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Dr. Adriano is a proud graduate of this residency program and has been a faculty member since 2003. Dr. Adriano’s clinical focus is adult anesthesia in the Multi-Specialty Division and is a member of the Liver Transplant Anesthesia team. She very much enjoys her administrative roles in the department as she currently serves as one of the Associate Residency Program Directors and is involved in various aspects of resident education. She directs the orientation program for new residents.

Anuj Aggarwal grew up in Southern California and after receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California, he completed his medical degree with distinction in health professions education from the University of California, San Francisco. He then completed his residency and fellowship in anesthesia and pain medicine both at Stanford. Dr. Aggarwal is currently the director of the chronic pain rotation for residents in the anesthesia residency, director for the pain medicine clerkship for medical students, serves as the theme lead for pain education at the medical school, is the associate program director for the pain management fellowship and course director for pharmacology at the medical school. He is also a member of the Anesthesiology Diversity Council. His areas of interest are medical education, curriculum development and orofacial pain, and enjoys reading, hiking, travel, and gaming in his free time.

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 200 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 recent 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. As Division Chief and Vice Chair for Faculty Development at the Brigham, he 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.

Marianne Chen grew up in Southern California and did her undergraduate studies at Pomona College, double majoring in Chemistry and Music. She completed her M.D. degree at Boston University and moved back to California for her intern year at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. After residency and fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Stanford, she joined the faculty in 2014. Marianne is part of the adult anesthesiology Multispecialty Division and the liver transplant anesthesiology team. She has held multiple roles within education serving previously as the Medical Student General OR Anesthesia Rotation Director, then as one of the Associate Program Directors for the residency program with a focus on the combined Internal Medicine/Anesthesiology residency program, before assuming the role of Residency Program Director in July 2023.  She co-directs the Teaching Scholars Program for faculty and developed and implemented the Point of Care Ultrasound curriculum for the residents. She feels very lucky to work in such a great department and hospital, with amazing colleagues and residents.

Marianne lives in Los Altos with her husband, daughter Izzy, and dog Riley. They enjoy golfing, traveling, and spending time with friends and family.

Larry Chu, MD is a Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine and Director of the Stanford Anesthesia Informatics and Media (AIM) Lab. He is an NIH-funded clinical researcher and is the Executive Director of Stanford Medicine X, the world's most discussed academic program on emerging technology and medicine. He also directs Medicine X | ED, a conference exploring the future of patient-centered medical education. He has written eight books, over 50 papers, and over 50 book chapters in academic anesthesiology and digital health. He is a member of the editorial advisory board for The BMJ, one of the most influential general medical journals in the world.

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 came home for her transitional intern year at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, CA, residency at Stanford, and fellowship in pediatric anesthesia at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. She enjoys a mixed practice at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center from pediatrics to trauma to high-risk OB and serves as Director of Sedation Services. Outside of work, Dora can be found spending time with family and conspiring with her high school sweetheart-turned-husband on a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors (podcasting, food truck, tutoring center, t-shirt printing, and more!).

I was born in Texas and raised in Northwest Arkansas. I received my B.S. in Zoology from the University of Arkansas and then moved west to Palo Alto to attend the Stanford School of Medicine where I obtained my MD in 1999. I completed my anesthesia residency training and did a fellowship in medical simulation at Stanford. I have been on faculty since 2004 and I have been one of the associate residency program directors since 2009. I do my clinical work at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center where my clinical focus is general, regional, and cardiac anesthesia. My academic focus is the use of medical simulation for both medical education as well as an evaluation tool to study performance and decision-making in medical emergencies.

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 then worked as a research assistant for a social work firm that studied mental 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, Dr. Hasan-Hill joined the Stanford faculty in 2013. She works in the multi-specialty division with clinical interests in thoracic anesthesiology and women's health. She is an accredited relationship-centered communication facilitator by the Academy of Communication in Healthcare and a certified Mind-Body Medicine facilitator by the Institute for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Hasan-Hill is the Vice Chair of Well-Being and Support and co-director of the Peer Support and Resilience in Medicine (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.

I was born and raised in a small town south of Boston, spent a year in Thailand as an exchange student in high school, and then came home to attend M.I.T., majoring in Biology. After attending Tufts Medical School, I spent a year in Washington D.C. for a surgical internship at Walter Reed, followed by training in aviation medicine, a year in Korea assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division in the DMZ, and two years in outpatient medicine/aviation medicine at Ft. Devens in Massachusetts. My anesthesia residency training at the M.G.H. in Boston was followed by fellowship training in pediatric anesthesia at Boston Children’s.  When I returned to M.G.H. doing research at the Cardiovascular Research Center, my clinical time was spent in Pediatric and OB anesthesia. During this time between finishing my internship and working at the MGH, I married and had 5 beautiful daughters. Next, I decided to try private practice in Florida and spent 4 years in Vero Beach, after which I came to Stanford to join the pediatric anesthesia division in 2003. I took on the role of Chief of the division in late 2005 and continued in that role through the summer of 2019.  Some of my academic interests include understanding pediatric surgery and anesthesia from a population perspective – I completed a Masters in Health Research and Policy in 2012 at Stanford. I have also focused energy on using simulation for education and identifying systems issues, starting a simulation program within the pediatric anesthesiology division and running simulation workshops at various meetings over the years. I am active in the AAP as the Chair of the Section on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, and lately, I’ve spent time engaged in promoting physician wellness and mentoring both trainees and junior faculty.

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 George Washington University in Washington, DC in 2012 and went on to complete his 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.

Hendrikus Lemmens is a Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University Medical School. He was born and raised in the Netherlands. Before he came to Stanford in 1991, he completed medical school in Utrecht the Netherlands, anesthesia residency, and a Ph.D. in Clinical Pharmacology at Leiden University and was on the faculty of the Department of Anesthesiology in Leiden for 5 years. His research interests include the pharmacology of anesthetic agents in particular factors affecting drug response, and the peri-operative management of the morbidly obese patient. He is the founder and director of a postgraduate fellowship program, which trains anesthesiologists in advanced clinical anesthesia.

I grew up in Havana Cuba, and moved to the United States when I was a young teenager. My family has remained in south Florida, but I ventured out to see this beautiful continental country. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a major in Biological Sciences. I stayed in the mid-Atlantic region post college working at the National Institutes of Health in various research and policy projects. I moved to California to attend Stanford Medical School and it has been a very happy and rewarding life in this institution. I completed medical school, residency and fellowship training and remained as faculty. My fellowship in critical care gives me the flexibility to attend in the combined medical/surgical ICU and the trauma ICU. I also work in the labor and delivery floor doing obstetric anesthesia. I am involved in quality improvement in our ICUs, one passion of mine is improving the complex care to the mechanically ventilated patient. I mentor our fellows in their academic and improvement projects some which have greatly improved the care of our patients. I feel lucky to be at Stanford and to live in the Bay Area. This is an engaging and thrilling place to live. Ask me about our accessible natural beauty, our culinary and viniculture history, and our amazing team sports.

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 rooms. 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 Fellowship which has trained dozens of 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.

Sean Mackey is the Redlich Professor, Chief of the Stanford Division of Pain Medicine, and Director of the Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab at Stanford University. Dr. Mackey completed his undergraduate and Masters Studies in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, and received a PhD in Electrical Engineering and subsequently his medical degree at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. He went to Stanford where he did his Anesthesiology residency and was Chief Resident. He stayed at Stanford for his fellowship in Pain Medicine and then joined the faculty. While there, he co-founded and directed the Regional Anesthesia Program.

The Pain Division mission is to “Predict, Prevent and Alleviate Pain through Science, Education and Compassion”. Under his leadership, the Stanford Pain Management Center has twice been designated a Center of Excellence. As Director of the Stanford Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab (SNAPL) (http://snapl.stanford.edu/), Dr. Mackey’s primary research interest involves the use of advanced research techniques such as functional and structural neuroimaging, psychophysics, and neurobehavioral assessment, to investigate the neural processing of pain and neuronal plasticity in patients with chronic pain. Dr. Mackey has served as principal investigator and investigator for multiple NIH (P01, R01’s, U01, K24, T32, and R21) and foundation sponsored grants to investigate mechanisms of chronic pain. He is also the director of two large research endowments that allow him the discretionary funding to investigate truly novel research questions and to fund junior investigators. Additionally, Dr. Mackey has received an NIH K24 grant that is focused on mentoring junior investigators to have successful careers.

He has served as the President of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, Co-Chair of the NIH/HHS National Pain Strategic Task Force, and serves on multiple editorial boards. He served on the Institute of Medicine committee to assess the national state of pain care, education, and research. Dr. Mackey has published over 200 articles and book chapters. He annually presents papers and lectures at national and international Pain Medicine, Neuroscience, and Anesthesiology meetings.

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 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 is now a staff anesthesiologist and intensivist at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, where he splits his time between the operating room and surgical and trauma intensive care units. When he’s not at work he enjoys spending time outdoors with his significant other, Paige, and their dog, Lily.

Julianne Mendoza was born in Fresno, CA and completed her undergraduate degree at Stanford followed by medical school at the 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.

Marie is a board-certified anesthesiologist with an additional board certification in advanced perioperative transesophageal echocardiography allowing her to specialize in cardiothoracic anesthesia.  Originally from the East Coast, she received her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.  She completed her anesthesia training at Stanford (Chief Resident 2013-2014) and her cardiothoracic anesthesia fellowship at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, TX, where she gained extensive experience in anesthesia for mechanical circulatory support procedures and structural heart devices.  She has structured her clinical practice to span both the leading edge of academic cardiac anesthesia and physician training at Stanford Hospital and Clinics, and pragmatic advanced private practice cardiac anesthesia at Sutter Health California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC).  In both settings, she is well recognized for her field specific technical skills, as well as her ability to create successful partnerships across the cardiac surgery team.   Being a physician anesthesiologist is a second career for her.  She was a banker for 10 years before an early midlife crisis helped her go to medical school and become an anesthesiologist.  She loves her days (and sometimes nights) in the operating room but also enjoys traveling, sailing, and planning fun social events.

My major area of interest is Critical Care Medicine and I have a particular interest in a rare life-threatening endocrine tumor (pheochromocytoma) that is associated with serious anesthetic complications. I also enjoy participation in the Regional Anesthesia division.  After medical school training at Saint Louis University, postgraduate training followed in internal medicine at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Irvine campus. Then I changed tracks into anesthesiology at Stanford University and finished training with a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Stanford and Harvard Universities. I have been on the anesthesia faculty at Stanford since 1979. I have gone on extended sabbaticals to Austria, England, and New Zealand. Along the way, I have published 100 articles or book chapters, most in the area of respiratory/cardiac monitoring and perioperative care of patients with pheochromocytoma. I have cared for over 265 pheochromocytoma patients. I am also heavily involved in resident/fellow education and have spent over 20 years developing the Stanford iGuide for Anesthesiology, which is an iBook and contains over 75 original instructional videos and practical information. My goal is to generate an actual patient video demonstration of every procedure that we do in Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine.  My interest in Global Health has led to 49 overseas trips to Central/South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, etc.  Opportunities to care, to teach, to equip have been unrivaled experiences.

Daryl Oakes was born in Boston, but grew up locally here in the California Bay Area. She attended Harvard College where she majored in History and Science. Dr. Oakes then attended Harvard Medical School and went on to an intern year in Medicine and residency in Anesthesia at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. After residency, she moved back to California and completed a fellowship in Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia at Stanford in 2005. Since then, she has been on faculty here at Stanford in the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia working in the cardiac ORs and, for 4 years, attended in the Cardiothoracic ICU. During her time at Stanford, Dr. Oakes developed a training pathway for anesthesia residents to learn Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography, which includes a 2-week rotation and TEE image review seminars. All residents in the program now have the opportunity to achieve Basic Perioperative Transesophageal Echo Certification during residency. Among her roles, she is the Program Director for the Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship and Associate Dean of Post Graduate Medical Education (CME) at the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Oakes has 4 boys currently ages 6yrs, 10yrs, 13yrs and 15yrs old and her husband is an internal medicine physician. She enjoys yoga, skiing, reading, baking challah, and decorating for an elaborate Halloween celebration that occurs on my street each year.

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.

Ronald Pearl was the Dr. Richard K. and Erika N. Richards Professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine until October 2021. After receiving his undergraduate degree in psychology from Yale University, Dr. Pearl 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, where he went on to become a fellow and faculty member in critical care medicine. He then did his residency in anesthesia and joined the faculty in the anesthesia department. His clinical activities include critical care and cardiovascular anesthesia, and he has a clinical interest in pulmonary hypertension. He has served as president of the Association of University Anesthesiologists, president of the American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists, president of the California Chapter of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and secretary of the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research. He is currently Secretary-Treasurer of the Association of Academic Anesthesia Chairs and the Society of Academic Associations of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, as well as a member of the Executive Board of the California Society of Anesthesiologists. Dr. Pearl has published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His clinical research involves blood transfusion and treatment of sepsis and respiratory failure. His laboratory research involves studying the pulmonary circulation, focusing on cellular and genetic mechanisms responsible for the development of pulmonary hypertension.

Felipe D. Perez is a Clinical Assistant 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 currently serves as the Chair of the Legislative Affairs Committee for the California Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA). He is involved with leading diversity efforts locally and nationally. He co-chairs 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.

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.

I am a Clinical Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Stanford University Medical School. I am Brazilian and completed medical school, anesthesia training, and my PhD in Brazil. I came to Stanford University for a sabbatical year in 2007. It was a great fit on both sides, and I decided on a long-term career at Stanford.  I graduated from “The Master of Academic Medicine program” at University of Southern California in 2014 and completed a doctoral program in education at University of Illinois at Chicago in 2021. At Stanford I have been involved with the resident education not only direct supervision, but by initiating and working on several educational projects (Development and implementation of OSCEs, new lecture format “libero”, Assessing the Workplace Culture and Learning Climate, and use of Entrustable Professional Activities as a framework for assessment for learning). I currently serve as an Associate Designated Institutional Official for GME, Associate Residency Program Directors, Chair of the Education Committee; Co-Director of Teaching Scholars Program. My clinical activity has focused on anesthesia for orthopedic surgery, particularly orthopedic total joint replacements. My areas of interest are: Developing, leading and evaluating programs; Designing curricula and assessing learners and Designing, implementing and studying innovations.

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 completing 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 while treating patients suffering from 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 Anesthesiology 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. She has been involved with innovative learning projects, including being Co-Editor 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. 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, and yogi. She is a single mother of two teenage boys and a golden doodle.

Sophia Turkmani-Bazzi is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine. After graduating with a BA in Behavioral Science from the University of Michigan, she spent some time on the East Coast before returning to medical school at Wayne State University in Detroit. She later completed internship and residency at Stanford before joining the faculty in 2018. Aside from interests in OR turnover efficiency and out of OR/emergent airway protocols, Dr. Turkmani-Bazzi specializes in the anesthetic care of patients with Epidermolysis Bullosa. She also serves as a 300P Anesthesia Scheduler, as well as a faculty facilitator for the PRIME wellness program. Outside of Stanford, she enjoys stand-up comedy, cycling, interior design, and cooking with her husband and toddler.

Phillip was born in Texas but moved to the Bay Area early on. He went to UC Berkeley for his undergraduate studies and returned to Texas for medical school at UT Southwestern. He completed his anesthesiology residency here at Stanford in 2016 and stayed on as faculty ever since. His clinical focus clinically is anesthesiology for orthopedic and thoracic surgeries. He also directs the medical student anesthesiology clerkship. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with my wife, son, and golden retriever.

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 more years before pursuing further training at Stanford in Anesthesiology. After residency, I completed a fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology, and remain as faculty at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. My clinical interests include perioperative medicine so I am part of the pre-anesthesia team, anesthesia resource team, and general OR team. I am also co-director of the pediatric rotation for anesthesia residents and Associate Program Director for the Combined Pediatrics-Anesthesiology residency program. Ask me about living in the South Bay/Peninsula, going to school overseas, and being a mom of 2 active little boys!

Romy Yun, M.D. was born in Germany and primarily raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She completed her undergraduate studies at The Ohio State University and subsequently obtained her 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 then Dr. Yun has been involved in resident/fellow career planning and sharing information regarding private practice anesthesia through various workshops. She is also chair of the pediatric anesthesia fellowship Program Evaluation Committee (PEC) and is a Peer Support and Resiliency in Medicine (PRIME) resident wellness facilitator. Her clinical interests lie in developing methods for reducing preoperative anxiety in the pediatric population through parent/child education.