Directory
Stanford Biodesign is more than an academic center; we’re a community. Meet the people who share our passion for discovery, invention, and improving the lives of people everywhere through health technology innovation.
Center Management
Lead Stanford Biodesign on a day-to-day basis.
- Todd Brinton
Director, Innovation Fellowship - Lyn Denend
Director, Academic Programs - Carolyn Heller
Director, Operations and Finance - Thomas Krummel
Co-Director - Gordon Saul
Executive Director - Paul Yock
Founder, Director
Center Staff
Help manage our programs and operations.
- Annette Ewanich
Executive Assistant to Gordon Saul and Paul Yock - Emily Johnson
Fellowships Manager - Linda Lucian
Translation Project Manager - Stacey McCutcheon
Academic Projects and Communications Manager - Kathleen Sochan
Executive Assistant to Todd Brinton and Thomas Krummel - Cece Torres
Program Assistant - Tamara Winston
Financial Analyst
Center Faculty
Play specialized, part-time leadership roles in our programs.
- Dan Azagury
Assistant Director, Specialty Fellowship - Uday Kumar
Director, Strategy; Fellowship Director, Global Programs - Josh Makower
Co-Founder, Advisor - Douglas Rait
Associate Director, Team Learning and Design - Jan Pietzsch
Director, Health Economics and Value - Richard Popp
Director, Ethics & Policy - Ryan Van Wert
Assistant Director, Biodesign Faculty Fellowship - Ross Venook
Assistant Director, Engineering - James Wall
Assistant Director, Innovation Fellowship - Paul Wang
Faculty Liaison - Jay Watkins
Co-Director, Biodesign Innovation Course - Marta Zanchi
Director, Mobile Biodesign Course
Global Faculty
Play specialized, part-time leadership roles in our global initiatives.
- Robson Capasso
Advisor, Global Biodesign - Rajiv Doshi
Senior Advisor, Global Projects - Fumiaki Ikeno
Program Director (US), Japan Biodesign - Ritu Kamal
Associate Director, Global Programs - Anurag Mairal
Senior Advisor, Global Health - Ruey Peh
Program Director, Singapore-Stanford Biodesign - Christopher Shen
Executive Director, Singapore-Stanford Biodesign - Anthony Tang
Fellowship Director, Singapore-Stanford Biodesign
Advisory Faculty
Provide ongoing, directional guidance to Stanford Biodesign.
- Thomas Andriacchi
Mechanical Engineering - Mark Blumenkranz
Ophthalmology - David Camarillo
Bioengineering - Venita Chandra
Surgery - Scott Delp
Bioengineering - Julian Gorodsky
d.school - Geoff Gurtner
Plastic Surgery - John Linehan
Bioengineering - Michael McConnell
Cardiovascular Medicine - Tina Seelig
Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Industry Leaders
Mentor our fellowship teams throughout the academic year.
- Lisa Earnhardt
Innovation Team Mentor - Hanson Gifford
Senior Innovation Team Mentor - Beverly Huss
Innovation Team Mentor - Maria Sainz
Innovation Team Mentor - Cynthia Yock
Innovation Team Mentor, Health Economics and Value
Industry Contributors
Individuals who have participated in one or more Stanford Biodesign programs during 2014-15 and 2015-16.
- Pablo Abad-Manterola
- Adrian Aguilera
- Rick Altinger
- Fred Aslan
- Andrew Atwell
- Greg Bakan
- Grace Bartoo
- Amy Belt Raimundo
- Gary Berke
- Raj Bhargava
- Darlene Crocket-Billig
- Michael Billig
- Jeff Bird
- Ryan Bloom
- Kyra Bobinet
- Leslie Bottorff
- Dennis Boyle
- Eb Bright
- Andrew Broderick
- Mike Buck
- Terri Burke
- Dan Burnett
- Darin Buxbaum
- Colin Cahill
- Linda Capello
- Rafael Carbunaru
- Michael Carusi
- Albert Cha
- John Chang
- Roger Chen
- Cheryl Cheng
- Lynne Chou
- Andrew Cleeland
- Ben Cline
- Jeff Closs
- Rebecca Coelius
- Charles Comey
- Ian Connolly
- Cecilia Corral
- Richard Cox
- Kristin Crosland
- Yogen Dalal
- Anna de Paula Hanika
- Alex de Winter
- Deborah Dean
- Valerie Defiesta-Ng
- Sherri Dentry-Mabry
- Cindy Domecus
- Krista Donaldson
- Karen Drexler
- Becca Dutton
- John Edson
- Andrew ElBardissi
- Chris Eso
- Bill Facteau
- Jamie Ferguson
- Vic Fuchs
- Chris Furmanski
- Emily Glassberg
- Benjamin Glenn
- Jeff Gold
- David Goodman
- Michael Gropp
- Daniel Grossman
- Greg Grunberg
- David Haddad
- Nora Hadding
- Sami Hamade
- Daniel Hawkins
- Tyler Haydell
- John Hernandez
- Ron Ho
- Colby Holthouse
- Toshihiko Honkura
- David Hopkins
- Ty Hu
- Julia Hu
- Wende Hutton
- Nancy Isaac
- Ron Jabba
- Jamey Jacobs
- Robert Jacques
- Ross Jaffe
- David Janka
- Alan Kaganov
- Kerith Kanaber
- Dianna Kane
- Ninad Karandikar
- Mohit Kaushal
- Amar Kendale
- Fred Khosravi
- Deborah Kilpatrick
- Emily Kim
- Allison Komiyama
- Jennifer Kozak
- Missy Krasner
- Jeffrey Krauss
- Katharine Ku
- Yashdeep Kumar
- Greg Lambrecht
- Gloria Lau
- Bruce Lau
- Mike Laufer
- Carla Leibowitz
- Eric Leroux
- Doug Limbach
- Nancy Lince
- Angela Macfarlane
- Susanne Machacz
- Elias Mallis
- Joe Mandato
- John Maroney
- Juan-Pablo Mas
- Andrea Mason
- Allan May
- Mika Mayer
- Yousuf Mazhar
- Milt McColl
- Nancy McGee
- Peggy McLaughlin
- Samir Medjebar
- Tim Mills
- Mitchell Mom
- Alexander Morgan
- Sarah Mummah
- David Myung
- Divya Nag
- Mike Needels
- Christine Nguyen
- Steve Oesterle
- Doug Owens
- Ryan Panchadsaram
- Chris Panarites
- Julie Papanek
- Amish Parashar
- Rajan Patel
- Robbie Pearl
- Hank Plain
- Kerry Pope
- Stuart Portnoy
- Frank Rahmani
- KT Rao
- Geetha Rao
- Alya Rachel Raphael
- Jacob Reider
- Bob Reiners
- Eric Reuter
- Miles Rosen
- Mary Rosenberger
- Stephen Rudy
- Renee Ryan
- Philip Sager
- Jaspal Sandhu
- Aaron Sandoski
- George Savage
- David Sayen
- Bruce Schaar
- Debra Schifrin
- Adam Schlifke
- Garrett Schwab
- Mark Schwartz
- Anil Sethi
- Kunal Sethy
- Ibrahim Sezan
- Sanjay Shah
- Neel Shah
- Jim Shay
- Jules Sherman
- Jordan Shlain
- Yasuko Shusa
- Carl Simpson
- Vineet Singal
- JJ Singh
- Scott Smith
- Greg Sommer
- Hilary Spindler
- Fred St. Goar
- Chris Stave
- Chuck Sted
- Nathaniel Stockham
- Ana Stojanovska
- Waimei (Amy) Tai
- Scott Talbot
- Amy Tenderich
- Bill Tobin
- Christy Tomkins-Lane
- Jenna Tregarthen
- Brad Vale
- Louis Villalba
- AJ Viola
- Gerard von Hoffmann
- Katarzyna Wac
- Dan Weberg
- Mark Weeks
- Robert Weiss
- Rexford Widmer
- Allan Will
- Rob Wishnowsky
- Walter Wu
- Fay Xing
- Mark Zdeblick
- Tom Zolgar
- Darrell Zoromski
Clinical Faculty Leadership
Host clinical immersion and provide ongoing clinical guidance to our fellowship teams.
2016-17
- Laura Carstensen
Center on Longevity - Robert Harrington
Internal Medicine - Marina Martin
Geriatrics - Ken Smith
Center on Longevity - David Spain
Trauma and Critical Care Surgery
Previous Years
- Jonathan Berek
Obstetrics & Gynecology - James Chang
Plastic Surgery - Glenn Chertow
Nephrology - Michael Dake
Cardiothoracic Surgery - Ron Dalman
Vascular Surgery - Mark Davis
Microbiology & Immunology - Yasser El-Sayed
Obstetrics & Gynecology – Maternal Fetal Medicine - Sam Gambhir
Radiology - Rob Jackler
Otolaryngology - Paul Khavari
Dermatology - Michael Longaker
Regenerative Medicine - Frank Longo
Neurology - Bill Maloney
Orthopedic Surgery - Jay Pasricha
Gastroenterology - Ron Pearl
Anesthesia/Critical Care - Robert Robbins
Cardiothoracic Surgery - Steven Ruoss
Pulmonology - Eila Skinner
Urology - Matthew Smuck
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - David Spain
Trauma Surgery - Gary Steinberg
Neurosurgery - Alan Yeung
Cardiology - Paul Zei
Cardiovascular Medicine
Affiliated Faculty
Provide periodic clinical guidance to our programs or fellowship teams.
- Todd Alamin
- Arbabian Amin
- Euan Ashley
- Bruce Buckingham
- Dennis Carter
- Kiki Chang
- Chris Cheng
- Kyeongjae Cho
- Christos Constantinou
- Brent Constantz
- Ronald Dalman
- Kay Daniels
- Sumbul Desai
- Ricardo Dolmetsch
- Maurice Druzin
- James Fann
- William Fearon
- Jeffrey Feinstein
- Robert Fisher
- Harvey Fishman
- Peter Fitzgerald
- Kara Flavin
- Nicholas Giori
- Linda Giudice
- Garry Gold
- Stuart Goodman
- Ralph Greco
- Harry Greenberg
- Kevin Grimes
- Ron Hanson
- Kimberly Harney
- Ali Hassan
- John Howard
- Thomas Hsu
- Chris Jacobs
- Abby King
- Greg Kovacs
- William Kuo
- David Lee
- Larry Leifer
- David Liang
- Bryant Lin
- Bruce MacIver
- Sean Mackey
- Maria Millan
- Kevin Montgomery
- Drew Nelson
- Gunter Niemeyer
- Donna Peehl
- Norbert Pelc
- Peter Pinsky
- Sylvia Plevritis
- Friedrich Prinz
- Bill Robinson
- Eugene Roh
- Eric Sabelman
- Juan Santiago
- Stephen Schendel
- David Schurman
- Vittorio Sebastiano
- Ramin Shahidi
- Robert Lane Smith
- Roy Soetikno
- Dan Spielman
- George Springer
- Daniel Sze
- Charles Taylor
- Ravi Tolwani
- PJ Utz
- Jacques Van Dam
- Machiel Van der Loos
- Kenneth Waldron
- Roberta Wang
- Tom Wang
- Eric Weiss
- Lynn Westphal
- Bernard Widrow
- Virginia Winn
- Christopher Zarins
- Patricia Zheng
Fellows
Current and alumni fellows since 2001.
Innovation Fellows
2016-2017
- Katie Blevins
- Akash Chandawarkar
- Chirag Chauhan
- Amanda French
- Janene Fuerch
- Eric Kramer
- Craig Nichols
- Leor Perl
- Vivian de Ruijter
- Shaili Sharma
- Ashley Waring
2015-2016
- Michael Carchia
- Elise DeVries
- Andrew Ganton
- Rachel Gerver
- Justin Huelman
- Alesandro Larrazabai
- Mike Llewellyn
- Veronique Peiffer
- Shriram Raghunathan
- Jonathan Schwartz
- Craig Stauffer
- Richard Timm
2014-2015
- Farzad Azimpour
- Michael Feldstein
- Viral Gandhi
- Bronwyn Harris
- William Kethman
- Andrew McGibbon
- Andrew Mesher
- Christian Moyer
- Todd Murphy
- Theo Tam
- Frank Wang
- Elisabeth Wynne
2013-2014
- Varun Boriah
- Tiffany Chao
- Nicholas Damiano
- Ryan Krone
- Shreya Mehta
- Kathryn Olson
- Holly Rockweiler
- Jonathan Steinberger
- John Woock
2012-2013
- Tahel Altman
- Rush Bartlett
- Emma Essock-Burns
- John Paderi
- Vijaykumar Rajasekhar
- Andy Rink
- Kate Rosenbluth
- Ivan Tzvetanov
- Ryan van Wert
- Justin Williams
2011-2012
- Dan Azagury
- Buzz Bonneau
- Jonathan Coe
- David Gal
- Kate Garrett
- Swami Gnanashanmugam
- Jeremy Koehler
- Insoo Suh
- Jasmine Zia
- David Camarillo
2010-2011
- Michael Ackermann
- Joelle Barral
- Brandon Felkins
- Victor McCray
- Ashish Nimgaonkar
- Ravi Pamnani
- Michael Schaller
- Sidhartha Sinha
- Garrett Smith
2009-2010
- Pedram Afshar
- Ellis Garai
- Partha Ray
- Sandra Waugh Ruggles
- Akhilesh Sista
- Aravind Swaminathan
- Fletcher Wilson
- R. James Yu
2008-2009
- Jake Brenner
- Matthew Callaghan
- Kevin Chao
- Joelle Faulkner
- Greg Magee
- Erika Palmer
- Ruey Feng Peh
- Avi Roop
2007-2008
- David Boudreault
- Zachary Edmonds
- Brian Fahey
- Marie Johnson
- Ronald Jou
- Dorothea Koh
- Nandan Lad
- Beverly Tang
- Jamie van Hoften
2006-2007
- Venita Chandra
- Stephen Eichmann
- Joel Goldsmith
- Basil Hantash
- Zach Malchano
- David Meister
- Tatum Tarin
- Richard Vecchiotti
- Ross Venook
- James Wall
- Kenneth Wu
2005-2006
- Kityee Au-Yeung
- Gary Binyamin
- Jessica Hudak
- Joseph Knight
- Uday Kumar
- Bryant Lin
- Carlos Mery
- Bilal Shafi
- John White
2004-2005
2003-2004
- Evan Anderson
- Jeremy Johnson
- Kelly Richardson
- Amrish Walke
- Russell Woo
2002-2003
- Aimee Angel
- Daniel Francis
- William Overall
2001-2002
Global Fellows
2016 - Singapore-Stanford Biodesign
- Cheryl Chng
- Phin Peng Lee
- Khanh Nguyen
- Zhou Xiong
2015 - Stanford-India Biodesign
2015 - Singapore-Stanford Biodesign
- Ka Mung Chee
- Enci Mary Kan
- James Mok
- Xu Wen Ng
2014 - Stanford-India Biodesign
- Pranav Chopra
- Deevish Dinakar
- Sohail Gupta
- Neeraj Kumar
2014 - Singapore-Stanford Biodesign
- Rena Dharmawan
- Prusothman Sina Raja
- Benjamin Tee
- Cecilia Wang
2013 - Stanford-India Biodesign
2013 - Singapore-Stanford Biodesign
- Jing Ming Chew
- Emma Luong-Van
- Yong Cheng Poh
- Weiming Siow
2012 - Stanford-India Biodesign
2012 - Singapore-Stanford Biodesign
2011 - Stanford-India Biodesign
2011 - Singapore-Stanford Biodesign
2010 - Stanford-India Biodesign
2009 - Stanford-India Biodesign
2008 - Stanford-India Biodesign
Biodesign Faculty Fellows
Current and alumni faculty fellows since 2015.
2016
- Oliver Aalami
- Robert Chang
- Amy Herr
- Peter Karth
- Jin Hyung Lee
- Jan Liphardt
- Douglass Sidell
- Eric Sokol
- Mohan Viswanathan
2015
Global Faculty Trainees
Current and alumni global faculty trainees since 2011.
- Mark Bruzzi
University of Galway, Ireland - Maarten De Vos
University of Oxford, United Kingdom - Tomoko Inoue
MedVenture Partners, Japan - Yujiro Maeda
University of Tokyo, Japan - Atsuhiro Nakagawa
Tohoku University, Japan - Daisuke Nishiuchi
Terumo Corporation, Japan - Sayaka Omori
Terumo Corporation, Japan - Igor Pivovarov
Moscow State University, Russia - PVM Rao
IIT Delhi, India - Masakazu Yagi
University of Osaka, Japan
Resources
Stanford Biodesign provides broad and diverse resources to help you learn, connect, advance, and innovate.
- Learning Materials on health technology innovation and how we teach it. Read more
- Alumni Association Our international community of Stanford Biodesign Fellowship alumni. Read more
- Careers Launch or accelerate your profession in health technology innovation. Read more
- Directory Meet the many people within our growing circle. Read more