Recruitment Committee

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.  

Scott was born in Mountain View, California, right down the street from Stanford University, and attended college at the University of California, San Diego. After receiving his B.S. in Biochemistry/Cell Biology, he made his way northward and attended the University of Southern California Keck School Medicine in Los Angeles. Scott then completed his residency in Anesthesia at Stanford University in 2008, and fellowship in Critical Care Medicine, also at Stanford, in 2009. After fellowship, Scott took a position at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center where he splits his time between the operating rooms and the Surgical Intensive Care Unit.  Scott is currently the Vice Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology where he focuses on Physician Recruitment and the Surgical Critical Care service. Scott is happily married with four awesome children that keep him busier at home than when he is at work.

I was born and raised in Pasadena, California and did my undergraduate studies at Pomona College, double majoring in Chemistry and Music.  Wanting to leave California, I moved to the east coast where I received my M.D. degree from Boston University.  After a transitional intern year at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, I came to Stanford for my anesthesia residency and haven’t left since.  After residency, I completed a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine and then joined the faculty in 2014.  I’m part of the adult anesthesia Multispecialty Division and the liver transplant anesthesia team.  I’m the faculty director for the medical student anesthesia clerkship and greatly enjoy working with and teaching both medical students and residents.  I feel very lucky to work in such a great department and hospital, with amazing colleagues and residents!

Larry Chu, MD is a Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine and Director of the Stanford Anesthesia Informatics and Media (AIM) Lab. Dr. Chu founded the START online educational program as well as the Learnly online learning ecosystem for anesthesiology education. He is an NIH-funded clinical researcher and is 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. He is a member of the editorial advisory board for The BMJ, one of the most influential general medical journals in the world.

Natalya was born and raised in New Jersey. After graduating college at Columbia University pre-med with a B.A. in religious studies, she worked as a social work research assistant prior to attending NYU for medical school. She completed her internship at Highland Hospital, a dynamic Level 1 trauma center in the heart of Oakland, and residency in Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford. Natalya was honored to join the Stanford faculty in 2013. She is a member of the Multispecialty Division and Liver Transplant team. Her non-clinical interests include clinician well-being, organizational culture, and communication in healthcare. Natalya lives in the Santa Cruz mountains with her husband and 3 year-old son.

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 also 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.

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.   Went on to anesthesia residency training at the M.G.H. in Boston, followed by fellowship training in pediatric anesthesia at Boston Children’s.  Returned to M.G.H. doing research at the Cardiovascular Research Center with my clinical time spent in Pediatric and OB anesthesia.  During this time, married and had 5 beautiful daughters.  Decided to try private practice in Florida, spent 4 years in Vero Beach, and then came to Stanford to join the pediatric anesthesia division in 2003.  Became Chief of the division in late 2005, and continued since then in that role.  Completed a Masters in Health Research and Policy in 2012.  Started Simulation program within pediatric anesthesia division, and interests focused on safety in the perioperative arena, Management in Perioperative Services, physician wellness, & outcomes research related to pediatric perioperative care.

Born in Philadelphia in 1953, moved to Tucson, AZ the same year and graduated from high school in 1970, from the second high school in the city.  Then attended college at Reed College in Portland, graduating in 1974 with a BA in chemistry. From there entered medical school at the University of Arizona in Tucson, graduating in December, 1977.  During this time I spent 14 months at Cambridge University as a research associate in maternal/fetal endocrinology.

After medical school I entered residency training in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, then completed a second residency program in anesthesiology.  After this training I was a fellow in pediatric anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Boston Children's Hospital.

After fellowship training I joined the faculty at the University of Washington as an assistant professor, and joined the clinical staff at the Seattle Children's Hospital.  There, Don Tyler and I founded the pain management service in 1985, which we believe was the first pain management program for children in the U.S.

I remained at Seattle Children's/UW practicing pediatric anesthesiology, pain management, and critical care medicine until 1994 when I was recruited to come to Stanford to found the division of pediatric anesthesia and become the first anesthesia chief at LPCH.  I remained the chief of pediatric anesthesia until 2003 when I stepped down to lead the pain management group full-time.

Since then our pain management service has grown enormously; in 2010 we opened one of only 6 rehab programs in the U.S. for children with chronic pain and are now expanding the program to treat children with POTS, eating disorders, and conversion disorders. I continue to practice pediatric anesthesiology, with the majority of my time devoted to the pain management clinic and rehab program, research and administration.

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 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. 

Alex Macario, MD, MBA is a Professor of Anesthesia and, by courtesy, of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University. He completed his undergraduate, medical school and business school training at the University of Rochester. He then moved to California for residency in anesthesiology at Stanford and was chief resident (1994). He went on to do a postgraduate fellowship in health services research.

In addition to overseeing the residency, Dr. Macario is interested in the economics of health care, in particular the tradeoffs between costs and outcomes for patients having surgery and anesthesia. Dr. Macario has published internationally recognized studies on the management of the operating room suite, as well as pioneering work on the cost-effectiveness of drugs and devices. He is founder and director of a postgraduate fellowship program which trains physicians in leadership, entrepreneurship, and management science with special attention to the delivery of surgical care.

In his free time Dr. Macario enjoys rooting for Stanford sports, biking up the local hills, hitting tennis balls, and spending time with wife Susan and two adult children.

Sean Mackey, MD, Ph.D. is the Redlich Professor, Chief of the Stanford Pain Medicine Division, and Pain Fellowship Program Director at Stanford University. Under his leadership, the Stanford Pain Medicine Center has been designated a Center of Excellence by the American Pain Society, one of only a few to receive this honor twice. Dr. Mackey completed his undergraduate and Master’s degree 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 subsequently joined the faculty.  While there, he co-founded and directed the Regional Anesthesia program. 

As Director of the Stanford Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab (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. The research mission of the lab is to “Predict, Prevent and Alleviate Pain”.  Dr. Mackey has served as principal investigator and investigator for multiple NIH (P01, R01, U01, K24, T32, R21) and foundation sponsored grants to investigate mechanisms of chronic pain. He is also the director of two large research endowments that allows 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, is Co-Chair of the NIH/HHS National Pain Strategic Task Force, and serves on multiple editorial boards.  He recently 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 both national and international Pain Medicine, Neuroscience and Anesthesiology meetings and has been interviewed extensively by the popular press (http://med.stanford.edu/pain/videos.html).  

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 90 articles or book chapters, most in the area of respiratory/cardiac monitoring and perioperative care of patients with pheochromocytoma.  I have cared for over 193 pheochromocytoma patients.

Aside from routine academic duties (human patient care, teaching, research, administration), I have been thrilled to volunteer at the San Francisco and San Diego Zoos and the Gorilla Foundation (Woodside, CA).  I have assisted in the anesthetic management of many rare and exotic animal species (gorillas, giraffes, lions, tigers, elephants, penguins, lizards, etc) over the last 30 years, most recently for Koko, the signing gorilla.  I have recently performed the first PA catheterization on a gorilla.

I have also traveled far from the ivory tower to participate in short-term (2-4 week) medical missions to under-developed countries of the world.  On these adventures I have provided anesthesia for life-changing plastic/reconstructive surgery for the poor.  Some excursions have been entirely educational with the ASA Overseas Training Program in in several African countries. I’ve completed 46 trips to various Central/South American countries, Africa, and Southeast Asia.  Most recent trips were to Honduras, Venezuela, Guatemala and Rwanda. These missions are spectacular medical opportunities as well as dramatic personal experiences. You cannot go on one of these trips without being changed for the better.

I was born in Boston, but grew up locally here in the California Bay Area.   I attended Harvard College where I majored in History and Science.  I 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, I moved back to California and completed a fellowship in Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia at Stanford in 2005.  Since then, I have 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 my time at Stanford, I developed a training pathway for anesthesia residents to learn Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography which includes a 2 week rotation and monthly seminars.   All residents in our program now have the opportunity to achieve Basic Perioperative Transesophageal Echo Certification during residency.  I also directed the Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship education program including training in Advanced Perioperative Echocardiography.  Starting in February 2017, I was appointed Program Director for the Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship.

I have 4 boys currently ages 3yrs, 7yrs, 10yrs and 12yrs old and my husband is an internal medicine physician.    I enjoy yoga, skiing, reading, cooking challah, and decorating for an elaborate Halloween celebration that occurs on my street.

Ronald Pearl is the Dr. Richard K. and Erika N. Richards Professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesia at Stanford University School of Medicine. 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. 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.

I grew up in Burlingame California and attended Santa Clara University for undergraduate.  I then went back east to Georgetown for medical school and came home for my transitional internship at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center from 1999-2000.  I did my anesthesia residency at Stanford and was chief resident from 2003-2004.  From 2004-2005, I did a pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and then took a job at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center where I did my transitional internship.  I have been at SCVMC for almost 13 years now, loving a mixed practice comprised on 60-70% pediatrics, with trauma, high-risk OB, and everything else except for cardiac and transplant.  Santa Clara Valley is a Level One Trauma Center and one of the three hospitals at which the residents rotate on a monthly basis.  I so enjoy teaching the residents and participating in the resident selection committee yearly.  Our Department is growing and we continue to recruit Stanford residents down to the Valley year after year. Last but NOT least, I married my high school sweetheart, Brian Philip, almost 20 years ago and we have two beautiful girls, Sabrina 11 and Olivia 8.  Being mom and a wife are my two most favorite jobs of all and I feel it is a priority to foster a sense of family in our Anesthesia Department at Valley as well!  

I was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania immersed in the arts; my mom was a costume and children’s clothing designer, and my dad was a playwright. I was lucky to attend Harvard as an undergrad, then Stanford for medical school. I fell in love with anesthesiology while febrile and delirious on my elective anesthesia rotation. After residency at the University of Pennsylvania, I returned to Stanford for a research fellowship in clinical pharmacology. However, after starting a family, I decided to work part-time, and, because of my love of clinical work and teaching, finished up the pharmacology projects. Wandering in the medical library, I came across a journal called Literature and Medicine, which opened the world of medical humanities for me. I have since devoted nearly all of my nonclinical time to developing a program in the arts, humanities and medicine at Stanford, while pursuing and promoting creative writing. My poetry is published in various journals and anthologies, and my children’s novel, The Mailbox, concerns PTSD in Vietnam veterans. I am fortunate to work at the VA Palo Alto, where the work is challenging, my colleagues are amazing, and the patients receive high quality care. My husband, Rob Townsend, is from Montreal and is part of the high tech world of Silicon Valley.

I am a Clinical Professor in the Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University Medical School. I am Brazilian and completed medical school, anesthesia training, and my PhD in Brazil. I was appointed as an Instructor at Federal University of Paraná in Brazil in 1994, promoted to Assistant Professor in 1996 and to Associate Professor in 2000. 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. I am now in my third year doctoral program in education at University of Illinois at Chicago

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”, iPad as a teaching tool in the orthopedic rotation, and Feedback tool). I currently serve as one of the Associate Residency Program Directors, Chair of the Education Committee; Director of Teaching Scholars Program and The Advanced Training in Medical Education at Stanford Anesthesia. 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.

Tammy is a Bay Area native who grew up largely in this area. After undergraduate studies at Stanford, she ventured to the mid-West for medical school at Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine. After the freezing winters, she decided to return to California where she completed a pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland. She was Chief Resident for a year and then worked as a Pediatric Hospitalist for four more years before deciding to pursue further training at Stanford in Anesthesiology. After residency, she completed a fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology, and remained as faculty at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Her clinical interests include perioperative medicine so she is part of the pre-anesthesia team, anesthesia resource team, and part of the general OR team. She is also co-director of the pediatric rotation for anesthesia residents and associate program director for the combined pediatrics-anesthesiology residency program. She is happily married with a little boy, a cute dog, and 6 chickens running around the house and yard.