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Lucia Aronica
Casual - Non-Exempt, Medicine - Med/Stanford Prevention Research Center
Bio Over the past ten years my research has focused on the field of epigenetics, which investigates how environmental factors can affect gene activity thereby impacting our health and predisposition to diseases. Unlike genetic factors, epigenetic modifications are flexible and can store cell memories of life exposures such as diet, stress or environmental toxins. As such, they hold great potential in personalized health as biomarkers for exposure-driven chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.
I am currently leading the epigenetic analysis of the largest study ever undertaken in personalized nutrition on low carb vs. low fat diets – the DIETFITS study by Prof Christopher Gardner. My primary goal is to understand how weight-loss affects gene activity through epigenetic modifications, and whether we can use these modifications to predict diet response for personalized weight-loss strategies.
I also teach Nutritional Genomics at Stanford Continuing Studies, Stanford Sport Medicine and at the Stanford Center for Professional Development. An award-winning science communicator, I use creative forms of communication such as digital drawings to explain complex topics from the world of epigenetics and science. Finally, I serve as an advisor for personal genomics companies, self-tracking technology businesses, and companies interested in investing in precision health research. -
Farzad Azimpour
Adjunct Professor, Medicine
Bio Farzad is a cardiologist and design strategist running the Advanced Technology Incubator at Edwards Lifesciences, including the Innovation Fellowship Program for cardiovascular physicians and surgeons.
Focused on structural heart disease, he is responsible for operationalizing the upstream processes of unmet clinical needs characterization, new concept generation, early-stage prototyping, and feasibility testing to translate winning concepts to clinical pathways ahead.
Academically, Farzad serves as Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine where he teaches needs-driven health and medical technology design at the Stanford Presence Center and Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign.
Previously, Farzad served as Chief Medical Officer at Myia Labs (an American College of Cardiology and VC-backed digital health start-up) and Director of Health at the global design and innovation firm IDEO.
He completed his training in medicine and cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic and the University of Minnesota’s Lillehei Heart Institute respectively, served as Chief Cardiology Fellow and NIH T32 Research Fellow designing and testing advanced cardiovascular technologies, and operated as the St. Jude Medical and Dean’s Innovation Fellow at Stanford Biodesign.
Farzad holds both his bachelor’s degree in biological sciences and his MD from the University of Texas at Austin / UTMB, and his post-doc in Biodesign from Stanford University School of Medicine.
He is the recipient of Phi Beta Kappa distinction and the Arnold P. Gold Humanism in Medicine Award. -
Umang Barvalia
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated) [Scvmc], Medicine - Med/Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
Bio Umang Barvalia earned his M.B,B.S degree from Medical College, Baroda in Vadodara, India. He completed his internal medicine residency at Marshfield Clinic- St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, WI where he also served as a chief resident. He was a chief fellow during his Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship at University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. He is currently working as a Board Certified Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Physician at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC), San Jose. – a county hospital that serves as a teaching site for Stanford residents and fellows. He holds an appointment of Clinical Assistant Professor (affiliated) at Stanford University School of Medicine due to his involvement in training of pulmonary and critical medicine fellows.
His professional interests include point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and medical education. He is one of the site directors for POCUS training at SCVMC residency program. He is certified in Critical Care Echocardiography by the National Board of Echocardiography (NBE) and teaches residents and fellows POCUS in the ICU and on the pulmonary consult service.
As a lung specialist, he cares for patients with chronic lung conditions like asthma, pulmonary hypertension, COPD, Interstitial lung disease, diseases involving the pleura and lung cancer. He is also the director of the Endobronchial Ultrasound Program at SCMVC that helps in the diagnosis and care of lung cancer patients.
As a full time faculty in the intensive care unit, he treats patients with a variety of conditions including sepsis, liver failure, respiratory failure, post cardiac arrest and stroke. Along with his peers, he introduced prone position ventilation at SCVMC that helps in management of patients with ARDS. -
Selen Bozkurt
Research Engineer, Med/BMIR
Bio Selen Bozkurt is a biomedical informatician and biostatistician at Stanford University, Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. She was a postdoctoral scholar before, at Stanford Biomedical Data Science Department. Her research area and interests have focused on health informatics research using electronic health records, machine learning and natural language processing. She also has work experience as a biostatistician in several projects. She is a member of RSNA Radiology Reporting Committee since 2009. Her PhD dissertation work was entitled "A Real Time Decision Support System for Mammography Interpretations" in which she developed an automated system for deep information extraction from mammography reports and an approach for real-time decision support driven by analysis of dictated radiology reports.
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Eryn Bryant, MSN, NP-C
Casual Employee, Medicine - Med/Cardiovascular Medicine
Bio Eryn Bryant, MSN, NP-C is an advanced practice provider who specializes in cardiovascular medicine. She completed her Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPC-NP) degree from University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Ohio. Her area of clinical focus is preventive cardiology and women's heart health, specifically cardio-obstetrics. In addition to her clinical practice, she is working in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine on several preventive cardiology focused clinical trials and participated in the development and roll-out of the APP-led diabetes and cardiovascular outcomes program within the Preventive Cardiology Clinic at Stanford. Her academic and clinical interests include implementing best practice interventions for patients with, or who are at risk for cardiovascular disease.
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Alison Callahan
Research Engineer, Med/BMIR
Bio Alison Callahan is a research scientist in the Center for Biomedical Informatics and a member of the Shah Lab. Her work involves research and development of informatics methods for the analysis of biomedical and clinical data, to derive insights and inform medical decision making.
Alison completed her PhD in the Department of Biology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her doctoral research focused on developing HyQue, a framework for representing and evaluating scientific hypotheses, and applying this framework to discover genes related to aging. She was also a developer for Bio2RDF, an open-source project to build and provide the largest network of Linked Data for the life sciences. -
Anneke Claypool
Ph.D. Student in Management Science and Engineering, admitted Autumn 2015
Bio Anneke Claypool is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University.
RESEARCH AREA: Health Policy
RESEARCH ABSTRACT:
Anneke Claypool's research is focused on developing models to evaluate health policy impacts and costs. Her current research includes analyzing the cost-effectiveness of chikungunya virus prevention with a dynamic transmission model and using mathematical modeling to analyze racial disparities in breast cancer incidence in the US. She is particularly interested in infectious disease and improvement in policies for communities with limited access to healthcare. -
Joseph David Cooper
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated) [Scvmc], Medicine - Med/Infectious Diseases
Bio Joseph David Cooper attended Bucknell University for his undergraduate degree with a dual major in Biology and Philosophy. He graduated from St. George’s University School of Medicine and went on to complete his Internal Medicine residency at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania. He remained at Geisinger for an additional year as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine with a focus on teaching and the education of trainees. He completed his Infectious Diseases fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center-Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.
He began working at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center primarily in the PACE (Partners in AIDS Care and Education) and Infectious Diseases Clinics in July 2019. He has an active outreach HIV clinic at Valley Health Center in Gilroy, California once a month. He sees outpatients with general infectious diseases and provides inpatient consultation at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. He is actively involved in the teaching and training of Stanford University Infectious Diseases fellows and medical students, including Internal Medicine residents from his home institution and Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara. Dr. Cooper holds an appointment of Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated) at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Cooper is an active member of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, of which he serves as a workgroup member on the Medical Education Community of Practice. His professional interests include: HIV, Hepatitis C, PrEP, and the intersection of substance use with infectious diseases. Dr. Cooper is passionate about providing high quality, evidence based care to people living with HIV. His main goal and passion is for his patients to remain healthy.
