{"result":[{"lastName":"Tompkins","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Diseases"},{"focus":"Internal Medicine"},{"focus":"hospital epidemiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"},{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4603&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lucy Tompkins","firstName":"Lucy","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Lucy_Tompkins","researchInterest":"Molecular and cellular pathogenesis of Helicobacter infection. Molecular epidemiology, hospital epidemiology."},{"lastName":"Shachter","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Management Sci Operations"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Medicine - BMIR"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Management Sci Operations","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6795&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ross Shachter","firstName":"Ross","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ross_Shachter","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Falkow","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4488&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stanley Falkow","firstName":"Stanley","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Stanley_Falkow","researchInterest":"Dr. Falkow is no longer taking students or postdoctoral fellows in his laboratory.  \r\n\r\nPlease contact either Denise Monack (dmonack@stanford.edu) or Manuel Amieva (amieva@stanford.edu)."},{"lastName":"Friedman","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Consulting Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Consulting Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6143&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gary Friedman","firstName":"Gary","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Gary_Friedman","researchInterest":"Chronic disease epidemiology, particularly cancer, cardiovascular disease, adverse effects of smoking, alcohol and pharmaceuticals, evaluation of screening tests.\r\nMost of my career has been in the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research where I was Director for 7 years and am still active. I especially enjoy mentoring students and trainees at Stanford."},{"lastName":"Horn-Ross","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7424&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Pamela Horn-Ross","firstName":"Pamela","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Pamela_Horn-Ross","researchInterest":"My research interests focus on nutrition and the etiology of hormonally-dependent cancers in women (most particularly breast, endometrial, and thyroid cancers).  Of particular interest are the effects of phytochemicals that may reduce cancer risk, such as the isoflavones in soy foods, the lignans in whole grains, the isothiocyanates in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables, and resveratrol in red wine and peanuts. Nutrient-gene interactions are also of interest."},{"lastName":"Owens","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4649&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Douglas Owens","firstName":"Douglas","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Douglas_Owens","researchInterest":"My research uses decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and meta-analysis to evaluate clinical and health policy problems."},{"lastName":"Montoya","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Disease"},{"focus":"Immunocompromised Host"},{"focus":"Toxoplasmosis"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4047&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jose G. Montoya","firstName":"Jose","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jose_Montoya","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Maldonado","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Diseases, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Infectious Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4663&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Yvonne Maldonado","firstName":"Yvonne","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Yvonne_Maldonado","researchInterest":"My research focuses on epidemiologic aspects of viral vaccines and perinatal HIV infection. This includes the molecular epidemiology of factors affecting the immunogenicity of oral polio vaccine (OPV) in developing areas of the world, and now the epidemiology of transmission and circulation of vaccine derived polioviruses in order to assist in global eradication of polio.  I also work in development of methods to prevent breastfeeding transmission of HIV in Africa."},{"lastName":"Winkleby","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4305&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marilyn Winkleby, PhD, MPH","firstName":"Marilyn","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Marilyn_Winkleby","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"},{"lastName":"Amieva","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Diseases, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Infectious Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6150&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Manuel Amieva","firstName":"Manuel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Manuel_Amieva","researchInterest":"My laboratory studies the strategies pathogens utilize to colonize and subvert the epithelial barrier. We have focused on the epithelial junctions as a target for bacterial pathogens, since the cell-cell junctions serve as both a barrier to infection and also a major control site for epithelial function. In particular, we are interested in how the gastric pathogen Helicobater pylori may cause cancer by interfering with cell signaling at the epithelial junctions.  We are also studying how variou"},{"lastName":"Triadafilopoulos","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Gastroenterology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Professor,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Professor,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4251&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"George Triadafilopoulos","firstName":"George","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/George_Triadafilopoulos","researchInterest":"My primary research interest concerns factors involved in the pathogenesis of gastro-esophageal  reflux disease and its complications, such as Barrett's esophagus and the role of diagnostic and therapeutic modalities in their management."},{"lastName":"Pride","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9162&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David Pride","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/David_Pride","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Fortmann","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Preventive"},{"focus":"Internal Medicine"},{"focus":"Primary Prevention"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4619&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stephen P. Fortmann, MD","firstName":"Stephen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Stephen_Fortmann","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."},{"lastName":"Prober","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Diseases, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Infectious Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases"},{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4095&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Charles G. Prober","firstName":"Charles","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Charles_Prober","researchInterest":"My area of research interest is focused on the epidemiology, pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment of infections in children. Much of my research has focused on viral infections, especially those caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV). I have conducted a number of studies concerned with the epidemiology of HSV-2 infections in pregnant women, their partners, and neonates. Recently, I have extended these epidemiologic studies to adolescents."},{"lastName":"Nelson","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4277&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lorene Nelson, PhD","firstName":"Lorene","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Lorene_Nelson","researchInterest":"Primary research interests:  (1) genetic and environmental determinants of neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and multiple sclerosis, (2) genetic epidemiology and approaches for identifying gene-environment interactions, (3) genetic and environmental determinants of autoimmune disease."},{"lastName":"Chang","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7428&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ellen Chang","firstName":"Ellen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ellen_Chang","researchInterest":"Dr. Chang's research interests and activities include:\r\n\r\n\u0095 The etiology of virus-associated malignancies, including Hodgkin lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and hepatocellular carcinoma\r\n\r\n\u0095 The etiologic role of immune-related risk factors in cancer, especially lymphoid malignancies\r\n\r\n\u0095 The prevention of hepatitis B and hepatocellular carcinoma\r\n\r\n\u0095 Racial/ethnic disparities in cancer incidence and survival, particularly among Asians and Asian Americans"},{"lastName":"Glaser","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7426&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sally Glaser","firstName":"Sally","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sally_Glaser","researchInterest":"Dr. Glaser\u0092s interests in cancer epidemiology focus primarily on Hodgkin lymphoma, breast cancer, and Surveillance Research (the use of population-based cancer and other data to monitor cancer occurrence and related population patterns).  In these areas, her work addresses cancer etiology and outcomes related to several risk factors, including EBV and HIV."},{"lastName":"Clarke","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7430&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Christina Clarke","firstName":"Christina","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Christina_Clarke","researchInterest":"Dr. Clarke\u0092s research efforts are centered in four areas: 1) time trends and epidemiology of breast cancer, 2) the epidemiology of lymphoid malignancies 3) immunologic and viral causes of malignancy, and 4) cancer surveillance and creative uses of cancer surveillance data (e.g, SEER, cancer registry data)."},{"lastName":"Gomez","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7427&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Scarlett Lin Gomez","firstName":"Scarlett","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Scarlett_Gomez","researchInterest":"As a cancer epidemiologist with a focus on surveillance research, Dr. Gomez conducts research in two broad areas:  1) methodologic studies aimed at enhancing cancer registry data for studies of race/ethnicity and social determinants in cancer incidence and outcomes; and 2) studies to elucidate the underlying social factors responsible for racial/ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities, particularly those identified through surveillance data."},{"lastName":"West","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6327&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dee W. West","firstName":"Dee","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Dee_West","researchInterest":"- Cancer etiology (diet, familial, genetic), especially breast, prostate and colon cancer\r\n- Cancer surveillance (Cancer registration, cancer patterns)\r\n- Cancer outcomes (Survival, quality of life, quality of care)"},{"lastName":"John","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7425&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Esther M. John","firstName":"Esther","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Esther_John","researchInterest":"Etiology of breast, prostate and ovarian cancer; cancer in Hispanics and African-Americans; migration and acculturation in Hispanics; modifiable lifestyle factors (vitamin D, physical activity, body size, heterocyclic amines, occupational exposures); genetic susceptibility; gene-environment interactions"},{"lastName":"Pizzo","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Diseases, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Hematology-Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Dean of the School of Medicine,Stanford University School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics"},{"appointment":"The Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean,Stanford University School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Dean of the School of Medicine,Stanford University School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3843&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Philip A. Pizzo, M.D.","firstName":"Philip","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Philip_Pizzo","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Gerson","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Gastroenterology"},{"focus":"Gastroesophageal Reflux"},{"focus":"Esophageal Motility Disorders"},{"focus":"Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4575&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lauren B. Gerson MD, MSc","firstName":"Lauren","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Lauren_Gerson","researchInterest":"Dr. Gerson's clinical expertise is in the diagnosis and management of gastroesophageal reflux disease, esophageal motility disorders, and obscure GI bleeding using capsule endoscpy and double balloon enteroscopy. Her research interests include epidemiology and clinical trials in GERD and Barrett's esophagus; cost-effectiveness studies in the areas of Barrett's esophagus and new technology; and quality of life assessment for patients with GERD and BE."},{"lastName":"Banaei","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Clinical Pathology"},{"focus":"Mycobacterium Infections"},{"focus":"Clinical Laboratory Techniques"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8031&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Niaz Banaei (previously Banaiee)","firstName":"Niaz","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Niaz_Banaei","researchInterest":"My research interests include development and implementation of rapid diagnostic assays for the detection, identification, and susceptibility testing of clinically important mycobacteria.  Furthermore, I am interested in understanding the role of M. tuberculosis lipoproteins and lipoprotein processing in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis."},{"lastName":"Relman","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Disease"},{"focus":"Infectious Diseases"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"},{"appointment":"Professor,Microbiology & Immunology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4005&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David A. Relman","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/David_Relman","researchInterest":"My investigative program focuses on human-microbe interactions and human microbial ecology, and is divided into two research areas: 1) Ecology of human indigenous microbial communities; 2) Classification of humans and non-human primates with systemic infectious diseases, based on features of genome-wide gene transcript abundance patterns."}]}