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Maryam S. Makowski, PhD, FACN
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Bio Maryam S. Makowski, PhD, FACN is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Makowski has particular expertise in nutrition and is a Certified Health and Wellness Coach. The focus of her current work is reducing fatigue and improving mood and cognitive performance of professionals with high cognitive demands. As the Associate Director of Scholarship and Health Promotion of Stanford Medicine WellMD & WellPhD, Dr. Makowski leads initiatives at that promote personal well-being, self-care and culture of wellness among clinicians at Stanford Medicine.
Dr. Makowski is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, American and Canadian Nutrition Societies, and American Nutrition Association. She completed her masters and doctoral studies in clinical nutrition, nutritional epidemiology and medical science at University of Toronto in Canada. Prior to joining Stanford, she served as a scientific associate at Toronto General Hospital-University Health Network in Toronto, and as an advisor to Air Canada Rouge pilots and cabin crew on optimal nutrition. Over the course of her career, she has authored many highly cited scientific papers on nutrition and clinician well-being. -
Jose R. Maldonado, MD, FAPM
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (General Psychiatry and Psychology-Adult) and, by courtesy, of Emergency Medicine and of Medicine at the Stanford University Medical Center and, by courtesy, of Law
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Pathophysiology and Management of Delirium, Acute Brain Failure and Cognitive Impairment, Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of Traumatic Brain Injury, Factitious Disorder & Munchausen's Syndrome, Cultural Diversity in Medical Care, Psychiatric Complications of Bone Marrow Transplantation, Conversion Disorder, Depression in the Medically Ill, Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
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Robert Malenka
Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Long-lasting changes in synaptic strength are important for the modification of neural circuits by experience. A major goal of my laboratory is to elucidate the molecular events that trigger various forms of synaptic plasticity and the modifications in synaptic proteins that are responsible for the changes in synaptic efficacy.
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Alan G. Maloney
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Bio Psychiatrist and Jungian Analyst in private practice in San Francisco and Palo Alto.
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Rachel Manber, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (General Psychiatry and Psychology-Adult) at the Stanford University Medical Center
Current Research and Scholarly Interests 1) Insomnia during pregnancy
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Ryan Matlow
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Bio Ryan Matlow, Ph.D., is a child clinical psychologist who serves as Director of Community Programs for Stanford?s Early Life Stress and Resilience Program, and is a faculty member in Stanford's Human Rights and Trauma Mental Health Program. His clinical and research efforts focus on understanding and addressing the impact of stress, adversity, and trauma in children, families, and communities. In particular, Dr. Matlow seeks to apply current scientific knowledge of the neurobiological and developmental impact of stress, trauma, and adversity in shaping interventions and systems of care. Dr. Matlow is focused on engaging diverse populations and providing evidence-based individual, family, and systems interventions for posttraumatic stress following interpersonal trauma, with an emphasis on efforts in school, community, and integrated care settings. He is engaged in clinical service, program development, and interdisciplinary collaboration efforts that address childhood trauma exposure in communities that have been historically marginalized, under-resourced, and/or experienced human rights violations. He has worked extensively in providing trauma-focused psychological evaluation, treatment, and advocacy services with immigrant youth and families, with a focus on immigrants from Latin American countries. Dr. Matlow is involved in the training and dissemination of Stanford's Cue Centered Therapy (Carrion, 2015), a flexible, manualized intervention addressing childhood experiences of chronic trauma.
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LAWRENCE McGLYNN
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Methamphetamine Abuse
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Mark McGovern
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Public Mental Health and Population Sciences) and, by courtesy, of Medicine (Primary Care and Population Health) at the Stanford University Medical Center
Current Research and Scholarly Interests We use innovations from implementation science to improve public access to effective treatments for all health problems and especially behavioral health problems, including addiction and mental health disorders. Our credo is NO HEALTH WITHOUT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH. Our goal is to enhance a person's chances for the best outcomes possible, including a lifetime of recovery. We embrace our leadership role to advance the science of implementation and mentor the next generation of researchers.
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Johnna Medina
Academic Staff - Hourly, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Bio Johnna Medina, PhD, is a Clinical Instructor at Stanford medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, where she is an attending psychologist in the Addiction Medicine/Dual-Diagnosis Clinic and continues to collaborate on research projects evaluating mind-body interrelationships (e.g., stress and health) and interventions (e.g., hypnosis, yoga). Dr. Medina earned her bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Art Practice at Stanford University (2009) and her PhD in Clinical Psychology at UT Austin (2017). Her dissertation research focused on exercise and yoga-based interventions for targeting anxiety-related risk and maintenance factors underlying addictive behaviors. She returned to Stanford to complete her postdoctoral research fellowship (2017-2019) as a T32 scholar working under Dr. David Spiegel in the Center on Stress and Health Lab.
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Vinod Menon
Rachael L. and Walter F. Nichols, MD, Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Neurology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests EXPERIMENTAL, CLINICAL AND THEORETICAL SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
Cognitive neuroscience; Systems neuroscience; Cognitive development; Psychiatric neuroscience; Functional brain imaging; Dynamical basis of brain function; Nonlinear dynamics of neural systems. -
Mitchell Miglis, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Sleep disorders in patients with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
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Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD
Craig Reynolds Professor of Sleep Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly Interests The research focus of the laboratory is the study of sleep and sleep disorders such as narcolepsy and Kleine Levin syndrome. We also study the neurobiological and genetic basis of the EEG and develop new tools to study sleep using nocturnal polysomnography. Approaches mostly involve human genetic studies (GWAS, sequencing), EEG signal analysis, and immunology (as narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease of the brain).
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Adam Miner
Instructor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Bio Dr. Miner is a licensed clinical psychologist and epidemiologist.
He uses experimental and observational studies to improve the ability to conversational artificial intelligence (AI) to recognize and respond to health issues.
He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford's Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) before joining the Department of Psychiatry as an Instructor and being awarded a Mentored Career Development Award (KL2) through Spectrum and the NIH. He completed a Masters in Epidemiology and Clinical Research from Stanford Department of of Epidemiology and Population Health.
Dr. Miner is the Co-Director of the Virtual Reality & Immersive Technology Clinic, Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, where he provides treatment and supervision. -
Michelle Monje
Associate Professor of Neurology and, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery, of Pediatrics, of Pathology and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly Interests The Monje Lab studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms of postnatal neurodevelopment. This includes microenvironmental influences on neural precursor cell fate choice in normal neurodevelopment and in disease states.
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Rudolf Moos
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Our research group works primarily on psychiatric program evaluation and the quality of health care. The studies focus heavily on health care programs and the context, process, outcome, and cost of care.
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Kelli Moran-Miller, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Bio Dr. Kelli Moran-Miller is a licensed psychologist specializing in athlete mental health and sport and performance psychology. She is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant with the Association of Applied Sport Psychology and a member of the US Olympic Committee registry. She has practiced at Stanford Hospital and Clinics since 2015. In her current role with Stanford Athletics, she provides clinical and performance psychology services for varsity student-athletes, coaches, staff, and varsity sport teams. Prior to Stanford, she was the Director of Counseling and Sport Psychology - Athletics at the University of Iowa.
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Philippe Mourrain
Associate Professor (Research) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Major Laboratories and Clinical Translational Neurosciences Incubator)
Bio Expertise: Neurobiology, Molecular Genetics, Developmental Biology, Gene Silencing
Methodology: Synapse Imaging (Two photon microscopy, Array Tomography), Calcium Imaging (Light Sheet Microscopy/SPIM, Light Field Microscopy), Optogenetics, CLARITY, Tol2 transgenesis, TALENs/CRISPRs, Video tracking and behavior computation. -
Greer Murphy M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (General Psychiatry and Psychology-Adult), Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Pharmacogenetics of mood disorders and nicotine addiction. Microglial neurotoxicity and neuroprotection in Alzheimer's disease. Genome wide expression analysis of mouse models for Alzheimer's disease.
