Alexa is a postdoctoral scholar at the SPRC, mentored by Drs. Shoa Clarke and Tim Assimes. She earned her undergraduate degree in nutrition from Texas A&M University, followed by a Master of Science and Dietetic Internship at the University of Florida. In 2024, she completed her PhD in Nutrition at Cornell University, with minors in computational biology and biochemistry, where she conducted a precision nutrition study on the genetics of iron homeostasis. Her research explores the intersection of diet, genomics and epigenomics in cardiometabolic disease prevention, focusing on why individuals respond differently to various environmental exposures.

Andrea is a postdoctoral fellow at SPRC. She completed her doctorate in Nutritional Sciences at University of Florida in partnership with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Her research focuses on dietary and culinary interventions. Andrea received her Bachelor of Science degrees in Nutrition and in Kinesiology at Texas A&M University. During this time, she worked on multiple nutrition protocols through two fellowships at the NIH Clinical Center and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. She received her culinary training through Rouxbe Cooking School and completed dietetic training through The Ohio State University.

Sarah Tanveer is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), working with Drs. John Ioannidis and Steven Goodman. She holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical Health Services Research from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and a Master’s in Public Health Biology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her primary research focuses on drug safety. She is also interested in pharmaceutical policy, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacovigilance, causal inference, and evidence synthesis methods to assess the safety of clinical interventions.

Alejandro Sandoval-Lentisco is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), where he works with John P.A. Ioannidis and Steven Goodman. His doctoral research focused on transparency and risk of bias in evidence synthesis. Currently, he is exploring different meta-scientific topics such as the mechanisms of scientific self-correction.

Eunhye Lee is a postdoctoral fellow at SPRC, working with Dr. Ann Hsing. She earned her PhD in Community Health Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a master’s degree in social sciences from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on enhancing our understanding of how to promote psychological resilience and well-being across diverse populations. She employs mixed methods to identify determinants of resilience and well-being to promote healthy and thriving lives.

Michael Royer is a third-year postdoctoral research scholar at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. His research focuses on the prevention of food insecurity among under-resourced populations who are at an increased risk of diet-related chronic disease. Dr. Royer teaches CHPR 237 – Hunger & Food Insecurity, which is a solutions-oriented class to inform and brainstorm solutions to address food insecurity. Dr. Royer was recently selected by the Stanford Cancer Institute to submit a K99/R00 research proposal to the National Cancer Institute for a study testing the extent to which Food is Medicine strategies mitigate the risk factors for cancer.