Leadership
Governing Board
Cynthia J. Brandt, PhD
CEO and President, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health
Jonathan Coslet
Chair of Board of Directors, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Karthik Balakrishnan, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACS
Surgeon-in-Chief, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (OHNS)
Paul A. King
CEO and President, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE
Director, MCHRI; Professor and Chair of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine; Physician-In-Chief, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
Lloyd B. Minor, MD
Dean, Stanford School of Medicine; Professor of Otolaryngology (Head & Neck Surgery)
Ruth O'Hara, PhD
Senior Associate Dean of Research, Stanford School of Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
MCHRI Executive Committee Members
Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE
Director, MCHRI; Chair of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine; Physician-In-Chief, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
Anthony Oro, MD, PhD
Co-Director, MCHRI; Chair of MCHRI Education Committee; Professor Of Dermatology
David K. Stevenson, MD
Co-Director, MCHRI; Senior Associate Dean for Maternal & Child Health, Stanford School of Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatal & Developmental Medicine)
Mary M. Chen, MS, MBA
Executive Director, MCHRI; Assistant Dean, Maternal and Child Health Research, Stanford School of Medicine
Rosa Bacchetta, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation)
Karthik Balakrishnan, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACS
Surgeon-in-Chief, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (OHNS)
David Camarillo, PhD
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Schools of Engineering and Medicine
*Starting September 2021
David Cornfield, MD
Professor of Pediatrics (Pulmonary Medicine)
Paul Fisher, MD
Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences and Pediatrics (Operations)
*Starting September 2021
Ian Gotlib, PhD
Professor of Psychology, School of Humanities and Sciences
Anisha Patel, MD, MSPH, MSHS
MCHRI Director of Community-Engaged Research; Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) and, by Courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health
Karl Sylvester, MD
Director, Clinical Research Support Office, MCHRI; Associate Dean, Maternal and Child Health Research and Professor of Surgery (Pediatric Surgery)
Virginia Winn, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology (Reproductive Biology)
Former Executive Committee Members
- Kathleen Sakamoto, MD, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology & Oncology)
- James Dunn, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery (Pediatric Surgery)
- Thomas Robinson, MD, MPH, Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) and of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center)
- Atul Butte, MD, PhD, Pediatrics and Medicine
- Michael Cleary, MD, MS, Pathology and Pediatrics (Operations)
- Jennifer Cochran, PhD, Bioengineering
- Christopher Contag, PhD, Pediatrics (Neonatal & Developmental Medicine)
- Karen Cook, MA, PhD, Sociology
- Mark Krasnow, MD, PhD, Biochemistry
- Michael Longaker, MD, Surgery (Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery)
- Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, Neurology & Neurological Sciences
- Hugh O'Brodovich, MD, FRCPC, Pediatrics (Operations)
- Matthew Scott, PhD, Developmental Biology
- Brian Wandell, PhD, Psychology
- Bonnie Whalen, Maternal and Child Health Research Institute
- Paul Wise, MD, MPH, Pediatrics
- Fan Yang, PhD, Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering
MCHRI Education Committee Members
Anthony Oro, MD, PhD
Chair of MCHRI Education Committee and Co-Director of MCHRI; Professor of Dermatology
Elizabeth Burgener, MD
Instructor, Pediatrics (Pulmonary Medicine)
Baraka Floyd, MD, MSc
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics
Natalia Gomez-Ospina, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Medical Genetics and Stem Cell Transplantation)
Kelly Mahaney, MD
Assistant Professor , Neurosurgery
Kara Meister, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology (Head & Neck Surgery Divisions)
Trung Pham, MD, PhD
Instructor, Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases)
Ryan Christopher Padrez, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics (General Pediatrics)
Bo Yu, MD
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility)
Former Education Committee Members
- Melissa Mavers, MD, PhD, Instructor in Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation)
- Sriram Vaidyanathan, PhD, Instructor, Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation)
- Thomas Robinson, MD, MPH, Professor, Pediatrics and Medicine
- Virginia Winn, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Reproductive Biology)
- Meena Kadapakkam, MD, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
- Manpreet K. Singh, MD, MS, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, Neurology & Neurological Sciences
- Fan Yang, PhD, Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering