{"result":[{"researchInterest":"Dr. Baker's research is in the area of health economics, and focuses on the effects of financial incentives, organizational structures, and government policies on the health care delivery system, health care costs, and health outcomes.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4222&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Laurence_Baker","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Economics"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Laurence","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research","displayName":"Laurence Baker","lastName":"Baker"},{"researchInterest":"My research focuses on the constraints that vulnerable populations face in making decisions that affect their health status, as well as the effects of government policies and programs designed to benefit vulnerable populations.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4000&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jayanta_Bhattacharya","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Economics"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Jayanta","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch","displayName":"Jayanta Bhattacharya","lastName":"Bhattacharya"},{"researchInterest":"Topics in the health economics of aging; health, insurance; optimal screening intervals; cost-effectiveness of, coronary surgery in the elderly; health care financing and delivery, in the United States and Japan; coronary heart disease","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4662&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Alan_Garber","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Economics"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"},{"appointment":"Professor,Graduate School of Business"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Alan","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch","displayName":"Alan M. 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Frayne, MD, MPH","lastName":"Frayne"},{"researchInterest":"Community based psycoeducational intervention studies of disease self management for people with chronic diseases. arthritis, lung diseases, heart disease AIDs, low back pain and diabetes.  Programs and studies in Spanish and English.  Interventions are in small groups, mailed or on the Internet.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4102&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Kate_Lorig","appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Kate","primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology","displayName":"Kate Lorig","lastName":"Lorig"},{"researchInterest":"My research focuses on immigrant and minority child health, with a primary focus on Latino children. My research has explored the health status of these children by examining their growth patterns, prevalence of chronic illness, perceptions of health, and their access to health care. Currently, my work is focused on childhood obesity in Mexican American and Mexican children, exploring binational approaches to this problem.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4639&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Fernando_Mendoza","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - General"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Pediatrics"},{"focus":"Minority and Immigrant Child Health"}],"firstName":"Fernando","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - General","displayName":"Fernando Mendoza","lastName":"Mendoza"},{"researchInterest":"As Director of the SPRC Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices, my work focuses on cardiovascular disease treatment and prevention, the adoption of new technology and practices, and patterns of physician practice, particularly medication prescribing.  Specific interests include measuring and improving the quality of outpatient care, disparities in health care by race, gender, age and socioeconomic status, and interventions to improve prevention outcomes.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3840&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Randall_Stafford","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol)"},{"focus":"Hypertension (high blood pressure)"},{"focus":"Diabetes Mellitus"},{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Preventive"},{"focus":"Obesity"},{"focus":"Primary Prevention"},{"focus":"Internal Medicine"}],"firstName":"Randall","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research","displayName":"Randall Stafford","lastName":"Stafford"},{"researchInterest":"Organization of community health care programs; management of chronic disease; introduction and evaluation of patient education and self-care practices; evaluation of health care outcomes and health system performance.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4596&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Halsted_Holman","appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Immunology"},{"focus":"Immunology and Rheumatology"},{"focus":"Internal Medicine"}],"firstName":"Halsted","primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology","displayName":"Halsted Holman","lastName":"Holman"},{"researchInterest":"Infertility \r\nAssisted Reproductive Technologies Microsurgery and Endoscopic Surgery.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6109&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Amin_Milki","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Obstetrics & Gynecology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Fertility (Reproductive Medicine)"},{"focus":"Gynecology"},{"focus":"Obstetrics"},{"focus":"Reprod. Endocrinology and Infertility"}],"firstName":"Amin","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Obstetrics & Gynecology","displayName":"Amin Milki","lastName":"Milki"},{"researchInterest":"Recurrent miscarriage, genetic and other causes of miscarriage, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, effects of fertility treatments on androgen levels in early pregnancy and how fertility diagnosis and treatments affect pregnancy outcomes.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4071&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ruth_Lathi","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Obstetrics & Gynecology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Fertility (Reproductive Medicine)"},{"focus":"Recurrent Pregnancy Loss and Miscarriage"},{"focus":"Gynecology"},{"focus":"Reprod. Endocrinology and Infertility"}],"firstName":"Ruth","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Obstetrics & Gynecology","displayName":"Ruth Lathi, MD","lastName":"Lathi"},{"researchInterest":"My research and educational activities focus on evidence-based medicine, patient-centered concerns, health care quality, and patient safety. I enjoy forming and participating in multi-disciplinary teams to identify, highlight and formulate solutions to issues of suboptimal performance of the health care system, both in the US and abroad.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6130&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Kathryn_McDonald","appointments":[{"appointment":"Sr Research Engineer (PI Waiver),Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Kathryn","primaryAppointment":"Sr Research Engineer (PI Waiver),Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch","displayName":"Kathryn McDonald","lastName":"McDonald"},{"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":"Health services research in primary care and geriatrics; developing,, implementing, and evaluating methods for clinical quality improvement; utility assessment for cost-effectiveness analysis.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4068&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mary_Goldstein","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Mary","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch","displayName":"Mary Kane Goldstein","lastName":"Goldstein"},{"researchInterest":"Doctor-patient communication and decision making: empirical study of quality of decision making for routine outpatient decisions, screening tests.\r\nMedical education: design and evaluation of medical ethics, professionalism education, including faculty development","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6002&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Clarence_Braddock","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - General Internal Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Internal Medicine"}],"firstName":"Clarence","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - General Internal Medicine","displayName":"Clarence H Braddock III, MD, MPH","lastName":"Braddock"},{"researchInterest":"My main research work is in \"outcomes research\", especially examining the field of cardiovascular medicine.  Particular areas of interest are the integration of economic and quality of life data into randomized clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, decision models, and cost-effectiveness analysis. I am also interested in the application of novel genetic, biomarker, and imaging tests to assess risk and guide clinical management of coronary artery disease.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4142&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mark_Hlatky","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research"},{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"firstName":"Mark","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research","displayName":"Mark Hlatky, MD","lastName":"Hlatky"},{"researchInterest":"Current program of research integrates two fields: 1) social epidemiology, within the broader area of public health, and 2) program evaluation, as a synthesis of theory and methods applied to the evaluation of health and social programs.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7947&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Eunice_Rodriguez","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Teaching),Pediatrics"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Eunice","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Teaching),Pediatrics","displayName":"Eunice Rodriguez","lastName":"Rodriguez"},{"researchInterest":"primary ovarian insufficiency, premature ovarian failure, health policy, infertilty, assisted reproductive technology, ovulation induction, hormone therapy","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8131&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Valerie_Baker","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Obstetrics & Gynecology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Reprod. Endocrinology and Infertility"},{"focus":"Primary Ovarian Insufficiency"},{"focus":"Assisted Reproductive Technology"}],"firstName":"Valerie","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Obstetrics & Gynecology","displayName":"Valerie Baker, MD","lastName":"Baker"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6986&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Margaret_Marnell","appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Behavioral Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Psychology"}],"firstName":"Margaret","primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Behavioral Medicine","displayName":"Margaret Marnell","lastName":"Marnell"},{"researchInterest":"Developing theory-based interventions for long-term behavior change in the areas of weight management, dietary change, and physical activity \r\nMethodological improvements for the design, delivery, and analysis of randomized trials","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6282&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michaela_Kiernan","appointments":[{"appointment":"Sr Res Scientist-Basic Ls (PI Waiver),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Michaela","primaryAppointment":"Sr Res Scientist-Basic Ls (PI Waiver),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research","displayName":"Michaela Kiernan","lastName":"Kiernan"},{"researchInterest":"Cardiovascular disease epidemiology, health of socioeconomically disadvantaged and ethnic minority populations, social determinants of health, community-based intervention research, youth advocacy and mentorship, promoting diversity in health professions","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4305&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Marilyn_Winkleby","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Marilyn","primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research","displayName":"Marilyn Winkleby, PhD, MPH","lastName":"Winkleby"},{"researchInterest":"Population-level (community) prevention of cardiovascular disease, epidemiology and prevention of chronic diseases, tobacco use cessation research, tobacco control policy, nutrition education, blood pressure control, and lipid disorders.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4619&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Stephen_Fortmann","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Preventive"},{"focus":"Internal Medicine"},{"focus":"Primary Prevention"}],"firstName":"Stephen","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research","displayName":"Stephen P. Fortmann, MD","lastName":"Fortmann"},{"researchInterest":"Quality improvement, process improvement, physician leadership development.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4627&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Joseph_Hopkins","appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Professor,Medicine - Family & Community Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Family & Community Medicine"},{"focus":"Family Medicine"},{"focus":"Geriatrics"}],"firstName":"Joseph","primaryAppointment":"Clinical Professor,Medicine - Family & Community Medicine","displayName":"Joseph Hopkins","lastName":"Hopkins"},{"researchInterest":"Dr. Nguyen is interested in cancer prevention and control in ethnic and socio-economic underserved communities and health disparities.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7429&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Bang_Nguyen","appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Bang","primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","displayName":"Bang Nguyen","lastName":"Nguyen"},{"researchInterest":"My research interests include disparities in surgical care and cancer outcomes; surgical quality improvement, public reporting and pay-for performance.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8444&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Kim_Rhoads","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Colon and Rectal Surgery"},{"focus":"General Surgery"}],"firstName":"Kim","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","displayName":"Kim F. Rhoads","lastName":"Rhoads"}]}