{"result":[{"lastName":"Vagelos","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"valvular heart disease"},{"focus":"Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Radiation/Chemotherapy induced cardiac disease"},{"focus":"Pericardial disease"}],"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=4105&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Randall Vagelos, MD","firstName":"Randall","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Randall_Vagelos","researchInterest":"I. Congestive Heart Failure New Medical Therapies Prognostic Evaluation Selection for Cardiac Transplantation II. Screening for Myocardial Necrosis New ECG Monitoring Devices New Serum Markers III. Screening for CAD Patients Who Have Received Radiation Rx Diabetics Being Considered for Renal Transplantation\r\nIV. Advanced coronary and valvular disease, evaluationg candidacy for high risk interventions."},{"lastName":"Ashley","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology"},{"focus":"Inherited cardiovascular disease"},{"focus":"Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Genomic medicine"},{"focus":"Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy"},{"focus":"Cardiomyopathy, Dilated"},{"focus":"Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7578&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Euan A. 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Half of the lab is wet benches where we take advantage of cell systems, transgenic models and microsurgical models of disease to prove causality of our favorite targets."},{"lastName":"Khush","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"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=8421&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kiran Kaur Khush, MD","firstName":"Kiran","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Kiran_Khush","researchInterest":"Dr. Khush\u0092s clinical research interests include the evaluation of donors and recipients for heart transplantation; mechanisms of adverse outcomes after heart transplantation, including coronary allograft vasculopathy and antibody-mediated rejection; the treatment of acute decompensated heart failure; and the cardiorenal syndrome."},{"lastName":"Schnittger","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"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=4659&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ingela Schnittger, MD","firstName":"Ingela","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ingela_Schnittger","researchInterest":"My main research continues to be in the field of echocardiography. Several areas of research are currently being pursued."},{"lastName":"Valantine","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4322&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Hannah Valantine","firstName":"Hannah","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Hannah_Valantine","researchInterest":"My lab is focused on understanding the mechanism mediating acute and chronic allograft failure, in particular on the role of microvascular injury in acute allograft failure and the mechanisms of mediating transplant coronary artery disease. 1. Role of microvascular injury in acute allograft failure."},{"lastName":"Heidenreich","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4682&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul Heidenreich, MD","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Paul_Heidenreich","researchInterest":"My research interests include \r\n\r\n1) The cost-effectiveness of new cardiovascular technologies. \r\nExample: tests to screen asymptomatic patients for left ventricular systolic dysfunction.\r\n\r\n2) Interventions to improve the quality of care of patients with heart disease. 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I am particularly interested in the potential involvement of the recently discovered peptide hormone apelin.  Recent studies in my laboratory group have focused on apelin's role in promoting insulin sensitivity on the systemic, tissue-specific, and cellular level.  We are currently investigating apelin-mediated signaling events in insulin-sensitive and -resistant cardiac muscle."},{"lastName":"Perez","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Atrial Fibrillation"},{"focus":"Arrhythmias, Cardiac"},{"focus":"Channelopathies (Long QT, Brugada, CPVT)"},{"focus":"Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9771&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marco Perez","firstName":"Marco","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Marco_Perez","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Desai","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiology"}],"appointments":[],"imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5909&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kavin Desai","firstName":"Kavin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Kavin_Desai","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Perlroth","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4181&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark Perlroth, MD","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mark_Perlroth","researchInterest":"1. Adult Congenital Heart Disease \r\n2. Cardiac Transplantation\r\n3. General Cardiology\r\n4. 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These clinical interests range from imaging of complex cardiac disease in the fetus and newborn to care of the adult with congenital heart disease. He also coordinates the Marfan clinic at LPCH.  He is the director of the Adult Congenital Cardiac Clinic at Stanford University Medical Center."},{"lastName":"Robbins","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"}],"appointments":[],"imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4247&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert C. Robbins, M. D.","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Robert_Robbins","researchInterest":"Stem Cell Therapy for Myocardial Restoration, Cardiopulmonary Transplantation, Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy, Automated Anastomotic Devices, Genetics and Mechanisms of Congestive Heart Failure"},{"lastName":"Witteles","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Amyloidosis"},{"focus":"Cardiotoxicity of Cancer Therapies"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"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=8212&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ronald Witteles","firstName":"Ronald","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ronald_Witteles","researchInterest":"1) Understanding, treating, and preventing cancer therapy-induced cardiotoxicity\r\n2) Amyloidosis -- Optimizing therapy and discovering new treatments\r\n3) Relationships between insulin resistance and dilated cardiomyopathy"},{"lastName":"Popp","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4122&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Richard Popp","firstName":"Richard","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Richard_Popp","researchInterest":"Academic-Industrial relations; Ethics of invention."},{"lastName":"Banerjee","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Heart-Assist Devices"},{"focus":"Heart Transplantation"},{"focus":"Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)"},{"focus":"Cardiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9703&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dipanjan Banerjee","firstName":"Dipanjan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Dipanjan_Banerjee","researchInterest":"My current research interests include:\r\n1. Improving outcomes in patients with left ventricular assist devices (LVAD)\r\n2. implementing protocols to improve heart failure outcomes (PI on Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation grant for implementation of a transitional care program at Stanford for heart failure patients)\r\n3. Investigating the relationship between insulin resistance and heart failure\r\n4. Exploring racial/ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease"},{"lastName":"Bernstein","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiology"},{"focus":"Pediatric Heart Transplantation"},{"focus":"Pediatric Heart Failure"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Cardiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Cardiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4174&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Daniel Bernstein","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Daniel_Bernstein","researchInterest":"1. Role of the G protein coupled receptors in regulating mitochondrial structure and function.\r\n2. Differences between R and L ventricular responses to stress, including gene expression and miR regulation.\r\n3. Using iPSC-derived myocytes to understand heart failure and congenital heart disease.\r\n4. Tools for evaluation of cardiac physiology in transgenic mice and isolated cardiomyocytes.\r\n5. Anti-body mediated rejection.\r\n6. Biomarkers for post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder."},{"lastName":"Yeh","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Cardiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Pediatrics - Cardiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Pediatrics - Cardiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13483&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Justin Yeh","firstName":"Justin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Justin_Yeh","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Miller","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"valve repair and replacement"},{"focus":"Thoracic Aortic surgery"},{"focus":"mitral repair"},{"focus":"Valve-sparing aortic root replacement"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Surgery"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4170&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"D. Craig Miller, M.D.","firstName":"D","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/D_Miller","researchInterest":"Cardiac and heart valve disease with  experimental laboratory large animal projects focused on the investigation of left ventricular and cardiac mechanics, bioenergetics, and LV and mitral valve physiology and pathophysiology.  Current thrust is aimed at understanding the mitral valve and subvalvular mitral apparatus and transmural LV wall strains, thickening, and myolaminar fiber-sheet mechanics.\r\n\r\nClinical research interests include thoracic aortic diseases (aortic dissection, aneurysm) and "},{"lastName":"Telli","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Breast Cancer - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Triple-negative breast cancer"},{"focus":"Locally advanced breast cancer"},{"focus":"Medical Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8521&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Melinda L. Telli, M.D.","firstName":"Melinda","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Melinda_Telli","researchInterest":"My research focuses on breast cancer treatment and survivorship. My primary research interest is the development of novel strategies for the treatment of early stage triple-negative and BRCA1/2 mutation-associated breast cancer. Other areas of interest include prevention of cardiac damage associated with breast cancer treatment and cardiotoxicity of anti-cancer agents."}]}