{"result":[{"researchInterest":"Mortality in patients with cutaneous melanoma arises from metastasis, usually to the lymph nodes followed by distant metastases to solid organs. We demonstrated that the extent of tumor lymphangiogenesis can predict the risk of metastasis to distant and sentinel lymph nodes in patients with melanoma. Using large-scale molecular screening, we study the genetic and epigenetic events regulating melanoma lymphangiogenesis, coupled with histological and clinical data.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6715&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Soheil_Dadras","appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Soheil","primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","displayName":"Soheil Sam Dadras MD-PhD","lastName":"Dadras"},{"researchInterest":"Our translational research program involves molecular, cellular, animal and human studies of endothelial biology. We are focused on the role of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in atherosclerosis and angiogenesis.  A new focus of investigation has resulted from our discovery of a novel angiogenic pathway mediated by endothelial nicotinic cholinergic receptors (nAChR). We use a wide variety of tools and approaches to investigate the role of NOS and nAChR pathways in cardiovascular biology and disease.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4115&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/John_Cooke","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Preventive"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Vascular Medicine"}],"firstName":"John","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"John Cooke, MD, PhD","lastName":"Cooke"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7234&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Lawrence_Hofmann","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Interventional Radiology"},{"focus":"Radiology"}],"firstName":"Lawrence","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","displayName":"Lawrence \"Rusty\" Hofmann, MD","lastName":"Hofmann"},{"researchInterest":"My research group focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular emergencies including acute myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome and congestive heart failure. We have evaluated novel cardiac markers and point-of-care testing in clinical practice. Current projects also include the diagnosis and treatment of acute pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis. Other interests include spinal cord injury, pneumonia and sepsis.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4225&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Donald_Schreiber","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Emergency Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Emergency Medicine"}],"firstName":"Donald","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Emergency Medicine","displayName":"Donald Schreiber","lastName":"Schreiber"},{"researchInterest":"Understanding genetic basis of cardiovascular function and disease.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4426&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Thomas_Quertermous","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Thomas","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Thomas Quertermous, MD","lastName":"Quertermous"},{"researchInterest":"Lympedema secondary to cancer treatment","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14332&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mi Joung_Lee","appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Mi Joung","primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","displayName":"Mi Joung Lee","lastName":"Lee"},{"researchInterest":"Device development and testing in interventional, cardiology including angioplasty, atherectomy, and stents;, intravascular ultrasound:  development and clinical trials; advanced, coronary imaging techniques including x-ray topography; coronary, hemodynamics especially velocity and pressure measurements","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4700&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Paul_Yock","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Bioengineering"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Mechanical Engineering"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"firstName":"Paul","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Bioengineering","displayName":"Paul Yock, MD","lastName":"Yock"},{"researchInterest":"Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in men and women in the United States. Our group is interested in studying both the early and late phases of atherosclerosis so that we can better develop prevention and treatment strategies.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4228&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Alan_Yeung","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Coronary Artery Disease"},{"focus":"Chronic Total Occlusions"},{"focus":"Complex Coronary Angioplasty"},{"focus":"Mitral Valvuloplasty"},{"focus":"Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement"},{"focus":"Interventional Cardiology"}],"firstName":"Alan","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Alan Yeung, MD","lastName":"Yeung"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7580&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Lorinda_Chung","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Immunology and Rheumatology"},{"focus":"Rheumatology"},{"focus":"Scleroderma, Systemic"},{"focus":"Connective Tissue Diseases"}],"firstName":"Lorinda","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology","displayName":"Lorinda Chung","lastName":"Chung"},{"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":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9669&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Nicholas_Leeper","appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Internal Medicine"},{"focus":"Vascular Medicine"}],"firstName":"Nicholas","primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Nicholas Leeper","lastName":"Leeper"},{"researchInterest":"Dr. Fearon's general research interest is coronary physiology.  In particular, he is investigating invasive methods for evaluating the coronary microcirculation.  His research is currently funded by an NIH R01 Award.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5950&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/William_Fearon","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Interventional Cardiology"},{"focus":"Coronary Artery Disease"},{"focus":"Percutaneous aortic valve"},{"focus":"Aortic Stenosis"},{"focus":"Coronary Physiology"},{"focus":"Cardiology"}],"firstName":"William","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"William Fearon, MD","lastName":"Fearon"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4224&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Peter_Fitzgerald","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Peter","primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Peter Fitzgerald, MD, PhD","lastName":"Fitzgerald"},{"researchInterest":"Hemodynamic factors in atherosclerosis, pathogenesis of, aortic aneurysms, carotid plaque localization and complication, anastomotic intimal hyperplasia, vascular biology of artery wall, computational fluid dynamics as applied to blood flow and vascular disease.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4250&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Christopher_Zarins","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Surgery - Vascular Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Vascular Surgery"}],"firstName":"Christopher","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Surgery - Vascular Surgery","displayName":"Christopher K. 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Current clinical research projects include drug-eluting stents for superficial femoral arterial disease and multiple device trials to evaluate stent-grafts for the treatment of aortic lesions.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4304&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_Dake","appointments":[{"appointment":"Acting Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Interventional Radiology"},{"focus":"Endovascular Surgery"}],"firstName":"Michael","primaryAppointment":"Acting Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","displayName":"Michael D. 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Effects of cytokines on angiogenesis.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4499&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Luis_Fajardo","appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Pathology"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Luis","primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Pathology","displayName":"Luis Fajardo","lastName":"Fajardo"},{"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":"Our group\u0092s research focus is the acute treatment and prevention of cerebrovascular disorders.  Our primary interest is the use of diffusion- and perfusion-weighted MRI to expand the treatment window for ischemic stroke.  We are also conducting clinical studies of both neuroprotective and thrombolytic strategies for the treatment of acute stroke and investigating new antithrombotic strategies for stroke prevention.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4026&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Gregory_Albers","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Neurosurgery"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology"}],"firstName":"Gregory","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","displayName":"Gregory W. Albers","lastName":"Albers"},{"researchInterest":"Dr. Spin began his research career studying the structural biology of low density lipoprotein, and has been augmenting his skills with intensive training in molecular biology techniques, particularly those involving high-throughput genetic expression profiling. He is especially interested in vascular smooth muscle cells, and the role of smooth muscle differentiation and phenotypic switching in development and vascular disease.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6448&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Joshua_Spin","appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Aortic Disease"},{"focus":"Marfan Syndrome and Aortic Disorders"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"firstName":"Joshua","primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Joshua M. Spin","lastName":"Spin"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4070&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Philip_Tsao","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Philip","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Philip S. Tsao, PhD","lastName":"Tsao"},{"researchInterest":"My research interests are translational. We use high dimensional genomic analysis to identify myocardial gene expression networks then use molecular, cellular and classical physiology tools to assay the biological systems. Our interests range from fit to failing hearts.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7578&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Euan_Ashley","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular genetics"},{"focus":"Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy"},{"focus":"Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Sports Medicine"},{"focus":"Dilated Cardiomyopathy"},{"focus":"Long QT Syndrome"},{"focus":"Peripartum cardiomyopathy"},{"focus":"Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia"}],"firstName":"Euan","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Euan A. Ashley","lastName":"Ashley"},{"researchInterest":"I am interested in thrombosis and the role of thrombin and its receptor in venous wall remodeling following venous thrombosis.  I am also interested in vascular hemodynamics and the use of ultrasound, MRI and computational modeling in evaluating arterial flow in exercise conditions.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4678&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Edmund_Harris","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Vascular Surgery"}],"firstName":"Edmund","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery","displayName":"E. John Harris Jr.","lastName":"Harris"},{"researchInterest":"Cardiopulmonary and pulmonary transplant medicine; diagnostic surgical pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4091&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Gerald_Berry","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"firstName":"Gerald","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","displayName":"Gerald Berry","lastName":"Berry"},{"researchInterest":"Dr. Rubin's research interests focus on cardiovascular and pulmonary imaging. He and his team are developing novel methods for automated detection of lung nodules in CT data and are investigating the impact of CAD on the diagnostic performance of radiologists interpreting lung CT scans.\r\n\r\nHe also develops novel noninvasive vascular and cardiac imaging techniques and post-processing algorithms with emphasis on three- and four-dimensional acquisition, visualization and quantitation using MDCT.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4076&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Geoffrey_Rubin","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Imaging"},{"focus":"Thoracic Imaging"},{"focus":"CT Angiography"},{"focus":"Computed Tomography"}],"firstName":"Geoffrey","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","displayName":"Geoffrey D. Rubin, M.D.","lastName":"Rubin"}]}