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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 Azimpour is a health technology designer and cardiologist serving as Chief Medical Officer at Myia Health, Adjunct Professor (Medicine) at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Assistant Director (Design) at Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign.
In partnership with the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Azimpour leads clinical design implementation at Myia Health, a digital health platform service for contextualized patient data monitoring, analytics, and clinical decision-making.
Academically, he leads creative design strategy at Stanford Biodesign. He co-directed the inaugural Stanford Medicine course titled MED267 on design for the human experience in medicine with Dr. Abraham Verghese and colleagues. He is also a contributor to the Stanford Presence 5 research team, designing the future of human clinical interactions in an increasingly digital ecosystem.
Prior to his current roles, Dr. Azimpour served as Director of Health at the global design and innovation firm IDEO. He was the 2014 St. Jude Medical and Dean's Innovation Fellow at Stanford Biodesign after completing his clinical training in internal medicine and cardiology at Cleveland Clinic and the University of Minnesota's Lillehei Heart Institute, respectively. He served as Chief Cardiology Fellow and was awarded an NIH T32 fellowship in advanced cardiovascular technologies where he led feasibility studies on acoustic detection of coronary artery stenosis, augmented vascular access, and implantable cardio-embolic stroke protection systems.
Dr. Azimpour 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 a recipient of Phi Beta Kappa distinction and the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award. -
Selen Bozkurt
Biomedical Informatician, 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.
