What we do
The Knowlton Lab works within the Stanford School of Medicine’s Division of General Surgery in the Department of Surgery.
We are a multidisciplinary research team of clinicians, statisticians and qualitative researchers, health economists, residents, post-doctoral fellows, and students who are focused on improving health equity and long-term outcomes among high-risk surgical populations.
Currently, research in the lab revolves around:
Improving access to care and health outcomes for underinsured patients hospitalized for emergency surgical care.
Leveraging innovation to identify novel approaches to improve access to high quality clinical care, long-term health outcomes all while considering costs of care for patients and health systems.
Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and big data to detect early markers of illness and improve outcomes for critically ill patients.
Knowlton and Team at Stanford Medicine Receive Prestigious ARPA-H Funding through White House Initiative
Lisa Knowlton, MD, MPH, is the co-recipient of up to $22.3 million award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to improve intraoperative anatomy visualization and critical structure identification. The prestigious five-year award will be led by Co-Principal Investigators Dr. Knowlton and Zhongming (Jeremy) Li, PhD, founding CEO of CisionVision, a medical device company in Mountain View, CA.
Dr. Lisa Marie Knowlton
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Surgery
MD, McGill University Medical School
MPH, Quantitative Methods, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health