Elsie brings a wealth of experience from her time at the School of Medicine, where she has served since 2014 in increasingly responsible roles in finance, operations, and administration.

Most recently, she served as the Administrative Division Director in Hospital Medicine. Since joining the Department of Medicine in 2015, Elsie has led staff administration, finance, and operations for research and clinical divisions. She has also partnered effectively with leadership in the Stanford Prevention Research Center and the Division of Primary Care & Population Health to strengthen their communities and advance their missions.  

While not at Stanford, Elsie enjoys being outdoors, traveling, and spending time with family.

Lana started at Stanford in 2016 working at the Clinical Excellence Research Center and most recently was the Senior Administrative Division Director in Pediatrics running three divisions of Pulmonary, Asthma and Sleep Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Quality of Life and Pediatric Palliative Care.

Lana is highly regarded as a thoughtful leader and brings extensive experience in business administration, operations, and human resources. Lana is passionate about career development and mentoring staff which will undoubtedly be highly valuable for Biomedical Data Sciences as they continue to grow and strengthen their department staff along their research and education missions.

While not working, Lana loves traveling and spending time outdoors with her family.

With decades of experience in nonprofits and large philanthropies focused on climate solutions, Pera is well-positioned to co-lead the Accelerator’s efforts to speed the translation of Stanford research into technology and policies that help improve the quality of human life on our planet.

Pera comes to Stanford from the Bezos Earth Fund, where she served as vice president and deputy CEO. In that role, Pera and colleagues worked closely with the fund’s founders, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, to disburse the fund’s entire $10 billion endowment by the year 2030 with a focus on fighting the climate crisis and protecting and restoring nature, with attention to global equity. 

Before her time at the Bezos Earth Fund, Pera served for nearly a decade as president and CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit working globally to maximize philanthropy’s impact on climate change through strategic advisory services, convening, and grantmaking. In 2023, she was named one of the 50 most powerful women in U.S. philanthropy. 

Pera holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford. She serves on the advisory board of the 100x Impact Accelerator at the London School of Economics, the governing board of the International Council for Clean Transportation, and the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Philanthropy for Climate and Nature. She is a senior fellow with the Bezos Earth Fund and with the Mission Possible Partnership. 

As the Associate Dean of Student Affairs, John supervises the Registrar’s Office and the Office of Student Affairs (OSA), oversees the programming put on by OSA, and engages in support and advising for students navigating a range of personal, academic, and health challenges. Prior to his appointment as Associate Dean, John served as the inaugural Director of Academic Success at Stanford Law School, where he helped to provide academic and bar advising, as well as academic support programming and counseling.

Before returning to Stanford Law, he spent over ten years working as an attorney at the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), where he worked primarily as a capital litigator and on EJI’s racial justice and education projects. Before working at EJI, he spent 15 months working as a corporate transactional associate at Davis Polk in their Menlo Park office. Prior to practicing, he clerked for Judge Pamela Ann Rymer, JD ‘64, of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California.

Amanda is the inaugural Director of Strategic Partnerships, SHC, a new role tasked with designing and supporting a centralized industry intake process for proposed novel operations and care delivery solutions. Amanda and her team will support a governance process with key SHC leaders and faculty to select strategic partners for innovative co-creation and support contracting, pilot management, KPIs, and exits of those solutions to ensure alignment with the tripartite mission and address critical organizational needs.

Amanda brings a wealth of experience from her tenure at Amazon, where she managed a portfolio of digital health companies driving innovation for AWS's enterprise healthcare and life sciences customers. In a previous role at Amazon, Amanda launched a Health and Wellness domain on Alexa, helping consumers at home manage medications, navigate the health system, and access care.

Amanda has held executive roles in digital health strategy and innovation at BTG (now Boston Scientific), Aetna, Purchaser Business Group on Health, the California Department of Health and Human Services, and two major health systems: Mass General Brigham and New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. 

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