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We have set up a protocol to treat morbidly obese patients, who normally would not qualify for kidney transplant, with bariatric surgery prior to kidney transplantation.  We are also developing the \"paired-organ exchange\" program at Stanford to increase the chances that patients with willing but incompatible living donors can still receive a living donor kidney."},{"lastName":"Fisher","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4644&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"George A. Fisher Jr.","firstName":"George","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/George_Fisher","researchInterest":"Clinical expertise in GI cancers with research which emphasizes Phase I and II clinical trials of novel therapies but also includes translational studies including biomarkers, molecular imaging, tumor immunology and development of immunotherapeutic trials."},{"lastName":"Jeffrey","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4143&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"R Brooke Jeffrey","firstName":"R","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/R_Jeffrey","researchInterest":"Pancreatic MDCT\r\nThyroid ultrasound/biopsy\r\nVirtual Colonoscopy\r\nImaging of appendicitis\r\nHepatic MDCT"},{"lastName":"Greco","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Carcinoid Tumors"},{"focus":"Carcinoid Tumors - Endocrinology"},{"focus":"Endocrine"},{"focus":"Endocrine - Surgery"},{"focus":"Endocrinology Surgery"},{"focus":"Gastrointestinal Cancers"},{"focus":"Gastrointestinal Cancers - Surgical Oncology"},{"focus":"General Surgery"},{"focus":"Osteosarcoma "},{"focus":"Osteosarcoma - Surgery"},{"focus":"Pancreas Surgery"},{"focus":"Pancreatic Cancer "},{"focus":"Pancreatic Cancer - Surgery"},{"focus":"Sarcomas - Surgical Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Surgery - General Surgery"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Mechanical Engineering"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4347&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ralph S. 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Kurian, M.D., M.Sc.","firstName":"Allison","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Allison_Kurian","researchInterest":"Breast and gynecologic cancer epidemiology, risk assessment, and risk reduction."},{"lastName":"Nino-Murcia","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"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=4145&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Matilde Nino-Murcia","firstName":"Matilde","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Matilde_Nino-Murcia","researchInterest":"Gastrointestinal motility in spinal cord injury, patients; use of CT and MRI in imaging liver and biliary tree; contrast agents for MRI of the gastrointestinal tract and, hepatobiliary system; gastrointestinal motility disorders; abdominal, imaging; hepatobiliary imaging"},{"lastName":"Koong","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Colorectal Cancer"},{"focus":"Colorectal Cancer - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Esophageal Cancer"},{"focus":"Esophageal Cancer - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Liver Cancer"},{"focus":"Liver Cancer - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Pancreatic Cancer "},{"focus":"Pancreatic Cancer - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Rectal Cancer "},{"focus":"Rectal Cancer - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Stomach Cancer "},{"focus":"Stomach Cancer - Radiation Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4729&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Albert Koong","firstName":"Albert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Albert_Koong","researchInterest":"The focus of my laboratory is to understand the role of hypoxia and the tumor microenvironment on malignant progression. 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Pathology of familial and hereditary breast-ovarian-GI cancer."},{"lastName":"Desser","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Radiology"},{"focus":"Ultrasound"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4230&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Terry Desser","firstName":"Terry","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Terry_Desser","researchInterest":"Imaging of gastrointestinal tract cancer\r\nUltrasound\r\nSimulated learning environment"},{"lastName":"Smitt","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4703&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Melanie Smitt","firstName":"Melanie","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Melanie_Smitt","researchInterest":"Breast cancer; three-dimensional treatment planning; community patterns of care and technology transfer."},{"lastName":"Jeffrey","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Surgical Oncology"},{"focus":"Breast Surgery"},{"focus":"General Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4147&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stefanie Jeffrey","firstName":"Stefanie","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Stefanie_Jeffrey","researchInterest":"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"},{"lastName":"Chang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Cancer of the Stomach"},{"focus":"Cancer of Anus"},{"focus":"Cancer of Pancreas"},{"focus":"Cancer of the Rectum"},{"focus":"Cancer of the Liver"},{"focus":"Cancer of the Esophagus"},{"focus":"Cancer of the Head and Neck"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8238&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Daniel Chang","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Daniel_Chang","researchInterest":"I specialize in the treatment of gastrointestinal malignancies.  I am interested in developing stereotactic body radiotherapy for tumors of the liver, both primary and metastatic.  I am interested in developing functional imaging as a means of determining treatment response with radiation.  I am also interested in developing image-guided radiotherapy to improve radiation delivery for GI cancers to reduce toxicity and improve disease outcome."},{"lastName":"Carlson","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Breast Cancer - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Oncology (Cancer)"},{"focus":"Medical Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4629&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Carlson","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Robert_Carlson","researchInterest":"Clinical investigations in breast cancer include institutional and NSABP studies of chemoprevention, adjuvant therapy, psychosocial interventions, treatment of metastatic disease, methods of decreasing anthracycline cardiotoxicity, and modulation of multidrug resistance. Research in meta-analysis includes the performance of meta-analysis in a wide variety of settings in cancer treatment by the international Meta-Analysis Group in Cancer."},{"lastName":"Van de Rijn","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4008&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Matt Van de Rijn","firstName":"Matt","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Matt_Van de Rijn","researchInterest":"Our research focuses on gene microarray analysis of human soft tissue tumors (sarcomas). In addition we work with tissue microarrays to characterize large numbers of novel antisera raised against peptides derived from genes found to be of interest during gene array analysis."},{"lastName":"Dieterich","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8175&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sonja Dieterich","firstName":"Sonja","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sonja_Dieterich","researchInterest":"My research interests are in the field of robotic radiosurgery and quality assurance of new medical devices.\r\n\r\nIn robotic radiosurgery, I have focused on real-time motion tracking of tumors which move with respiration. Recently, this research has expanded into tracking heart motion as well.\r\n\r\nQuality assurance of novel medical devices seeks to develop safety protocols for devices in which clinical failure modes are not yet known. 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We also collaborate with laboratories in the School of Engineering to develop new clinical treatments for wound healing."},{"lastName":"West","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Breast Cancer"},{"focus":"Sarcoma"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3910&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert West","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Robert_West","researchInterest":"My laboratory studies the molecular events that lead to and sustain tumorigenesis in soft tissue tumors.  We also have an interest in stromal reaction patterns in the microenvironment of cancer."},{"lastName":"Quon","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Nuclear Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Nuclear Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Nuclear Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6452&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Andrew Quon","firstName":"Andrew","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Andrew_Quon","researchInterest":"Multimodality fusion imaging with PET, CT, and MRI for oncology.  \r\n\r\nTranslational research bringing new radiotracers to clinical use.\r\n\r\nCardiovascular multimodality PET/CT imaging."},{"lastName":"Goffinet","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Breast Cancer - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Head and Neck Cancers"},{"focus":"Head and Neck Cancers - Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Thoracic Cancers"},{"focus":"Thoracic Cancers - Radiation Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4600&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Don Goffinet","firstName":"Don","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Don_Goffinet","researchInterest":"Head and neck, interstitial\r\nBladder, prostate, breast\r\nIORT, stereotactic, pituitary (and brain)\r\nOsteos and other sarcomas, clinical hyperthermia"}]}