{"result":[{"researchInterest":"My main research interest is in clinical research related to cesarean delivery anesthesia and labor analgesia.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5964&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Brendan_Carvalho","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"},{"focus":"Anesthesia, Obstetrical"}],"firstName":"Brendan","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia","displayName":"Brendan Carvalho","lastName":"Carvalho"},{"researchInterest":"Our obstetric anesthesia group is interested in a variety of topics including the efficacy and mechanism of action of spinal and epidural opioids for production of analgesia during labor, and the functionality of epidural analgesia for labor pain relief.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3796&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sheila_Cohen","appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Anesthesia"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Anesthesia"},{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"},{"focus":"Anesthesia, Obstetrics"}],"firstName":"Sheila","primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Anesthesia","displayName":"Sheila E. 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Other current areas of interest include the anesthetic assessment of high-risk obstetric patients.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6270&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Alexander_Butwick","appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Anesthesia"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"}],"firstName":"Alexander","primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Anesthesia","displayName":"Alexander Butwick","lastName":"Butwick"},{"researchInterest":"Clinical effectiveness of acupuncture in medical conditions, use of acupuncture in perioperative settings to reduce opiate and antiemetic use, use of acupuncture in pregnancy for the treatment of nausea, vomiting and other conditions, use of acupuncture in the treatment of the side effects in cancer patients.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4278&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Emily_Ratner","appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Professor,Anesthesia"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"},{"focus":"Anesthesia, Obstetrics"}],"firstName":"Emily","primaryAppointment":"Clinical Professor,Anesthesia","displayName":"Emily Ratner","lastName":"Ratner"},{"researchInterest":"High Risk Obstetrics: preterm labor, preeclampsia, medical and surgical complications of pregnancy, prenatal diagnosis and therapy","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4557&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Yasser_El-Sayed","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Obstetrics & Gynecology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Obstetrics"},{"focus":"Obstetrics and Gynecology"},{"focus":"High Risk Pregnancies"},{"focus":"Maternal & Fetal Medicine"}],"firstName":"Yasser","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Obstetrics & Gynecology","displayName":"Yasser El-Sayed, Professor","lastName":"El-Sayed"},{"researchInterest":"Preterm labor prevention and management, preeclampsia prevention and treatment, short and long-term impact of surgical techniques at cesarean, depression during pregnancy, fetal heart rate monitoring and long-term neurologic outcome, randomized clinical trials.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4004&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Deirdre_Lyell","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Obstetrics & Gynecology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Maternal - Fetal Medicine"},{"focus":"Obstetrics and Gynecology"}],"firstName":"Deirdre","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Obstetrics & Gynecology","displayName":"Deirdre J. 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We focus on three inter-related areas: the identification of pain biomarkers and potential analgesic targets, the early validation or rejection of novel analgesic interventions, and the pharmacogenomics and proteomics of opioid-analgesics.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4553&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Martin_Angst","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"},{"focus":"Anesthesia for Liver Transplantation"},{"focus":"Neuroanesthesia"}],"firstName":"Martin","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia","displayName":"Martin S. Angst","lastName":"Angst"},{"researchInterest":"Field of clinical pharmacology. This involves analysis of what the body does to a drug (pharmacokinetics) and how exactly a specific drug affects the body (pharmacodynamics). His research starts at the level of new drug development with detailed analysis of the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of a medication.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4567&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/David_Drover","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"},{"focus":"Anesthesia for Liver Transplantation"},{"focus":"Anesthesia for ENT Surgery"},{"focus":"Difficult Airway"},{"focus":"Neuroanesthesia"}],"firstName":"David","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia","displayName":"David Drover","lastName":"Drover"},{"researchInterest":"Rh disease, other red call isoimmunization, e.g. Kell, etc.\r\nI.T.P. and alloimmune thrombocytopenia\r\nMultiple pregnancy (twins, triplets, etc.) and associated problems and procedures\r\nUltrasound referrals -- complicated and routine\r\nProcedures --cordocentesis, intrauterine transfusion; selective termination or reduction in multiple pregnancy.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4288&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Usha_Chitkara","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Obstetrics & Gynecology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Maternal - Fetal Medicine"},{"focus":"Obstetrics"},{"focus":"Obstetrics and Gynecology"}],"firstName":"Usha","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Obstetrics & Gynecology","displayName":"Usha Chitkara","lastName":"Chitkara"},{"researchInterest":"Dr. Macario is interested in the economics of health care, in particular the tradeoffs between costs and outcomes for patients having surgery and anesthesia. Dr. Macario has completed internationally recognized studies on the management of the operating room suite, as well as pioneering work on the cost-effectiveness of drugs and devices.  He is Founder and Director of a Postgraduate Fellowship for physicians interested in applying quantitative tools to solve health services research questions.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4554&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Alex_Macario","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"}],"firstName":"Alex","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia","displayName":"Alex Macario MD","lastName":"Macario"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4666&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Clifford_Schmiesing","appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Anesthesia"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"},{"focus":"Peoperative Assessment, Anesthesia, Information technology,"}],"firstName":"Clifford","primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Anesthesia","displayName":"Cliff Schmiesing, MD","lastName":"Schmiesing"},{"researchInterest":"My research focuses on the study opiate-induced hyperalgesia in patients suffering from chronic pain.\r\n\r\nI am currently conducting an NIH-funded five year double-blinded randomized controlled clinical study (NIGMS award 1K23GM071400-01) that prospectively examines the following hypotheses: 1) pain patients on chronic opioid therapy develop dose-dependent tolerance and/or hyperalgesia to these medications over time, 2) opiate-induced tolerance and hyperalgesia develop differently with respect to","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6083&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Lawrence_Chu","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"}],"firstName":"Lawrence","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia","displayName":"Lawrence Chu, MD, MS","lastName":"Chu"},{"researchInterest":"Analgesic drug trials, Outcomes in Pain Management, Visceral Pain","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4653&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Raymond_Gaeta","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"},{"focus":"Pain Management"}],"firstName":"Raymond","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia","displayName":"Raymond Gaeta","lastName":"Gaeta"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4236&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Madalane_Boltz","appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Professor,Anesthesia"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"},{"focus":"Anesthesia, Pediatric"}],"firstName":"Madalane","primaryAppointment":"Clinical Professor,Anesthesia","displayName":"M. 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