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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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Characterizing and bioengineering stem cell niches. Nuclear reprogramming. Muscle development and disease. Drug delivery. Tracking cell behavior in vitro and in vivo. Understanding tissue degeneration and regeneration.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4517&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Helen_Blau","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology - Baxter Laboratory"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Helen","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology - Baxter Laboratory","displayName":"Helen M. Blau","lastName":"Blau"},{"researchInterest":"Translational bioinformatics has been defined as the development of analytic\r\nmethods to help transform increasingly voluminous genomic and biological data into diagnostics and therapeutics for the clinician.  The long-term research goal of the Butte Lab is to develop translational bioinformatics methods to reason over many available genome-scale measurement and experimental modalities, and apply these methods to study complex disorders in genomic medicine, especially obesity and diabetes.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6603&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Atul_Butte","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Pediatrics - Cancer Biology"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Medicine"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (By courtesy),Computer Science"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Atul","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Pediatrics - Cancer Biology","displayName":"Atul Butte","lastName":"Butte"},{"researchInterest":"Co-founder, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing\r\nNIEHS, Site Visit Reviewer\r\nNIH, Study Section Reviewer","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6129&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Teri_Klein","appointments":[{"appointment":"Sr Research Engineer (PI Waiver),Genetics"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Teri","primaryAppointment":"Sr Research Engineer (PI Waiver),Genetics","displayName":"Teri Klein","lastName":"Klein"},{"researchInterest":"Dr. Baker's research is in the area of health economics, and focuses on the effects of financial incentives, organizational structures, and government policies on the health care delivery system, health care costs, and health outcomes.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4222&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Laurence_Baker","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Economics"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Laurence","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research","displayName":"Laurence Baker","lastName":"Baker"},{"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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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":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4220&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Laura_Lazzeroni","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Pediatrics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Laura","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","displayName":"Laura C. 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Currently, my work is focused on childhood obesity in Mexican American and Mexican children, exploring binational approaches to this problem.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4639&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/bioethics/researcher/Fernando_Mendoza","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - General"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Pediatrics"},{"focus":"Minority and Immigrant Child Health"}],"firstName":"Fernando","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - General","displayName":"Fernando Mendoza","lastName":"Mendoza"},{"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":"Principal Investigator\r\nInfrastructure to facilitate discovery of autism genes\r\nThe purpose of this project is to facilitate the discovery of the genes that contribute autism by maintaining an infrastructure which research groups studying the genetics of autism can work collaboratively. 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