{"result":[{"lastName":"Miller","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"valve repair and replacement"},{"focus":"Thoracic Aortic surgery"},{"focus":"mitral repair"},{"focus":"Valve-sparing aortic root replacement"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Surgery"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4170&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"D. Craig Miller, M.D.","firstName":"D","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/D_Miller","researchInterest":"Cardiac and heart valve disease with  experimental laboratory large animal projects focused on the investigation of left ventricular and cardiac mechanics, bioenergetics, and LV and mitral valve physiology and pathophysiology.  Current thrust is aimed at understanding the mitral valve and subvalvular mitral apparatus and transmural LV wall strains, thickening, and myolaminar fiber-sheet mechanics.\r\n\r\nClinical research interests include thoracic aortic diseases (aortic dissection, aneurysm) and "},{"lastName":"Foppiano","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Anesthesia"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4302&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Linda Foppiano","firstName":"Linda","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Linda_Foppiano","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Carter","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Mechanical Engineering"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor,Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Mechanical Engineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6095&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dennis Carter","firstName":"Dennis","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Dennis_Carter","researchInterest":"Professor Carter studies the influence of mechanical loading upon the growth, development, regeneration, and aging of skeletal tissues. Basic information from such studies is used to understand skeletal diseases and treatments. He has served as President of the Orthopaedic Research Society and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering."},{"lastName":"Andriacchi","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Mechanical Engineering - Biomechanical Operations"},{"appointment":"Professor,Orthopaedic Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Mechanical Engineering - Biomechanical Operations","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5947&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Thomas P. 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Development of biomechanical models to analyze muscle function, study movement abnormalities, design new medical products, and guide surgery. Imaging technology development including MRI and microendoscopy.  Optogenetic manipulation of peripheral neural circuits.  Biomedical technology development."},{"lastName":"Giori","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Orthopaedic Surgery"},{"focus":"Adult Reconstructive Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Orthopaedic Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Mechanical Engineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Orthopaedic Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4702&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Nicholas Giori MD, PhD","firstName":"Nicholas","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Nicholas_Giori","researchInterest":"Osteoarthritis \r\nMedical Device Development"},{"lastName":"Sheikh","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery and Transplantation"},{"focus":"Mechanical Circulatory Support"},{"focus":"General Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Instructor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Instructor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=35536&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ahmad Sheikh","firstName":"Ahmad","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ahmad_Sheikh","researchInterest":"Molecular imaging of cardiac stem cell therapy\r\nHeart failure\r\nCardiothoracic Transplantation\r\nSurgical Education"},{"lastName":"Fann","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=4014&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"James Fann","firstName":"James","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/James_Fann","researchInterest":"Cardiac surgery simulation, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, coronary artery bypass surgery, cardiac valve disease, thoracic aortic disease"},{"lastName":"Levenston","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Bio-X","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8113&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marc Levenston","firstName":"Marc","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Marc_Levenston","researchInterest":"My lab's research involves the function, degeneration and repair of musculoskeletal soft tissues, with a focus on meniscal fibrocartilage and articular cartilage.  We are particularly interested in the complex interactions between biophysical and biochemical cues in controlling cell behavior, the roles of these interactions in degenerative conditions such as osteoarthritis, and development of tissue engineered 3D model systems for studying physical influences on primary and progenitor cells."},{"lastName":"Lu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14526&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ying Lu","firstName":"Ying","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ying_Lu","researchInterest":"Biostatistics, clinical trials, statistical evaluation of medical diagnostic tests, radiology, osteoporosis, meta-analysis, medical decisoin making"},{"lastName":"Pelc","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Bioengineering"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Electrical Engineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4111&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Norbert Pelc","firstName":"Norbert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Norbert_Pelc","researchInterest":"Broadly, Dr. Pelc is interested in the physics, engineering and mathematics of medical imaging, especially computed tomography, digital x-ray imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, and hybrid multimodality systems.  His current research is concentrated in the development of computed tomography systems with higher image quality and dose efficiency, in the characterization of system performance, and in the development and validation of new clinical applications."},{"lastName":"Pruitt","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Mechanical Engineering"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Mechanical Engineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10716&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Beth L. Pruitt","firstName":"Beth","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Beth_Pruitt","researchInterest":"We are interested in microscale mechanics and MEMS-based metrologies primarily for small scale mechanics sensing and acutation. Applied research focuses on systems development and characterization. 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Several areas of research are currently being pursued."},{"lastName":"Kastenberg","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MS, Dean's Office"},{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"MS, Dean's Office","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23379&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Zachary Kastenberg, MD","firstName":"Zachary","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Zachary_Kastenberg","researchInterest":"My research focuses on identifying ways to improve both the quality and efficiency of existing surgical practices. This is accomplished through the use of clinical trials, cost-effectiveness modeling and dataset analysis."},{"lastName":"Caves","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=34664&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jeffrey Caves","firstName":"Jeffrey","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jeffrey_Caves","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Ashley","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology"},{"focus":"Inherited cardiovascular disease"},{"focus":"Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Genomic medicine"},{"focus":"Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy"},{"focus":"Cardiomyopathy, Dilated"},{"focus":"Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7578&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Euan A. 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