{"result":[{"lastName":"Cooper","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Liver Transplantation"},{"focus":"Gastroenterology"},{"focus":"hepatology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4299&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Allen Cooper","firstName":"Allen","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Allen_Cooper","researchInterest":"I have had a long standing interest in the liver's role in cholesterol and lipid metabolism. In the past this was focused on laboratory studies but currently involves human studies as part of my patient care responsibilities. In particular I am interested in the role of NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) in patients with Hepatitis C aand in post liver transplant patients."},{"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":"Farquhar","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart), Preventive"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"focus":"Chronic Disease Prevention"},{"focus":"Global cancer prevention"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5956&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John W. Farquhar, M.D.","firstName":"John","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/John_Farquhar","researchInterest":"Disease prevention, epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases, community-based education for disease prevention, international health."},{"lastName":"Meyer","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Chemical and Systems Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Chemical and Systems Biology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4007&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Tobias Meyer","firstName":"Tobias","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Tobias_Meyer","researchInterest":"CELLULAR INFORMATION PROCESSING  The main problem in signal transduction is to understand how different receptor-stimuli specifically control diverse cell functions. We are using automated microscopy, live-cell fluorescent biosensors and perturbations of predicted signaling proteins to systematically dissect signaling networks.  This allows us to identify signaling modules and to elucidate and ultimately model the flow of cellular information."},{"lastName":"Yue","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"appointments":[],"imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8441&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Patrick Yue","firstName":"Patrick","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Patrick_Yue","researchInterest":"My primary research focus has been the mechanisms of insulin resistance and diabetes as they pertain to the heart.  I am particularly interested in the potential involvement of the recently discovered peptide hormone apelin.  Recent studies in my laboratory group have focused on apelin's role in promoting insulin sensitivity on the systemic, tissue-specific, and cellular level.  We are currently investigating apelin-mediated signaling events in insulin-sensitive and -resistant cardiac muscle."},{"lastName":"Shrewsbury","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Service Centers & Special Projects Manager,Dean's Office - Finance & Administration, Controller's Office"},{"appointment":"Admin Services Administrator,Dean's Office - Finance & Administration, Controller's Office"}],"primaryAppointment":"Service Centers & Special Projects Manager,Dean's Office - Finance & Administration, Controller's Office","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=28041&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Adeline  Shrewsbury","firstName":"Mary","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Mary_Shrewsbury","researchInterest":""},{"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":"Hu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10405&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mickey Hu","firstName":"Mickey","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Mickey_Hu","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Hu","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=16057&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Zhigang Hu","firstName":"Zhigang","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Zhigang_Hu","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Teruel","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Chemical and Systems Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Chemical and Systems Biology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14171&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mary Frances Nunez Teruel","firstName":"Mary","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Mary_Teruel","researchInterest":"The Teruel Lab uses a combination of engineering and biological approaches including high-throughput screening of RNAi and DNA construct libraries, targeted mass spectrometry, live-cell fluorescence microscopy, and bioinformatics to investigate the systems biology of cell differentiation and cell signaling with particular focus on uncovering the molecular mechanisms underlying insulin resistance, diabetes, and obesity."},{"lastName":"Roth","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Chemical and Systems Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Chemical and Systems Biology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4175&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Richard Roth","firstName":"Richard","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Richard_Roth","researchInterest":"Insulin is one of the primary regulators of rapid anabolic responses in the body. Defects in the synthesis and/or ability of cells to respond to insulin results in the condition known as diabetes mellitus. To better design methods of treatment for this disorder, we have been focusing our research on how insulin elicits its various biological responses."},{"lastName":"Singh","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=29866&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Amar Singh","firstName":"Amar","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Amar_Singh","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Wilson","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Endocrinology/Diabetes, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Endocrinology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Endocrinology and Diabetes"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Endocrinology and Diabetes","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4182&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Darrell Wilson","firstName":"Darrell","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Darrell_Wilson","researchInterest":"My research interests cover a number of areas in Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes. I am PI of the Stanford Center for the NIH-funded Type-1 Diabetes TrialNet group. TrialNet conducts clinical trials directed at preventing or delaying the onset of Type 1 diabetes. I am an investigator in DirecNet, another NIH-funded study group, which is devoted to evaluating glucose sensors and the role of technology on the management of diabetes."},{"lastName":"Hsueh","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology - Reproductive Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Obstetrics & Gynecology - Reproductive Biology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4297&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Aaron Hsueh","firstName":"Aaron","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Aaron_Hsueh","researchInterest":"Hormonal regulation of ovarian function; gonadotropin receptors and related genes, bioinformatic ananlyses of polypeptide hormones and receptors,  follicle recruitment and GDF-9; analysis of oocyte and ovarian-expressed genes."},{"lastName":"Ruiz-Lozano","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Pediatrics - Cardiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Pediatrics - Cardiology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18359&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Pilar Ruiz-Lozano, Ph.D.","firstName":"Pilar","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Pilar_Ruiz-Lozano","researchInterest":"Cardiac development and repair"},{"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."},{"lastName":"Shah","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Endocrinology"},{"focus":"Pediatric Diabetes"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Pediatrics - Endocrinology and Diabetes"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Pediatrics - Endocrinology and Diabetes","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3980&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Avni Shah","firstName":"Avni","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Avni_Shah","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Rodgers","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19007&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Joseph T. Rodgers","firstName":"Joseph","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Joseph_Rodgers","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Connolly","clinicalFocus":[{"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=6324&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Andrew J. Connolly","firstName":"Andrew","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Andrew_Connolly","researchInterest":"My research interests are vascular biology and cardiovascular pathology.  We are currently working on gene expression in endothelial cells at sites of pathology."},{"lastName":"Giaccia","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Obstetrics & Gynecology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiation Oncology - Radiation and Cancer Biology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4141&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Amato J. Giaccia","firstName":"Amato","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Amato_Giaccia","researchInterest":"During the last five years, we have identified several small molecules that kill VHL deficient renal cancer cells through a synthetic lethal screening approach. Another major interest of my laboratory is in identifying hypoxia-induced genes involved in invasion and metastases. We are also investigating how hypoxia regulates gene expression epigenetically."},{"lastName":"Yeh","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=29044&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Erika Yeh","firstName":"Erika","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Erika_Yeh","researchInterest":""}]}