Bio
Vali Barsan, MD is a clinical fellow in the Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Barsan obtained his BS in Bioengineering at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and then joined Illumina as an engineer to develop and optimize next generation sequencing tools. He earned his MD at Baylor College of Medicine where he studied the biology of cancer metastasis through molecular techniques in the Mani Lab at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Barsan completed residency in Pediatrics at UC San Diego where he also helped personalize treatment strategies for cancer patients based on tumor next generation sequencing as a member of the Molecular Tumor Board at UCSD's Moores Cancer Center. At Stanford, he is focused on expanding the utility of immunotherapy in pediatric and adult cancers in the Mackall Lab through the use of molecular techniques that both inform personalized therapy and trend response to treatment.
Clinical Focus
- Fellow
- Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
- Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy
Honors & Awards
-
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Endowed Fellow, Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI) (2019 -)
Professional Education
-
Board Certification, Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics (2019)
-
Residency, UC San Diego, Pediatrics (2018)
-
Graduate Student Research, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, Mani Lab (2015)
-
MD, Baylor College of Medicine (2015)
-
BS, UC San Diego, Bioengineering (2009)