{"result":[{"researchInterest":"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4222&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Laurence_Baker","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Economics"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Laurence","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research","displayName":"Laurence Baker","lastName":"Baker"},{"researchInterest":"Specializes in women's heath and chronic disease (e.g. heart disease, breast cancer, osteoporosis) prevention research and health promotion in both sexes, with a focus on lifestyle (exercise, weight control and diet).  Research focuses on role of sex hormones and sex/gender differences in physiology related to cardiovascular and cancer biology and body composition. Menopause and aging are key scientific interests. Key NIH projects: Women's Health Initiative (NLBI), WHEL(NCI) and MrOS (NIAMS).","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4655&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Marcia_Stefanick","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research"},{"appointment":"Professor (Research) (By courtesy),Obstetrics & Gynecology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Marcia","primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research","displayName":"Marcia L. Stefanick, Ph.D.","lastName":"Stefanick"},{"researchInterest":"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4619&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Stephen_Fortmann","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Preventive"},{"focus":"Internal Medicine"},{"focus":"Primary Prevention"}],"firstName":"Stephen","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research","displayName":"Stephen P. Fortmann, MD","lastName":"Fortmann"},{"researchInterest":"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4000&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Jayanta_Bhattacharya","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Economics"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Jayanta","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch","displayName":"Jayanta Bhattacharya","lastName":"Bhattacharya"},{"researchInterest":"My major research interests and activities over the next several years will focus on the development and evaluation of the objective measurement of physical activity in free-living populations using a variety of sensing devices and mobile phones for data collection and processing. Also, I will continue to direct the Stanford Heart Network with the major mission being to assist community-based CVD prevention/treatment programs implement more effective heart attack and stroke prevention programs.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6108&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/William_Haskell","appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"William","primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research","displayName":"William Haskell","lastName":"Haskell"},{"researchInterest":"Cardiovascular disease epidemiology, health of socioeconomically disadvantaged and ethnic minority populations, social determinants of health, community-based intervention research, youth advocacy and mentorship, promoting diversity in health professions","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4305&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Marilyn_Winkleby","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Marilyn","primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research","displayName":"Marilyn Winkleby, PhD, MPH","lastName":"Winkleby"},{"researchInterest":"The role of nutrition and preventive medicine, with particular interests in: plant-based diets and phytochemicals; cardiovascular disease and cancer prevention; weight loss diets; clinical trials and epidemiology.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4085&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Christopher_Gardner","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Christopher","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research","displayName":"Christopher Gardner","lastName":"Gardner"},{"researchInterest":"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","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4662&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Alan_Garber","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Economics"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"},{"appointment":"Professor,Graduate School of Business"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Alan","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch","displayName":"Alan M. Garber","lastName":"Garber"},{"researchInterest":"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4715&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Abby_King","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Abby","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology","displayName":"Abby C. King","lastName":"King"},{"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. Examples: include clinical reminders and home monitoring.\r\n\r\n3) Outcomes research using existing clinical and administrative datasets. \r\n\r\n4) Use of echocardiography to predict prognosis (e.g. diastolic dysfunction).","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4682&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Paul_Heidenreich","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Paul","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Paul Heidenreich, MD","lastName":"Heidenreich"},{"researchInterest":"Chronic disease epidemiology, particularly cancer, cardiovascular disease, adverse effects of smoking, alcohol and pharmaceuticals, evaluation of screening tests.\r\nMost 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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6143&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Gary_Friedman","appointments":[{"appointment":"Consulting Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Gary","primaryAppointment":"Consulting Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology","displayName":"Gary Friedman","lastName":"Friedman"},{"researchInterest":"Disease prevention, epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases, community-based education for disease prevention, international health.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5956&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/John_Farquhar","appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Health Research & Policy"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Preventive"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"firstName":"John","primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research","displayName":"John W. Farquhar, M.D.","lastName":"Farquhar"},{"researchInterest":"Experimental and clinical epidemiology of myocardial, infarction; exercise testing; cardiac risk factor management;, cardiac rehabilitation; systems for patient management; ischemic, heart disease; computer-based expert systems.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4093&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Robert_DeBusk","appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"firstName":"Robert","primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","displayName":"Robert DeBusk","lastName":"DeBusk"},{"researchInterest":"My research uses decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and meta-analysis to evaluate clinical and health policy problems.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4649&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Douglas_Owens","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Douglas","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch","displayName":"Douglas Owens","lastName":"Owens"},{"researchInterest":"Dr. Robinson focuses on \"solution-oriented\" research, developing and evaluating effective health promotion and disease prevention interventions for children and adolescents.  His research is mostly experimental, conducting school-, family- and community-based randomized controlled trials to test theory-driven behavioral, social and environmental interventions to prevent obesity, improve nutrition, increase physical activity, reduce smoking, and study the effects of children's television use.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4673&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Thomas_Robinson","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - General"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Pediatrics"},{"focus":"Pediatrics, General"}],"firstName":"Thomas","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - General","displayName":"Thomas Robinson","lastName":"Robinson"},{"researchInterest":"Developing theory-based interventions for long-term behavior change in the areas of weight management, dietary change, and physical activity \r\nMethodological improvements for the design, delivery, and analysis of randomized trials","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6282&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Michaela_Kiernan","appointments":[{"appointment":"Sr Res Scientist-Basic Ls (PI Waiver),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Michaela","primaryAppointment":"Sr Res Scientist-Basic Ls (PI Waiver),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research","displayName":"Michaela Kiernan","lastName":"Kiernan"},{"researchInterest":"Primary care for mentally ill patients, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder in women seconday to sexual trauma.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6264&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Susan_Frayne","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - General Internal Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Susan","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - General Internal Medicine","displayName":"Susan M. Frayne, MD, MPH","lastName":"Frayne"},{"researchInterest":"Health services research in primary care and geriatrics; developing,, implementing, and evaluating methods for clinical quality improvement; utility assessment for cost-effectiveness analysis.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4068&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Mary_Goldstein","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Mary","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Rsrch","displayName":"Mary Kane Goldstein","lastName":"Goldstein"},{"researchInterest":"My research has involved the use of new technologies to create different types of patient-doctor transactions.  I am also interested in how these new transactions impact clinical care processes.  Current work includes the evaluation of a patient portal for children with cystic fibrosis, the use of telemedicine to bring asthma experts into the schools and the attitudes of teens and parents about the use of a secure patient portal for teens.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4265&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/David_Bergman","appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - General"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatrics, General"},{"focus":"Pediatrics"},{"focus":"Health Service Area"}],"firstName":"David","primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - General","displayName":"David Bergman","lastName":"Bergman"},{"researchInterest":"- Cancer etiology (diet, familial, genetic), especially breast, prostate and colon cancer\r\n- Cancer surveillance (Cancer registration, cancer patterns)\r\n- Cancer outcomes (Survival, quality of life, quality of care)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6327&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Dee_West","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Dee","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology","displayName":"Dee W. West","lastName":"West"},{"researchInterest":"Doctor-patient communication and decision making: empirical study of quality of decision making for routine outpatient decisions, screening tests.\r\nMedical education: design and evaluation of medical ethics, professionalism education, including faculty development","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6002&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Clarence_Braddock","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - General Internal Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Internal Medicine"}],"firstName":"Clarence","primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - General Internal Medicine","displayName":"Clarence H Braddock III, MD, MPH","lastName":"Braddock"},{"researchInterest":"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.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4142&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Mark_Hlatky","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research"},{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"firstName":"Mark","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research","displayName":"Mark Hlatky, MD","lastName":"Hlatky"},{"researchInterest":"Dr. Taylor is developing and evaluating innovative electronic and computer-assisted programs to make treatments, proven effective for treating various lifestyle and psychosocial problems, more cost-effective and available.   He is also developing new models of evidence-based psychiatry care for eating, anxiety and depressive disorders.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4478&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Craig_Taylor","appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Behavioral Medicine"}],"clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Psychiatry"},{"focus":"Anxiety Disorders"},{"focus":"Behavioral Medicine"},{"focus":"Eating Disorders"}],"firstName":"Craig","primaryAppointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Behavioral Medicine","displayName":"C. Barr Taylor","lastName":"Taylor"},{"researchInterest":"As a cancer epidemiologist with a focus on surveillance research, Dr. Gomez conducts research in two broad areas:  1) methodologic studies aimed at enhancing cancer registry data for studies of race/ethnicity and social determinants in cancer incidence and outcomes; and 2) studies to elucidate the underlying social factors responsible for racial/ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities, particularly those identified through surveillance data.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7427&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Scarlett_Gomez","appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Scarlett","primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","displayName":"Scarlett Lin Gomez","lastName":"Gomez"},{"researchInterest":"Dr. Keegan's research focuses on cancer epidemiology and cancer surveillance, with primary areas of interest in genetic and modifiable factors that influence the occurrence of and survival after cancer.","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7431&type=small&showNoImage","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/prevention/researcher/Theresa_Keegan","appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"clinicalFocus":[],"firstName":"Theresa","primaryAppointment":"Member,Cancer Center","displayName":"Theresa Keegan, MS, PhD","lastName":"Keegan"}]}