{"result":[{"researchInterest":"Dr. Cho's major areas of interest include: ethical and social issues in genetic research, stem cell research, bioweapons and microbial genome research, the effects of gene patenting on clinical genetic testing and research, and the impacts of academic-industry ties on biomedical research.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6124&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Mildred_Cho","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Pediatrics - Genetics"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Pediatrics - Vaden"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Mildred","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Pediatrics - Genetics","displayName":"Mildred Cho, PhD","lastName":"Cho"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7484&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/William_Hurlbut","appointments":[{"appointment":"Consulting Professor,Neurosciences Institute"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"William","primaryAppointment":"Consulting Professor,Neurosciences Institute","displayName":"William Hurlbut","lastName":"Hurlbut"},{"researchInterest":"My research focuses on the political, legal, ethical and economic impacts of stem cell research.  Topics include: embryonic and adult stem cell research and clinical trials, stem cell banking, human-animal chimeras; cell and gamete donation; international perspectives of bioethics; global economic impacts; national and state regulatory policy, stem cell entrepreneurship, intellectual property and offshore stem cell transplants.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7245&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Christopher_Scott","appointments":[{"appointment":"Sr Research Scholar,Center for Biomedical Ethics"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Christopher","primaryAppointment":"Sr Research Scholar,Center for Biomedical Ethics","displayName":"Christopher Thomas Scott","lastName":"Scott"},{"researchInterest":"While my primary role is to direct the MS in Human Genetics and Genetic Counseling program, my research focuses on the intersection between genetics and ethics, particularly around informed consent and patient decision making.  I am also very interested in how genetic counseling and disability interface.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8326&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Kelly_Ormond","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Teaching),Genetics"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Kelly","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Teaching),Genetics","displayName":"Kelly E. 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In addition to pressing the link here, you can search \"Russ Altman\" on http://www.google.com/","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4706&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Russ_Altman","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Bioengineering"},{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Medical Informatics"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Computer Science"},{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Russ","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Bioengineering","displayName":"Russ B. Altman","lastName":"Altman"},{"researchInterest":"My research and educational activities focus on evidence-based medicine, patient-centered concerns, health care quality, and patient safety. I enjoy forming and participating in multi-disciplinary teams to identify, highlight and formulate solutions to issues of suboptimal performance of the health care system, both in the US and abroad.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6130&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Kathryn_McDonald","appointments":[{"appointment":"Sr Research Engineer (PI Waiver),Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Kathryn","primaryAppointment":"Sr Research Engineer (PI Waiver),Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch","displayName":"Kathryn McDonald","lastName":"McDonald"},{"researchInterest":"primary ovarian insufficiency, premature ovarian failure, health policy, infertilty, assisted reproductive technology, ovulation induction, hormone therapy","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8131&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Valerie_Baker","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Obstetrics & Gynecology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Reprod. 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Specific interests include measuring and improving the quality of outpatient care, disparities in health care by race, gender, age and socioeconomic status, and interventions to improve prevention outcomes.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3840&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Randall_Stafford","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol)"},{"focus":"Hypertension (high blood pressure)"},{"focus":"Diabetes Mellitus"},{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Preventive"},{"focus":"Obesity"},{"focus":"Primary Prevention"},{"focus":"Internal Medicine"}],"firstName":"Randall","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research","displayName":"Randall Stafford","lastName":"Stafford"},{"researchInterest":"Statistical methods for analysis of high-throughput genomic data; Bioinformatics; Cancer risk assessment; Bayesian methods","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9533&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Wenyi_Wang","appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biochemistry"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Wenyi","primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biochemistry","displayName":"Wenyi Wang","lastName":"Wang"},{"researchInterest":"Dr. Atlas's medical research has centered on advanced applications of new MRI technologies and the key economic issues related to the future of such technology-based advances. 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Current research projects include evaluating sex differences in coronary pathophysiology, young patients presenting with myocardial infarction, the impact of stress on anginal symptoms, chronic total coronary occlusions, and vascular access site complications.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7648&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Jennifer_Tremmel","appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Women's Heart Health"},{"focus":"Women's Cardiovascular Disease"}],"firstName":"Jennifer","primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Jennifer Tremmel","lastName":"Tremmel"},{"researchInterest":"Body imaging techniques; monitoring therapy of cancer, without biopsy; tissue characterization; image-based amplification and localization of blood biomarkers","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4125&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Gary_Glazer","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Radiology"}],"firstName":"Gary","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiology","displayName":"Gary Glazer","lastName":"Glazer"},{"researchInterest":"Evolution and the adaptive landscape using yeast as a model; Defining yeast transcriptomes; chromosomal evolution in hybrid yeast species; genome database for Candida albicans; genome database for Aspergilli; the Stanford Microarray Database; The Tuberculosis Database; bioinformatics tools for analysing expression data.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5864&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Gavin_Sherlock","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Gavin","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Genetics","displayName":"Gavin Sherlock","lastName":"Sherlock"},{"researchInterest":"Biostatistics, clinical trials, longitudinal studies, casual inference from observational studies, genetic tissue banking, informed consent. Trial designs for dynamic (adaptive) treatment regimes, psychiatric research, cancer.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4192&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Philip_Lavori","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Statistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Philip","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","displayName":"Philip W. Lavori","lastName":"Lavori"},{"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4142&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Mark_Hlatky","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research"},{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"firstName":"Mark","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research","displayName":"Mark Hlatky, MD","lastName":"Hlatky"},{"researchInterest":"Experimental and clinical epidemiology of myocardial, infarction; exercise testing; cardiac risk factor management;, cardiac rehabilitation; systems for patient management; ischemic, heart disease; computer-based expert systems.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4093&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Robert_DeBusk","appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"firstName":"Robert","primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Robert DeBusk","lastName":"DeBusk"}]}