{"result":[{"researchInterest":"Research interests include the study of Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy and ventricular dysfunction in children, from a clinical perspective.  Investigations include clinical trials of medications for  heart failure, cardiac resynchronization, and development of methods for evaluation of right ventricular function.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4476&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/David_Rosenthal","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Cardiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiology"},{"focus":"Cardiomyopathies"},{"focus":"Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Right Ventricle"}],"firstName":"David","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Cardiology","displayName":"David Rosenthal","lastName":"Rosenthal"},{"researchInterest":"My main research continues to be in the field of echocardiography. Several areas of research are currently being pursued.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4659&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ingela_Schnittger","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"firstName":"Ingela","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Ingela Schnittger, MD","lastName":"Schnittger"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4725&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Frandics_Chan","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Congenital Heart Disease"},{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Radiology"}],"firstName":"Frandics","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","displayName":"Frandics Chan","lastName":"Chan"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10634&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Theresa_Tacy","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Cardiology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiology"}],"firstName":"Theresa","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Cardiology","displayName":"Theresa Tacy","lastName":"Tacy"},{"researchInterest":"fetal heart surgery, surgery of premature and very low birthweight neonates, cerebral protection during heart surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3807&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Vadiyala_Reddy","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Pediatric Cardiac Surgery"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Pediatrics"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiac Surgery"},{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery, Pediatric "}],"firstName":"Vadiyala","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Pediatric Cardiac Surgery","displayName":"V. Mohan Reddy","lastName":"Reddy"},{"researchInterest":"Dr. Murphy's major interests are in noninvasive cardiology and clinical pediatric and  adult congenital cardiac disease. These clinical interests range from imaging of complex cardiac disease in the fetus and newborn to care of the adult with congenital heart disease. He also coordinates the Marfan clinic at LPCH.  He is the director of the Adult Congenital Cardiac Clinic at Stanford University Medical Center.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4632&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Daniel_Murphy","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Cardiology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Pediatric"},{"focus":"Congenital Heart Disease (Adult)"},{"focus":"Echocardiography"},{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiology"}],"firstName":"Daniel","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Cardiology","displayName":"Daniel Murphy","lastName":"Murphy"},{"researchInterest":"His research and clinical work focuses on the development of interventional techniques for fetal and neonatal treatment of congenital heart disease, pulmonary, vascular physiology, and the neurologic impact of open-heart surgery. He developed and pioneered the \u0093unifocalization\u0094 procedure, in which a single procedure is used to repair a complex and life-threatening congenital heart defect rather than several staged open-heart surgeries as performed by other surgeons.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3806&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Frank_Hanley","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Pediatric Cardiac Surgery"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiac Surgery"},{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery, Pediatric "},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"}],"firstName":"Frank","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Pediatric Cardiac Surgery","displayName":"Frank Hanley","lastName":"Hanley"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9189&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/David_Charo","appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"David","primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine","displayName":"David Charo","lastName":"Charo"},{"researchInterest":"Arrhythmia management in pediatric heart failure, especially resynchronization therapy in congenital heart disease,Radio frequency catheter ablation of pediatric arrhythmias,","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4477&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Anne_Dubin","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Cardiology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiology"}],"firstName":"Anne","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Cardiology","displayName":"Anne Dubin","lastName":"Dubin"},{"researchInterest":"Dr. Petrossian has expertise in complex pediatric and congenital cardiovascular surgical repairs. He has published several journal articles and book chapters with an emphasis on the extracardiac conduit Fontan operation.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5963&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Edwin_Petrossian","appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Pediatric Cardiac Surgery"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Edwin","primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Pediatric Cardiac Surgery","displayName":"Edwin Petrossian","lastName":"Petrossian"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8185&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Francois_Haddad","appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology"},{"focus":"RIght Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Heart Transplantation"}],"firstName":"Francois","primaryAppointment":"Clinical Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Francois Haddad","lastName":"Haddad"},{"researchInterest":"Research interests include (1) computer simulation and modeling of cardiovascular physiology with specific attention paid to congenital heart disease and its treatment, (2) development and testing of transcatheter therapies for the treatment of congenital heart disease, and (3) the evaluation and treatment of pulmonary hypertension/pulmonary vascular disease.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4396&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jeffrey_Feinstein","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Cardiology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Bioengineering"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiology"},{"focus":"Congenital Heart Defects"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Hypertension"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Vascular Disease"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Vascular Abnormalities"},{"focus":"Cardiac Catheterization"},{"focus":"Biomechanical Engineering / Bioengineering"}],"firstName":"Jeffrey","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Cardiology","displayName":"Jeffrey A. Feinstein, MD, MPH","lastName":"Feinstein"},{"researchInterest":"Adrenergic nervous system; beta-adrenergic function in, heart failure; drugs in heart failure.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4094&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_Fowler","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Cardiomyopathy"}],"firstName":"Michael","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Michael B. Fowler, MB, FRCP","lastName":"Fowler"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10450&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/John-Peder_Kvitting","appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Cardiothoracic Surgery"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"John-Peder","primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Cardiothoracic Surgery","displayName":"John-Peder Escobar Kvitting","lastName":"Kvitting"},{"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","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4727&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_McConnell","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"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"firstName":"Michael","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Michael V. McConnell, MD, MSEE","lastName":"McConnell"},{"researchInterest":"Randomized Therapeutic Trials in Pediatric Heart Disease, NIH/U01 GrantNo. HL68285  2001-2006.\r\nHeparin and the Reduction of Thrombosis (HART) Study. Pediatric Health Research Fund Award, Stanford Univ Sch of Medicine, 2005-2006.\r\nA Pilot Trial fo B-type Natriuretic Peptide for Promotion of Urine Output in Diuretic-Resistant Infants Following Cardiovascular Surgery.Pediatric Health Research Fund Award, Stanford Univ Sch of Medicine, 2005-2006.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3985&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Stephen_Roth","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Cardiology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiology"}],"firstName":"Stephen","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Cardiology","displayName":"Stephen J. Roth","lastName":"Roth"},{"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 ","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4170&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/D_Miller","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery"}],"firstName":"D","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","displayName":"D. Craig Miller, M.D.","lastName":"Miller"},{"researchInterest":"1) Understanding, treating, and preventing cancer therapy-induced cardiotoxicity\r\n2) Relationships between insulin resistance and dilated cardiomyopathy\r\n3) Amyloidosis -- Optimizing therapy and discovering new treatments\r\n4) Cardiorenal syndrome (clinical trials)\r\n5) Optimization of pacemaker timing in heart failure patients\r\n6) PET imaging of myocardial glucose metabolism","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8212&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ronald_Witteles","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"firstName":"Ronald","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Ronald Witteles","lastName":"Witteles"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3838&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Chandra_Ramamoorthy","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"},{"focus":"Anesthesia, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Anesthesia, Pediatric Cardiac"},{"focus":"Pediatric cardiac anesthesia"}],"firstName":"Chandra","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia","displayName":"Chandra Ramamoorthy","lastName":"Ramamoorthy"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8636&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Wolfgang_Bothe","appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Cardiothoracic Surgery"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Wolfgang","primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Cardiothoracic Surgery","displayName":"Wolfgang Bothe","lastName":"Bothe"},{"researchInterest":"My research interests include \r\n\r\n1) The cost-effectiveness of new cardiovascular technologies. \r\nExample: tests to screen asymptomatic patients for left ventricular systolic dysfunction.\r\n\r\n2) Interventions to improve the quality of care of patients with heart disease. Examples: include clinical reminders and home monitoring.\r\n\r\n3) Outcomes research using existing clinical and administrative datasets. \r\n\r\n4) Use of echocardiography to predict prognosis (e.g. diastolic dysfunction).","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4682&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Paul_Heidenreich","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Paul","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Paul Heidenreich, MD","lastName":"Heidenreich"},{"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4174&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Daniel_Bernstein","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Cardiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiology"},{"focus":"Pediatric Heart Transplantation"},{"focus":"Pediatric Heart Failure"}],"firstName":"Daniel","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Cardiology","displayName":"Daniel Bernstein","lastName":"Bernstein"},{"researchInterest":"1. Mechanical circulatory support in failing Fontan circulation\r\n2. Pathophysiologic response to fetal cardiac surgery.\r\n3. Various clinical projects in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5896&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Olaf_Reinhartz","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Pediatric Cardiac Surgery"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiac Transplantation"}],"firstName":"Olaf","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Pediatric Cardiac Surgery","displayName":"Olaf Reinhartz","lastName":"Reinhartz"},{"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4105&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Randall_Vagelos","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"valvular heart disease"}],"firstName":"Randall","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Randall Vagelos, MD","lastName":"Vagelos"},{"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 ","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6101&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Phillip_Yang","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"firstName":"Phillip","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Phillip Yang, MD","lastName":"Yang"}]}