Past Fellows
2024 - 2026 Clinical Informatics Fellows
Funded with generous support from the Stanford Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics.
Aydin Zahedivash, MD, MBA
Aydin is a physician, educator, and engineer whose interests lie at the intersection of technology, health equity, and children’s health. Aydin completed his undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and went on to complete an MD and MBA at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School and McCombs School of Business. He has over 10 years of experience in the medical technology space, having contributed as a researcher, mentor, inventor, and consultant in both the academic and private industry settings. He is a project coach and part of the teaching team within the Biodesign Digital Health Group and is leading a study exploring the role of the Apple Watch as an arrhythmia event monitor in children. He is passionate about designing digital solutions to integrate and distribute access to care. When not working, he can be found hiking, cycling, and is always trying to read more.
Kameron Black, DO
Dr. Black studied neuroscience and physiology at UC San Diego, followed by a master of public health degree at the University of Colorado and medical school at Rocky Vista University. During medical school, he co-founded the nation’s first longitudinal, cohort-based training program in undergraduate medical education for digital heath. His prior research affiliations include Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Over the past three years, he has co-authored publications in JMIR, Scientific Data, and Applied Clinical Informatics. He presented his work at AMIA CIC in 2022 and 2023. He is an Epic Physician Builder, and has completed the AMIA OHSU 10x10 course. He hopes to contribute to research at the intersection of machine learning and health equity.
Bethel Mieso, MD
Bethel Mieso was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia but grew up in the San Jose, CA. She completed her medical school at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency at Stanford during which time she was a Leadership Education in Advancing Diversity (LEAD) Program Scholar. Her informatics interests leveraging data to create innovative healthcare delivery solutions, developing and implementing digital tools to improve patient outcomes and experience, and optimizing EHR systems to reduce provider burnout.
2023 - 2025 Clinical Informatics Fellows
Funded with generous support from the Stanford Departments of Emergency Medicine, Medicine, Pathology, and Surgery.
April Liang, MD
April was born in the Bay Area but spent her childhood in Shanghai, China. She returned to the US and learned about both winter and Computer Science at Princeton University, where she received her BSE. She then completed medical school and Internal Medicine residency at UCSF. While there, she worked a machine learning model to predict incident delirium in hospitalized patients and EHR-based interventions to increase guideline-recommended public health screening. Within clinical informatics, her interests include closing the AI implementation gap in healthcare, clinical decision support, and data-driven quality improvement.
Alex Dussaq, MD, PhD
Alex Dussaq has a BS from University of Nevada, Reno. He completed medical school and a Ph.D. In informatics at University of Alabama at Birmingham. He completed residency in Pathology at Stanford Hospital. Alex then completed CI and Breast Pathology Fellowships simultaneously. He is interested anything lab, particularly image management systems for next generation whole slide image utilization.
Josh Villarreal, MD
Josh grew up in McAllen, Texas and is a first generation physician. He holds a B.S. in Human Biology from the University of Texas and M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine. Josh is currently a General Surgery resident at Stanford and was the first surgery resident to join the Clinical Informatics Fellowship during his research years. His informatics interests include leveraging AI with trauma video review quality improvement, computer vision in laparoscopic surgery and enhancing surgical education, and increasing accessibility of outpatient surgical services to underserved populations.
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Dong Yao, MD
Dong Yao was born and raised in Japan before moving to the bay area. He holds a BA in Molecular & Cell Biology and Immunology from UC Berkeley, and an MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at UCLA before moving back to the bay to pursue fellowship and clinical practice. His interests in informatics include clinical throughput and operations optimization in the emergency department, EHR usability and experience, and is he is excited to explore new ways of bringing digital health technologies such as telemedicine and artificial intelligence into clinical practice to improve the provider/patient experience.
Shivam Vedak, MD
Shivam grew up in the Chicago suburbs. He completed his BS in Biology-Neuroscience at Penn State, before returning to Chicago for the MD/MBA dual-degree program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He stayed at UIC for his Internal Medicine residency training, during which he led several EHR optimization and education efforts. He also won several health hackathons as leader of an international collaborative to improve COVID testing accuracy via machine learning and blockchain technology. He is passionate about education, digital health, and the practical implementation of novel technologies in the traditionally slow-moving health care industry. This includes improving the quality of medical education surrounding Clinical Informatics, artificial intelligence, and the business of medicine, to ensure that physicians have the appropriate knowledge to safely integrate emerging innovations into their clinical practice.
2022 - 2024 Clinical Informatics Fellows
Funded with generous support from the Stanford Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics.
Nymisha Chilukuri, MD
Nymisha was raised in India and Canada. She holds a BSc in Developmental Biology from the University of Toronto. She then completed medical school, Pediatric residency, and general academic pediatrics fellowship (focused on addressing telehealth disparities) at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her operational and research work during her fellowship was focused on using clinical informatics to improve access to equitable care for children in underserved communities.
Stephen Ma, MD, PhD
Stephen was born and raised in Utah. He went to Princeton for college and majored in Electrical Engineering. He then went to Columbia University for his MD/PhD where his doctoral work focused on cardiac tissue engineering with an emphasis on human stem-cell derived models of disease and resulted in multiple grants, presentations, publications, and patents. He then moved across the country to Stanford where he completed his residency in Internal Medicine. As a CI fellow, his interests focused on developing novel digital-first approaches to healthcare as well as integrating clinical decision support into existing workflows.
Julie Lee, MD
Julie grew up in Los Angeles. She holds a BA in Psychology from Columbia University and a MPH in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale. After completing medical school at The State University of New York at Buffalo she came back to the best coast (as she missed the sun) and finished Internal Medicine residency at UC Riverside.
Currently, her informatics interests include optimization of physician workflow, reducing cognitive load/burnout, integration of AI in decision support, and improving interoperability. She is particularly interested in cardiovascular disease and women's health research.
2021 - 2023 Clinical Informatics Fellows
Funded with the generous support of the Stanford Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics.
Julian Genkins, MD
Prior to his Informatics fellowship at Stanford, Julian Genkins completed a degree in biology and computer science at Duke University, worked for a year as a software developer at Epic, graduated medical school at Vanderbilt University, and completed an Internal Medicine residency at UCSF.
Julian focuses on leveraging software and AI/data science to augment the daily cognitive processes of clinicians as well as delivering informatics education, mentoring prospective informaticians, and developing curricula for clinical informatics to be integrated into medical education.
Naveed Rabbani, MD
Naveed Rabbani holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MD from Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at the University of Washington. His work in fellowship focused on application of data science and artificial intelligence into healthcare operations.
2020 - 2022 Clinical Informatics Fellows
Funded with generous support from an unrestricted grant from Hewlett Packard, and by the Stanford Departments of Emergency Medicine, Medicine, and Pediatrics.
Dev Dash, MD MPH
Dev grew up in Montreal, Canada, and received his MD from Baylor College of Medicine. He earned a Master's in Public Health from Harvard University School of Public Health. He has a significant quantitative sciences background (physics, epidemiology) and he initially began residency in neurosurgery but switched to Emergency Medicine to incorporate computer aided diagnostics.
Drew Bedgood, MD
Drew received his BS in Biomedical Engineering from Texas A&M University and completed his medical degree at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at UCLA. He has a special focus on patient data sharing, the regulatory complexities of clinical informatics, and using AI models to protect patient confidentiality.
Oluseyi "Seyi" Fayanju, MD
Originally from northern New Jersey, Seyi received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Harvard College and earned master's degrees from Harvard and Columbia. He worked for several years in the corporate sector and at the Environmental Defense Fund before earning his medical degree at the University of Chicago. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of North Carolina.
Arjun Gokhale, MD
Arjun worked as a project manager implementing EHRs for Epic Systems prior to medical school and Internal Medicine residency. He is interested in making clinical data meaningful and actionable at the patient, provider and population levels. In fellowship, his work focused on developing a pipeline to utilize institutional data to inform hospital medicine guideline generation and workflow redesign of the patient-provider assignment process.
Combined Fellows in Clinical Informatics
Sanaa Suharwardy, MD (2017-2021)
Sanaa attended UCLA for undergrad where she majored in Economics, then attended WashU in St. Louis for Medical School. She was an Obstetrics and Gynecology resident at Stanford, and then a combined fellow in Clinical Informatics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine. She recognizes the special informatics needs of Obstetrics and Gynecology and its subspecialties, and aspires to become a leader in obstetrics informatics.
Amrita Sinha, MD (2018-2022)
Amrita’s academic journey began in India, where she was born, raised and went to medical school. She completed her Pediatric residency in Cleveland and continued her taining in California as a Pediatric Critical Care fellow at Stanford. Her aim is to empower healthcare providers with timely clinical decision support, ease their EHR burden and ultimately improve patient outcomes.
2019 - 2021 Fellows in Clinical Informatics
Funded with generous support from an unrestricted grant from Hewlett Packard and by the Stanford Department of Medicine.
Wui Ip, MD
Wui grew up in Macau, China, went to medical school at Harvard, and completed Pediatric residency at UCSF. His past research areas include computational genomics and mathematical modeling of infectious disease. Prior to fellowship he practiced as a pediatric hospitalist at Sutter Health CPMC where he developed a strong interest in clinical informatics. In particular, he is interested in applying analytics and clinical decision support tools to improve patient care.
Birju Patel, MD MPH
Birju attended Johns Hopkins for his medical and public health degrees and has experience in management consulting, design thinking, and quality improvement. After completing residency in Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern, he practiced as a hospitalist at Kaiser Permanente in Orange County. His focus in informatics is to reimagine the physician experience with the electronic medical record. He hopes to design better ontologies and workflows that will facilitate clinical reasoning and make documentation more efficient.
2018 - 2020 Fellow in Clinical Informatics
Funded with generous support from an unrestricted grant from Hewlett Packard.
Keith Morse, MD, MBA
Prior to attending medical school in Philadelphia, Keith worked as a SAS programmer analyzing Medicare claims data for the federal government. He completed Pediatric residency at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. During CI fellowship, his research focused on deployment of machine learning models into the EHR to predict patient outcomes.
2017 - 2019 Fellow in Clinical Informatics
Funded with generous support from the Stanford Department of Medicine.
Ron Li, MD
Ron went to college and medical school in Chicago at Northwestern, and completed a clinical epidemiology research fellowship at Penn before coming to Stanford for Internal Medicine training. During CI fellowship, Ron's informatics interests were to create, implement, and evaluate tools that help us become better physicians and build a learning healthcare system of the future.
2016 - 2018 Fellows in Clinical Informatics
Funded with generous support from an unrestricted grant from Hewlett Packard and the Stanford Department of Medicine.
Richard Medford, MD
After medical school in Philadelphia, Richard returned to his home province of Ontario for residency in Internal Medicine at Queen's University and fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Ottawa. His interest in Clinical Informatics first arose during the 2003 SARS outbreak in Toronto, and he helped develop a clinical database to facilitate patient screening for SARS-like symptoms. He also developed a mobile application to help support antimicrobial stewardship.
Chethan Sarabu, MD
Chethan attended Cornell University and majored in Landscape Architecture and Biology, exploring the interaction of urban design and health. He applied these skills as a user interface designer and researcher at the Cornell interaction design lab. During Pediatrics residency at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson he served as a member of the physician advisory committee to the EHR. During fellowship, Chethan worked to promote patient centered care through initiatives such as OpenNotes.
2015 - 2017 Fellows in Clinical Informatics
Funded with generous support from an unrestricted grant from Hewlett Packard and the Stanford Departments of Medicine and Emergency Medicine.
Yumi DiAngi, MD
Yumi trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania then worked for five years in an outpatient practice in a federally designated medically underserved area in northwestern Pennsylvania. During Clinical Informatics fellowship, she worked to improve provider EHR efficiency and satisfaction.
Yaniv Kerem, MD
After medical school at Loyola University, Yaniv trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of Chicago. As Resident Director for Clinical Informatics, he worked closely with the hospital’s EHR team to improve physician workflow and efficiency. During fellowship, he worked to integrate mobile technology into clinical workflows.
2014 - 2016 Inaugural Fellows in Clinical Informatics
Funded with generous support from an unrestricted grant from Hewlett Packard.
Lance Downing, MD
A Bay Area native, Dr. Downing attended Rhodes College and majored in economics before returning to work in enterprise software. Drawn to the humanistic ideals of medicine, Lance then traveled to the midwest to attend medical school at Case Western University, returning to Palo Alto as a resident in Internal Medicine at Stanford. As a Clinical Informatics fellow, he worked to improve healthcare in an era of medicine increasingly interconnected with healthcare information systems.
Veena Goel Jones, MD
Veena was born and raised in Canada, attended medical school in Arizona, and completed Pediatrics residency at Stanford in 2013. In July 2013, she became the first fellow in Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) at Stanford. Her Clinical Informatics scholarship focused on improving bedside monitor alarm fatigue, a Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal.