{"result":[{"lastName":"Ormond","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Teaching),Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Teaching),Genetics","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8326&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kelly E. Ormond, MS, CGC","firstName":"Kelly","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Kelly_Ormond","researchInterest":"While my primary role is to direct the MS in Human Genetics and Genetic Counseling program, my research focuses on the intersection between genetics and ethics, particularly around the translation of new genetic technologies (such as genome sequencing or non-invasive prenatal diagnosis) into clinical practice.  I am especially interested in patient decision making, informed consent, and the interface between genetics and disability."},{"lastName":"Sabatti","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Natural Sciences Cluster - Statistics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14357&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Chiara Sabatti","firstName":"Chiara","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Chiara_Sabatti","researchInterest":"Statistical models and reasoning are key to our understanding of the genetic basis of human traits. Modern high-throughput technology presents us with new opportunities and challenges. We develop statistical approaches for high dimensional data in the attempt of improving our understanding of the molecular basis of health related traits."},{"lastName":"Chang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cochlear Implants"},{"focus":"Congenital Hearing Loss"},{"focus":"Microtia Reconstruction"},{"focus":"Pediatric Otology"},{"focus":"Ototoxicity"},{"focus":"Congenital Ear Anomalies"},{"focus":"Connexin 26 Genetic Hearing Loss"},{"focus":"Otoacoustic Emissions"},{"focus":"Ear Canal Atresia"},{"focus":"Hearing Loss"},{"focus":"Cochlear Implantation"},{"focus":"Pediatric Otolaryngology"},{"focus":"Otolaryngology"},{"focus":"Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (Ear, Nose and Throat)"},{"focus":"Cholesteatoma"},{"focus":"Otoplasty"},{"focus":"Coblation Tonsillectomy"},{"focus":"Intracapsular Tonsillectomy"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3856&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kay Chang","firstName":"Kay","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Kay_Chang","researchInterest":"http://med.stanford.edu/ohns/research/labs_chang.html"},{"lastName":"Gardner","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Clinical Pharmacology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Clinical Pharmacology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4500&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Phyllis Gardner","firstName":"Phyllis","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Phyllis_Gardner","researchInterest":"Ion channels and signal transduction;  patch clamp and fluorometric analysis; cell and molecular biology; cystic fibrosis gene therapy."},{"lastName":"Montgomery","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor (By courtesy),Computer Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23650&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stephen B. 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See our website at http://montgomerylab.stanford.edu/"},{"lastName":"Whittemore","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4482&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Alice S Whittemore","firstName":"Alice","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Alice_Whittemore","researchInterest":"Cancers of the prostate, breast and ovary account for a major proportion of new cancer cases and cancer deaths in the U.S. each year. Our recent research focus has been on developing improved statistical methods for the design and conduct of studies involving hereditary predisposition and modifiable lifestyle characteristics in the etiologies of site-specific cancers."},{"lastName":"Francke","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurogenetics"},{"focus":"Clinical Genetics"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Professor,Pediatrics - Medical Genetics"},{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Pediatrics - Medical Genetics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Genetics","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4281&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Uta Francke","firstName":"Uta","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Uta_Francke","researchInterest":"Functional consequences and pathogenetic mechanisms of mutations and microdeletions in human neurogenetic syndromes and mouse models. Integration of genomic information into medical care."},{"lastName":"Cho","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Pediatrics - Centers, Center for Biomedical Ethics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Pediatrics - Centers, Center for Biomedical Ethics","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6124&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mildred Cho, PhD","firstName":"Mildred","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Mildred_Cho","researchInterest":"Dr. Cho's major areas of interest include: ethical and social issues in genetic research, stem cell research, bioweapons and microbial genome research, the effects of gene patenting on clinical genetic testing and research, and the impacts of academic-industry ties on biomedical research."},{"lastName":"Churko","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Radiology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=29708&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jared Churko","firstName":"Jared","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Jared_Churko","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Sieh","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8373&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Weiva Sieh, MD, PhD","firstName":"Weiva","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Weiva_Sieh","researchInterest":"Genetic epidemiology; cancer epidemiology; ovarian, breast, and prostate cancer."},{"lastName":"Tibshirani","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Natural Sciences Cluster - Statistics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4688&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Tibshirani","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Robert_Tibshirani","researchInterest":"My research is in applied statistics and biostatistics. I specialize in \u000bcomputer-intensive methods for regression and classification, bootstrap, cross-validation\u000band statistical inference, and signal and image analysis for medical diagnosis."},{"lastName":"Balise","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Sr Research Engineer,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Sr Research Engineer,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=25948&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Raymond Balise","firstName":"Raymond","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Raymond_Balise","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Oghalai","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurotology"},{"focus":"Cochlear Implantation"},{"focus":"Skull Base Surgery"},{"focus":"Otology"},{"focus":"Schwannomas, Vestibular"},{"focus":"Cholesteatoma"},{"focus":"Otosclerosis"},{"focus":"Otolaryngology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18187&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John S. 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We perform translational research using animal models of hearing loss and clinical research in both adult and pediatric patients to accomplish our goals."},{"lastName":"van de Rijn","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anatomic Pathology"},{"focus":"Sarcoma"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4008&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Matt van de Rijn","firstName":"Matt","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Matt_van de Rijn","researchInterest":"Our research focuses on gene microarray analysis of human soft tissue tumors (sarcomas). In addition we work with tissue microarrays to characterize large numbers of novel antisera raised against peptides derived from genes found to be of interest during gene array analysis."},{"lastName":"Bustamante","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Genetics","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=15848&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Carlos Bustamante","firstName":"Carlos","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Carlos_Bustamante","researchInterest":"My research focuses on analyzing genome wide patterns of variation within and between species to address fundamental questions in biology, anthropology, and medicine. My group works on a variety of organisms and model systems ranging from humans and other primates to domesticated plant and animals. Much of our research is at the interface of computational biology, mathematical genetics, and evolutionary genomics."},{"lastName":"John","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7425&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Esther M. 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The lab combines experimental approaches in developing mouse embryos as well as human cancers with computational analyses. Our main data engine is high-throughput sequencing. Please refer to our web site for more information:  http://mendel.stanford.edu/SidowLab/index.html"},{"lastName":"Arber","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anatomic/Clinical Pathology"},{"focus":"Hematopathology"},{"focus":"Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3925&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Daniel A. Arber, M.D.","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Daniel_Arber","researchInterest":"I study molecular genetic and immunophenotypic changes in human hematopoietic neoplasms. These include acute and chronic leukemias, lymphoma, and splenic tumors."},{"lastName":"Cowan","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology"},{"focus":"Pathology and Laboratory Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3906&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Tina Cowan","firstName":"Tina","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Tina_Cowan","researchInterest":"screening and diagnosis of patients with inborn errors of metabolism, including newborn screening, development of new testing methods and genotype/phenotype correlations."},{"lastName":"Snyder","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Genetics","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13465&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael Snyder","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Michael_Snyder","researchInterest":"We are presently in an omics revolution in which genomes and other omes can be readily characterized. Our laboratory uses a variety of approaches to analyze genomes and regulatory networks. Our research focuses on yeast, an ideal model organism ideally suited to genetic analysis, and humans.\r\n\r\n1) Transcriptomes\r\nTo annotate genomes, we developed RNA sequencing for annotation the yeast and human transcriptomes. We discovered that the eukaryotic transcriptome is much more complex than previously"},{"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":"Enns","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Clinical Genetics"},{"focus":"Biochemical Genetics"},{"focus":"Mitochondrial Diseases"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Medical Genetics"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Medical Genetics","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4386&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gregory Enns","firstName":"Gregory","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Gregory_Enns","researchInterest":"mitochondrial genomics, lysosomal disorders, tandem-mass spectrometry newborn screening, and inborn errors of metabolism presentations and natural history"}]}