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Yair Bannett
Instructor, Pediatrics
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Dr. Bannett seeks to use data-driven methods to develop reliable quality measures for management of children with developmental and behavioral (DB) conditions in community-based primary care. Current observational studies use multi-level analysis of electronic health record data and clinician interviews. Dr. Bannett plans to use natural language processing to accurately assess quality of care, with the ultimate goal of improving health care delivery for children with DB conditions.
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Benjamin I. Chung
Associate Professor of Urology at the Stanford University Medical Center
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Renal cell carcinoma and prostate cancer outcomes research and epidemiology.
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Melody Pei-Shien Chung MD
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Immunology and Rheumatology
Bio Melody Chung, MD is currently a clinical research fellow in the Department of Rheumatology/Immunology at Stanford University under the mentorship of Dr. Lorinda Chung and a Masters student in the Epidemiology and Clinical Research program administered through Stanford's Department of Health Research and Policy.
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Manuel Garcia Toca
Clinical Associate Professor, Surgery - Vascular Surgery
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Open and endovascular management of vascular trauma, aortic dissection, complex thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysm disease, critical limb ischemia, extracranial cerebrovascular disease and dialysis access.
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Ashlyn Gary
Masters Student in Community Health and Prevention Research, admitted Autumn 2016
Bio Ashlyn Gary graduated with Honors at Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology, concentrating in the neurobiology of behavior and mental health.
She is most fascinated with the intersection between neuroscience and behavior--the underlying biological mechanisms behind behavior and the mental processes that motivate it.
Since her freshman year, Ashlyn worked as a student researcher at the Talbot Lab. Research at the Talbot Lab focuses on the development and function of glial cells in the vertebrate nervous system, using genetic approaches in zebrafish to discover new genes with essential functions in the glial cells. These projects provide novel insights into glial cell development and function, define pathways that may be disrupted in disease, and may provide new avenues toward therapies for diseases of glia.
Ashlyn's undergraduate honors thesis investigated the role of microglia in a lysosomal storage disease called Mucolipidosis type IV, in hopes of providing a novel insight into the origins, neurological mechanisms, and progression of neurodevelopmental defects characteristic of lysosomal storage disease patients. Her research was awarded the Stanford University Oral Communication Program Excellence for Honors Thesis Presentation.
During her undergraduate career, Ashlyn was also a health advocate and researcher for the Stanford Emergency Department (ED). As a health advocate, her community work attempted to understand the social determinants of health affecting patients in Stanford's ED by screening patients for social and legal needs such as problems with health insurance, food security, homelessness, and employment and connecting these patients to appropriate community resources and partnerships.
Beyond Stanford, Ashlyn aspires to become a physician because she wants to engage with people and empower them to improve their health. Committed to promote the health and well-being of others, she aims to address the special challenges and needs of diverse communities through the lens of medicine and public health. Next fall, Ashlyn will be pursuing her Masters of Science in Community Health & Prevention Research, where she will work at the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic and research precision mental health, integrating her interests in neuropsychiatry, biotechnology, and community outreach. Through this program, Ashlyn is excited to develop the research skills for a future career in medicine as an aspiring physician who is dedicated to serving at a community level, not just at an individual level. -
Afrin N. Kamal MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Bio Afrin Kamal is a board-certified gastroenterologist, who trained at Washington University in internal medicine, Cleveland Clinic in gastroenterology/hepatology, and most recently Stanford University in esophageal and motility diseases. Afrin shares a clinical passion in esophageal motility diseases with an an overlapping interest in health services and outcomes research.
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Caroline Yeon-Kyeong Noh
Masters Student in Epidemiology and Clinical Research, admitted Autumn 2019
Bio Caroline Yeon-Kyeong Noh, MD is a Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Carlos Jose Suarez Valencia
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pathology
Bio Dr. Suarez is a board-certified pathologist specializing in anatomic, clinical and molecular genetic pathology. He received his M.D. degree with the highest honors (summa cum laude) from the University of the Valley (Universidad del Valle), Cali, Colombia. After medical school, he was a research fellow at a WHO-collaborating center investigating pattern of nosocomial antibiotic resistance, and later joined the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) as postdoctoral research fellow in cancer and lung immunology laboratories. He completed an anatomic and clinical pathology residency at the University of Washington, Seattle, and a Molecular Genetic Pathology fellowship at Stanford University. Dr. Suarez is currently Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology at Stanford University, and he is also Co-Director of the Genetic and Genomic Testing Optimization Service and Associate Director of the Molecular Pathology Laboratory at the Stanford University Medical Center.
