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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 Innovation Incubator in the Advanced Technology unit at Edwards Lifesciences.
Leading with a patient-centered and needs-driven approach, his team is responsible for specifying unmet clinical needs in structural heart disease, generating new concepts to solve those needs, and experimenting with early-stage prototyping and feasibility testing in order to translate concepts to clinical and commercial pathways ahead.
Academically, Farzad serves as Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine where he teaches creative design strategy for health and medical technologies at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. He also serves as Fellowship Director to the Edwards Lifesciences Innovation Fellowship Program for cardiovascular physicians and surgeons.
Prior to his current roles, Farzad served as Chief Medical Officer at Myia Labs (an ACC-backed digital health start-up) and Director of Health at IDEO. He completed his training in medicine and cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic and the University of Minnesota’s Lillehei Heart Institute respectively. He served as Chief Cardiology Fellow and NIH T32 research fellow designing and testing new technologies for augmented vascular access and cardio-embolic stroke protection, and completed his post-doctoral education as the St. Jude Medical and Dean’s Innovation Fellow at Stanford Biodesign.
Farzad holds a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from the University of Texas at Austin, an MD from the University of Texas Medical Branch, and a post-doctoral designation 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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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.
