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Dr. Adriano is a proud graduate of this residency program and has been a faculty member since 2003. Her clinical focus is adult anesthesia in the Multi-Specialty Division and she is a member of the Liver Transplant Anesthesia team. She currently serves as one of the Associate Residency Program Directors and directs the orientation program for new residents as well as the CA-3 Refresher and OSCE course. A true Californian who was born and raised in Los Angeles, Dr. Adriano is blessed with a family of singers with both kids in youth choirs and a husband who is a choral director.

Anuj Aggarwal grew up in Southern California and studied biology and video game design at the University of Southern California, he then completed his medical degree with distinction in health professions education from UCSF. He completed his internship in Santa Barbara at Cottage Hospital followed by his residency in anesthesiology at Stanford with a fellowship in pain medicine. His academic interests include perioperative pain management, orofacial pain, medical education, and the history of medicine. Within the department, he feels lucky to mentor anesthesia residents as well as serve as the associate program director for the pain medicine fellowship. He is heavily involved at the medical school, teaching medical students as an Educator for Care (E4C) faculty member, serving as director of pharmacology, and as associate director for the Science of Medicine course encompassing the various organ blocks in the preclerkship curriculum, along with various administrative appointments within the school of medicine. In his free time, Anuj enjoys traveling and spending time outdoors with his partner, history/current events, reading and gaming.

Before coming to Stanford, Dr. Bateman served as the Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Chief of the Division of Obstetric Anesthesia in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and as Co-Director of the Harvard Program on Perinatal and Pediatric Pharmacoepidemiology in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 

Dr. Bateman’s scholarship focuses on the study of medication safety in pregnancy and on predictors and management of maternal morbidity. To address questions in these areas, Dr. Bateman worked with collaborators at Harvard to pioneer the use of advanced epidemiological techniques applied to large, routinely collected healthcare utilization data. This research has been funded by multiple R01 grants from the NIH and by grants from the FDA and has been published in leading clinical journals including JAMA, NEJM, BMJ, Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA Pediatrics, JAMA Psychiatry, and Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Bateman’s bibliography contains over 250 publications. This research is frequently cited in clinical reviews and guidelines and has prompted both the FDA and EMA to make labelling changes to medications regarding use in pregnancy. Dr. Bateman is also a founding member of the International Pregnancy Safety Study Consortium (InPress) which is a collaborative effort between investigators from the US and each of the five Nordic countries to pool data for studies evaluating the safety of medications.

Dr. Bateman currently serves as Chairperson of FDA’s Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products Advisory Committee after having previously served a 4-year term (2015-2019) as a voting member of this Committee. He was a technical advisor for the revision of the Joint Commission’s pain management standards. He has served on expert panels and workshops sponsored by the National Academy of Medicine, the FDA, the NIH, the CDC, and the Department of Health and Human Services, and on multiple grant review committees for the NIH and other funders. He is an Editor for the journal, Anesthesiology, and the textbook, Chestnut’s Obstetric Anesthesia: Principles and Practice. 

Dr. Bateman’s work has been recognized by a number of awards including his selection in 2017 by the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology as the Gerard Ostheimer lecturer and in 2018 by the American Society of Anesthesiologists as the James E. Cottrell Presidential Scholar Awardee, which is given to one clinical-scientist each year within 10 years of initial faculty appointment for accomplishment in research. 

Faculty development and mentorship has been a central focus of Dr. Bateman’s career. He has mentored numerous trainees who have gone on to outstanding academic careers. He has worked particularly hard to advance the careers of women and underrepresented minorities in the Department and to create an environment where everyone is welcomed and has an opportunity to advance. 

Dr. Bateman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate Yale College and received his MD from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, where he was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha and was awarded the Janeway Prize for the highest achievements and abilities in the graduating class. He completed an internship in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and residency and chief residency in anesthesiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed a Masters in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Natalie Bodmer grew up near Chicago, Illinois and did her undergraduate studies at University of Illinois, double majoring in Chemistry and Spanish. Prior to medical school, she did Teach For America in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, teaching high school science and earning her Masters of Education from Marquette University. She then earned her M.D. from University of Illinois at Chicago. She was drawn to Stanford for the combined Internal Medicine – Anesthesia Program. She stayed to complete the Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship. She was excited to stay on as faculty and works in the cardiac ORs, and on the periop team. She is currently the CA-2 and CA-3 didactic curriculum director and Associate Program Director for the Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship. Her experience in education influences her work in medicine today, including teaching efforts such as curriculum development, assessment and evaluation, and learner-centric medical education. Her other interests include optimizing perioperative patient care through innovative technology and educational methods.

Dr. Caruso is a Clinical Professor of Pediatric Anesthesiology at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. He is the Program Director of the Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship and an avid Regional Anesthesiologist. He is also the co-director of the Stanford Chariot Program, which aims to reduce pediatric patients’ anxiety and pain by utilizing immersive technologies, including augmented and virtual reality. He spent his childhood in New Jersey before attending the University of Virginia, where he graduated with high distinction. After graduation, he earned a master’s degree in medical education from Johns Hopkins University, and a MD and PhD in education from Stanford University. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his two daughters and partner, running when he can, and cooking.

Marianne Chen grew up in Southern California and did her undergraduate studies at Pomona College, double majoring in Chemistry and Music. Wanting to spend some time outside of California, she moved to the east coast where she received her M.D. degree from Boston University. After a transitional intern year at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, she came to Stanford for her anesthesiology residency and then a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine. She joined the faculty at Stanford in 2014 so she could provide care to a diverse and complex patient population and continue to pursue her love of teaching and mentoring. Marianne is part of the adult anesthesiology Multispecialty Division and the liver transplant anesthesiology team. She has been involved in medical education since she joined the faculty, initially as the medical student general OR clerkship director and then as an Associate Program Director for the residency with a focus on the Internal Medicine-Anesthesiology Combined Residency Program. She became Program Director for the residency in July 2023. Her interests within medical education include feedback and assessment, perioperative point of care ultrasound curriculum, and mentorship/career development. She co-directs the departmental faculty development program focused on education, the Teaching Scholars Program. She feels very lucky to work in such a great department and hospital, with amazing colleagues and residents. With her husband and daughter, they enjoy golfing, traveling, cheering on local sports teams, and trying new restaurants in the area.

Born and raised in nearby Los Gatos, CA, Dora grew up exploring (obviously!) the Santa Cruz Mountains and rowing on Lexington Reservoir. She received a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University, worked as an engineer in vaccine development and manufacturing, and attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She then returned to the Bay Area for her transitional intern year at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, CA, residency at Stanford where she served as a Chief Resident, and fellowship in pediatric anesthesia at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. She enjoys a dynamic and mixed practice at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center from pediatrics to trauma to high-risk OB and serves as Director of Sedation Services and anesthesia liaison to the SCMVC Burn Center. Outside of work, Dora can be found spending time with family and conspiring with her high school sweetheart-turned husband on a variety of endeavors (podcasting, food truck, tutoring, t-shirt printing, and taking care of their one-year-old daughter Cadence).

Natalya Hasan-Hill is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine. Dr. Hasan-Hill graduated with a BA in religious studies from Columbia University in 2004. She was a social work research assistant in behavioral health and substance use disorder prevention and treatment prior to medical school at NYU. After completing her intern year at Highland Hospital and anesthesiology residency at Stanford, Natalya joined the Stanford faculty in 2013. She works in the multi-specialty division with clinical interests in thoracic and obstetric anesthesiology. She is an accredited relationship-centered communication facilitator by the Academy of Communication in Healthcare and a certified mind-body medicine facilitator by the Nova Institute for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Hasan-Hill is the Vice Chair of WellBeing and Support for the department and co-director of the PRIME Program. Natalya lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains with her husband and 2 sons. She enjoys nature, music, hiking, weightlifting, yoga, and adventures with her family.

Amit Joseph is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the multi-specialty division of the Department of Anesthesiology. He graduated from the BA/MD program at the George Washington University in Washington, DC in 2012 and went on to complete residency at Stanford in 2016, upon which he joined the faculty. Since that time, he has developed clinical interests in anesthesia for complex intra-abdominal surgery, liver transplantation, and thoracic surgery. He also is a faculty member for the MSD/TEE rotation focusing on teaching residents the role of intra-operative trans- esophageal echocardiography in non-cardiac surgery. He feels very fortunate to be involved in resident and medical student education; he currently serves as the director of the residents’ Anesthesia for Abdominal Surgery rotation and serves on the departmental Education Committee. Outside work, Amit enjoys playing classical piano and trying to take advantage of the beautiful weather and plethora of activities in the Bay Area, including hiking and biking.

Dr. Cynthia Khoo is co-director of the Division of Global Health Equity, Director of Education for the Division of Regional Anesthesia (RA), and Associate Program Director of the Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine fellowship. She completed her MD-PhD at the University of Pennsylvania and residency and fellowship at Stanford. Since regional has been shown to have lower morbidity and mortality compared to general anesthesia in low resource settings, Dr. Khoo's research involves innovations to increase access to RA education including ballistic gel simulation phantoms designed with 3D printing, online learning platforms, and virtual ultrasound workshops. In 2019, she started a partnership with a rural, non-profit hospital Foundation for African Medicine and Education (FAME) Africa in Karatu, Tanzania teaching safe anesthetic practices incorporating remote hands on workshops, flipped classroom curriculum, and augmented reality simulation. The bidirectional partnership includes virtual and in person rotations in Tanzania for Stanford residents and fellows and hosting Global Health Equity scholars from resource constrained settings at Stanford.

Dr. Kloosterboer is a Clinical Assistant Professor, currently attending in the MICU and working in the MSD as part of the liver transplant division and perioperative group. She earned her B.A. in Biology and Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to starting medical school at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, she taught English to high school students for a year in Seville, Spain. Dr. Kloosterboer was part of the inaugural class that matched into the combined Internal Medicine/Anesthesiology Residency at Stanford, graduating in 2019, before staying on at Stanford for Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. She subsequently joined the faculty in September 2020 and became APD of the combined Medicine/Anesthesia residency in September 2023. Clinical areas of interest include perioperative optimization of liver transplant patients and procedural teaching in the ICU. Outside of the hospital she enjoys running (slowly), baking, and traveling as much as possible.

Dr. Macario is vice-chair of education, after having served for 17 years as the residency director during which time Stanford Anesthesiology trained more than 400 residents! As vice chair of education he oversees all of our education footprint which is quite large and includes many learners such as undergraduates, medical students, residents (about 100), ACGME fellows (about 50), the community at large including global health, and faculty such as those completing one of the dozen different advanced clinical experience programs the department offers. Dr Macario’s clinical practice is with adult patients in the general operating room. He also serves as a hospital scheduler to provide management and leadership in the medical center's operating room suites. Dr. Macario has received numerous awards, including being internationally recognized with the Excellence in Education Award from the American Society of Anesthesiologists given to one anesthesiologist per year for extraordinary contributions to graduate medical education. He completed his undergraduate, medical school and business school education at the University of Rochester with the Wilson Merit Scholarship. He trained in anesthesiology at Stanford, served as Chief Resident, and completed a fellowship in health services research.

Dr. Macario serves as director for the American Board of Anesthesiology, and is a member of the Anesthesiology Review Committee for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. At Stanford he established a well-known academic program in the economics of health care and operating room management, including creating the Management of Perioperative Services program which has trained forty physicians from the US and other countries. Dr. Macario authored "A Sabbatical in Madrid: A Diary of Spain," an award-winning travel memoir. He has two adult children one in San Francisco and the other in New York city, and lives with his wife in their home on the Stanford Campus. In his free time, Dr. Macario enjoys rooting for Stanford sports, biking up the local hills, and playing tennis.

James was born and raised in Western Massachusetts and attended The University of Massachusetts, Amherst for college. After earning a B.S. in Biology, he went on to attend the Larner College of Medicine at The University of Vermont, where he honed his appreciation not only for anesthesia and intensive care, but also for powder days and flannel shirts. James completed his anesthesiology residency at Stanford University in 2019 and served as chief resident during his final year. He went on to complete a critical care medicine fellowship at Stanford in 2020. James spent three years as a staff anesthesiologist and intensivist at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, where he split his time between the operating room and surgical and trauma intensive care units. He returned to Stanford this year as faculty where he attends in the MSD and the MSICU. When he’s not at work he enjoys mountain biking and spending time outdoors with his wife and their dog, Lily.

Julianne Mendoza was born in Fresno, CA and completed her undergraduate degree at Stanford followed by medical school at University of Pennsylvania. She graduated from the Stanford residency program in 2009 and the Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship program in 2010. Her clinical interests are in patient safety and pediatric liver transplantation. As co-chair of the Pediatric Anesthesiology Safety Committee, she engages in process improvement work to minimize risk to pediatric patients in the perioperative setting. Her research focus is on perioperative management and outcomes in pediatric liver transplantation.

Andrea Murray, MD, FAAP is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. She was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky where she obtained her undergraduate and medical school degrees at the University of Kentucky. She is quadruple board certified in Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, and also in Pediatrics. After completing her residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, she worked as a lead physician at the largest primary care group in Memphis, TN which focused primarily on caring for the underserved, uninsured, and homeless populations – marginalized groups for which Dr. Murray feels a particular calling to serve. She later completed an Anesthesiology Residency and was elected Chief Resident at the University of Texas at Southwestern. She completed her Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship at Stanford and in 2019 joined the faculty. Dr. Murray was selected to be a Center for Innovation in Global Health Scholar in 2018-2019 at Stanford, where she began implementing new initiatives for the utilization of virtual reality in low and middle-income countries to reduce anxiety and increase perioperative safety. She is especially interested in sustainable global health models and serves on the leadership council for the Division of Global Health Equity in Anesthesia at Stanford as well as the American Society of Anesthesiology’s Global Humanitarian Outreach Committee and the Society of Pediatric Anesthesiology’s Global Committee. Her other interests include medical education, simulation, regional anesthesia, and diversity equity and inclusion (DEI). She is a faculty advisor and codivision lead for the Anesthesia Diversity Council and works toward novel ways to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities. Additionally, her passion for medical education led to a current faculty appointment at the Stanford School of Medicine through the Educators-4-CARE program. In her spare time outside of work, she enjoys game nights with friends, cooking, hiking, and attending church weekly.

Dr. Cesar Padilla is a first-generation Mexican American from Northern California. His parents emigrated from the Mexican state of Jalisco, settling in the East Bay Area, where they worked in local factories. After high school, he attended Ohlone Community College in Fremont where he heard about and attended Stanford University's Minority Medical Alliance conference at age 19, inspiring him to pursue medicine. Dr. Padilla is now double fellowship trained from Harvard Medical School in critical care medicine and obstetric anesthesiology, with additional training in critical care echocardiography. His research interests include critical care in obstetrics and addressing inequities in maternal/obstetric care. Dr. Padilla also serves as the Chief Medical Education Advisor for Alliance in Mentorship/MiMentor, a non-profit organization with a mission of mentoring underrepresented students interested in medicine and is the Co-Chair of the inaugural Council of Anesthesiology for the National Hispanic Medical Association. Dr. Padilla is also the co-founder of National Latino/a Physician Day, a nationally recognized movement to raise awareness regarding the lack of Latino physicians in the US. Dr. Padilla is currently a clinical assistant professor at Stanford and hopes to connect, teach, and inspire the next generation of students pursuing medicine.

Ronald Pearl is the Dr. Richard K. and Erika N. Richards Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University. After receiving his undergraduate degree in psychology from Yale University, he received a PhD in pharmacological and physiological sciences and an MD degree from the University of Chicago. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Stanford, followed by a fellowship in critical care medicine. He then joined the faculty in the Stanford Department of Medicine. Recognizing that anesthesia-trained intensivists had additional skills for critical care, he then completed his residency in anesthesiology at Stanford and became an Assistant Professor in the anesthesiology department. He served as chair of the Stanford Department of Anesthesiology for 22 years, from 1999 to 2021. During that time, he oversaw a dramatic expansion of the clinical, educational, and research missions of the department. Dr. Pearl has published more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His research involves studying the pulmonary circulation, focusing on cellular and genetic mechanisms responsible for the development of pulmonary hypertension. He has also researched sepsis, respiratory failure, blood transfusion, and cardiovascular monitoring technologies. He has served as president of the Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA), the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA), the California Society of Anesthesiologists, the Association of Academic Anesthesia Chairs (AAAC) and the Society of Academic Associations of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine (SAAAPM). He chairs the ASA Committee on Innovation, is a delegate to the ASA, and serves on the Committee on Academic Anesthesiology, the Committee on Critical Care Medicine, the Educational Track Subcommittee on Critical Care, and the Educational Track Subcommittee on Perioperative Medicine. His clinical activities focus on cardiothoracic anesthesiology and medical, surgical and cardiovascular critical care.

Felipe D. Perez is a Clinical Associate Professor who is board-certified as an Anesthesiologist and as a Pediatric Anesthesiologist. He is the Assistant Dean for Diversity in Medical Student Education in the Office of Diversity in Medical Education (ODME) at Stanford University School of Medicine. His parents emigrated from Mexico and was raised in an immigrant working class neighborhood of Long Beach, CA. After receiving his Bachelors at Stanford he dedicated three years to public health policy where he worked for local, state, and national levels of government. He worked for Congressman Henry Waxman, Assemblymember Hector De La Torre, and Senator Alex Padilla, on laws such as preventing homelessness and having restaurants post caloric information on their menus. He returned to Stanford University for his Medical Degree and stayed for residency, pediatric anesthesiology fellowship, and was hired on as faculty at both the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford Hospital. He served as the Chair of the Legislative Affairs Committee in 2023 for the California Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA). He is involved with leading diversity efforts locally and nationally. He cochairs his clinical department’s Anesthesiology Diversity Council, he is a steering committee member of Leadership Education in Advancing Diversity (LEAD), he founded CSA's Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee, and is the communication chair for the national Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) DEI Committee. He directs the High School Project Lead The Way program at Stanford.

Dr. Reece-Nguyen grew up in rural Texas before attending Centenary College of Louisiana for undergraduate degrees. He then lived in The Gambia, West Africa for 2 years as a Peace Corps volunteer where he worked in a health clinic and local school. He obtained his MD/MPH from Univ. of Texas - Health Science Center - San Antonio (UTHSCSA) before completing Anesthesiology residency at Univ. of Washington. He then completed his Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship here at Stanford and then remained as Faculty. Dr. Reece-Nguyen is a board-certified general and pediatric anesthesiologist and Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford Children’s Hospital where he serves as a diversity, equity, and inclusion leader in his department, throughout Stanford Medicine, and at the National level as Chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia and as a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists National Committee on Professional Diversity.

As a cisgender gay man, Dr. ReeceNguyen understands the importance of LGBTQIA+ advocacy work and the ever-increasing need for improved LGBTQIA+ medical education, focusing specifically on the value of gender-affirming perioperative care. In his role as the Medical Director of the Gender Recognition and Affirmative Care through Education (GRACE) Team at Stanford Children’s Hospital and as the LGBTQ+ Health Leader for Stanford Anesthesiology Office of Diversity, Inclusivity, and Health Equity (ODIHE), Dr. Reece-Nguyen’s work promotes perioperative genderaffirming care education, quality improvement, and research efforts aimed at improving the healthcare experience for all transgender and gender-diverse adolescents. His clinical focus is ensuring all transgender and gender-diverse patients have an affirming and positive experience throughout their perioperative hospital stay. As the newly-appointed National Vice-Chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists' first-ever Ad Hoc LGBTQ+ Committee, he is also active in increasing LGBTQ+ diversity, networking, and mentorship within anesthesiology along with improving the capacity of all anesthesiologists to provide optimal care to the LGBTQ+ community. Dr. Reece-Nguyen also serves on the Stanford Anesthesiology Global Health Equity Leadership Council where he works closely with the global health residents. His passion for Global Health started during his 2 year service as a Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia where he taught science, health, and midwifery. Throughout his medical training, he has had the opportunity to work on several continents focusing primarily on sustainable anesthesia education and capacity building. During residency, he received the SEA-HVO grant to teach anesthesia in Vietnam which helped solidify his passion for global education. Travis’ other global health interests include sustainable anesthesia education, decolonization of global health, anesthesia provider capacitybuilding, mitigating barriers to healthcare, and pediatric anesthesia safety in LMICs.

Dr. Reece-Nguyen passionately supports mentorship and sponsorship of medical trainees (especially LGBTQIA trainees) and serves as a National Advisory Board Member for both the Medical Student Pride Alliance (@MSPA_National) and Inside the Match (@Inside_TheMatch), a social media phenomenon that provides resources and support for medical students across the nation that are navigating the residency match process. Within the Stanford Medical School, Dr. Reece-Nguyen also serves on the Diversity Advisory Panel for Admissions as well as the Committee on Performance, Professionalism, and Promotion. Dr. Reece-Nguyen is also involved with numerous pathway programs concentrating on diversity recruitment and mentorship starting in high school (through his partnership with Project Lead The Way) all the way through attending recruitment and support.

Roya Saffary was born in Afghanistan, raised in Germany and finally made her way to the U.S. for college. She received both her undergraduate and medical degree from the University of Maryland. After gaining experience in both general surgery and neurosurgery, she decided to pursue anesthesiology. Following residency at Boston University Medical Center, she completed a fellowship in OR management at Stanford and joined the faculty in 2016. Dr. Saffary is currently the co-director of the Fellowship in the Management of Perioperative Services and director of the resident scheduler rotation.

Patrick was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He arrived at Stanford in 2011 for medical school, and stayed to complete a master's degree in epidemiology and combined residency in internal medicine and anesthesiology. After graduating from residency, he was thrilled to continue at Stanford as a faculty member. He is currently the Co-Director for the general operating room anesthesiology rotation for medical students. Outside of work, he enjoys swimming, running, and cooking with his family.

Dr. Tawfik is originally from Montreal, Canada where she completed her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at McGill University. She obtained her MD and PhD in Neuroscience, with a focus on basic pain mechanisms, at Dartmouth Medical School before joining the Stanford Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine as an anesthesiology resident in the Fellowship in Anesthesia Research and Medicine (FARM) program, of which she now serves as the Director. After completion of her subspecialty fellowship training in Pain Medicine, Dr. Tawfik joined the faculty at Stanford and continues to research the immune contribution to persistent pain using clinically-informed basic science while also caring for patients suffering from chronic pain. Her lab uses a variety of approaches, from single cell sequencing to complex behavioral paradigms in mouse pain models, to investigate the contribution of spinal cord glial cells (microglia & astrocytes) to the transition from acute to chronic pain.

She enjoys science, sushi and snowboarding with her husband and two sons in her "free time”.

Dr. Natacha Telusca is a clinical assistant professor with the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Telusca is board-certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine by the American Board of Anesthesiology. She is a fellowship-trained interventional pain medicine specialist, a graduate of the Stanford University Anesthesia Residency and Pain Fellowship Program. Dr. Telusca’s interest in medicine developed early in her native Haiti as she helped her mother care for her father after he suffered a debilitating stroke. Before enrolling in medical school, she obtained a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, and worked as a registered nurse at Hartford Hospital in Harford, Connecticut, for three years. Dr. Telusca has stated that her nursing experience played an integral part in shaping her into the successful, compassionate physician she has become. Dr. Telusca’s mission is to provide compassionate, personalized, high-quality care. She believes in using interdisciplinary approaches to equip patients with healthy, holistic techniques to manage their pain and improve their quality of life. She is passionate about medical education, global health equity, wellness, mentorship, and systems efficiency

Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, traveling, physical fitness, and volunteering.

Dr.  Traynor is a Clinical Professor in the Division of Obstetric Anesthesiology. She graduated with a degree in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and attended Medical School at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. She completed residency and Obstetric Anesthesiology fellowship at Stanford University. Dr. Traynor worked in private practice in Colorado for two years prior to returning to academics at the University of Colorado, where she was part of the Obstetric Anesthesiology Division. She was recruited back to Stanford in 2015 to lead the Obstetric Anesthesiology Fellowship program until 2023. She has been involved with innovative learning projects, including being CoEditor in Chief of two editions of the textbook Manual of Clinical Anesthesiology, and authored over 40 book chapters. She is actively involved in the ongoing development of the Obstetric Anesthesiology Fellowship curriculum at the national level. She is interested in reproductive rights advocacy and involved at the national level in these efforts. Dr. Traynor is active in leadership in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and she currently is serving in the role of Director of Promotion, meeting with faculty and residents about their career goals and the promotion process. She works clinically in the general operating room, off site surgery centers, and labor and delivery. She is an avid stand up paddle boarder, runner, scuba diver, and yogi. She is a single mother of two teenage boys and a golden doodle.

I am a California native who grew up largely in this area. After undergraduate studies at Stanford, I ventured to the mid-West for medical school at Michigan State University. The freezing winters, brought me back to California where I completed a Pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland (UCSF Benioff). After a Chief Resident year, I worked as a Pediatric Hospitalist for four additional years before switching to Anesthesiology. After residency at Stanford, I completed a fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology, and remain as faculty at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. I am the clinical director of the pediatric anesthesiology division, and my interests include pediatric perioperative medicine, patient safety and quality, and resident advocacy and well-being. I am part of the pre-op anesthesia team, anesthesia resource team, and general OR team. I am the Associate Program Director for the Combined Pediatrics-Anesthesiology residency program. When not at work, I love spending time with extended family in the area and raising my 2 boys with my urologist husband.

Romy Yun, M.D. is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. She completed her undergraduate studies at The Ohio State University and medical degree at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. After her anesthesiology residency and pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Stanford University, she worked for a bay area private practice group with advancement to senior partnership. However, she missed working in a predominantly pediatric practice and returned to Stanford/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Since returning to Stanford, she has been serving as Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship program and as the Outpatient Surgery Center Medical Director. Her clinical interests lie in developing methods for recognizing and reducing pediatric perioperative anxiety with the Stanford Chariot Program.