School of Medicine
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Vali Barsan
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Adoptive T cell immunotherapy entails engineering immune cells to recognize cancer-specific antigens and target them for destruction. Barriers to efficacy can arise from both tumor antigen related as well as T cell related features. I am interested developing noninvasive molecular tools that enable us to understanding these relationships to improve the clinical application and development of cellular immunotherapeutics.
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Christine Mai-Anh Bui
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Along with my internal medicine and pediatrics background, I have always been interested in palliative care and end of life. I would like to apply these interests to pediatric cardiology and adult congenital cardiology, as these patients often are critically or chronically ill, and would benefit from a palliative care perspective.
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Sarah E. Dubner
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Dr. Dubner seeks to understand how early-life experiences impact children's developing brain connections in order to design interventions to promote healthy developmental trajectories. Current projects focus on the role of perinatal inflammation in brain white matter microstructure and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children born preterm.
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Faisal Fecto
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Bio Dr. Fecto completed his medical training at Aga Khan University in Pakistan in 2005, where he was also junior faculty till 2006. He completed his PhD in neuroscience at Northwestern University in 2012 during which he was supported by a University Fellowship and an NIH/NIA Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship. From 2012 to 2015 he completed his post-doctoral training in neurogenetics at Northwestern as the Link Foundation Fellow. In 2015, he joined the University of Iowa neurology residency program as part of the clinical-neuroscientist training track (CNS-TP). At Iowa, he served as Chief Neurology Resident, Adult Neurology Clinic Liaison, and served on departmental committees for curriculum development, program evaluation, departmental history/centennial celebrations, and the resident continuity of care clinic. He has received several awards including the resident teaching award, resident team leader award, and a resident lectureship by the Iowa Neurological Association. Dr. Fecto is a well-published researcher and serves as an associate editor for the journal BMC Neurology. His research explores the pathogenic mechanisms that contribute to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and related disorders. His research is supported by an NIH/NINDS R25 Research Education Grant. Dr. Fecto is a member of Sigma Xi, American Academy of Neurology, Society for Neuroscience, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine, and the American Medical Association.
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Anna Janas
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Bio Resident in Child Neurology interested in pediatric neurocritical care. Research interests include clinical and translational studies in pediatric traumatic brain injury and stroke as well as quality improvement project in pediatric ICU focused on neurocritical care.
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Jonathan Lavezo
Fellow in Pathology
Bio A native of Texas, Jonathan attended the University of North Texas in his hometown of Denton. After obtaining a double major in chemistry and biochemistry, he moved to the west Texas town of El Paso to attend the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine. Here is where he developed a deep interest in neuroendocrine disorders, in particular pituitary adenomas. He is currently an anatomic pathology resident at Stanford University and will begin his neuropathology fellowship starting in July of 2017.
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Adrienne H. Long, MD, PhD
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Bio Adrienne Long, MD, PhD is a fellow in the Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. Dr. Long attend Northwestern University, where she earned both a BS in biomedical engineering and her MD. Driven by a clinical interest in pediatric oncology and the recognized need for novel treatment approaches, she chose to pursue a PhD studying CAR T cells at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with Dr. Crystal Mackall. Her thesis work was the first to identify T cell exhaustion as a critical factor limiting efficacy of CAR T cell therapies (Long et al., Nature Medicine, 2015). She also worked on novel methods to enhance CAR T cell therapies for pediatric solid tumors (Long/Highfill et al., Cancer Immunology Research, 2016). Dr. Long went on to complete her pediatrics residency training at Boston Children?s Hospital, where she continued her research in cancer immunology with Dr. Nicholas Haining ? this time focusing on strategies to enhance antigen presentation to augment PD1 blockade (Long et al. presented at the Keystone Symposium on Cancer Immunotherapy, 2019). She remains dedicated to a career as a physician-scientist focused on developing novel immunotherapies for children with cancer.
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Raśl Montiel-Esparza
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Bio Raśl Montiel-Esparza grew up in central Mexico and graduated with honors from Tecnológico de Monterrey Escuela de Medicina. Raśl completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in cancer immunology at Johns Hopkins University and trained at University of Texas Southwestern medical center for his Pediatrics residency. He has presented his work on leukemia and myelodysplasia several times at national conferences and has several publications and co-authorships. His experiences as a clinician, scientist, and advocate have ultimately inspired him to explore adaptive T-cell therapies in GHVD and decreasing barriers to bone marrow transplant and improving donor availability in Latin America.
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Caroline Yeon-Kyeong Noh
Masters Student in Epidemiology and Clinical Research, admitted Autumn 2019
Bio Caroline Yeon-Kyeong Noh, MD is a Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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vivek patel
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Analysis of patients who underwent endovascular vasospasm treatment for delayed cerebral ischemia following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
