{"result":[{"lastName":"Fitzgerald","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4224&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Peter Fitzgerald, MD, PhD","firstName":"Peter","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Peter_Fitzgerald","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Yeung","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Coronary Artery Disease"},{"focus":"Chronic Total Occlusions"},{"focus":"Complex Coronary Angioplasty"},{"focus":"Mitral Valvuloplasty"},{"focus":"Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement"},{"focus":"Interventional Cardiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4228&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Alan Yeung, MD","firstName":"Alan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Alan_Yeung","researchInterest":"Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in men and women in the United States. Our group is interested in studying both the early and late phases of atherosclerosis so that we can better develop prevention and treatment strategies."},{"lastName":"Fearon","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Interventional Cardiology"},{"focus":"Coronary Artery Disease"},{"focus":"Percutaneous aortic valve"},{"focus":"Aortic Stenosis"},{"focus":"Coronary Physiology"},{"focus":"Cardiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5950&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"William Fearon, MD","firstName":"William","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/William_Fearon","researchInterest":"Dr. Fearon's general research interest is coronary physiology.  In particular, he is investigating invasive methods for evaluating the coronary microcirculation.  His research is currently funded by an NIH R01 Award."},{"lastName":"Lee","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Interventional Cardiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4573&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David Lee, MD","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/David_Lee","researchInterest":"1. Use of GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors and other pharmacotherapy in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction\t\r\n2. Novel treatments and devices for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction\r\n3. Alcohol septal ablation for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy\r\n4. Novel approaches to coronary revascularization\r\n5. Closure devices for atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale"},{"lastName":"Stertzer","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4441&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Simon H. Stertzer, MD, FACC,FAHA","firstName":"Simon","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Simon_Stertzer","researchInterest":"Coronary Angioplasty; Intramyocardial Stem cell delivery"},{"lastName":"Robbins","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4247&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert C. Robbins, M. D.","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Robert_Robbins","researchInterest":"Stem Cell Therapy for Myocardial Restoration, Cardiopulmonary Transplantation, Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy, Automated Anastomotic Devices, Genetics and Mechanisms of Congestive Heart Failure"},{"lastName":"Hlatky","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research"},{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4142&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark Hlatky, MD","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Mark_Hlatky","researchInterest":"My main research work is in \"outcomes research\", especially examining the field of cardiovascular medicine.  Particular areas of interest are the integration of economic and quality of life data into randomized clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, decision models, and cost-effectiveness analysis. I am also interested in the application of novel genetic, biomarker, and imaging tests to assess risk and guide clinical management of coronary artery disease."},{"lastName":"Zarins","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Vascular Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Surgery - Vascular Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Surgery - Vascular Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4250&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Christopher K. Zarins","firstName":"Christopher","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Christopher_Zarins","researchInterest":"Hemodynamic factors in atherosclerosis, pathogenesis of, aortic aneurysms, carotid plaque localization and complication, anastomotic intimal hyperplasia, vascular biology of artery wall, computational fluid dynamics as applied to blood flow and vascular disease."},{"lastName":"Valantine","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4322&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Hannah Valantine","firstName":"Hannah","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Hannah_Valantine","researchInterest":"My 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."},{"lastName":"Kume","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10408&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Teruyoshi Kume","firstName":"Teruyoshi","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Teruyoshi_Kume","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"McConnell","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Molecular & Cellular Physiology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Electrical Engineering"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4727&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael V. McConnell, MD, MSEE","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Michael_McConnell","researchInterest":"Imaging cardiovascular disease, with a focus on coronary and vascular atherosclerosis and ischemic heart disease.  Projects include cellular and structural characterization of atherosclerotic plaque by MRI, optical imaging (bioluminescence and fluorescence) of vascular inflammation, as well as noninvasive coronary angiography by MRI and MRI- guided cardiovascular interventions.  Additional collaborative projects include real-time cardiac MRI and multi-modality imaging of cardiac stem cell trans"},{"lastName":"Vagelos","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"valvular heart disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4105&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Randall Vagelos, MD","firstName":"Randall","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Randall_Vagelos","researchInterest":"I. 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\r\nIV. Advanced coronary and valvular disease, evaluationg candidacy for high risk interventions."},{"lastName":"Ardehali","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9343&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Reza Ardehali","firstName":"Reza","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Reza_Ardehali","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Dake","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Interventional Radiology"},{"focus":"Endovascular Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Acting Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Acting Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4304&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael D. Dake","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Michael_Dake","researchInterest":"Improved endovascular procedures and devices to treat aortic lesions, peripheral arterial disease and venous abnormalities. Focused interest in drug-eluting stents and balloons, endovascular stent-grafts, including branched aortic devices and techniques for the endovascular management of aortic dissection. Current clinical research projects include drug-eluting stents for superficial femoral arterial disease and multiple device trials to evaluate stent-grafts for the treatment of aortic lesions."},{"lastName":"Brinton","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Interventional Cardiology"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Lecturer,Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8134&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Todd Brinton","firstName":"Todd","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Todd_Brinton","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Heidenreich","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4682&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul Heidenreich, MD","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Paul_Heidenreich","researchInterest":"My research interests include \r\n\r\n1) The cost-effectiveness of new cardiovascular technologies. \r\nExample: tests to screen asymptomatic patients for left ventricular systolic dysfunction.\r\n\r\n2) Interventions to improve the quality of care of patients with heart disease. Examples: include clinical reminders and home monitoring.\r\n\r\n3) Outcomes research using existing clinical and administrative datasets. \r\n\r\n4) Use of echocardiography to predict prognosis (e.g. diastolic dysfunction)."},{"lastName":"Tsao","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4070&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Philip S. Tsao, PhD","firstName":"Philip","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Philip_Tsao","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Hunt","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Heart Transplantation"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4623&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sharon Hunt, MD","firstName":"Sharon","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Sharon_Hunt","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Cooke","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Preventive"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Vascular Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4115&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Cooke, MD, PhD","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/John_Cooke","researchInterest":"Our translational research program involves molecular, cellular, animal and human studies of endothelial biology. We are focused on the role of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in atherosclerosis and angiogenesis.  A new focus of investigation has resulted from our discovery of a novel angiogenic pathway mediated by endothelial nicotinic cholinergic receptors (nAChR). We use a wide variety of tools and approaches to investigate the role of NOS and nAChR pathways in cardiovascular biology and disease."},{"lastName":"Taylor","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Bioengineering"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Surgery"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Mechanical Engineering"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6076&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Charles A. Taylor","firstName":"Charles","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Charles_Taylor","researchInterest":"Cardiovascular Bioengineering, Simulation-Based Medical Planning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Image-Based Geometric Modeling, Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics."},{"lastName":"Lijkwan","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Cardiothoracic Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Cardiothoracic Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9902&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Maarten Lijkwan","firstName":"Maarten","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Maarten_Lijkwan","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Zhou","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Vascular Surgery"},{"focus":"Endovascular Intervention"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8260&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Wei Zhou","firstName":"Wei","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Wei_Zhou","researchInterest":"Dr. Zhou\u0092s vascular research laboratory focuses on pathogenesis of atherosclerotic lesion formation and molecular mechanisms of intimal hyperplasia, including smooth muscle cell proliferation, oxidative stress, and endothelial cell dysfunction.   Our specific clinical research interests are re-stenosis following endovascular interventions, plaque progression in arterial trees, and alternative outcome measures.  Through collaboration with Stanford investigators and investigators at Baylor Colleg"},{"lastName":"Froelicher","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Orthopaedic Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4191&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Victor Froelicher, MD","firstName":"Victor","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Victor_Froelicher","researchInterest":"Computerized ECG and clinical data management; exercise Physiology including expired gas analysis; the effect of chronic and acute exercise on the heart; digital recording of biological signals; diagnostic use of exercise testing; development of Expert Medical System software and educational tools."},{"lastName":"Ashley","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular genetics"},{"focus":"Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy"},{"focus":"Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Sports Medicine"},{"focus":"Dilated Cardiomyopathy"},{"focus":"Long QT Syndrome"},{"focus":"Peripartum cardiomyopathy"},{"focus":"Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7578&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Euan A. Ashley","firstName":"Euan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Euan_Ashley","researchInterest":"My research interests are translational. We use high dimensional genomic analysis to identify myocardial gene expression networks then use molecular, cellular and classical physiology tools to assay the biological systems. Our interests range from fit to failing hearts."},{"lastName":"Burdon","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4197&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Thomas Burdon","firstName":"Thomas","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioengineering/researcher/Thomas_Burdon","researchInterest":"New technologies in the area of catheters, clamps, and, visualization devices for aid in cardiac surgery; distribution of, cardioplegia, both anterograde and retrograde as determined by, techniques in technetium pyro-phosphate scans; glucose insulin, potassium as an adjunct in cardiac surgery."}]}