Department: Health Research & Policy

• Faculty (42)
• Postdocs (4)
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  Baker, Laurence 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research
  • Professor (By courtesy), Economics
  Research Interest

  Dr. Baker's research is in the area of health economics, and focuses on the effects of financial incentives, organizational structures, and government policies on the health care delivery system, health care costs, and health outcomes.

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  Bhattacharya, Jayanta 
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor, Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch
  • Associate Professor (By courtesy), Economics
  • Associate Professor (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy
  Research Interest

  My research focuses on the constraints that vulnerable populations face in making decisions that affect their health status, as well as the effects of government policies and programs designed to benefit vulnerable populations.

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  Bundorf, Mary 
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research
  • Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Graduate School of Business
  Research Interest

  Her research focuses on health insurance markets including the determinants and effects of individual and purchaser choices, the effects of regulation in insurance markets, the interaction of public and private systems of health insurance, and incentives for insurers to improve health care quality.

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  Cobb, Kristin 
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology
  Research Interest

  Science writing, science communication, biostatistics. Research areas: osteoporosis, stress fractures, female athlete triad, sports nutrition.

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  Coram, Marc A
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics
  Research Interest

  My research develops theory and methodology to perform statistical inference about the latent structure of complex systems. I am collaborating with individuals in the Cancer Center on data from phospho flow cytometry and protein arrays.

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  Corso, Irene 
  Academic Appointments

  • Senior Lecturer, Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research
  • Lecturer, Language Center
  Research Interest

  My research interests involve doctor-patient communication: (1) the doctor-patient relation and satisfaction in health care delivery, with empahsis on cross cultural competency issues, (2) the effectiveness of different medical interpretive systems in health care settings, and (3) the impact of medical Spanish curriculum development and instruction in medical education.

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  Efron, Bradley 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Statistics
  • Professor, Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Research Interest

  Theories of inference applied to biostatistical data;, the bootstrap method.

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  Farquhar, John W
  Academic Appointments

  • Emeritus (Active) Professor, Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research
  • Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research
  • Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, Health Research & Policy
  Clinical Focus

  • Cardiology (Heart)
  • Cardiology (Heart), Preventive
  • Cardiovascular Medicine
  Research Interest

  Disease prevention, epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases, community-based education for disease prevention, international health.

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  Fortmann, Stephen 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research
  • Professor (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Cardiology (Heart), Preventive
  • Internal Medicine
  • Primary Prevention
  Research Interest

  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.

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  Friedman, Gary D
  Academic Appointments

  • Consulting Professor, Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Research Interest

  Chronic disease epidemiology, particularly cancer, cardiovascular disease, adverse effects of smoking, alcohol and pharmaceuticals, evaluation of screening tests. Most 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.

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  Garber, Alan 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch
  • Professor (By courtesy), Economics
  • Professor (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy
  • Professor, Graduate School of Business
  • Member, Cancer Center
  • Member, Bio-X
  Research Interest

  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

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  Goldhaber-Fiebert, Jeremy D
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch
  • Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy
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  Goldstein, Mary 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch
  • Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy
  • Member, Bio-X
  Research Interest

  Health services research in primary care and geriatrics; developing,, implementing, and evaluating methods for clinical quality improvement; utility assessment for cost-effectiveness analysis.

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  Hastie, Trevor J
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Statistics
  • Professor, Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics
  • Member, Bio-X
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Research Interest

  Flexible statistical modelling, datamining, bioinformatics, and statistical computing.

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  Heidenreich, Paul 
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy
  Research Interest

  My research interests include 1) The cost-effectiveness of new cardiovascular technologies. Example: tests to screen asymptomatic patients for left ventricular systolic dysfunction. 2) Interventions to improve the quality of care of patients with heart disease. Examples: include clinical reminders and home monitoring. 3) Outcomes research using existing clinical and administrative datasets. 4) Use of echocardiography to predict prognosis (e.g. diastolic dysfunction).

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  Henderson, Victor 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology
  • Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences
  Clinical Focus

  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Memory Disorders
  Research Interest

  Research interests: (1) Risk factors for age-associated cognitive decline and dementia, (2) Therapeutic strategies to improve cognitive function in aging and dementia, and (3) Brain–behavior relations as they pertain to human cognition.

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  Hlatky, Mark 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research
  • Professor, Medicine
  Clinical Focus

  • Cardiology (Heart)
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  Research Interest

  My main research work is in "outcomes research", especially examining the field of cardiovascular medicine. Particular areas of interest are the integration of economic and quality of life data into randomized clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, decision models, and cost-effectiveness analysis. I am also interested in the application of novel genetic, biomarker, and imaging tests to assess risk and guide clinical management of coronary artery disease.

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  Johnstone, Iain M
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Statistics
  • Professor, Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics
  Research Interest

  Empirical bias/shrinkage estimation; non-parametric, smoothing; statistical inverse problems.

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  King, Abby 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology
  • Professor, Medicine
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Research Interest

  My interests include the application of social cognitive theory and similar behavioral and ecological approaches to achieve large scale change in disease prevention and health promotion areas of relevance to adults, especially women and mid-life and older adults; translation of interventions that have proven effective in the laboratory to field settings; exploration of environmental influences on individual health and quality of life; and long term maintenance of hygienic/lifestyle regimens.

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  Kurian, Allison W
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Oncology
  • Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Health Research & Policy
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Cancer Genetics
  • Medical Oncology
  • Breast Cancer Risk
  Research Interest

  Breast and gynecologic cancer epidemiology, risk assessment, and risk reduction.

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  Lai, Tse L
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Statistics
  • Professor (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Research Interest

  Research interests include clinical trial design, cancer biostatistics, survival analysis, adaptation and sequential experimentation, change-point detection and segmentation, stochastic optimization, time series and inference on stochastic processes, hidden Markov models and genomic applications.

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  Lavori, Philip 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics
  • Professor (By courtesy), Statistics
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Research Interest

  Biostatistics, clinical trials, longitudinal studies, casual inference from observational studies, genetic tissue banking, informed consent. Trial designs for dynamic (adaptive) treatment regimes, psychiatric research, cancer.

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  Lu, Ying 
  Academic Appointments

  • Acting Professor, Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics

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  Macario, Alex 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor - Med Center Line, Anesthesia
  • Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy
  • Member, Bio-X
  Clinical Focus

  • Anesthesia
  Research Interest

  Dr. Macario is interested in the economics of health care, in particular the tradeoffs between costs and outcomes for patients having surgery and anesthesia. Dr. Macario has completed internationally recognized studies on the management of the operating room suite, as well as pioneering work on the cost-effectiveness of drugs and devices. He is Founder and Director of a Postgraduate Fellowship for physicians interested in applying quantitative tools to solve health services research questions.

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  Maldonado, Yvonne 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases
  • Professor (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Diseases, Pediatric
  • Pediatric Infectious Disease
  Research Interest

  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.

  Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
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  Miller, Norman G
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch
  • Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Economics
  • Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy

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  Nelson, Lorene 
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor, Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology
  Research Interest

  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.

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  Olkin, Ingram 
  Academic Appointments

  • Emeritus (Active) Professor, Statistics
  • Emeritus (Active) Professor, Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics
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  Olshen, Richard 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics
  • Professor (By courtesy), Statistics
  • Professor (By courtesy), Electrical Engineering
  • Member, Bio-X
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Research Interest

  My research is in statistics and their applications to medicine and biology. Many efforts have concerned tree-structured algorithms for classification, regression, survival analysis, and clustering.

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  Owens, Douglas 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch
  • Professor (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Research Interest

  My research uses decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and meta-analysis to evaluate clinical and health policy problems.

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  Parsonnet, Julie 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
  • Professor, Health Research & Policy
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Infectious Disease
  • Infectious Diseases
  Research Interest

  I am interested in the long-term consequences of chronic interactions between the human host and the microbial world. Recently, we have focused most heavily on Helicobacter pylori, tuberculosis and helminth infections. I also remain strongly interested in diarrheal diseases, particularly in the developing world, and in sanitation and hygiene.

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  Popat, Rita 
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology
  Research Interest

  My research interest focuses on the epidemiology of Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, specifically evaluating the genetic and environmental contributions to these neurodegenerative disorders.

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  Rogosa, David R
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor, School of Edu Faculty Affairs
  • Associate Professor (By courtesy), Statistics
  • Associate Professor (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy

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  Sabatti, Chiara 
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor, Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics
  • Associate Professor (By courtesy), Statistics
  • Member, Bio-X
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  Shih, Mei-Chiung 
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics
  • Member, Cancer Center
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  Sieh, Weiva Y
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Research Interest

  Genetic epidemiology; cancer epidemiology; prostate, ovarian and breast cancer.

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  Tian, Lu 
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics
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  Tibshirani, Robert 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics
  • Professor, Statistics
  • Member, Bio-X
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Research Interest

  My research is in applied statistics and biostatistics. I specialize in computer-intensive methods for regression and classification, bootstrap, cross-validationand statistical inference, and signal and image analysis for medical diagnosis.

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  West, Dee W
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Research Interest

  - Cancer etiology (diet, familial, genetic), especially breast, prostate and colon cancer - Cancer surveillance (Cancer registration, cancer patterns) - Cancer outcomes (Survival, quality of life, quality of care)

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  Whittemore, Alice 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Research Interest

  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.

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  Wise, Paul H
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Pediatrics - General
  • Professor (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy
  Research Interest

  He is a health policy and outcomes researcher whose work has focused on children's health; health-outcomes disparities by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status; the interaction of genetics and the environment as these factors influence child and maternal health; and the impact of medical technology on disparities in health outcomes.

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  Wong, Wing 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Statistics
  • Professor (By courtesy), Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)
  • Professor, Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics
  • Member, Bio-X
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Research Interest

  Current interest centers on the application of statistics to problems arsing from biology. We are particularly interested in questions concerning gene regulation and signal transduction.