{"result":[{"lastName":"Sahoo","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Pathology - Stem Cell Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Pathology - Stem Cell Institute","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10888&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Debashis Sahoo","firstName":"Debashis","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Debashis_Sahoo","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Kurian","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cancer Genetics"},{"focus":"Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Breast Cancer Risk"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Health Research & Policy"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6431&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Allison W. 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":"Ikeda","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Breast Cancer"},{"focus":"Breast Cancer - Diagnostic Imaging"},{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Radiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4275&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Debra M. Ikeda, M.D.","firstName":"Debra","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Debra_Ikeda","researchInterest":"My research interests involves many aspects of Breast Cancer Imaging: contrast-enhanced MRI, MRI-guided breast biopsies, digital mammography, ultrasound, MR spectroscopy, fine-needle aspiration and large core needle biopsy, SLN biopsy, outcomes, compliance, digital mammography, computer-aided detection, optical imaging, PET, PET/CT, and molecular imaging.\r\n Our teaching program includes highy successful post-graduate digital mammography and MRI educational courses, and visiting fellowships."},{"lastName":"Dirbas","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Breast Cancer"},{"focus":"Breast Cancer - Surgery"},{"focus":"Breast Surgery"},{"focus":"General Surgery"},{"focus":"Surgical Oncology"},{"focus":"Breast-Conserving Surgery"},{"focus":"Breast Neoplasms"},{"focus":"Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast"},{"focus":"Paget's Disease of Breast"},{"focus":"Radiation Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4667&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Frederick M. 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Accelerated radiotherapy after lumpectomy decreases radiotherapy treatment times from 6 weeks to just 1 to 5 days."},{"lastName":"Tibshirani","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Professor,Statistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4688&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Tibshirani","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Robert_Tibshirani","researchInterest":"My research is in applied statistics and biostatistics. I specialize in \u000bcomputer-intensive methods for regression and classification, bootstrap, cross-validation\u000band statistical inference, and signal and image analysis for medical diagnosis."},{"lastName":"Daniel","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Radiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4568&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Bruce Daniel","firstName":"Bruce","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Bruce_Daniel","researchInterest":"1. MRI of Breast Cancer\r\n2. MRI-guided interventions, especially MRI-guided cryosurgery of prostate cancer"},{"lastName":"Qiu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10272&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Peng Qiu","firstName":"Peng","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Peng_Qiu","researchInterest":""},{"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":"Jackman","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Breast Imaging"},{"focus":"Breast Needle Biopsies"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6788&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Roger J. Jackman","firstName":"Roger","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Roger_Jackman","researchInterest":"Accuracy of diagnosing breast cancer by image-guided needle biopsies and surgical biopsies."},{"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":"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":"Shachaf","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Microbiology & Immunology - Baxter Laboratory"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Microbiology & Immunology - Baxter Laboratory","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7574&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Catherine Shachaf","firstName":"Catherine","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Catherine_Shachaf","researchInterest":"The focus of our research is to determine the genomic and proteomic signatures of a cancer cell, and to compare them to the signatures of normal stem cells.  The goal is to identify the pathway(s) that determine the fate of a progenitor cell \u0096 to become neoplastic or to remain normal \u0096 then to prevent the neoplastic pathway decision.\r\n\r\nWe are also developing surface enhanced Raman (SERS) nanoparticles to supplement the fluorescent molecules currently available for flow cytometry."},{"lastName":"Alizadeh","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Oncology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9558&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ash A. Alizadeh, MD/PhD","firstName":"Arash","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Arash_Alizadeh","researchInterest":"My research is focused on attaining a better understanding of the initiation, maintenance, and progression of lymphoid tumors, and their response to immunochemotherapy toward improving current treatment strategies.  \r\n\r\nIn this effort, I employ tools from functional genomics, computational biology, molecular genetics, and mouse models.  I hope to apply this knowledge towards the design of clinical trials in the treatment of patients with lymphoma, leukemia, and myeloma."},{"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":"Wapnir","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Breast Cancer"},{"focus":"Breast Cancer - Surgery"},{"focus":"Breast Surgery"},{"focus":"General Surgery"},{"focus":"Nipple-sparing mastectomy, breast conserving surgery, sentinel node biopsy"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4337&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Irene Wapnir","firstName":"Irene","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Irene_Wapnir","researchInterest":"Clinical treatment trials in Breast Cancer, especially local recurrence of breast cancer. Dr. Wapnir is institutional Principal Investigator for National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP). Laboratory research includes exploring the activity of breast iodide transporter in breast cancer. These endeavors have lead to translational research protocols."},{"lastName":"King","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10623&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Bonnie King, PhD","firstName":"Bonnie","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Bonnie_King","researchInterest":""},{"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":"Felsher","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Hodgkin's Disease"},{"focus":"Hodgkin's Disease - Hematology"},{"focus":"Hodgkin's Disease - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Lymphoma "},{"focus":"Oncology"},{"focus":"Oncology (Cancer)"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5931&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dean W. 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I have shown that cancers caused by the conditional over-expression of the MYC proto-oncogene regress with its inactivation."},{"lastName":"Ford","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cancer Genetics"},{"focus":"Gastrointestinal Cancers - Genetics"},{"focus":"Gastrointestinal Cancers - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Breast Cancer - Genetics"},{"focus":"Ovarian Cancer - Genetics"},{"focus":"Medical Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Pediatrics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4066&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"James Ford","firstName":"James","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/James_Ford","researchInterest":"Mammalian DNA repair and DNA damage inducible responses; p53 tumor suppressor gene; transcription in nucleotide excision repair and mutagenesis; genetic determinants of cancer cell sensitivity to DNA\u000bdamage; genetics of inherited cancer susceptibility syndromes and human GI malignancies; clinical cancer genetics of BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer and mismatch repair deficient colon cancer."},{"lastName":"Pollack","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6066&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jonathan Pollack","firstName":"Jonathan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jonathan_Pollack","researchInterest":"Our laboratory uses genomics approaches to explore patterns of gene expression and gene copy number alteration in both human cancer cell line model systems and in tumors, with the goals of better understanding cancer, and developing novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies."},{"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":"Whittemore","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=4482&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Alice S Whittemore","firstName":"Alice","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Alice_Whittemore","researchInterest":"Cancers of the prostate, breast and ovary account for a major proportion of new cancer cases and cancer deaths in the U.S. each year. Our recent research focus has been on developing improved statistical methods for the design and conduct of studies involving hereditary predisposition and modifiable lifestyle characteristics in the etiologies of site-specific cancers."},{"lastName":"Garber","clinicalFocus":[],"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"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4662&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Alan M. Garber","firstName":"Alan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Alan_Garber","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"},{"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":"Natkunam","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Hematopathology"},{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5929&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Yasodha Natkunam, M.D., Ph.D","firstName":"Yasodha","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Yasodha_Natkunam","researchInterest":"My research interests focus on the identification and characterization of markers of diagnostic and prognostic importance in hematolymphoid neoplasia."}]}