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Current HBV and HCV clinical trials including interferon-free studies for HCV and studies in HBV/pregnancy, HBV/normal ALT, diagnostic/treatment evaluation/adherence for liver cancer and viral hepatitis."},{"lastName":"Nguyen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"MS, Dean's Office"},{"appointment":"Medical Student Tutor,Dean's Office - SoM Office of Student Services"},{"appointment":"Other Tech - Graduate,Dean's Office - SoM Office of Student Services"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17747&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Long H. 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Dr. Cheung is studing various aspects of hepatitis C, both clinical and translational research."},{"lastName":"Gregory","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Liver Transplantation"},{"focus":"liver disease"},{"focus":"Gastroenterology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5958&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Peter Gregory","firstName":"Peter","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Peter_Gregory","researchInterest":"Not active"},{"lastName":"Tsai","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Chemical and Systems Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Chemical and Systems Biology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=20192&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Feng-Chiao Tsai","firstName":"Feng-Chiao","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Feng-Chiao_Tsai","researchInterest":"1. 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Our current research efforts focus on evaluating potential new diagnostic and treatment markers and novel targeted therapy for primary liver cancer."},{"lastName":"Galel","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Pediatric Hematology-Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4139&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Susan Galel","firstName":"Susan","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Susan_Galel","researchInterest":"Enhancement of transfusion safety and effectiveness, with a focus on quality assurance in transfusion therapy; transfusion medicine education; pediatric and adult transfusion therapy"},{"lastName":"Holodniy","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4021&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark Holodniy","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Mark_Holodniy","researchInterest":"My research program is currently focused in three areas: 1) translational research (HCV/HIV viral evolution and antiviral resistance prevalence and development), 2) HIV/HCV clinical trials (diagnostic assay/medical device, antiretrovirals, ARVs and immunomodulators), and 3) health services research focusing on cost effectiveness of HIV antibody and ARV resistance testing and ARV utilization and clincal outcome."},{"lastName":"Daugherty","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Hepatology"},{"focus":"Transplant Hepatology"},{"focus":"Gastroenterology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7658&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Tami Daugherty","firstName":"Tami","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Tami_Daugherty","researchInterest":"Dr. Daugherty is a transplant Hepatologist with full-time clinical responsibilities. She is particularly interested in the natural course and management of recurrent Hepatitis C after liver transplant, and the effect of immunosuppression on HCV recurrence."},{"lastName":"Wong","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MS, Dean's Office"},{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"MS, Dean's Office","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=34361&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Wong","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Robert_Wong","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Pham","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"Ph.D., Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18029&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Edward Pham","firstName":"Edward","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Edward_Pham","researchInterest":"My research interest is translational molecular virology, with a specific focus on hepatitis C virus (HCV). Using both biophysical and genetic tools, I aim to identify viral and host targets that are essential in the viral life cycle and subsequently develop high-throughput assays to identify novel compounds that can inhibit these targets. Particular attention is given to compounds that can be re-purposed for HCV treatments."},{"lastName":"McLaughlin","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Endocrinology / Diabetes"},{"focus":"Endocrinology and Metabolism"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6107&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Tracey McLaughlin","firstName":"Tracey","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Tracey_McLaughlin","researchInterest":"Dr. McLaughlin conducts a number of clinical research studies related to obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Current studies include: 1) the impact of macronutrient composition on weight loss and cardiocascular risk (diabetic and nondiabetic patients); 2) comparison of weight loss and cardiovascular risk reduction in diabetic patients treated with different classes of antihyperglycemic drugs; 3) the role of the adipocyte in modulating insulin resistance"},{"lastName":"Ko","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17973&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Myung Ko","firstName":"Myung","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Myung_Ko","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Foung","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology"},{"focus":"Transfusion Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4155&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Steven Foung","firstName":"Steven","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Steven_Foung","researchInterest":"Our research focus is on the early events of hepatitis C virus infection- virus attachment and entry into susceptible cells. The approach is through the generation and functional studies of human monoclonal antibodies (HMAbs) to the virus envelope proteins with an emphasis on antibodies to conformational epitopes."},{"lastName":"Merigan","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4334&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Thomas Charles Merigan M.D.","firstName":"Thomas","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Thomas_Merigan","researchInterest":"I am now emeritus and only participate in university activities through advising my former trainees who have joined the faculty."},{"lastName":"Kin","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Surgery"},{"focus":"Colon and Rectal Surgery Specialty"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=35074&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Cindy Kin","firstName":"Cindy","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Cindy_Kin","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Palaniappan","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Internal Medicine"}],"appointments":[],"imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6447&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS","firstName":"Latha","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Latha_Palaniappan","researchInterest":"Latha Palaniappan is currently an Associate Investigator at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Palaniappan has completed over 20 studies spanning 10 years in the areas of ethnicity, obesity, and diabetes risk. She currently leads the Pan Asian Cohort Study (www.pamf.org/pacs), to investigate diabetes in Asian Americans"},{"lastName":"Kiernan","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Senior Research Scientist (PI Waiver),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Senior Research Scientist (PI Waiver),Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6282&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michaela Kiernan","firstName":"Michaela","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Michaela_Kiernan","researchInterest":"Research interests include: (1) the design and testing of targeted behavioral interventions that promote long-term lifestyle changes and weight management among subgroups at risk, and (2) the development of methodological and statistical approaches that improve the design, delivery, and analysis of behavioral randomized clinical trials"},{"lastName":"Basina","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Endocrinology"},{"focus":"Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus"},{"focus":"Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus"},{"focus":"Thyroid Diseases"},{"focus":"Diabetes andMetabolism"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8519&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marina Basina","firstName":"Marina","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Marina_Basina","researchInterest":"Type I and type II diabetes, insulin pump therapy, glucose sensor technology, insulin resistance, PCOS, thyroid disorders"},{"lastName":"Reaven","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Endocrinology"},{"focus":"Endocrinology / Diabetes"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5955&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gerald Reaven, MD","firstName":"Gerald","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Gerald_Reaven","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Asch","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=24300&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Steven Asch","firstName":"Steven","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Steven_Asch","researchInterest":"Health services research, Quality assessement, Quality improvement, Implementation science, Health sevices to improve value of care, HIV, HCV, Cancer, Palliative care, Renal disease"},{"lastName":"Lobato","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular and Thoracic Anesthesia"},{"focus":"Anesthesia"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Anesthesia"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18689&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert L. 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