Steering Committee
Christopher (Topher) Sharp, MD
Dr. Sharp is the Chief Medical Information Officer at Stanford Health Care and a Clinical Professor in Medicine, Primary Care and Population Health.
Lawrence (Rusty) Hofmann, MD
Dr. Hofmann is a Professor of Radiology, Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Co-Medical Director; Cardiac and Interventional Radiology (Cath Angio), and Medical Director of Digital Health Care Integration for Stanford Health Care.
Leadership
Ron Li, MD
Ron is the co-founder and Director of SEAL. As the Medical Informatics Director for Digital Health at Stanford Health Care, he also provides direction for enterprise digital health programs for care delivery, and as the Head of Content and Education for the Stanford Center for Digital Health, he leads the creation and growth of thought leadership and educational programs in digital health at the School of Medicine. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics, and is an attending physician on the inpatient general medicine service.
Lisa Gohil, MBA/MPH
As the Director of Digital Health Strategy at Stanford Health Care, Lisa is responsible for developing Stanford Health Care’s digital health strategy. This entails establishing the roadmap for innovation in care model delivery, patient access, and care team experience.
Susan Weber, PhD
In her role as Director, Engineering for SEAL and Research IT (TDS), Susan provides technical leadership for the software development activities of SEAL. She designs solutions and manages programs and projects across a wide ranging portfolio of research support engagements, and is passionate about delivering concierge-level software development and clinical data access services to the Stanford Medicine research community.
Engineering
Srinivasan Boosi
Srini is a senior full stack software developer and user experience designer in Research IT (TDS). He has over a decade of experience in multiple technology platforms and is adept at creating elegant software solutions for real world problems.
Joe Pallas, PhD
Joe Pallas is a Senior Software Developer in Research IT (TDS) and Stanford Computer Science PhD. His software interests include distributed systems, tools for data manipulation and analysis, and strategies for software quality and maintainability.
Strategy & Product
Elyse Ruan
Elyse is a strategy manager on the Digital Health Care Integration (DHCI) team. She is passionate about driving enterprise transformations to advance healthcare innovations and improve patient care. At SEAL, she provides strategic consultation and co-leads idea intake and evaluation. Prior to joining the DHCI team, she worked as a management consultant across payer, provider, and biotech sectors in both developed and emerging markets.
Liz Mosher, MHA
As a Program Manager, Liz works at the intersection of program, project, and product management within digital health. Her expertise is in the implementation and operations of digital health solutions within healthcare systems. At Stanford, she partners with vendors and service lines to implement problem-solving technology that fits the needs of Stanford clinicians and their patients.
Jennifer Tran, PharmD
Jennifer is SEAL’s product manager and is responsible for driving the team’s product development strategy. She manages relationships with our clinical co-developers and helps ensure alignment between technical solutions and clinical needs. As a pharmacist, Jennifer has spent most of her career in digital health, innovating on products to improve health care.
Clinical Informatics
Oluseyi (Seyi) Fayanju, MD
Seyi serves as the Medical Director for SEAL and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Medicine at Stanford. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Harvard College and earned master's degrees from Harvard and Columbia. Seyi worked for several years in the corporate sector and at the Environmental Defense Fund before earning his medical degree at the University of Chicago. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of North Carolina and his fellowship in Clinical Informatics at Stanford.
Stephen Ma, MD/PhD
Stephen is an internist and clinical informatics fellow at Stanford. He studied Electrical Engineering at Princeton before doing his MD/PhD at Columbia University where his doctoral work resulted in multiple grants, presentations, publications, and patents. He then moved across the country to Stanford where he completed his residency in Internal Medicine.
His work as a CI fellow has included data science and machine learning approaches for quality improvement, development of SMART on FHIR apps for clinical decision support, optimization of clinician behavior in clinical messaging platforms, and digital health.