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Sheila Lahijani
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Bio After graduating from Brown Medical School, Dr. Lahijani completed the Combined Internal Medicine/Psychiatry Residency Program at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She then served as a physician in the areas of primary care and triple diagnosis (addiction, HIV, mental health). Dr. Lahijani thereafter completed the Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University where she worked at the Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. During her fellowship, she also served as a psycho-oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Lahijani is trained in and administers different psychotherapeutic modalities, including Meaning Centered Psychotherapy and Dignity Therapy.
In 2015, Dr. Lahijani joined the faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Since her initial appointment, Dr. Lahijani has served as the lead psychiatric oncologist at the Stanford Cancer Center where she has provided psychiatric consultation services to patients with cancer and collaborated closely with her hematology/oncology colleagues to deliver comprehensive cancer care. In 2019, she was appointed as the Medical Director of the Stanford Cancer Center Psycho-Oncology Program. Dr. Lahijani also attends on the Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Service at Stanford Hospital and Clinics to provide care for patients with complex medical and psychiatric diagnoses and to teach psychiatry, internal medicine, and neurology trainees.
Dr. Lahijani leads foundational workshops for faculty and staff to advance communication skills with patients, families, and their colleagues as Faculty of the Advancing Communication Excellence at Stanford. Her clinical and scholarly interests include the interface of Medicine and Psychiatry, Psycho-Oncology, collaborative care models, psychotherapy for the medically ill, psychopharmacology, interdisciplinary medical education, teaching, and academic writing. -
Laura C. Lazzeroni, Ph.D.
Professor (Research) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and of Biomedical Data Science
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Statistics/Data Science. I develop & apply models, methods & algorithms for complex data in medical science & biology. I am also interested in the interplay between fundamental statistical properties (e.g. variability, bias, p-values) & how scientists actually use & interpret data. My work in statistical genetics includes: the invention of Plaid bi-clustering for gene expression data; methods for twin, association, & family studies; multiple testing & estimation for high dimensional arrays.
