{"result":[{"lastName":"Dake","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Interventional Radiology"},{"focus":"Endovascular Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Acting Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Acting Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4304&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael D. Dake","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_Dake","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."},{"lastName":"Zhou","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Vascular Surgery"},{"focus":"Endovascular Intervention"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8260&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Wei Zhou","firstName":"Wei","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Wei_Zhou","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.   Our specific clinical research interests are re-stenosis following endovascular interventions, plaque progression in arterial trees, and alternative outcome measures.  Through collaboration with Stanford investigators and investigators at Baylor Colleg"},{"lastName":"Zarins","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Vascular Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Surgery - Vascular Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Surgery - Vascular Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4250&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Christopher K. Zarins","firstName":"Christopher","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Christopher_Zarins","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."},{"lastName":"Harris","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Vascular Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4678&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"E. John Harris Jr.","firstName":"Edmund","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Edmund_Harris","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."},{"lastName":"Dalman","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"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5927&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ronald L. Dalman MD","firstName":"Ronald","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ronald_Dalman","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"},{"lastName":"Olcott","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Vascular Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4202&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Cornelius Olcott","firstName":"Cornelius","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Cornelius_Olcott","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Abilez","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9317&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Oscar Abilez","firstName":"Oscar","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Oscar_Abilez","researchInterest":"Embryonic stem cell biology, cardiovascular developmental biology, cardiovascular tissue engineering, surgical device design."},{"lastName":"Rubin","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Imaging"},{"focus":"Thoracic Imaging"},{"focus":"CT Angiography"},{"focus":"Computed Tomography"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4076&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Geoffrey D. Rubin, M.D.","firstName":"Geoffrey","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Geoffrey_Rubin","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."},{"lastName":"Mitchell","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Aortic Aneurysm"},{"focus":"Cardiac Valve Disease"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3999&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"R. Scott Mitchell","firstName":"R","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/R_Mitchell","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."},{"lastName":"Kawarada","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13112&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Osami Kawarada","firstName":"Osami","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Osami_Kawarada","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Sze","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Radiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4714&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Daniel Sze","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Daniel_Sze","researchInterest":"Transarterial administration of chemotherapeutics, radioactive microspheres, and biologics for the treatment of unresectable tumors; Stent and Stent-graft treatment of peripheral vascular diseases, aneurysms, aortic dissections; management of portal hypertension (TIPS); Percutaneous treatment of complications of organ transplantation; Venous reconstruction; Magnetic resonance imaging-guided interventions."},{"lastName":"Fleischmann","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Radiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4591&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dominik Fleischmann","firstName":"Dominik","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Dominik_Fleischmann","researchInterest":"Non-invasive Cardiovascular Imaging \r\nImage Post-processing\r\nContrast Medium Dynamics"},{"lastName":"Bloch","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4604&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Daniel Bloch","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Daniel_Bloch","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Guta","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Anesthesia"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5995&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Cosmin Guta","firstName":"Cosmin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Cosmin_Guta","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"van der Starre","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3805&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Pieter van der Starre","firstName":"Pieter","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Pieter_van der Starre","researchInterest":"Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Cardiovascular Physiology,\r\nNeurophysiology and Monitoring,\r\nTransesophageal Echocardiography"},{"lastName":"Yeung","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"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4228&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Alan Yeung, MD","firstName":"Alan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Alan_Yeung","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."},{"lastName":"Ihnken","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6919&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kai Ihnken","firstName":"Kai","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Kai_Ihnken","researchInterest":"Special interests:\r\n* Thoracic aortic and thoracoabdominal aneurysm repair\r\n* Thoracic transplantation\r\n* Off pump CABG\r\n* All arterial revascularization\r\n* Aortic and mitral valve repair\r\n* Minimal invasive thoracic surgery\r\n* Robotic surgery\r\n* Percutaneous valve placement"},{"lastName":"Lee","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Interventional Cardiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4573&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David Lee, MD","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/David_Lee","researchInterest":"1. Use of GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors and other pharmacotherapy in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction\t\r\n2. Novel treatments and devices for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction\r\n3. Alcohol septal ablation for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy\r\n4. Novel approaches to coronary revascularization\r\n5. Closure devices for atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale"},{"lastName":"Willmann","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Abdominal and Pelvic Imaging"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8459&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Juergen K. Willmann, M.D.","firstName":"Juergen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Juergen_Willmann","researchInterest":"My lab focuses on the development and clinical translation of novel molecular and functional imaging strategies with special focus on abdominal and pelvic diseases."},{"lastName":"Stertzer","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4441&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Simon H. Stertzer, MD, FACC,FAHA","firstName":"Simon","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Simon_Stertzer","researchInterest":"Coronary Angioplasty; Intramyocardial Stem cell delivery"},{"lastName":"Lane","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Radiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4172&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Barton Lane","firstName":"Barton","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Barton_Lane","researchInterest":"As a professor in the Medical Center Line, my primary investigative interest has been in clinical neuroradiology. This encompasses spinal cord and spine disease, degenerative and demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system, strokes and infarction, and chronic epilepsy syndromes. Facial and head and neck vascular malformations and hemangiomas have been a focus of interest for many years, with collaborative projects involving dermatology and functional restoration services."},{"lastName":"Roos","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7964&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Justus E. Roos","firstName":"Justus","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Justus_Roos","researchInterest":"Cardiovascular Imaging\r\nThoracic Imaging\r\nCT and MR data Postprocessing"},{"lastName":"Yock","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"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"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4700&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul Yock, MD","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Paul_Yock","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"},{"lastName":"Fitzgerald","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4224&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Peter Fitzgerald, MD, PhD","firstName":"Peter","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Peter_Fitzgerald","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Fearon","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Interventional Cardiology"},{"focus":"Coronary Artery Disease"},{"focus":"Percutaneous aortic valve"},{"focus":"Aortic Stenosis"},{"focus":"Coronary Physiology"},{"focus":"Cardiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5950&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"William Fearon, MD","firstName":"William","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/William_Fearon","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."}]}