{"result":[{"lastName":"Owens","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Academic Units - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Management Science and Engineering - Management Sci Operations"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4649&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Douglas Owens","firstName":"Douglas","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Douglas_Owens","researchInterest":"My research uses decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and meta-analysis to evaluate clinical and health policy problems."},{"lastName":"Wang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiac Electrophysiology"},{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Atrial Fibrillation"},{"focus":"Cardiac Arrhythmias"},{"focus":"Implantable Defibrillators"},{"focus":"Pacemakers"},{"focus":"Hypertrophic  Cardiomyopathy"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3939&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul  J. Wang, MD","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Paul_Wang","researchInterest":"Dr. Wang's research centers on the development of innovative approaches to the treatment of arrhythmias, including more effective catheter ablation techniques, more reliable implantable devices, and less invasive treatments.  Dr. Wang's clinical research interests include atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, syncope, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.  Dr. Wang has active collaborations with Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering Departments at Stanford."},{"lastName":"Garber","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4662&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Alan M. Garber","firstName":"Alan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Alan_Garber","researchInterest":"Topics in the health economics of aging; health, insurance; optimal screening intervals; cost-effectiveness of, coronary surgery in the elderly; health care financing and delivery, in the United States and Japan; coronary heart disease"},{"lastName":"Al-Ahmad","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiac Electrophysiology"},{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"focus":"Atrial Fibrillation"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6371&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Amin Al-Ahmad","firstName":"Amin","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Amin_Al-Ahmad","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Perez","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Atrial Fibrillation"},{"focus":"Arrhythmias, Cardiac"},{"focus":"Channelopathies (Long QT, Brugada, CPVT)"},{"focus":"Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9771&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marco Perez","firstName":"Marco","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Marco_Perez","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Doufas","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"},{"focus":"Neurosurgical Anesthesia"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7905&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Anthony G. 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More  specifically, I am interested in delineating the effect of the different components of sleep-diosordered breathing, like nocturnal recurrent hypoxemia and sleep fragmentation on pain behavior in the acute and/or chronic care setting."},{"lastName":"McDonald","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Sr Research Engineer (PI Waiver),Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research"}],"primaryAppointment":"Sr Research Engineer (PI Waiver),Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6130&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kathryn McDonald","firstName":"Kathryn","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Kathryn_McDonald","researchInterest":"My research and educational activities focus on evidence-based medicine, patient-centered concerns, health care quality, and patient safety. I enjoy forming and participating in multi-disciplinary teams to identify, highlight and formulate solutions to issues of suboptimal performance of the health care system, both in the US and abroad."},{"lastName":"Froelicher","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Orthopaedic Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4191&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Victor Froelicher, MD","firstName":"Victor","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Victor_Froelicher","researchInterest":"Screening of athletes for sudden cardiac death, Computerized ECG and clinical data management; exercise Physiology including expired gas analysis; the effect of chronic and acute exercise on the heart; digital recording of biological signals; diagnostic use of exercise testing; development of Expert Medical System software and educational tools."},{"lastName":"Albers","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4026&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gregory W. Albers","firstName":"Gregory","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Gregory_Albers","researchInterest":"Our group\u0092s research focus is the acute treatment and prevention of cerebrovascular disorders.  Our primary interest is the use of diffusion- and perfusion-weighted MRI to expand the treatment window for ischemic stroke.  We are also conducting clinical studies of both neuroprotective and thrombolytic strategies for the treatment of acute stroke and investigating new antithrombotic strategies for stroke prevention."},{"lastName":"Ashley","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology"},{"focus":"Inherited cardiovascular disease"},{"focus":"Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Genomic medicine"},{"focus":"Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy"},{"focus":"Cardiomyopathy, Dilated"},{"focus":"Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7578&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Euan A. 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Half of the lab is wet benches where we take advantage of cell systems, transgenic models and microsurgical models of disease to prove causality of our favorite targets."},{"lastName":"Zei","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiac Electrophysiology"},{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"focus":"Arrhythmia"},{"focus":"atrial fibrillation"},{"focus":"ventricular tachycardia"},{"focus":"pacemakers"},{"focus":"defibrillators"},{"focus":"cardiac resynchronization"},{"focus":"Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7523&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul Zei","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Paul_Zei","researchInterest":"(1) Mechanisms of Arrhythmia, including Ventricular Tachycardia, Atrial Fibrillation and other arrhythmias. \r\n(2) New technologies and devices for catheter ablation."},{"lastName":"Friday","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Arrhythmias"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"focus":"Pacemakers/Defibrillators"},{"focus":"Syncope"}],"appointments":[],"imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4407&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Karen Friday, MD","firstName":"Karen","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Karen_Friday","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Winkelmayer","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Nephrology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Nephrology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=15938&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Wolfgang C. 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My explicit career goal is to improve care and outcomes of patients with these diseases."},{"lastName":"Dewey","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=17660&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Frederick Dewey","firstName":"Frederick","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Frederick_Dewey","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Lee","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Interventional Cardiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4573&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David Lee, MD","firstName":"David","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/David_Lee","researchInterest":"1. Use of GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors and other pharmacotherapy in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction\t\r\n2. Novel treatments and devices for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction\r\n3. Alcohol septal ablation for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy\r\n4. Novel approaches to coronary revascularization\r\n5. 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In particular, he is investigating invasive methods for evaluating the coronary microcirculation.  His research is currently funded by an NIH R01 Award."},{"lastName":"McConnell","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Coronary Artery Disease"},{"focus":"Preventive Cardiology"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Imaging"},{"focus":"Mobile Health"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Molecular & Cellular Physiology"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Electrical Engineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4727&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael V. 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Chertow","firstName":"Glenn","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Glenn_Chertow","researchInterest":"clinical epidemiology, health services research, decision sciences, clinical trials in acute and chronic kidney disease"},{"lastName":"Heidenreich","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Health Research & Policy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4682&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul Heidenreich, MD","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Paul_Heidenreich","researchInterest":"My research interests include \r\n\r\n1) The cost-effectiveness of new cardiovascular technologies. \r\nExample: tests to screen asymptomatic patients for left ventricular systolic dysfunction.\r\n\r\n2) Interventions to improve the quality of care of patients with heart disease. Examples: include clinical reminders and home monitoring.\r\n\r\n3) Outcomes research using existing clinical and administrative datasets. \r\n\r\n4) Use of echocardiography to predict prognosis (e.g. diastolic dysfunction)."},{"lastName":"Vagelos","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"valvular heart disease"},{"focus":"Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Radiation/Chemotherapy induced cardiac disease"},{"focus":"Pericardial disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4105&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Randall Vagelos, MD","firstName":"Randall","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Randall_Vagelos","researchInterest":"I. Congestive Heart Failure New Medical Therapies Prognostic Evaluation Selection for Cardiac Transplantation II. Screening for Myocardial Necrosis New ECG Monitoring Devices New Serum Markers III. Screening for CAD Patients Who Have Received Radiation Rx Diabetics Being Considered for Renal Transplantation\r\nIV. Advanced coronary and valvular disease, evaluationg candidacy for high risk interventions."},{"lastName":"Hancock","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6911&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"E William Hancock","firstName":"E","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/E_Hancock","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Stafford","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol)"},{"focus":"Hypertension (high blood pressure)"},{"focus":"Diabetes Mellitus"},{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Preventive"},{"focus":"Obesity"},{"focus":"Primary Prevention"},{"focus":"Internal Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3840&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Randall Stafford","firstName":"Randall","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Randall_Stafford","researchInterest":"As Director of the SPRC Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices, my work focuses on cardiovascular disease treatment and prevention, the adoption of new technology and practices, and patterns of physician practice, particularly medication prescribing.  Specific interests include measuring and improving the quality of outpatient care, disparities in health care by race, gender, age and socioeconomic status, and interventions to improve prevention outcomes."},{"lastName":"Schnittger","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4659&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ingela Schnittger, MD","firstName":"Ingela","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Ingela_Schnittger","researchInterest":"My main research continues to be in the field of echocardiography. Several areas of research are currently being pursued."},{"lastName":"Yeung","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Coronary Artery Disease"},{"focus":"Chronic Total Occlusions"},{"focus":"Complex Coronary Angioplasty"},{"focus":"Mitral Valvuloplasty"},{"focus":"Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement"},{"focus":"Interventional Cardiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4228&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Alan Yeung, MD","firstName":"Alan","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Alan_Yeung","researchInterest":"Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in men and women in the United States. Our group is interested in studying both the early and late phases of atherosclerosis so that we can better develop prevention and treatment strategies."}]}