{"result":[{"lastName":"Hurwitz","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Gastroenterology/Nutrition/Hepatology, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Gastroenterology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6063&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Melissa Hurwitz","firstName":"Melissa","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Melissa_Hurwitz","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Fann","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4014&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"James Fann","firstName":"James","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/James_Fann","researchInterest":"Cardiac surgery simulation, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, coronary artery bypass surgery, cardiac valve disease, thoracic aortic disease"},{"lastName":"Dake","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"},{"focus":"Interventional Radiology"},{"focus":"Endovascular Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4304&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael D. Dake","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Michael_Dake","researchInterest":"Improved endovascular procedures and devices to treat aortic lesions, peripheral arterial disease and venous abnormalities. Focused interest in drug-eluting stents and balloons, endovascular stent-grafts, including branched aortic devices and techniques for the endovascular management of aortic dissection. Current clinical research projects include drug-eluting stents for superficial femoral arterial disease and multiple device trials to evaluate stent-grafts for the treatment of aortic lesions."},{"lastName":"Fischbein","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Aortic Diseases"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7579&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael Fischbein","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Michael_Fischbein","researchInterest":"Molecular and genetic mechanisms of aortic aneurysm/dissection development. Molecular mechanisms of aneurysm formation in Marfan Syndrome. Clinical research interests include thoracic aortic diseases (aneurysms, dissections)."},{"lastName":"Mitchell","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Aortic Aneurysm"},{"focus":"Cardiac Valve Disease"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3999&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"R. Scott Mitchell","firstName":"R","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/R_Mitchell","researchInterest":"Research Interests: Disease of the aorta, congenital and acquired. Treatment of aortic pathology, including development of stent graft systems. Patterns of disease in patients treated with mediastinal radiation. Valvular heart disease, especially aortopathy associated with congenital bicuspid aortic valve."},{"lastName":"Miller","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"valve repair and replacement"},{"focus":"Thoracic Aortic surgery"},{"focus":"mitral repair"},{"focus":"Valve-sparing aortic root replacement"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Surgery"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4170&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"D. Craig Miller, M.D.","firstName":"D","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/D_Miller","researchInterest":"Cardiac and heart valve disease with  experimental laboratory large animal projects focused on the investigation of left ventricular and cardiac mechanics, bioenergetics, and LV and mitral valve physiology and pathophysiology.  Current thrust is aimed at understanding the mitral valve and subvalvular mitral apparatus and transmural LV wall strains, thickening, and myolaminar fiber-sheet mechanics.\r\n\r\nClinical research interests include thoracic aortic diseases (aortic dissection, aneurysm) and "},{"lastName":"Tato","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Research and Science Analyst,Institute for Immunity, Transplantaion and Infection"},{"appointment":"Acad Research & Pgrm Officer,Institute for Immunity, Transplantaion and Infection"}],"primaryAppointment":"Research and Science Analyst,Institute for Immunity, Transplantaion and Infection","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=25587&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Cristina M. Tato","firstName":"Cristina","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Cristina_Tato","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Tsao","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4070&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Philip S. Tsao, PhD","firstName":"Philip","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Philip_Tsao","researchInterest":"Our primary interests are in the molecular underpinnings of vascular disease as well as assessing disease risk.  In addition to targeted investigation of specific signaling molecules, we utilize global genomic analysis to identify gene expression networks and regulatory units.  We are particularly interested in the role of microRNAs in gene expression pathways associated with disease."},{"lastName":"Harris","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Vascular Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4678&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"E. John Harris Jr.","firstName":"Edmund","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Edmund_Harris","researchInterest":"I am interested in thrombosis and the role of thrombin and its receptor in venous wall remodeling following venous thrombosis.  I am also interested in vascular hemodynamics and the use of ultrasound, MRI and computational modeling in evaluating arterial flow in exercise conditions."},{"lastName":"Spin","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Aortic Disease"},{"focus":"Marfan Syndrome and Aortic Disorders"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6448&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Joshua M. Spin","firstName":"Joshua","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Joshua_Spin","researchInterest":"Dr. Spin began his research career studying the structural biology of low density lipoprotein, and has been augmenting his skills with intensive training in molecular biology techniques, particularly those involving high-throughput genetic expression profiling. He is especially interested in vascular smooth muscle cells, and the role of smooth muscle differentiation and phenotypic switching in development and vascular disease. His latest work has focused on the biology of aortic aneurysms."},{"lastName":"Wakelee","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Lung Cancer - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Investigational Therapeutics"},{"focus":"Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"thymoma"},{"focus":"Mesothelioma "},{"focus":"thymic carcinoma"},{"focus":"Thoracic Cancers - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Mesothelioma - Medical Oncology"},{"focus":"Oncology (Cancer)"},{"focus":"Thoracic Cancers"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6058&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Heather Wakelee","firstName":"Heather","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Heather_Wakelee","researchInterest":"Dr. Wakelee's research is focused on clinical trials in patients with lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies such as thymoma and thymic carcinoma.  She also works with novel agents for all malignancies as part of the developmental therapeutics group of the cancer center.  Other interests include translation projects in thoracic malignancies and collaborations with population scientists regarding lung cancer questions."},{"lastName":"Oakes","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Anesthesia"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6964&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Daryl Oakes","firstName":"Daryl","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Daryl_Oakes","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Das","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Thoracic Oncology"},{"focus":"Medical Oncology"}],"appointments":[],"imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=25011&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Millie Das","firstName":"Millie","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Millie_Das","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Nair","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pulmonary Disease"},{"focus":"Lung Cancer"},{"focus":"Solitary Pulmonary Nodule"},{"focus":"Intensive Care of the Medical Patient"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13614&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Viswam S. Nair","firstName":"Viswam","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Viswam_Nair","researchInterest":"\u0095 Molecular determinants of FDG-PET using non-invasive methods\r\n\u0095 Quantitative imaging of glucose metabolism in malignant nodules\r\n\u0095 Metabolic parameters of lung disease using FDG-PET\r\n\u0095 Circulating biomarker and clinical data database development for early detection of lung cancer"},{"lastName":"Leeper","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Vascular Medicine"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9669&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Nicholas Leeper","firstName":"Nicholas","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Nicholas_Leeper","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Liang","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=37890&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ying Liang,MD,PHD","firstName":"Ying","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Ying_Liang","researchInterest":"My clinical and research interest is to apply evolving technologies to the diagnosis, characterization, and individualized treatment of Thoracic cancer such as NSCLC, SCLC, Thymoma,Mesothelioma."},{"lastName":"Cheng","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Ph.D., Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Ph.D., Genetics","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19855&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mei-Hsin Cheng","firstName":"Mei-Hsin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Mei-Hsin_Cheng","researchInterest":"Breast Cancer.  Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition."},{"lastName":"Shrager","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Thoracic Cancers - Thoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted"},{"focus":"Lung Cancer"},{"focus":"Thoracoscopy"},{"focus":"VATS"},{"focus":"Thymoma"},{"focus":"Mediastinal Diseases"},{"focus":"Mediastinal Cyst"},{"focus":"Myasthenia Gravis"},{"focus":"Thymectomy"},{"focus":"Surgical Procedures, Minimally Invasive"},{"focus":"Emphysema Surgery"},{"focus":"Lung Volume Reduction"},{"focus":"Bullectomy"},{"focus":"Sympathectomy"},{"focus":"Esophageal Cancer"},{"focus":"Pneumothorax"},{"focus":"Pleural Diseases"},{"focus":"sarcoma"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Thoracic Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Thoracic Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8561&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Joseph Shrager","firstName":"Joseph","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Joseph_Shrager","researchInterest":"In clinical research, Dr. Shrager has been an innovator studying outcomes in a variety of areas within Thoracic Surgery including: parenchyma-sparing operations and minimally invasive resections for lung cancer, transcervical thymectomy for myasthenia gravis, and surgical treatment of emphysema.\r\n\r\nIn the lab, Dr. Shrager is focused on the impact of disease states upon the diaphragm. His group published the seminal paper (NEJM) describing diaphragm atrophy assoc'd with mechanical ventilation."},{"lastName":"Loo","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Radiation Therapy"},{"focus":"Lung Cancer"},{"focus":"Head and Neck Cancer"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6839&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Billy W. Loo, Jr., MD, PhD, DABR","firstName":"Billy","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Billy_Loo","researchInterest":"My clinical specialties are radiation treatment of lung and head & neck cancers, and I serve as the Tthoracic Radiation Oncology Program Leader.\r\n\r\nMy research interests include 4-D multimodality imaging of tumor and organ motion using CT, PET, and MR; novel functional/metabolic imaging of tumor hypoxia, normal tissue inflammation, and lymphatic drainage; high-precision image-guided radiation therapy including 4-D IMRT, dynamic arc therapy, and stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR)."},{"lastName":"Donington","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3919&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jessica Donington","firstName":"Jessica","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Jessica_Donington","researchInterest":"Lung Cancer, Thoracic Cancers - Surgical Oncology, Esophageal Cancer"},{"lastName":"Neal","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Thoracic Oncology"},{"focus":"Lung Cancer"},{"focus":"Medical Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Oncology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19045&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Joel Neal, MD, PhD","firstName":"Joel","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Joel_Neal","researchInterest":"Applying new technologies to the diagnosis, characterization, and treatment of non-small cell lung cancer."},{"lastName":"Whyte","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4435&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Richard Whyte","firstName":"Richard","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Richard_Whyte","researchInterest":"clinical lung and esophageal cancer treatment studies, lung transplantation, surgical ,management of emphysema."},{"lastName":"Hoang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"VATS Lung Surgery"},{"focus":"Mesothelioma"},{"focus":"Pectus Excavatum"},{"focus":"Transcervical Thymectomy"},{"focus":"Endobronchial Ultrasound"},{"focus":"Esophagectomy"},{"focus":"Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung"},{"focus":"Pancoast Syndrome"},{"focus":"Hyperhidrosis"},{"focus":"Nissen Operation"},{"focus":"Tracheal Diseases"},{"focus":"Pleural Diseases"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"General Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Thoracic Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Thoracic Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10439&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Chuong D. Hoang","firstName":"Chuong","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Chuong_Hoang","researchInterest":"In our thoracic oncology laboratory we study the biology of non-small cell lung carcinoma and mesothelioma.  We have a focus on translational research aimed at identifying molecular mechanisms of development, progression and/ or metastasis in these solid tumors."},{"lastName":"Diehn","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Radiation Oncology"},{"focus":"Radiation Therapy"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation Therapy","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9248&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Maximilian Diehn, M.D., Ph.D.","firstName":"Maximilian","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Maximilian_Diehn","researchInterest":"My laboratory studies cancer stem cell biology and its implications for therapy. We are interested in developing a deeper molecular understanding of breast cancer and lung cancer stem cells, including identifying pathways and genes important for survival and self renewal. Additionally, we are developing methods for overcoming resistance mechanisms to radiotherapy and chemotherapy in cancer stem cells. Clinically I specialize in the treatment of lung cancer and applications of radiosurgery."}]}