Department: Surgery

Division: General Surgery

• Faculty (26)
• Postdocs (10)
• All

• 
  Badger, James T
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Surgery - General Surgery
  Clinical Focus

  • General Surgery
• 
  Bronk, Martin 
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Associate Professor, Surgery - General Surgery
  Clinical Focus

  • General Surgery
• 
  Curet, Myriam 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - General Surgery
  Clinical Focus

  • General Surgery
  • Bariatric Surgery
  Research Interest

  Education-how to teach and assess surgical skills; Evalution of educational programs and work environment Laparoscopy - Various clinical and animal studies investigating minimally invasive surgical techniques Bariatric Surgery - various projects investigating outcomes Robotic surgery - use of robotics in bariatric surgery

• 
  Dirbas, Frederick 
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - General Surgery
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Breast Cancer
  • Breast Cancer - Surgery
  • Breast Surgery
  Research Interest

  My research interests are focused on minimizing the impact of breast cancer from a diagnostic and therapuetic standpoint. Breast MRI is a powerful tool to facilitate the screening for and staging of breast cancer, and can be valuable adjunct to guide breast surgery. Oncoplastic surgical techniques optimize cosmesis after breast cancer surgery. Accelerated radiotherapy after lumpectomy decreases radiotherapy treatment times from 6 weeks to just 1 to 5 days.

• 
  Eisenberg, Dan 
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - General Surgery
• 
  Greco, Ralph 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Surgery - General Surgery
  • Professor (By courtesy), Mechanical Engineering
  • Member, Bio-X
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Carcinoid Tumors
  • Carcinoid Tumors - Endocrinology
  • Endocrine
  Research Interest

  Application of Micro/Nanotechnology to Biological Systems.

• 
  Jeffrey, Stefanie 
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - General Surgery
  • Member, Bio-X
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Surgical Oncology
  • Breast Surgery
  • General Surgery
  Research Interest

  Lab research: development of robot to isolate live circulating tumor cells (CTCs); characterization of live CTCs and their role in metastatic process; breast cancer genomics using DNA microarrays; refinement of RNA amplification techniques; co-developer of NASA Smart Probe for in-vivo breast tumor analysis

• 
  Johnson, Denise 
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - General Surgery
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Breast Cancer - Surgery
  • General Surgery
  • Melanoma - Surgery
  Research Interest

  Study of the impact of tumor bearing regional lymph nodes in solid tumors and immune profile of the tumor draining lymph nodes. Metabolic tumor detection and intraoperative detection using specially designed detection probes. Gene and Protein profile of primary melanoma and breast tumors including stem cell analysis.

  Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
• 
  Lau, James 
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Associate Professor, Surgery - General Surgery
  Clinical Focus

  • General Surgery
  Research Interest

  My personal mission is to contribute to the overall care of the surgical patient. My research interests, as they pertain to this mission, are childhood obesity prevention, the surgical management of obesity, minimal access surgical techniques, evidenced based surgery, surgical skills acquisition, and surgical education.

• 
  Maggio, Paul 
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - General Surgery
  Clinical Focus

  • General Surgery
  • Surgical Critical Care
  • Trauma Surgery
  Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
• 
  Morton, John 
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - General Surgery
  Clinical Focus

  • Bariatric Surgery
  • Surgical Procedures, Minimally Invasive
  • Gastric Bypass
  Research Interest

  My main research interests include the surgical management of the morbidly obese, evidence-based surgery, and surgical education. Prior training in public health, health administration, and surgery provide a strong foundation from which to pursue these goals. The only effective and enduring treatment for morbid obesity is bariatric surgery. Like the previous public health epidemics of cancer and heart disease, surgery is the first responder to the obesity crisis.

  Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
• 
  Norton, Jeffrey 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - General Surgery
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Adrenal Cancer
  • Carcinoid Tumors
  • Carcinoid Tumors - Endocrinology
  Research Interest

  Interleukin-12 is a Th1 cytokine. It is important in the cell mediated immune response. We are investigating its role as an anti-tumor cytokine to augment the immune response against cancer. We are planning a human trial.

  Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
• 
  Oakes, David 
  Academic Appointments

  • Emeritus (Active) Professor, Surgery - General Surgery
  Research Interest

  Trauma, especially splenic and thoracic

• 
  Oberhelman, Harry 
  Academic Appointments

  • Emeritus (Active) Professor, Surgery - General Surgery
  • Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, Surgery - General Surgery
  Clinical Focus

  • General Surgery
• 
  Poultsides, George 
  Academic Appointments

  • Acting Assistant Professor, Surgery - General Surgery
  Research Interest

  Clinical trials of experimental therapeutics and outcomes analysis following combined modality treatment of hepatic, pancreatic, and gastrointestinal malignancies.

• 
  Raju, Nalini 
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Surgery - General Surgery
  Clinical Focus

  • Colon and Rectal Surgery (Specialty)
  • Colonoscopy
  • General Surgery
• 
  Rhoads, Kim 
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - General Surgery
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Colon and Rectal Surgery
  • General Surgery
  Research Interest

  My research interests include disparities in surgical care and cancer outcomes; surgical quality improvement, public reporting and pay-for performance.

• 
  Shelton, Andrew 
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Associate Professor, Surgery - General Surgery
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Anal Cancer
  • Colon and Rectal Surgery
  • Colorectal Cancer
  Research Interest

  Multimodality treatment of rectal cancer Sphincter preserving procedures for rectal cancer Laparoscopic colon and rectal surgery Surgical education

• 
  So, Samuel 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - General Surgery
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Gastrointestinal Cancers
  • Gastrointestinal Cancers - Surgical Oncology
  • General Surgery
  Research Interest

  Through a 3 pronged comprehensive program: translational and clinical research, early detection and treatment, and promoting education, awareness and immunization, we are working towards the development of new strategies that will lead to the elimination of hepatitis B worldwide and reduce the threat and incidence of liver cancer. Our current research efforts focus on evaluating potential new diagnostic and treatment markers and novel targeted therapy for primary liver cancer.

• 
  Spain, David 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - General Surgery
  Clinical Focus

  • General Surgery
  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Trauma Surgery
  Research Interest

  Our main areas of interest have been shock, sepsis, multiple organ faliure and ICU pneumonia.

  Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
• 
  Staudenmayer, Kristan L
  Academic Appointments

  • Instructor, Surgery - General Surgery
  Clinical Focus

  • General Surgery
  Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
• 
  Visser,  Brendan C
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - General Surgery
  Clinical Focus

  • Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery (liver, bile ducts, and pancreas)
  • GI Surgical Oncology
  • Minimally Invasive Solid Organ Surgery (incl. adrenal, spleen, liver, pancreas)
  Research Interest

  Clinical research focused on the multidisciplinary treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma, minimally invasive pancreatic and liver surgery.

• 
  Wapnir, Irene 
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - General Surgery
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Breast Cancer
  • Breast Cancer - Surgery
  • Breast Surgery
  Research Interest

  Clinical treatment trials in Breast Cancer, especially local recurrence of breast cancer. Dr. Wapnir is institutional Principal Investigator for National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP). Laboratory research includes exploring the activity of breast iodide transporter in breast cancer. These endeavors have lead to translational research protocols.

• 
  Welton, Mark 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - General Surgery
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Anal Cancer
  • Basal / Squamous Cell Carcinomas
  • Basal / Squamous Cell Carcinomas - Surgery
  Research Interest

  Clinical research focused on the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of anal cancer and its precursor lesions. Clinical trials of ablative therapy for High-grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions (HSIL) of the anus and perianal tissues as a means for preventing anal cancer. Basic science work in collaboration with Ronald Davis and Hanlee Ji focused on the molecular genetic and pathologic studies of anal cancers using moecular inversion probe genomic technology

  Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
• 
  Wren, Sherry 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - General Surgery
  Clinical Focus

  • Surgical Oncology
  • Colorectal Surgery
  • General Surgery
  Research Interest

  Our research interests are primarily in surgical oncology, especially gastrointestinal cancers. We are also developing new research studies in surgical outcomes.

• 
  Yang, George P
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - General Surgery
  Clinical Focus

  • General Surgery
  Research Interest

  Our laboratory studies the role of cellular stress pathways in the response to injury, particularly wound healing and fracture healing. We also collaborate with laboratories in the School of Engineering to develop new clinical treatments for wound healing.