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Alexa Samaniego
Ph.D. Student in Business Administration, admitted Autumn 2022
BioAlexa is a third-year PhD student in Organizational Behavior (Micro) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Alexa's research is inspired by her background in theatre and the performing arts. She considers how speakers and audiences experience repeated performances (e.g., entrepreneurs giving the same pitch, or trainers giving the same seminar), and why certain speakers come across as more authentic than others. Her research informs the work she does as a presentation coach in the Stanford Oral Communication program and TEDxStanford.
Prior to beginning her PhD, Alexa worked as a research associate at Achievers Workforce Institute and Columbia Business School. She received her BS in Business Psychology from UC San Diego, and her MS in Applied Psychology from San Diego State University. -
Emma Samelson-Jones
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Medical Psychiatry
BioDr. Samelson-Jones completed her medical training at UCSF in 2009, followed by psychiatry residency and a public psychiatry fellowship at the New York Psychiatric Institute / New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia. She served on the faculty of the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF from 2013 to 2026 as a clinician-educator. In 2026, she joined Stanford in as a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, where she leads the Integrated Behavioral Health program with Stanford Medicine Partners at community primary care clinics.
At UCSF, Dr. Samelson-Jones was a member of the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators and the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Henry J. Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching from the UCSF School of Medicine. She developed and taught psychopharmacology courses for the senior psychiatry residents at UCSF, earning annual teaching accolades. She also co-directed the Behavioral Medicine Seminar for UC Primary Care residents (2016-24) and co-led the development of an three-year enhanced behavioral health curriculum for SF Primary Care residents (2023-26).
In 2018, Dr. Samelson-Jones was 1 of 8 physicians at UCSF to receive the Exceptional Physician Award from UCSF Health. She founded the Psychotic Experiences Clinic at UCSF to provide specialty care for patients with chronic psychosis. She also held a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine in recognition of her work within the Division of General Medicine, where she provided direct clinical consultations, launched and served as the psychiatric consultant for a collaborative care model for depression care, and supported quality improvement initiatives related to mental health care. She also trained medical students, psychiatry residents, and consult-liaison fellows in these roles. She is a frequent speaker at continuing medical education (CME) conferences for PCPs.
In 2022, Dr. Samelson-Jones received the Faculty Innovation in Teaching Award from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 2022 to create PsychSnaps (psychsnaps.com), a longitudinal medical education program designed to help primary care providers better manage their patients' mental health needs. PsychSnaps offers case-based lessons in psychiatry and addiction medicine through email newsletter and online at psychsnaps.com. PsychSnaps now has over 850 subscribers and more than 25,000 monthly unique website visitors. Dr. Samelson-Jones has authored more than 30 newsletters. The first 3 years of content have been accredited for CME as enduring materials by UCSF, and educational outcomes have been presented at national meetings. -
Caitlin E. Samples
Lecturer, Language Ctr
BioCaitlin E. Samples is Lecturer in Spanish at the Stanford Language Center. She holds an MA in Spanish from Baylor University and is presently ABD in Hispanic linguistics at the University of Georgia. Her work centers on second and heritage language acquisition at the interfaces among syntax, morphology, and semantics. Other interests include trends in gender-inclusive language use on social media. Samples' current projects include research on possessive structure use among second-language learners of English and heritage and second-language learners of Spanish, as well as how Peninsular Spanish Twitter users employ gender-inclusive morphemes in their posts.
Prior to arriving at Stanford's Language Center, Samples taught all levels of first- and second-year Spanish at the University of Georgia. At Stanford, she teaches first- and second-year Spanish, also. Among her teaching interests are language use in Hispanic populations, Hispanic cultural practices, and cultural products as reflections of historical events. -
Jacinda Sampson
Clinical Professor, Adult Neurology
BioDr. Jacinda Sampson received her MD and a PhD in biochemistry from University of Alabama at Birmingham, and completed her neurology residency and neurogenetics fellowship at the University of Utah. She served at Columbia University Medical Center prior to joining Stanford University Medical Center in 2015. Her areas of interest include myotonic dystrophies, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and neurogenetic disorders such as neurofibromatosis, hereditary spastic paraparesis, spinocerebellar ataxia, among others. She is interested in clinical trials for treatment of neurogenetic disorders, and in the clinical application of next-generation genomic sequencing to genetic testing.
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Niyatee Samudra, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Adult Neurology
BioDr. Samudra is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is one of a small number of neurologists nationwide who is board-certified and fellowship-trained in epilepsy as well as in behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry.
Dr. Samudra leads a clinic at Stanford for the treatment of older adults with epilepsy. In addition, she has clinical interests in the treatment of atypical Parkinsonism and in women’s brain health across the lifespan. She co-leads the CurePSP Center of Care and is a member of the Menopause Collaborative of Practice at Stanford. Her varied research interests include clinical trials in neurodegenerative disease and in epilepsy; improving treatment for older adults with epilepsy; understanding the cognitive and neuropsychiatric consequences of epilepsy; and treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms in neurodegenerative disorders.
Prior to coming to Stanford, Dr. Samudra was a fellow in behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, as well as in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She completed her undergraduate degree at MIT and obtained her medical degree and neurology residency training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Samudra has published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease; Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports; Journal of the Neurological Sciences; Seizure; and Epilepsy and Behavior, among others. She is a member of the American Epilepsy Society and the American Academy of Neurology. -
Stanley Samuels
Professor (Clinical) of Anesthesia, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsNeuroanesthesia; anesthesia in developing countries.
