{"result":[{"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":"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":"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":"Berry","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4091&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gerald Berry","firstName":"Gerald","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Gerald_Berry","researchInterest":"Cardiopulmonary and pulmonary transplant medicine; diagnostic surgical pathology"},{"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":"Weinacker","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=5936&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ann Weinacker","firstName":"Ann","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Ann_Weinacker","researchInterest":"Dr. Weinacker's research interests center around ICU outcomes.  Her specific interests include venous thromboembolism, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, and the use of echocardiography in the ICU.  In addition to ongoing research in each of these areas, Dr. Weinacker teaches a course with Dr. David Liang (cardiology) on the use of portable echocardiography to evaluate hemodynamic instability in critically ill patients."},{"lastName":"Milla","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Pulmonary"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Medicine/Cystic Fibrosis, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8012&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Carlos Milla","firstName":"Carlos","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Carlos_Milla","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Robinson","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Pulmonary"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Medicine/Cystic Fibrosis, Pediatric"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4548&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Terry Robinson","firstName":"Terry","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Terry_Robinson","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":"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":"Pizzo","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Diseases, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Hematology-Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Dean of the School of Medicine,Stanford University School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics"},{"appointment":"The Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean,Stanford University School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Dean of the School of Medicine,Stanford University School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3843&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Philip A. Pizzo, M.D.","firstName":"Philip","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Philip_Pizzo","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Whyte","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Esophageal Cancer - Thoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"Lung Cancer - Thoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Mesothelioma "},{"focus":"Mesothelioma - Thoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Thoracic Cancers"},{"focus":"Thoracic Cancers - Thoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Thymoma   "},{"focus":"Thymoma - Thoracic Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Thoracic Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Thoracic Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4435&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Richard Whyte","firstName":"Richard","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Richard_Whyte","researchInterest":"clinical lung and esophageal cancer treatment studies, lung transplantation, surgical ,management of emphysema."},{"lastName":"Moss","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Allergy/Asthma/Immunology, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Medicine/Cystic Fibrosis, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Allergy and Immunology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4157&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Richard B. Moss","firstName":"Richard","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Richard_Moss","researchInterest":"Immunopathogenesis of chronic airways diseases of childhood, including cystic fibrosis, asthma, allergic aspergillosis and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Translational research: early clinical trials in airways disease of childhood, most notably CF, including gene, cytokine and drug therapy."},{"lastName":"Frankel","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Intensive Care, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Critical Care Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Intensive Care"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Intensive Care","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4328&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lorry Frankel","firstName":"Lorry","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Lorry_Frankel","researchInterest":"1)  Collaborative efforts with Dale Umetsu and Dave Lewis in evaluating alveolar macrophage response to antigen.  We try to examine cytokine activation and inhibition.  I perform bronchoalveolar lavage in these patients in order to obtain alveolar macrophages which we culture, stimulate and study.\r\n2)  Evaluate outcomes for patients admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit from the EMS services for trauma and other life-threatening events."},{"lastName":"Conrad","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Pulmonary"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Medicine/Cystic Fibrosis, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"Heart-Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"Lung Inflammation"},{"focus":"Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4450&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Carol Conrad","firstName":"Carol","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Carol_Conrad","researchInterest":"I am interested in studying the effects of inflammation in the lung, in particular, how N-acetylcysteine may affect and decrease that in CF patients. I am the PI of a multi-center study researching this question.  Additionally, in a separate study involving children who have received lung transplants, I am a participating site in an NIH-sponsored observational and mechanistic multi-center study that will examine the role of viral infections in causing chronic graft rejection."},{"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":"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":"Levitt","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Critical Care"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Critical Care"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Med"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Med","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6766&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Joseph Levitt","firstName":"Joseph","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Joseph_Levitt","researchInterest":"My research focuses on the physiolgogic and biomarker characteristics of early acute lung injury (ALI) prior to need for mechanical ventilation. While, to date no pharmacologic treatment has improved survival in ALI, following the paradigm of early goal directed therapy for severe sepsis, clinical benefit may derive from identifying patients and initiating treatment prior to the need for positive pressure ventilation (and therefore prior to meeting current study entry criteria)."},{"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":"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"},{"lastName":"Brown","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation"},{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation / Infectious Diseases"},{"focus":"Infectious Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Division: Blood and  \r\nMarrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Division: Blood and  \r\nMarrow Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4665&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Janice Brown","firstName":"Janice","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Janice_Brown","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Weissman","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology - Stem Cell Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology - Stem Cell Institute","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4605&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Irving Weissman","firstName":"Irving","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Irving_Weissman","researchInterest":"Stem cell and cancer stem cell biology; development of T and B lymphocytes; cell-surface receptors for oncornaviruses in leukemia. Hematopoietic stem cells; Lymphocyte homing, lymphoma invasiveness and metastasis."},{"lastName":"Hunt","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Heart Transplantation"}],"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=4623&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sharon Hunt, MD","firstName":"Sharon","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Sharon_Hunt","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Chen","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Infectious Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7992&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sharon F. Chen","firstName":"Sharon","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Sharon_Chen","researchInterest":"My research interest is focused on Herpes virus pathogenesis and the host immune response to these viral infections. To characterize these interactions, we use flow-cytometry based immunology assays, culture-based assays, molecular techniques and tissue histology. My current study investigates anti-viral immunity to CMV in lung transplant patients to characterize the kinetics of CMV-specific T-cell reconstitution and to test its ability to predict CMV infection and allograft rejection."},{"lastName":"Hartman","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Professor,Surgery - Pediatric Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Professor,Surgery - Pediatric Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6403&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gary E Hartman, MD, MBA","firstName":"Gary","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cvi/researcher/Gary_Hartman","researchInterest":"Minimal Access and Robotic Surgery\r\nNeonatal Surgery\r\nChildhood Oncology"}]}