Community Academic Profiles–

How to Find and Use Physician and Researcher Profiles

Community Academic Profiles (CAP) now includes active Stanford physicians, School of Medicine faculty, Principle Investigators and Postdoctoral Scholars. Most profiles are created automatically, based on the person's employment, appointments or affiliations. The following are the contextual home pages for profiles:

Finding a specific profile

Browse: To any of the above home pages, then look for the link or button for "Profiles by Name" or "Profiles by Department."

Search: Search boxes are present on all the home pages, either on the left or in the center of the page. Search for a specific name, or for a topic, such as "cancer." Results return exact name matches at the top of the page, followed by any profile that contains text that exactly matches your search terms.

Can't find a profile?

CAP automatically generates a basic profile for any person with a faculty appointment in the School of Medicine (including secondary, joint, courtesy, and active emeritus appointments), researchers with PI status, and postdoctoral scholars. Faculty information is provided by PeopleSoft so if there are delays or errors in the appointment process it is possible a profile will not be created. If you are a faculty member or a PI and your profile does not appear or there are errors in your appointments, please consult with your group's Director of Finance and Administration (DFA). Postdocs can email .

Stanford physicians are approved into CAP by the Medical Staff Office (MSO) via a single nightly feed. Email if you believe you are a qualifying physician and don't yet have a profile.

Report or follow up on access problems with the problem report form.

Linking to profiles

Each profile can be reached using a standardized pattern, known as the "Express URL":

http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/firstname_lastname/

Or,

http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/firstname_lastname/

Or,

http://cancer.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/physician/firstname_lastname/

You can link to any CAP page you can browse to. Simply copy the entire URL from your browser address bar, and use this as the link.

Most profile pages can also be made to "integrate" with any Stanford Medicine site by a simple change of the URL. Here is Dean Pizzo's profile in the default CAP view:

http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Philip_Pizzo/

And here is the same profile, viewed within the Pediatrics site context:

http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/pediatrics/faculty/Philip_Pizzo/

To learn more about integrating CAP profiles and pages with a Stanford Medicine site, please read Integration of Dynamic Content into Static Sites.

Updating a profile (Stanford community members only)

You will need a SUNet ID to login to the system. If you, or a person you wish to delegate editing rights to, do not have a SUNet ID, please see the SUNet ID information page. Stanford Hospital employees are pre-approved for a basic sponsored SUNet ID. See IRT's Sponsored ID page for more info.

To edit a profile, click the "Update Your Profile" link on any page. If a maintainer for multiple profiles, choose a profile to edit from the provided list by clicking it's link. If a maintainer of only one profile, you will go immediately to the Edit Profile page for that profile.

After login, click the "Help for Maintainers" link on the left for additional help with specific profile items.

Report a problem / Provide Feedback

If you experience any technical difficulties, have questions about the online profiles, or would like to provide feedback, please use the Problem Report Form.

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