{"result":[{"lastName":"Stafford","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"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3840&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Randall Stafford","firstName":"Randall","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Randall_Stafford","researchInterest":"As Director of the SPRC Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices, my work focuses on cardiovascular disease treatment and prevention, the adoption of new technology and practices, and patterns of physician practice, particularly medication prescribing.  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."},{"lastName":"Chertow","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Nephrology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8311&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Glenn M. Chertow","firstName":"Glenn","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Glenn_Chertow","researchInterest":"clinical epidemiology, health services research, decision sciences, clinical trials in acute and chronic kidney disease"},{"lastName":"Alexander","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Nephrology (Kidney), Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Nephrology"},{"focus":"Dialysis"},{"focus":"Kidney Transplantation"},{"focus":"Continuous Renal Replacement Therapies"},{"focus":"Hypertension"},{"focus":"Acute and Chronic Kidney Failure"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5949&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Steven R. Alexander, MD","firstName":"Steven","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Steven_Alexander","researchInterest":"Dialysis, kidney transplantation, continuous renal replacement therapy in pediatric patients; chronic kidney disease in pediatric patients."},{"lastName":"Ioannidis","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Natural Sciences Cluster - Statistics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18745&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Ioannidis","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/John_Ioannidis","researchInterest":"Evidence-based medicine\r\nClinical and molecular epidemiology\r\nHuman genome epidemiology\r\nResearch design\r\nReporting of research\r\nEmpirical evaluation of bias in research\r\nRandomized trials\r\nStatistical methods and modeling\r\nMeta-analysis and large-scale evidence\r\nPrognosis, predictive and personalized medicine and health\r\nSociology of science"},{"lastName":"Chang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Nephrology"},{"focus":"chronic kidney disease"},{"focus":"hypertension"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9428&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Tara I. Chang","firstName":"Tara","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Tara_Chang","researchInterest":"Cardiovascular disease, and specifically hypertension, in patients with chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease on dialysis."},{"lastName":"Kim","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14525&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jane P. Kim","firstName":"Jane","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jane_Kim","researchInterest":"I am interested in the application of statistical methods to advance the understanding of mental illnesses.  I have a background in statistics, with specific training in survival analysis and a growing interest in clinical trials. My areas of expertise are the robustness of regression-based inference in randomized or non-randomized studies, methods for analyzing survival data subject to non-standard sampling schemes, and spatial statistics."},{"lastName":"Friedman","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Consulting Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Consulting Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6143&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gary Friedman","firstName":"Gary","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Gary_Friedman","researchInterest":"Chronic disease epidemiology, particularly cancer, cardiovascular disease, adverse effects of smoking, alcohol and pharmaceuticals, evaluation of screening tests.\r\nMost of my career has been in the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research where I was Director for 7 years and am still active. I especially enjoy mentoring students and trainees at Stanford."},{"lastName":"Winkleby","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4305&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marilyn Winkleby, PhD, MPH","firstName":"Marilyn","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Marilyn_Winkleby","researchInterest":"Cardiovascular disease epidemiology, health of socioeconomically disadvantaged and ethnic minority populations, social determinants of health, community-based intervention research, youth advocacy and mentorship, promoting diversity in health professions"},{"lastName":"McDonald","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Sr Research Engineer (PI Waiver),Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research"}],"primaryAppointment":"Sr Research Engineer (PI Waiver),Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6130&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kathryn McDonald","firstName":"Kathryn","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Kathryn_McDonald","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."},{"lastName":"Kraemer","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4163&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Helena Chmura Kraemer","firstName":"Helena","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Helena_Kraemer","researchInterest":"I am interested in the methodology pertinent to dealing with research problems where biological and behavioral interests meet. These interests have been applied not only in psychiatric research, but in those areas of Cardiology, Pediatrics and other fields of medicine in which behavioral research is becoming ever more salient."},{"lastName":"Busque","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Surgery"},{"focus":"Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation"},{"focus":"Liver Transplantation"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3809&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stephan Busque","firstName":"Stephan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Stephan_Busque","researchInterest":"My research interest is focused on the improvement of clinical immunosuppression. I am  involved  in the evaluation of new immunosuppressive drugs, potentially more efficacious or less toxic.  My ultimate goal is to achieve tolerance, a state that would obviate the need for any drugs. I am an investigator part of a multidisciplinary tolerance induction project using total lymphoid irradiation and donor hematopoietic stem cells infusion after living donor kidney transplantation."},{"lastName":"Goldstein","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=21132&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Benjamin Goldstein","firstName":"Benjamin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Benjamin_Goldstein","researchInterest":"I am a senior biostatistician in the Quantitative Sciences Unit in the Department of Medicine. I am interested in applications of statistical methods to all areas of medicine. My current work is focused on computational methods for developing risk prediction tools for health outcomes, with a focus on utilizing real time, genetic and longitudinal data."},{"lastName":"Scandling","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation"},{"focus":"Nephrology"},{"focus":"Nephrology (Kidney)"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4276&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Scandling","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/John_Scandling","researchInterest":"Clinical renal transplantation; acute renal failure;, cardiovascular disease in diabetic end-stage renal disease."},{"lastName":"Tan","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation"},{"focus":"Nephrology"},{"focus":"Nephrology (Kidney)"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology"},{"appointment":"MS, Dean's Office"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3846&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jane C. Tan","firstName":"Jane","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jane_Tan","researchInterest":"My research relates to issues pertaining to clinical kidney transplantation. We have ongoing studies on the following topics.\r\n1. Renal senescence and kidney transplant, and chronic allograft nephropathy.\r\n2. Living donor safety and response to uninephrectomy.\r\n3. Biomarkers for post-transplant monitoring."},{"lastName":"Baker","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Social Sciences Cluster - Economics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4222&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Laurence Baker","firstName":"Laurence","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Laurence_Baker","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."},{"lastName":"Palaniappan","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Internal Medicine"}],"appointments":[],"imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6447&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS","firstName":"Latha","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Latha_Palaniappan","researchInterest":"Latha Palaniappan is currently an Associate Investigator at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Palaniappan has completed over 20 studies spanning 10 years in the areas of ethnicity, obesity, and diabetes risk. She currently leads the Pan Asian Cohort Study (www.pamf.org/pacs), to investigate diabetes in Asian Americans"},{"lastName":"Shen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, School of Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17619&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jenny Shen","firstName":"Jenny","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jenny_Shen","researchInterest":"My research interest is in the chronic dialysis population and improving its outcomes, particularly those on home therapies, including peritoneal dialysis.  I am currently working on a project to determine the associations among heparin dose during chronic hemodialysis and the risks of important clinical events."},{"lastName":"Goodnough","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Hematology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6160&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lawrence Tim Goodnough","firstName":"Lawrence","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Lawrence_Goodnough","researchInterest":"Dr. Goodnough has a long-standing interest in alternatives to blood therapy.  This includes the concept of antologous blood predonation before elective surgery; acute normovolemic hermodicution;erythropoietic agents to stimulate red blood cell production; pharmacologic strategies to reduce blood loss; artificial oxygen carriers; and re-evaluation of the transfusion trigger.  Publications:                                Goodnough LT:  \"Erythropoietin\", In Scientific Basis of Transfusion Medicine"},{"lastName":"Asch","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=24300&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Steven Asch","firstName":"Steven","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Steven_Asch","researchInterest":"Health services research, Quality assessement, Quality improvement, Implementation science, Health sevices to improve value of care, HIV, HCV, Cancer, Palliative care, Renal disease"},{"lastName":"Goodman","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines"},{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23410&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Steven Goodman","firstName":"Steven","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Steven_Goodman","researchInterest":"I am interested in issues relating to the representation and measurement of evidence in medical research, and determinants of the truth of medical findings, using a Bayesian framework. I also do work in evidence synthesis, comparative effectiveness research, and the ethics of clinical research. Finally, I have an ongoing project related to landmark clinical trials that have had great impact."},{"lastName":"Perez","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Atrial Fibrillation"},{"focus":"Arrhythmias, Cardiac"},{"focus":"Channelopathies (Long QT, Brugada, CPVT)"},{"focus":"Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9771&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marco Perez","firstName":"Marco","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Marco_Perez","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Tamura","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10432&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Manjula Kurella Tamura","firstName":"Manjula","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Manjula_Tamura","researchInterest":"I am a clinical and health services investigator whose primary interest is in improving the quality of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) care among older adults.  Our previous and current work aims to describe outcomes (especially geriatric outcomes) in older patients and to compare the effectiveness of different ESRD management strategies on these outcomes.  We use a variety of study designs and populations to address questions of interest in this area."},{"lastName":"Japa","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18011&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sohan Japa","firstName":"Sohan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sohan_Japa","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Grimm","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Nephrology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7989&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul C. Grimm","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Paul_Grimm","researchInterest":"Computerized image analysis of kidney and liver biopsies to quantitate and diagnose subtle changes in tissue structure. \r\nRenal Inflammation\r\nRenal Allograft Rejection\r\nRenal Fibrosis in; \r\n-Primary Kidney Disease\r\n-Transplant Kidney Disease\r\nLiver fibrosis\r\nSteatohepatitis"},{"lastName":"Farquhar","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Preventive"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"focus":"Chronic Disease Prevention"},{"focus":"Global cancer prevention"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5956&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John W. Farquhar, M.D.","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/John_Farquhar","researchInterest":"Disease prevention, epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases, community-based education for disease prevention, international health."}]}