{"result":[{"lastName":"Adler","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurological Surgery"},{"focus":"Neurosurgery"},{"focus":"Brain/Central Nervous System Cancer"},{"focus":"Stereotactic Radiosurgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4162&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John R. Adler, Jr.","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/John_Adler","researchInterest":"The development and implementation of computerized, image-guided surgical tools to be used during minimally invasive brain operations. The clinical outcome of new technologies, and in particular the application of radiosurgery, for the treatment of brain tumors.  The creation of new radiosurgical techniques for a wide array of brain and spine disorders."},{"lastName":"Chang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Brain / Central Nervous System Tumors"},{"focus":"Brain / Central Nervous System Tumors - Neuro Oncology"},{"focus":"Brain / Central Nervous System Tumors - Neurosurgery"},{"focus":"Neurological Surgery"},{"focus":"Neurosurgery"},{"focus":"Skull Base Tumors "},{"focus":"Skull Base Tumors - Head and Neck Surgery"},{"focus":"Spinal Cancer"},{"focus":"Spinal Cancer - Neurosurgery"},{"focus":"Spinal Cancer - Surgery"},{"focus":"Acoustic Neuroma"},{"focus":"Glioma, Astrocytic"},{"focus":"Glioma"},{"focus":"Glioblastoma"},{"focus":"Glioblastoma with Sarcomatous Component"},{"focus":"Astrocytoma"},{"focus":"Ependymoma"},{"focus":"Medulloblastoma"},{"focus":"Meningioma"},{"focus":"Intracranial Aneurysm"},{"focus":"Carotid Stenosis"},{"focus":"Arteriovenous Malformations"},{"focus":"Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations"},{"focus":"ACTH-Secreting Pituitary Adenoma"},{"focus":"Adenoma, Prolactin-Secreting, Pituitary"},{"focus":"Diabetes Insipidus, Pituitary"},{"focus":"Growth Hormone-Secreting Pituitary Adenoma"},{"focus":"Hypothalamic-Pituitary Neoplasms"},{"focus":"Neoplasms, Hypothalamic-Pituitary"},{"focus":"PRL-Secreting Pituitary Adenoma"},{"focus":"Pituitary ACTH Hypersecretion"},{"focus":"Pituitary ACTH-Producing Cells"},{"focus":"Pituitary ACTH-Secreting Cells"},{"focus":"Pituitary Adenoma, Prolactin-Secreting"},{"focus":"Pituitary Adrenocorticotropin-Secreting Cells"},{"focus":"Pituitary Apoplexy"},{"focus":"Pituitary Diseases"},{"focus":"Pituitary FSH Hypersecretion"},{"focus":"Pituitary Gland"},{"focus":"Pituitary Growth Hormone-Secreting Cells"},{"focus":"Pituitary Irradiation"},{"focus":"Pituitary Neoplasms"},{"focus":"Prolactin-Producing Pituitary Adenoma"},{"focus":"Prolactin-Secreting Pituitary Adenoma"},{"focus":"Vestibular Schwannoma"},{"focus":"brain metastasis"},{"focus":"Cyberknife"},{"focus":"Radiosurgery, Stereotactic"},{"focus":"Stereotactic Techniques"},{"focus":"spinal avm"},{"focus":"spinal tumor"},{"focus":"Spinal Meningioma"},{"focus":"spinal schwannoma"},{"focus":"Trigeminal Neuralgia"},{"focus":"Hemifacial Spasm"},{"focus":"Glossopharyngeal Nerve Diseases"},{"focus":"AVM (Arteriovenous Malformation) Intracranial"},{"focus":"Stroke"},{"focus":"Brain Tumor, Primary"},{"focus":"Brain Tumor, Recurrent"},{"focus":"Brain Tumors"},{"focus":"Malignant Primary Brain Tumors"},{"focus":"Primary Malignant Brain Tumors"},{"focus":"Aneurysm, Cerebral"},{"focus":"Acoustic Neuroma, Cerebellopontine Angle"},{"focus":"Aneurysm, Anterior Cerebral Artery"},{"focus":"Aneurysm, Middle Cerebral Artery"},{"focus":"Aneurysm, Posterior Cerebral Artery"},{"focus":"Anterior Cerebral Artery Aneurysm"},{"focus":"Cerebral Cavernous Hemangioma"},{"focus":"Cerebral Hemorrhage"},{"focus":"Cerebral Vasculitis"},{"focus":"Middle Cerebral Artery Aneurysm"},{"focus":"Posterior Cerebral Artery Aneurysm"},{"focus":"Vascular Malformations, Brain"},{"focus":"Brain Aneurysm"},{"focus":"Brain Neoplasms"},{"focus":"Brain Revascularization"},{"focus":"Neurogenetics"},{"focus":"Neuroprotenomics"},{"focus":"Neurocutaneous Syndromes"},{"focus":"Glomus Tumor"},{"focus":"Craniopharyngioma"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Neurosurgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4735&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Steven D. 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Soltys","firstName":"Scott","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Scott_Soltys","researchInterest":"My clinical and research interests focus on the development of new radiation techniques involving stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy for the treatment of malignant and benign tumors of the brain and spine, as well as functional disorders such as trigeminal neuralgia."},{"lastName":"Xing","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4443&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lei Xing","firstName":"Lei","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Lei_Xing","researchInterest":"Image-guided intervention, MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) and radionuclide imaging (PET/CT, SPECT/CT), biologically conformable radiation threapy (BCRT), intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), treatment plan optimization, optimization of stereotactic radiosurgery, image segmentation and deformable image registration, application of molecular imaging to radiation oncology."},{"lastName":"Hristov","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8011&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dimitre Hristov","firstName":"Dimitre","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Dimitre_Hristov","researchInterest":"Development and integration of X-ray, MRI and US imaging technologies for radiation therapy guidance; Design of synergistic approaches to radiation therapy delivery; Treatment planning optimization and modeling."},{"lastName":"Hancock","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Therapeutic Radiology"},{"focus":"Prostate Cancer"},{"focus":"CNS Cancers"},{"focus":"Lymphomas"},{"focus":"Radiation Therapy"},{"focus":"Radiation Injuries"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4626&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Steven Hancock","firstName":"Steven","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Steven_Hancock","researchInterest":"Outcomes of radiation treatment for prostate cancer.  Clinical research interests in the late effects of radiation on normal tissues and chemical modification of radiation injury. Hodgkins's disease and late effects of radiation and combined modality therapy. Radiation sensitizers. Hypoxic cell cytotoxins. Esophageal cancers.\r\nGeneral adult and pediatric radiation therapy."},{"lastName":"Luxton","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4390&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gary Luxton","firstName":"Gary","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Gary_Luxton","researchInterest":"1. Mathematical modeling of damage to tumors and normal tissues from irradiation.\r\n2. Image-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy.\r\n3. 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My research efforts aim to advance cancer care by integrating new imaging techniques into the clinical workflow, and further our basic understanding of cancer biology by designing new assays that can probe subtle biochemical processes in single cells."},{"lastName":"Atwood","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18712&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Todd F. 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I have performed dose measurements at  at SLAC, modeled the beamline with Monte Carlo, optimized VHEE treatment plans and done high-dose-rate radiobiology experiments."},{"lastName":"Li","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurosurgery"},{"focus":"Brain Tumors"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Neurosurgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10057&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gordon Li","firstName":"Gordon","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Gordon_Li","researchInterest":"My laboratory studies the biology of brain tumors with the goal of developing novel therapeutics for the treatment of malignant brain tumors and translating that research into clinical trials."},{"lastName":"Rutt","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=11273&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Brian Rutt","firstName":"Brian","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Brian_Rutt","researchInterest":"My research interests center on MRI research, including high-field and high-resolution MRI technology development as well as applications of advanced MRI techniques to studying the brain, cardiovascular system and cancer."},{"lastName":"Christen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=16058&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Thomas Christen","firstName":"Thomas","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Thomas_Christen","researchInterest":"Noninvasive oxygenation measurement with MRI\r\nMRI relaxometry\r\nNumerical simulation\r\n19F MRI"},{"lastName":"Fisher","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology - Child Neurology"},{"focus":"Neuro-Oncology"},{"focus":"Neurology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4681&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul Graham Fisher","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Paul_Fisher","researchInterest":"Clinical neuro-oncology: My research explores the epidemiology, natural history, and disease patterns of brain tumors in childhood, as well as prospective clinical trials for treating these neoplasms.  Research interests also include neurologic effects of cancer and its therapies,  and childhood headaches."},{"lastName":"Essock-Burns","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=34806&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Emma Essock-Burns","firstName":"Emma","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Emma_Essock-Burns","researchInterest":""}]}