Landgraf-Philipps-University, Marburg/Lahn, 1960-1062
1959-1973 to pay my way through college in semester breaks many jobs in construction and
industrial production
For the 4 month vocational education requirement for my BS degree I was lucky to be put through
the 1st year program of the National Apprenticeship Requirements in Tool-and-Die (Werkzeugmacher)
and Vocation Electrical Apprenticeships at the local Brown Boverie Cie (now ABB) subsidiary (Resopal).
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Sarah Pittock
Associate Director for COLLEGE, Stanford Introductory Studies Operations
BioSarah Peterson Pittock PhD recently joined Stanford Introductory Studies as the Associate Director for COLLEGE to support teaching excellence in the first year requirement. Previously, she taught in Stanford’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric developing courses that intersect writing with ethics, education, and medicine. From 2013-2015, she served as Associate Director of the Hume Center, supporting a writing-enriched curriculum through tutor education, writing workshops, graduate writing and speaking programming, and writing pedagogy consultations. From 2017-2022, she also directed Bing Honors College, a September program that accelerates rising seniors' progress on their honors research and writing. Her work has been published in Women's Writing, the WAC Journal, Writing Center Journal, and edited collections.
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Jena Pizula, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
BioDr. Pizula is a quadruple board-certified, fellowship-trained cardiologist with Stanford Health Care Cardiovascular Health. She is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. She completed a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine.
Dr. Pizula specializes in cardio-obstetrics. She works with women before, during, and after pregnancy to determine their risk of heart-related pregnancy complications and improve their cardiovascular health. She has experience managing complex cardiovascular conditions, including congenital heart disease, arrhythmias, coronary artery disease, valvular disease, and cardiomyopathy. Dr. Pizula develops a customized care plan for each patient she treats. As a leader in cardio-obstetrics, she’s at the forefront of the latest advances in women’s cardiovascular care.
Her research interests include the intersection of cardiovascular disease and pregnancy. She focuses on how pre-existing conditions like congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathy, or hypertension affect pregnancy. She has also explored how physiological changes during pregnancy affect existing heart disease and long-term cardiovascular risk. She uses her unique dual background in internal medicine and pediatrics to study how adult manifestations of cardiovascular disease impact pregnancy outcomes.
Dr. Pizula is active in teaching medical students, internal medicine and obstetrical residents, and cardiology fellows. She teaches them strategies to improve how they assess and manage risk and deliver postpartum care to people with high-risk cardiac pregnancies. Dr. Pizula is the director of the Finishing School for Future Cardiologists for the California chapter of the American College of Cardiology, which offers leadership development to cardiology fellows.
Dr. Pizula’s research has been published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics. She has authored three book chapters on cardio-obstetrics and global emergency medicine.
Dr. Pizula has presented her research at conferences in the United States and internationally. As an expert in cardiovascular disease and pregnancy, she is frequently invited to speak to cardiologists, obstetricians, and anesthesiologists at the International Congress on Cardiac Problems in Pregnancy. She currently serves as a reviewer for the European Journal of Heart Failure and Heart Failure Reviews.
Dr. Pizula is a member of the American College of Cardiology, Stanford Medicine Cardiovascular Institute, and Stanford Medicine Maternal & Child Health Research Institute. -
Philip A. Pizzo, M.D.
David and Susan Heckerman Professor, Emeritus
BioPhilip Pizzo, MD, is the David and Susan Heckerman Professor Emeritus. Pizzo served as Dean of the Stanford School of Medicine from April 2001 to December 1, 2012. He was Founding Director of the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute from 2012 - 2022. Pizzo began rabbinical studies at the Academy for Jewish Religion, California in 2022 and studies in Spiritual Care and Counseling at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2024.
Dr. Pizzo career focused on the diagnosis, management, prevention and treatment of childhood cancers and the infectious complications that occur in children whose immune systems are compromised by cancer and AIDS. He has been a leader in academic medicine and in longevity and the future of higher education.
Pizzo received his MD degree with Honors and Distinction in Research from the University of Rochester in 1970 and completed an internship and residency at the Boston Children’s Hospital. He was a fellow in pediatric oncology at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and served as head of the NCI’s infectious disease section, chief of pediatric oncology, and scientific director for the Division of Clinical Sciences between. Before joining Stanford in 2001, he was the physician-in-chief of Boston Children’s Hospital and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, where he was also the Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics.
Dr. Pizzo is the author of more than 650 scientific articles and 16 books and monographs. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinion in Pediatrics from 2012 - 2019. He co-led the National Academy of Medicine 2011 report Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education and Research; and “Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences at the End of Life” that was published in 2015.
Pizzo has received numerous awards and honors, including the Public Health Service Outstanding Service Medal in 1995, the Barbara Bohen Pfiefer Award for Scientific Excellence in 1991, the Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Award in 2008, the Ronald McDonald Charities “Award of Excellence” in 2009, and the John and Emma Bonica Public Service Award in 2013. He is the 2012 recipient of the John Howland Award, the highest honor for lifetime achievement bestowed by the American Pediatric Society. In 2019 he received the John Stearns Medal from the New York Academy of Medicine. Pizzo received the 2021 International Immunocompromised Host Society’s Lifetime Distinguished Career Award. He received the Dean’s Medal from the University of Rochester in 2023.
Pizzo has been elected to the Association of American Physicians, the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the American Pediatric Society, the National Academy of Medicine. He has served as Chair of the Association of Academic Health Centers and Chair of the Council of Deans of the Association of American Medical Colleges. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Society for Clinical Oncology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He was President of the International Immunocompromised Host Society between1998 – 2011, and he served on the Governing Board for the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine from 2004 - 2012. Pizzo was elected to the Board of Trustees of the University of Rochester from 2009 - 2022 and the Board of Overseers of Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey from 2010 - 2022. He served Academic Advisory Council for Merritt Hawkins between 2015 - 2022., and the Advisory Board to the Milken Institute Center on Aging from 2015 - 2022. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research from 2012- 2022. In 2015 Pizzo was elected to the Board of Directors of Global Blood Therapeutics through 2023, and in 2019 he was elected to the Board of Directors of Hillel at Stanford through 2023. -
David Plank
Professor (Research) of Education, Emeritus
BioDavid Plank is Co-Director of the Lemann Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Brazilian Education. He served as Executive Director of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) for 11 years, retiring in 2018. Before joining PACE Plank was a Professor at Michigan State University, where he founded and directed the Education Policy Center. He was previously on the faculties at the University of Pittsburgh and at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he taught courses and conducted research in the areas of educational finance and policy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1983. Plank is the author or editor of six books, including the AERA Handbook of Education Policy Research. He has published widely in a number of different fields, including economics of education, history of education, and educational policy. His current interests include the role of the State in education, and the relationship between academic research and public policy. In addition to his work in the United States, Plank has served as a consultant to international organizations including the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United States Agency for International Development, the Ford Foundation, and also to governments in Africa and Latin America.
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Julia Rachel Plank
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioI am a postdoctoral researcher in the BRain Imaging, Development, and GEnetics (BRIDGE) Laboratory in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Currently my work focuses on the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for improving understanding of the neuropathophysiology underlying neuropsychiatric disorders with a genetic basis.
My PhD investigated the use of neuroimaging techniques (diffusion MRI, quantitative magnetization transfer, magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, electroencephalography) for detection of neuroinflammation in human participants.
My research interests are centered on the clinical applications of MRI for elucidation of pathology and improving diagnosis and treatment. -
Thomas G Plante
Emeritus Adjunct Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioThomas G. Plante, Ph.D., ABPP is an emeritus adjunct professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also the Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J. University Professor, professor of psychology and, by courtesy, religious studies and The Jesuit School of Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, and directs the Applied Spirituality Institute at Santa Clara University. He has served as vice-chair of the National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Youth for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and is past-president of the Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (Division 36) of the American Psychological Association (APA). He has published 29 books including, Spiritually Informed Therapy: Wisdom and Evidence Based Strategies That Work, Contemporary Clinical Psychology, Graduating with Honor: Best Practices to Promote Ethics Development in College Students, Living Ethically in an Unethical World, Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: A Decade of Crisis, 2002-2012, and Spiritual Practices in Psychotherapy: Thirteen Tools for Enhancing Psychological Health. He is editor of the APA journal, Spirituality in Clinical Practice. He has published over 275 scholarly professional journal articles and book chapters as well. He has been frequently featured in most major national and international media outlets. Time Magazine featured him in a 2005 profile and referred to him in a 2002 cover story about clerical abuse as one of “three leading American Catholics.” He teaches courses in psychopathology, health psychology, the psychology of religion and spirituality, and professional ethics and maintains a private clinical practice as a licensed psychologist in Menlo Park, CA. He is best reached at tplante@scu.edu.
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Terry Platchek
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine
Clinical Professor (By courtesy), Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Clinical Professor, Emergency MedicineCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Platchek's research interest focuses on improving value in healthcare delivery using healthcare model design thinking and a "Lean" business strategy. Dr. Platchek is also interested in effective methods for engaging clinicians in systems-based clinical improvement efforts.
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Andrés A. Plazas Malagón
Physicist-Experimental, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Project Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator LaboratoryBioAndrés A. Plazas Malagón is a Colombian-American astrophysicist who obtained his degree in physics at Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. He subsequently moved to the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) to obtain a doctoral degree in physics and astronomy. At Penn, he received the Zaccheus Daniel Foundation for Astronomical Science award. He also became part of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) project, working on weak gravitational lensing and testing the detectors of the Dark Energy Camera used by DES at the Department of Energy Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab. He continued his work on observational cosmology and weak lensing as a research associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he became part of the Dark Energy Science Collaboration of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). For his work in characterizing systematic errors in weak gravitational lensing, he received in 2016 the Fundación Alejandro Ángel Escobar National Prize in Natural and Exact Sciences, considered the highest scientific recognition in his native Colombia.
He joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2015 as a Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar, working on understanding systematic errors in weak lensing from the infrared detectors that will be used by the wide-field imager of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Dr. Plazas Malagón also has worked as a Research Scientist at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, as part of the Cosmoquest project for community science. Subsequently, he worked at Princeton University as an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences as part of the Algorithms and Pipelines team of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
He currently works as Rubin Operations Scientist in the Rubin Community Science Team as part of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, and the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (SLAC/Stanford University).
Dr. Plazas Malagón is also an Affiliate at the Department of Physics of Harvard University, a Visiting Research Scientist at Boston University, and a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Physics of Washington University in St. Louis. He is the founder of the Astronomy on Tap satellite branches in St. Louis and Trenton (NJ), the creator and co-host of the astronomy podcast in Spanish “Visión Cósmica”, the proposer and co-organizer of the first ever Tower Grove Park Astronomy Festival in St. Louis, the proposer and co-organizer of the first-ever outreach event in Spanish at the Harvard College Observatory, and frequently participates in Science Education and Public Outreach events in Spanish and English as a NASA JPL Solar System Ambassador volunteer. -
Tino Pleiner
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe Pleiner lab combines mechanistic cell biology, structural biochemistry and protein engineering to dissect the pathways and molecular machines that mature human membrane proteins to a fully functional state. We also develop alpaca-derived and synthetic nanobodies as tools to modulate intracellular pathways that globally regulate protein homeostasis in health and disease.
