{"result":[{"lastName":"Tan","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation"},{"focus":"Nephrology"},{"focus":"Nephrology (Kidney)"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology"},{"appointment":"MS, Dean's Office"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3846&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jane C. Tan","firstName":"Jane","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Jane_Tan","researchInterest":"My research relates to issues pertaining to clinical kidney transplantation. We have ongoing studies on the following topics.\r\n1. Renal senescence and kidney transplant, and chronic allograft nephropathy.\r\n2. Living donor safety and response to uninephrectomy.\r\n3. Biomarkers for post-transplant monitoring."},{"lastName":"Scandling","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation"},{"focus":"Nephrology"},{"focus":"Nephrology (Kidney)"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4276&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Scandling","firstName":"John","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/John_Scandling","researchInterest":"Clinical renal transplantation; acute renal failure;, cardiovascular disease in diabetic end-stage renal disease."},{"lastName":"Melcher","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Surgery"},{"focus":"Liver Transplantation"},{"focus":"Kidney Transplantation"},{"focus":"Hepatobiliary"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7640&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marc L. Melcher","firstName":"Marc","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Marc_Melcher","researchInterest":"My goal is to extend the benefits of organ transplant to greater numbers of patients while maintaining Stanford's excellent outcomes.  We have set up a protocol to treat morbidly obese patients, who normally would not qualify for kidney transplant, with bariatric surgery prior to kidney transplantation.  We are also developing the \"paired-organ exchange\" program at Stanford to increase the chances that patients with willing but incompatible living donors can still receive a living donor kidney."},{"lastName":"Sibley","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anatomic Pathology"},{"focus":"Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4113&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Richard Sibley","firstName":"Richard","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Richard_Sibley","researchInterest":"Immunologic mechanism of rejection in humans and animal, models of organ transplantation; histological definition of clinical pathology studies of various renal disorders."},{"lastName":"Grimm","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Nephrology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7989&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Paul C. Grimm","firstName":"Paul","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Paul_Grimm","researchInterest":"Computerized image analysis of kidney and liver biopsies to quantitate and diagnose subtle changes in tissue structure. \r\nRenal Inflammation\r\nRenal Allograft Rejection\r\nRenal Fibrosis in; \r\n-Primary Kidney Disease\r\n-Transplant Kidney Disease\r\nLiver fibrosis\r\nSteatohepatitis"},{"lastName":"Li","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Software Developer,Pediatrics - Systems Medicine"},{"appointment":"Software Developer, Research,Pediatrics - Systems Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Software Developer,Pediatrics - Systems Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=27445&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Li Li","firstName":"Li","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Li_Li","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"So","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Liver Cancer"},{"focus":"Liver Cancer - Surgery"},{"focus":"Gastrointestinal Cancers - Surgical Oncology"},{"focus":"General Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4206&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Samuel So","firstName":"Samuel","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Samuel_So","researchInterest":"Through a 3 pronged comprehensive program: translational and clinical research, early detection and  treatment, and promoting education, awareness and immunization, we are working towards the development of new strategies that will lead to the elimination of hepatitis B worldwide and reduce the threat and incidence of liver cancer. Our current research efforts focus on evaluating potential new diagnostic and treatment markers and novel targeted therapy for primary liver cancer."},{"lastName":"Kambham","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Renal Pathology"},{"focus":"Anatomic Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3829&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Neeraja Kambham","firstName":"Neeraja","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Neeraja_Kambham","researchInterest":"Research interests primarily involve medical diseases of the native and transplant kidney. Other interests include liver transplantation pathology and gastrointestinal pathology."},{"lastName":"Bonham","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Surgery"},{"focus":"Liver Transplantation"},{"focus":"Live-donor Liver Transplantation"},{"focus":"Pediatric Transplantation"},{"focus":"Intestinal Transplantation"},{"focus":"Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation"},{"focus":"Portal Hypertension"},{"focus":"Hepatobiliary Surgery"},{"focus":"Cancer of Biliary Tract"},{"focus":"Cancer, Liver"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3884&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Clark Bonham","firstName":"Clark","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Clark_Bonham","researchInterest":"Tolerance induction in liver transplantation.\r\nHepatocyte transplantation."},{"lastName":"Concepcion","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Kidney Transplantation"},{"focus":"Pediatric Liver Transplantation"},{"focus":"Adult Liver Transplantation"},{"focus":"Hepatobiliary Surgery"},{"focus":"General Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6428&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Waldo Concepcion","firstName":"Waldo","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Waldo_Concepcion","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Lowsky","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation"},{"focus":"Hematology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3811&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Lowsky","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Robert_Lowsky","researchInterest":"Dr. Lowsky's research is focused on understanding the role of regulatory T cells in the prevention of GVHD and in promoting immune tolerance following organ transplantation."},{"lastName":"Salvatierra","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4212&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Oscar Salvatierra","firstName":"Oscar","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Oscar_Salvatierra","researchInterest":"A. Pediatric Immunosuppression with Current Emphasis on Development of Complete Steroid-Free Immunosuppression for Children\r\n\r\nB. Changes in Hemodynamics and Blood Vessel Morphology Following Transplantation of Adult-Sized Kidneys to Infants and Small Children\r\n\r\nC. Study of Immunological and Physiological Variances in Infants and Small Children following Renal Transplantation\r\n\r\nD. Use of Small, Contracted Defunctionalized Urinary Bladders Following Kidney Transplantation"},{"lastName":"Alexander","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Nephrology (Kidney), Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Nephrology"},{"focus":"Dialysis"},{"focus":"Kidney Transplantation"},{"focus":"Continuous Renal Replacement Therapies"},{"focus":"Hypertension"},{"focus":"Acute and Chronic Kidney Failure"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5949&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Steven R. Alexander, MD","firstName":"Steven","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Steven_Alexander","researchInterest":"Dialysis, kidney transplantation, continuous renal replacement therapy in pediatric patients; chronic kidney disease in pediatric patients."},{"lastName":"Myers","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4332&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Bryan Myers","firstName":"Bryan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Bryan_Myers","researchInterest":"A novel approach is used to evaluate glomerular disease in humans, and its progression.  A combination of physiologic techniques, a morphometric analysis of glomeruli obtained by biopsy, and mathematical modeling of glomerular ultrafiltration is used to quantify the extent of glomerular injury in humans for the first time."},{"lastName":"Eneriz-Wiemer","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Pediatrics"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Instructor,Pediatrics - General Pediatrics"},{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Instructor,Pediatrics - General Pediatrics","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14192&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Monica Eneriz Wiemer","firstName":"Monica","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Monica_Eneriz-Wiemer","researchInterest":"I am interested in understanding the role of limited English proficiency (LEP) as a social determinant of health, particularly the impact of LEP on health care outcomes and costs for children with special health care needs. One population of interest includes children with special needs due to premature birth."},{"lastName":"Higgins","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"},{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4038&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Higgins","firstName":"John","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/John_Higgins","researchInterest":"I work as a diagnostic surgical pathologist doing translational research in renal neoplasia and medical renal disease and neoplastic and medical liver disease. Subspecialty areas of clinical interest include diagnostic immunohistochemistry, renal, hepatic and transplant pathology."},{"lastName":"Berquist","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Gastroenterology"},{"focus":"Ped Gastroenterology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4209&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"William Berquist","firstName":"William","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/William_Berquist","researchInterest":"Gastroenterology, gastointestinal motility, clinical management of pediatric liver transplant recipients."},{"lastName":"Johnston","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation"},{"focus":"Hematology"},{"focus":"Graft-Versus-Host Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4572&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Laura Johnston","firstName":"Laura","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Laura_Johnston","researchInterest":"Clinical research in allogeneic and autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT), more specifically, allogeneic transplantation and graft versus host disease. Exploring methods of improving prevention and treatment of GVHD as well as the long term follow-up and/or quality of life of affected patients."},{"lastName":"Kim","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14525&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jane P. Kim","firstName":"Jane","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Jane_Kim","researchInterest":"I am interested in the application of statistical methods to advance the understanding of mental illnesses.  I have a background in statistics, with specific training in survival analysis and a growing interest in clinical trials. My areas of expertise are the robustness of regression-based inference in randomized or non-randomized studies, methods for analyzing survival data subject to non-standard sampling schemes, and spatial statistics."},{"lastName":"Arai","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Blood and Marrow Transplantation"},{"focus":"Hematology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6161&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sally Arai","firstName":"Sally","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Sally_Arai","researchInterest":"Research interest in utilizing post-transplant adoptive cellular immunotherapy to reduce GVHD and relapse in patients with high risk hematologic malignancies."},{"lastName":"Valantine","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4322&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Hannah Valantine","firstName":"Hannah","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Hannah_Valantine","researchInterest":"My lab is focused on understanding the mechanism mediating acute and chronic allograft failure, in particular on the role of microvascular injury in acute allograft failure and the mechanisms of mediating transplant coronary artery disease. 1. Role of microvascular injury in acute allograft failure."},{"lastName":"Strober","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Immunology and Rheumatology"},{"focus":"Rheumatology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4152&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Samuel Strober","firstName":"Samuel","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Samuel_Strober","researchInterest":"Mechanisms of immune tolerance; regulatory processes in autoimmunity and transplantation and extrathymic T cell maturation."},{"lastName":"Martinez","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4474&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Olivia Martinez","firstName":"Olivia","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Olivia_Martinez","researchInterest":"EBV B cell lymphomas; pathways of immune evasion in the growth and survival of EBV B cell lymphomas;  mechanisms of graft rejection and tolerance induction; stem cell and solid organ transplantation."},{"lastName":"Rabkin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6052&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ralph Rabkin","firstName":"Ralph","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Ralph_Rabkin","researchInterest":"Dr Rabkin is examining the mechanism of the acquired resistance to hormones that develops in kidney failure.In particular he is studying the impact of kidney failure on the action of growth hormone and the role of impaired signal transduction as a cause of growth hormone resistance. He is also engaged in the study of growth factors in diabetic kidney disease."}]}