{"result":[{"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. Zarins","lastName":"Zarins"},{"researchInterest":"Broadly, Dr. Pelc is interested in the physics, engineering and mathematics of medical imaging, especially computed tomography, digital x-ray imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, and hybrid multimodality systems.  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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"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4725&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Frandics_Chan","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Congenital Heart Disease"},{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Radiology"}],"firstName":"Frandics","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","displayName":"Frandics Chan","lastName":"Chan"},{"researchInterest":"Improved endovascular procedures and devices to treat aortic lesions, peripheral arterial disease and venous abnormalities. Focused interest in drug-eluting stents and balloons, endovascular stent-grafts, including branched aortic devices and techniques for the endovascular management of aortic dissection. 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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Roos","lastName":"Roos"},{"researchInterest":"Vascular biology, arterial remodeling, aneurysm development; innovative treatment strategies for AAA, animal models of arterial disease, arterial remodeling and flow changes in spinal cord injury, genetic regulation of arterial aneurysm formation","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5927&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ronald_Dalman","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Vascular Surgery"},{"focus":"Aortic Aneurysm"},{"focus":"Limb Salvage"},{"focus":"Aortic Diseases"},{"focus":"Aorta, Abdominal"},{"focus":"Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic"},{"focus":"Aortitis"},{"focus":"Intermittent Claudication"},{"focus":"Diabetic Foot"},{"focus":"Cerebrovascular Disorders"},{"focus":"Transient Ischemic Attack, Carotid Circulation"},{"focus":"Carotid Artery Diseases"},{"focus":"Carotid Stenosis"},{"focus":"Stroke"},{"focus":"Venous Insufficiency"},{"focus":"Mesenteric Vascular Occlusion"},{"focus":"Hypertension, Renovascular"},{"focus":"Iliac Aneurysm"},{"focus":"Deep Vein Thrombosis"},{"focus":"Subclavian Vein"},{"focus":"Subclavian Steal Syndrome"}],"firstName":"Ronald","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery","displayName":"Ronald L. 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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":"Research Interests: Disease of the aorta, congenital and acquired. Treatment of aortic pathology, including development of stent graft systems. Patterns of disease in patients treated with mediastinal radiation. Valvular heart disease, especially aortopathy associated with congenital bicuspid aortic valve.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3999&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/R_Mitchell","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Aortic Aneurysm"},{"focus":"Cardiac Valve Disease"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Surgery"}],"firstName":"R","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","displayName":"R. Scott Mitchell","lastName":"Mitchell"},{"researchInterest":"Embryonic stem cell biology, cardiovascular developmental biology, cardiovascular tissue engineering, surgical device design.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9317&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Oscar_Abilez","appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Surgery"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Oscar","primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Surgery","displayName":"Oscar Abilez","lastName":"Abilez"},{"researchInterest":"Imaging cardiovascular disease, with a focus on coronary and vascular atherosclerosis and ischemic heart disease.  Projects include cellular and structural characterization of atherosclerotic plaque by MRI, optical imaging (bioluminescence and fluorescence) of vascular inflammation, as well as noninvasive coronary angiography by MRI and MRI- guided cardiovascular interventions.  Additional collaborative projects include real-time cardiac MRI and multi-modality imaging of cardiac stem cell trans","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4727&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_McConnell","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Molecular & Cellular Physiology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Electrical Engineering"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"firstName":"Michael","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Michael V. 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Please see my research site (above) for most up-to-date information.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6626&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Brian_Hargreaves","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Brian","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","displayName":"Brian Hargreaves","lastName":"Hargreaves"},{"researchInterest":"Imaging informatics, information integration, spatiotemporal modeling, image analysis, quantitation for molecular imaging, imaging simulation, statistical methods for imaging evaluation, and visualization with application in cancer imaging.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7103&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/David_Paik","appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"David","primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor (Research),Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","displayName":"David Paik","lastName":"Paik"},{"researchInterest":"I am interested in investigationg magnetic resonance imaging techniques for use in clinical radiology.  Specific topics include non-contrast enhanced MR angiography, interactive or real-time MRI, and fast spin echo techniques.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=11514&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Pauline_Worters","appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Pauline","primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology","displayName":"Pauline Worters","lastName":"Worters"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10450&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/John-Peder_Kvitting","appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Cardiothoracic Surgery"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"John-Peder","primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Cardiothoracic Surgery","displayName":"John-Peder Escobar Kvitting","lastName":"Kvitting"},{"researchInterest":"Cardiac surgery simulation, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, coronary artery bypass surgery, cardiac valve disease, thoracic aortic disease","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4014&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/James_Fann","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"}],"firstName":"James","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","displayName":"James Fann","lastName":"Fann"},{"researchInterest":"Dr. Zhou\u0092s vascular research laboratory focuses on pathogenesis of atherosclerotic lesion formation and molecular mechanisms of intimal hyperplasia, including smooth muscle cell proliferation, oxidative stress, and endothelial cell dysfunction.   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Through collaboration with Stanford investigators and investigators at Baylor Colleg","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8260&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Wei_Zhou","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Vascular Surgery"},{"focus":"Endovascular Intervention"}],"firstName":"Wei","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery","displayName":"Wei Zhou","lastName":"Zhou"},{"researchInterest":"","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14854&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Tolga_Cukur","appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Electrical Engineering"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Tolga","primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Electrical Engineering","displayName":"Tolga Cukur","lastName":"Cukur"},{"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":"Research interests include (1) computer simulation and modeling of cardiovascular physiology with specific attention paid to congenital heart disease and its treatment, (2) development and testing of transcatheter therapies for the treatment of congenital heart disease, and (3) the evaluation and treatment of pulmonary hypertension/pulmonary vascular disease.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4396&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jeffrey_Feinstein","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Cardiology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Bioengineering"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiology"},{"focus":"Congenital Heart Defects"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Hypertension"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Vascular Disease"},{"focus":"Pulmonary Vascular Abnormalities"},{"focus":"Cardiac Catheterization"},{"focus":"Biomechanical Engineering / Bioengineering"}],"firstName":"Jeffrey","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Cardiology","displayName":"Jeffrey A. 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