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Kathryn S. Macia
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry
Bio Kathryn Macia is a postdoctoral fellow in VA's Advanced Fellowship Program in Mental Illness Research and Treatment at the National Center for PTSD, Dissemination & Training Division, VA Palo Alto Health Care System and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. Her research interests focus on traumatic stress, substance use, emotion regulation, social support, interpersonal functioning, and homelessness among veterans and vulnerable populations, as well as advanced statistical methods.
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Mojtaba Madadi Asl
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Neurosurgery
Bio Mojtaba is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine. Given his background in physics, he carries out research in the fields of theoretical and computational neuroscience with an interest in time delay dynamics, dynamical systems, synaptic plasticity and spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP). He is determined to understand the impact of propagation delays on the effects of stimulation patterns for computational optimization of therapeutic brain stimulation techniques. To this end, he studies how dendritic and axonal propagation delays shape neuronal activity and synaptic connectivity patterns in plastic neuronal networks.
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Elhussein Elbadry Eldowy Mahmoud
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Radiology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Stem cell implantation for cartilage repair in the immature and mature animals.
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Valentina Martinez Damonte
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry
Bio I have come to Stanford University to increase my knowledge and acquire new skills in neuroscience and synaptic plasticity. My interest in the brain arises from its unique complexity and malleability to shape different behavioral outcomes. My PhD was aimed at studying the modulation of voltage-gated calcium channels in primary neuronal cultures and brain slices by a GPCR involved in energy homeostasis and memory. At this stage I am willing to use my expertise in electrophysiology and subcellular neuroscience to explore the plasticity of inhibitory afferents into the VTA and its relation with stress-induced relapse.
I also believe that science is a powerful tool to explore and change the world, and hence I am highly interested in the ideas behind science policies as well as in understanding how science shapes the reality we live in, and the responsibility we have as scientists. -
Jessica A. Martinez M.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Radiological Sciences Laboratory
Bio B.S. Physics
M.S. Bioengineering
Ph.D. Bioengineering -
Leonardo Martinez Pantoja
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Infectious Diseases
Bio I am a postdoctoral research fellow focusing on infectious disease epidemiology, specifically tuberculosis, in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Stanford University's School of Medicine under the mentorship of Dr. Jason Andrews.
My research focuses on
(i) deriving and validating meaningful and effective interventions to diagnose and prevent pediatric tuberculosis
(ii) furthering our understanding of tuberculosis transmission dynamics in high-burden settings, and
(iii) advocating for the implementation of effective health policy in low-income communities with a high tuberculosis burden -
Solange Massa
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Developing biomaterials and medical devices using chemistry and 3D printing.
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Ian McCoy
Clinical Instructor, Medicine - Nephrology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests As a nephrologist working in diverse practice settings including the intensive care unit (ICU), I regularly face the limitations of current clinical tools for assessing a patient's volume status and for guiding patient selection for diuretic therapy. I work with a large, detailed clinical database (MIMIC-III) to study current patterns of diuretic use in the ICU, estimated effects of diuretic use, and clinical features that may predict outcomes in critically ill patients receiving diuretics.
I am also involved in quality improvement. I lead the Draw on Dialysis project, which aims to draw non-urgent inpatient labs on dialysis rather than by peripheral phlebotomy in order to save patient pain and peripheral veins for future dialysis access. I am also interested in leveraging nationwide databases such as Optum claims data to assess adherence to guidelines in kidney care. -
Stavros Melemenidis
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Radiation Physics
Bio For the past 4 years as a post-doctorate fellow at the Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, I have dedicated my work on the development of primary cancer and metastatic tumor-mouse models for the purpose of investigating immune cell migration, early detection of disease, and clinically relevant therapy combining radiation with novel drugs. My training as a doctorate candidate and during my brief post-doctorate appointment in the Department of Radiation Oncology, Oxford University UK has equipped me with a deep understanding of the molecularly targeted in vivo imaging with the use of contrast agents for early detection of metastasis. As a physics undergraduate and graduate student at the Department of Physics, Liverpool University UK, I have developed deep knowledge in all types of radiation and their implication in the entire spectrum of imaging modalities and medical radiation treatment.
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Andrea Mendoza Vasconez
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, SCRDP/ Heart Disease Prevention
Bio Dr. Andrea S. Mendoza-Vasconez' research has primarily focused on the promotion and maintenance of physical activity among Latino populations, using both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Dr. Mendoza-Vasconez is interested in citizen science as a means of empowering and mobilizing underserved communities, and in the use of technology to tailor interventions in a behavioral precision medicine approach.
Outside of research, Dr. Mendoza-Vasconez loves spending time with her family (especially her baby daughter Olivia), biking, learning new and challenging things (like surfing!), and traveling to new places (which will unfortunately be done sparingly in the future in an effort to reduce her ecological footprint). -
Louise Alessandra Mesentier Louro
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ophthalmology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Interested in understanding how glia shapes neuronal fate in neurodegenerative diseases and in designing therapeutic approaches to prevent retinal ganglion cell loss and irreversible damage to the optic nerve, the only connection between the eye and the brain.
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Dunja Mrdjen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Bio Dr. Mrdjen received a B.Sc. in Molecular and Cell Biology and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. During her M.Sc. research she investigated the imprinting of maternal immune experience onto offspring in mouse models at the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine at UCT. Following her M.Sc. work, Dr. Mrdjen interned at the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) at Biopolis, Singapore, and then moved to Zurich, Switzerland where she completed her Ph.D. in Immunology at the University of Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Burkhard Becher. Dr. Mrdjen's Ph.D. work involved the use of single-cell technologies like CyTOF mass cytometry to investigate the immune compartments of the murine brain at steady state and during different kinds of brain diseases.
With funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation and Novartis, Dr. Mrdjen's post-doctoral research at Stanford University with Prof. Thomas Montine and Dr. Sean Bendall focuses on understanding the cellular networks and spatial interactions between then and genetic risk products that drive Alzheimer's disease in the human brain, by leveraging multiplexed ion beam imaging (MIBI) and computational approaches to data analysis.
