{"result":[{"lastName":"Higgins","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4038&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Higgins","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/John_Higgins","researchInterest":"I work as a diagnostic surgical pathologist doing translational research in renal neoplasia and medical renal disease and neoplastic and medical liver disease. Subspecialty areas of clinical interest include diagnostic immunohistochemistry, renal, hepatic and transplant pathology."},{"lastName":"Gonzalgo","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Prostate Cancer - Robotic Prostatectomy"},{"focus":"Bladder Cancer - Robotic Cystectomy"},{"focus":"Urologic Oncology - Prostate, Bladder, Kidney, Testicular Cancer"},{"focus":"Urology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Urology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Urology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13213&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark L. Gonzalgo, M.D., Ph.D.","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mark_Gonzalgo","researchInterest":"My laboratory is focused on studying the role of DNA methylation in prostate and bladder cancer.  Certain genes and their downstream targets may be useful molecular markers for disease detection and prognostication. We are interested in utilizing methylation markers to detect abnormal changes in serum and urine.  Clinical Focus: Prostate Cancer - Robotic Prostatectomy; Bladder Cancer - Robotic Cystectomy; Urologic Oncology - Prostate, Bladder, Kidney, Testicular Cancer."},{"lastName":"Peehl","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Urology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Urology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4633&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Donna Peehl, PhD","firstName":"Donna","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Donna_Peehl","researchInterest":"My research focuses on the molecular and cellular biology of the human prostate. Developing realistic experimental models is a major goal, and primary cultures of prostatic epithelial and stromal cells are my main model system. Our discoveries are relevant to prevention, detection, diagnosis and treatment of benign and malignant prostatic diseases."},{"lastName":"van de Rijn","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anatomic Pathology"},{"focus":"Sarcoma"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4008&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Matt van de Rijn","firstName":"Matt","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Matt_van de Rijn","researchInterest":"Our research focuses on gene microarray analysis of human soft tissue tumors (sarcomas). In addition we work with tissue microarrays to characterize large numbers of novel antisera raised against peptides derived from genes found to be of interest during gene array analysis."},{"lastName":"Gill","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Bladder Cancer - Urologic Oncology"},{"focus":"Bladder Cancer"},{"focus":"Kidney Cancer"},{"focus":"Penile Cancer"},{"focus":"Prostate Cancer"},{"focus":"Testicular Tumors"},{"focus":"Ureteral Cancer"},{"focus":"Urethral Cancer"},{"focus":"Urologic Cancers"},{"focus":"Urology"},{"focus":"Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia"},{"focus":"Radical nerve sparing prostatectomy"},{"focus":"robotic prostatectomy"},{"focus":"Radical cystectomy"},{"focus":"Laser prostate surgery"},{"focus":"Laparoscopic kidney surgery"},{"focus":"minimially invasive BPH surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Urology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Urology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4287&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Harcharan Gill","firstName":"Harcharan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Harcharan_Gill","researchInterest":"Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia- Evaluation and development of new minimally invasive techniques\r\n\r\nEndourology: developing, designing and evaluating new instruments\r\n\r\nBladder cancer: outcomes of treatment\r\n\r\nBPH: cryotherapy and HIFU"},{"lastName":"Desai","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Medicine - General Medical Disciplines"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research) (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Medicine - General Medical Disciplines","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13492&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Manisha Desai","firstName":"Manisha","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Manisha_Desai","researchInterest":"Dr. Desai is the Director of the Quantitative Sciences Unit.  She is interested in the application of biostatistical methods to all areas of medicine including oncology, nephrology, and endocrinology.  She works on methods for the analysis of epidemiologic studies, clinical trials, and studies with missing observations."},{"lastName":"Srinivas","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Bladder Cancer"},{"focus":"Bladder Cancer - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Germ Cell Tumors"},{"focus":"Germ Cell Tumors - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Germ Cell Tumors - Urologic Oncology"},{"focus":"Kidney Cancer"},{"focus":"Kidney Cancer - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Male Cancers - Penile"},{"focus":"Male Cancers - Prostate "},{"focus":"Male Cancers - Testicular "},{"focus":"Oncology (Cancer)"},{"focus":"Penile Cancer"},{"focus":"Prostate Cancer"},{"focus":"Prostate Cancer - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Testicular Tumors"},{"focus":"Testicular Tumors - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Ureteral Cancer"},{"focus":"Ureteral Cancer - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Urethral Cancer"},{"focus":"Urethral Cancer - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Urologic Cancers"},{"focus":"Urologic Cancers - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Medical Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4350&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sandy Srinivas","firstName":"Sandhya","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sandhya_Srinivas","researchInterest":"Clinical interests: general oncology, genito-urinary malignancy Research interests: conducting clinical trials in advanced prostate cancer, bladder cancer and renal cell carcinoma"},{"lastName":"Sun","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Urology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Urology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4402&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Zijie Sun","firstName":"Zijie","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Zijie_Sun","researchInterest":"My lab focuses on understanding the molecular mechanism of transcription factors that govern the transformation of normal mammalian cells to a neoplastic state. We are especially interested in the action of the nuclear hormone receptors and the interactions between the receptors and other signaling pathways in related human disorders."},{"lastName":"Tibshirani","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Natural Sciences Cluster - Statistics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4688&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Tibshirani","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Robert_Tibshirani","researchInterest":"My research is in applied statistics and biostatistics. I specialize in \u000bcomputer-intensive methods for regression and classification, bootstrap, cross-validation\u000band statistical inference, and signal and image analysis for medical diagnosis."},{"lastName":"Giacomini","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"Ph.D., Dean's Office"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17885&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Craig Giacomini","firstName":"Craig","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Craig_Giacomini","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Yemoto","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Biosafety, Web & Compliance Specialist,Dean's Office - Finance & Administration, Health & Safety"},{"appointment":"Health & Safety Specialist,Dean's Office - Finance & Administration, Health & Safety"}],"primaryAppointment":"Biosafety, Web & Compliance Specialist,Dean's Office - Finance & Administration, Health & Safety","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=26030&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Cheryl Yemoto","firstName":"Cheryl","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Cheryl_Yemoto","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Chung","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Prostate Cancer - Robotic Radical Prostatectomy"},{"focus":"Kidney Cancer - Urologic Oncology"},{"focus":"Prostate Cancer"},{"focus":"Single Port Laparoscopy"},{"focus":"Robotics"},{"focus":"Adrenal Cancer"},{"focus":"Urologic Cancers - Urologic Oncology"},{"focus":"Urology"},{"focus":"Nerve Sparing Radical Prostatectomy"},{"focus":"Laparoscopic Surgical Procedures"},{"focus":"Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy"},{"focus":"Robotic Partial Nephrectomy"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Urology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"MS, Dean's Office"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Urology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7864&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Benjamin I. Chung","firstName":"Benjamin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Benjamin_Chung","researchInterest":"Renal cell carcinoma and prostate cancer outcomes research and epidemiology."},{"lastName":"Shortliffe","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Urology, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Urology"},{"focus":"Hypospadias"},{"focus":"Hydronephrosis"},{"focus":"Undescended Testes"},{"focus":"Vesicoureteral Reflux"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Urology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Urology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4634&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Linda M. 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We have studied the relationships of sex steroid hormones, pregnancy, reflux, urinary tract infection and urinary tract function."},{"lastName":"Lavelle","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Urology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Urology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10415&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Lavelle","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/John_Lavelle","researchInterest":"My research interests are clinically  1) voiding dysfunction (BPH, incontinence, urinary retention, & neurogenic bladder). 2) Outcomes research and am currently developing a project to review the management of neurogenic bladder within the VA. \r\nPrior research in this field is in BPH. \r\n\r\nMy Basic science interests are in epithelial physiology particularly that of the urothelium lining the bladder. Specifically permeability properties and neuro-epithelial interactions relating to sensation"},{"lastName":"Giaccia","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Obstetrics & Gynecology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4141&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Amato J. Giaccia","firstName":"Amato","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Amato_Giaccia","researchInterest":"During the last five years, we have identified several small molecules that kill VHL deficient renal cancer cells through a synthetic lethal screening approach. Another major interest of my laboratory is in identifying hypoxia-induced genes involved in invasion and metastases. We are also investigating how hypoxia regulates gene expression epigenetically."},{"lastName":"Constantinou","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Urology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Urology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4171&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Christos E. Constantinou","firstName":"Christos","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Christos_Constantinou","researchInterest":"1. Pharmacologic methods in identifying alpha adrenergic receptors in the obstructed urinary tract.\r\n2. Fluid mechanics and physiological mechanisms of contractility in the urinary tract.\r\n3. Biomedical Engineering approaches in the characterization of static and dynamic properties of soft tissues.\r\n4. Image processing and 3D reconstruction of magnetic resonance.\r\n5. Computer models and vector analysis of pelvin floor musculature.\r\n6. Software for interactive teaching."},{"lastName":"Hu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10405&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mickey Hu","firstName":"Mickey","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mickey_Hu","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Albertelli","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Comparative Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Comparative Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=11414&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Megan Albertelli","firstName":"Megan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Megan_Albertelli","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Gardner","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4085&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Christopher Gardner","firstName":"Christopher","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Christopher_Gardner","researchInterest":"The role of nutrition in individual and societal health, with particular interests in: plant-based diets, differential response to low-carb vs. low-fat weight loss diets by insulin resistance status, chronic disease prevention, randomized controlled trials, human nutrition, community based studies, Community Based Participatory Research, sustainable food movement (animal rights and welfare, global warming, human labor practices), stealth health, nutrition policy, nutrition guidelines"},{"lastName":"Sahoo","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Pathology - Stem Cell Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Pathology - Stem Cell Institute","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10888&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Debashis Sahoo","firstName":"Debashis","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Debashis_Sahoo","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Rouse","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4491&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert V Rouse","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Robert_Rouse","researchInterest":"My recent research efforts are currently focused in the field of applications of immunohistology to the diagnosis of human neoplasms. This work is predominantly aimed at characterizing markers for the identification of non-lymphoid neoplasms and at establishing criteria for their evaluation in diagnostic situations."},{"lastName":"Kennedy","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Urology, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Urology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Urology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Urology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4434&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"William Kennedy","firstName":"William","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/William_Kennedy","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Leppert","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Urology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Urology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10322&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Leppert","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/John_Leppert","researchInterest":"Our research aims to improve the global quality of care for patients with Urologic cancer with a particular focus on kidney cancer. We are evaluating the comparative effectiveness of various kidney cancer surgeries and their impact on chronic kidney disease and its downstream effects. We are investigating nanofluidic proteomic assays to diagnose kidney cancer and signatures of response to therapy. We are applying epidemiology, bioinformatics, and health services methods to urologic conditions."},{"lastName":"Jensen","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology"},{"focus":"Cytopathology"},{"focus":"Anatomic Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7660&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kristin Jensen","firstName":"Kristin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Kristin_Jensen","researchInterest":"I am a clinical translational investigator with a primary interest in breast cancer biology, and the use of investigational and clinical ancillary techniques such as gene and tissue microarray analysis and immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis and prognosis of this disease. As a practicing cytopathologist, I also have an interest in improving the fine needle aspiration biopsy diagnosis of breast lesions, again using immunohistochemistry and gene expression analysis as adjuncts to cytomorphology."},{"lastName":"Skinner","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cancer > urologic oncology"},{"focus":"Bladder Cancer"},{"focus":"Continent urinary reservoir"},{"focus":"urinary tract reconstruction"},{"focus":"testis cancer"},{"focus":"Kidney Cancer"},{"focus":"Urology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Urology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Urology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=32891&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Eila C. Skinner","firstName":"Eila","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Eila_Skinner","researchInterest":"My research focuses on outcomes in the treatment of muscle invasive and high-grade non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.  This includes identifying markers of prognosis, predictive markers for response to surgery and chemotherapy, and working toward an individualized, multidisciplinary approach to disease management.  I have also focused on optimizing the  use of lower urinary tract reconstruction in patients undergoing cystectomy, and developing interventions to improve patient quality of life."}]}