{"result":[{"lastName":"Robbins","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4247&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert C. Robbins, M. D.","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Robert_Robbins","researchInterest":"Stem Cell Therapy for Myocardial Restoration, Cardiopulmonary Transplantation, Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy, Automated Anastomotic Devices, Genetics and Mechanisms of Congestive Heart Failure"},{"lastName":"Reitz","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Heart Valve Repair and Replacement"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"Congenital Heart Disease in the Adult"},{"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=4606&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Bruce A Reitz","firstName":"Bruce","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Bruce_Reitz","researchInterest":"Mechanism of allograft rejection for the heart and, lung; late chronic effects of rejection, such as graft coronary, atherosclerosis in the heart and bronchiolitis obliterans in the, lung; treatment of rejection, including pharmacologic agents, total, lymphoid irradiation, and the induction of tolerance in fetal, animals; clinical studies include the results of lung and heart-lung, transplantation, modification of immunosuppressive protocols, and, factors contributing to late chronic rejection."},{"lastName":"Leung","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4234&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ann Leung","firstName":"Ann","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Ann_Leung","researchInterest":"High-resolution computed tomography of the thorax, particularly its application in the setting of acute lung disease in the immunocompromised host; quantitative assessment of abnormalities using thin-section CT; and enhancement characteristics of lung cancers on CT and MRI"},{"lastName":"Doyle","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Med"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Med","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4196&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ramona Doyle","firstName":"Ramona","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Ramona_Doyle","researchInterest":"Management of advanced lung disease\r\nLung and heart-lung transplantation\r\nPulmonary hypertension"},{"lastName":"Lewis","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Diseases, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Infectious Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Immunology & Transplant Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Immunology & Transplant Biology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4439&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David B. Lewis","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/David_Lewis","researchInterest":"My laboratory has two major research interests.  First, to define cellular and molecular mechanisms that limit T cell responses to vaccines and pathogens during normal early postnatal development and in cases of inherited genetic immunodeficiencies.  Second, to determine how these limitations in immunity can be overcome by using novel approaches for vaccine adjuvants, with a particular focus on anti-viral vaccines."},{"lastName":"Nicolls","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pulmonary Critical Care"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Medicine"},{"focus":"Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"Heart-Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"Transplantation Immunology"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Hypertension"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Med"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Med","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8144&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark Nicolls","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Mark_Nicolls","researchInterest":"Our lab focuses primarily on the contribution of the immune response to lung disease. We are specifically examining the contribution of inflammation to the development of pulmonary hypertension. We also study how airway remodeling occurs in transplantation with specific respect to the microvascular circulation and to the initiation of fibroproliferation."},{"lastName":"Ruoss","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Critical Care Medicine"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Disease"},{"focus":"Pulmonology (Lung) and Critical Care "}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Med"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Med","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4241&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stephen Ruoss","firstName":"Stephen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Stephen_Ruoss","researchInterest":"We have an active collaborative project examining basic and clinical aspects of non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung infection in non-immune compromised adults. Studies have examined possible cellular immune mechanisms for increased susceptibility to these infections, and are also investigating aspects of optimal diagnosis and treatment. In addition, a clinical and translational research program is investigating the causes and genetic factors underlying the evolution of bronchiectasis."},{"lastName":"Vagelos","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"valvular heart disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4105&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Randall Vagelos, MD","firstName":"Randall","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Randall_Vagelos","researchInterest":"I. Congestive Heart Failure New Medical Therapies Prognostic Evaluation Selection for Cardiac Transplantation II. Screening for Myocardial Necrosis New ECG Monitoring Devices New Serum Markers III. Screening for CAD Patients Who Have Received Radiation Rx Diabetics Being Considered for Renal Transplantation\r\nIV. Advanced coronary and valvular disease, evaluationg candidacy for high risk interventions."},{"lastName":"Sibley","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4113&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Richard Sibley","firstName":"Richard","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Richard_Sibley","researchInterest":"Immunologic mechanism of rejection in humans and animal, models of organ transplantation; histological definition of clinical pathology studies of various renal disorders."},{"lastName":"Rosen","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pulmonary Disease"},{"focus":"Pulmonology (Lung) and Critical Care "}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Med"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Med","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4245&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Glenn Rosen","firstName":"Glenn","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Glenn_Rosen","researchInterest":"Our laboratory examines apoptotic and cell cycle pathways in cancer and lung disease. We have identified a novel cell cycle protein which regulates cell cycle progression in immune cells and the lung.  We are also studying signaling pathways that regulate cancer cell growth and metastasis."},{"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/cvi/researcher/John_Higgins","researchInterest":"I work as a diagnostic surgical pathologist doing tissue and cDNA microarray-based translational research in renal neoplasia and medical renal disease. Subspecialty areas of clinical interest include diagnostic immunohistochemistry, renal, hepatic and transplant pathology."},{"lastName":"Kao","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pulmonary Disease"},{"focus":"Pulmonology (Lung) and Critical Care "}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Med"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Med","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5961&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Peter Kao","firstName":"Peter","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Peter_Kao","researchInterest":"Our research program has several active projects:\r\n1.) Pulmonary Vascular Disease \u0096 Simvastatin reversed experimental pulmonary hypertension, and is safe for treatment of patients. Blinded clinical trials of efficacy are in progress.\r\n2.) Lung inflammation and regeneration (stem cells)\r\n3.) Lung surfactant rheology and oxidative stress\r\n4.) Gene regulation by RNA binding proteins, NF45 and NF90 through transcriptional and posttranscriptional mechanisms"},{"lastName":"Valantine","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4322&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Hannah Valantine","firstName":"Hannah","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Hannah_Valantine","researchInterest":"My lab is focused on understanding the mechanism mediating acute and chronic allograft failure, in particular on the role of microvascular injury in acute allograft failure and the mechanisms of mediating transplant coronary artery disease. 1. Role of microvascular injury in acute allograft failure."},{"lastName":"Weill","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pulmonary Critical Care"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Med"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Med","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7227&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David Weill","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/David_Weill","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Oyer","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4543&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Philip Oyer","firstName":"Philip","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Philip_Oyer","researchInterest":"Development of an artificial heart assist device; heart, and heart-lung transplantation."},{"lastName":"Lijkwan","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Cardiothoracic Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Cardiothoracic Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9902&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Maarten Lijkwan","firstName":"Maarten","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Maarten_Lijkwan","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Bernstein","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiology"},{"focus":"Pediatric Heart Transplantation"},{"focus":"Pediatric Heart Failure"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Cardiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Cardiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4174&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Daniel Bernstein","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Daniel_Bernstein","researchInterest":"We are interested in the role of the sympathetic nervous system and its cellular components (adrenergic receptors, G proteins) in regulating cardiac development and function. We utilize gene knockout models to study the role of crosstalk between adrenergic receptors and other signaling pathways (MAPK,Akt,PKC) and in the regulation of intracellular and intramitochondrial calcium. We also develop tools for examination of cardiovascular physiologic parameters in transgenic and knockout mice."},{"lastName":"Blankenberg","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Radiology"},{"focus":"Radiology, Pediatric"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Radiology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Pediatrics"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4065&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Francis Blankenberg","firstName":"Francis","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Francis_Blankenberg","researchInterest":"Studies on apoptotic cell death in vivo using the H MRS phenomenon."},{"lastName":"Miller","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Cardiothoracic 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/cvi/researcher/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":"Burdon","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=4197&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Thomas Burdon","firstName":"Thomas","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Thomas_Burdon","researchInterest":"New technologies in the area of catheters, clamps, and, visualization devices for aid in cardiac surgery; distribution of, cardioplegia, both anterograde and retrograde as determined by, techniques in technetium pyro-phosphate scans; glucose insulin, potassium as an adjunct in cardiac surgery."},{"lastName":"Rabinovitch","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Cardiology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Cardiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3897&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marlene Rabinovitch","firstName":"Marlene","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Marlene_Rabinovitch","researchInterest":"Our research focuses on understanding the regulation of genes associated with cardiovascular development and disease, through the use of cultured cells and tissues and genetically modified mouse models.   A variety of different aberrant pathways are being characterized, including those related to signaling through the bone morphogenetic proteins, serotonin and the S100 family of calcium binding proteins, and those defining how a microtubule associated protein regulates mRNA translation."},{"lastName":"Dorfman","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6365&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ronald Dorfman","firstName":"Ronald","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Ronald_Dorfman","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"McConnell","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Molecular & Cellular Physiology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Electrical Engineering"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4727&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael V. McConnell, MD, MSEE","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Michael_McConnell","researchInterest":"Imaging cardiovascular disease, with a focus on coronary and vascular atherosclerosis and ischemic heart disease.  Projects include cellular and structural characterization of atherosclerotic plaque by MRI, optical imaging (bioluminescence and fluorescence) of vascular inflammation, as well as noninvasive coronary angiography by MRI and MRI- guided cardiovascular interventions.  Additional collaborative projects include real-time cardiac MRI and multi-modality imaging of cardiac stem cell trans"},{"lastName":"Yang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6101&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Phillip Yang, MD","firstName":"Phillip","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Phillip_Yang","researchInterest":"Dr. Yang's research interest focuses on the comprehensive diagnosis of ischemic heart disease using cardiac MRI. Specifically, he is using novel MR imaging sequences that enable rapid and integrated imaging of the coronary arteries as well as assessment of LV function, cardiac perfusion, and myocardial viability. By combining the chemical sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance with high spatial and temporal resolution, a wide range of biological events spanning from molecular to physiologic "},{"lastName":"Chin","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Pediatric"},{"focus":"Cardiac Transplantation"},{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Cardiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Cardiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4077&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Clifford Chin","firstName":"Clifford","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Clifford_Chin","researchInterest":"1. Pediatric Heart Transplant: development of non-invasive evaluations for the determination of allograft rejection and coronary artery disease; post-transplant hyperlipidemia; prevention of graft coronary artery disease\r\n2. Pediatric Exercise Testing: development of new techniques"}]}