{"result":[{"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":"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":"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":"Ioannidis","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Natural Sciences Cluster - Statistics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18745&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Ioannidis","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/John_Ioannidis","researchInterest":"Evidence-based medicine\r\nClinical and molecular epidemiology\r\nHuman genome epidemiology\r\nResearch design\r\nReporting of research\r\nEmpirical evaluation of bias in research\r\nRandomized trials\r\nStatistical methods and modeling\r\nMeta-analysis and large-scale evidence\r\nPrognosis, predictive and personalized medicine and health\r\nSociology of science"},{"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":"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. Winkelmayer, MD, ScD","firstName":"Wolfgang","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Wolfgang_Winkelmayer","researchInterest":"I study the comparative effectiveness and safety of competing clinical strategies in patients with kidney disease, diabetes, or cardiovascular disease. Such strategies may include medications, devices, clinical tests, policies, or other approaches to providing or organizing clinical care. My research is based on large insurance databases, disease registries, clinical databases or electronic medical records. My explicit career goal is to improve care and outcomes of patients with these diseases."},{"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"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7578&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Euan A. Ashley","firstName":"Euan","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Euan_Ashley","researchInterest":"The Ashley lab is focused on the application of genomics to medicine. We develop methods for the interpretation of whole genome sequencing data to improve diagnosis of genetic disease and to personalize the practice of medicine. We also use RNA sequencing data to generate gene networks and link communities. 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":"Baker","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Social Sciences Cluster - Economics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy - Health Services Research","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4222&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Laurence Baker","firstName":"Laurence","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Laurence_Baker","researchInterest":"Dr. Baker's research is in the area of health economics, and focuses on the effects of financial incentives, organizational structures, and government policies on the health care delivery system, health care costs, and health outcomes."},{"lastName":"Haskell","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6108&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"William Haskell","firstName":"William","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/William_Haskell","researchInterest":"My major research interests and activities over the next several years will focus on the development and evaluation of the objective measurement of physical activity in free-living populations using a variety of sensing devices and mobile phones for data collection and processing. Also, I will continue to direct the Stanford Heart Network with the major mission being to assist community-based CVD prevention/treatment programs implement more effective heart attack and stroke prevention programs."},{"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":"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":"Kraemer","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4163&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Helena Chmura Kraemer","firstName":"Helena","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Helena_Kraemer","researchInterest":"I am interested in the methodology pertinent to dealing with research problems where biological and behavioral interests meet. These interests have been applied not only in psychiatric research, but in those areas of Cardiology, Pediatrics and other fields of medicine in which behavioral research is becoming ever more salient."},{"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":"Palaniappan","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Internal Medicine"}],"appointments":[],"imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6447&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS","firstName":"Latha","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Latha_Palaniappan","researchInterest":"Latha Palaniappan is currently an Associate Investigator at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Palaniappan has completed over 20 studies spanning 10 years in the areas of ethnicity, obesity, and diabetes risk. She currently leads the Pan Asian Cohort Study (www.pamf.org/pacs), to investigate diabetes in Asian Americans"},{"lastName":"Fearon","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Interventional Cardiology"},{"focus":"Coronary Artery Disease"},{"focus":"Percutaneous aortic valve"},{"focus":"Aortic Stenosis"},{"focus":"Coronary Physiology"},{"focus":"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=5950&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"William Fearon, MD","firstName":"William","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/William_Fearon","researchInterest":"Dr. Fearon's general research interest is coronary physiology.  In particular, he is investigating invasive methods for evaluating the coronary microcirculation.  His research is currently funded by an NIH R01 Award."},{"lastName":"Schreiber","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Emergency Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Emergency Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Emergency Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4225&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Donald Schreiber","firstName":"Donald","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Donald_Schreiber","researchInterest":"My research group focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular emergencies including acute myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome and congestive heart failure. We have evaluated novel cardiac markers and point-of-care testing in clinical practice. Current projects also include the diagnosis and treatment of acute pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis. Other interests include spinal cord injury, pneumonia and sepsis."},{"lastName":"Harrington","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=34240&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Harrington","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Robert_Harrington","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Knowles","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"focus":"Insulin Resistance"},{"focus":"Familial Hypercholesterolemia"},{"focus":"Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18099&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Joshua W. 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Sung","firstName":"Ruey","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Ruey_Sung","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Rogers","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Imaging"},{"focus":"Adult Congenital Heart Disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=35482&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ian S. Rogers, M.D., M.P.H.","firstName":"Ian","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Ian_Rogers","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Friedman","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Consulting Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Consulting Professor,Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6143&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gary Friedman","firstName":"Gary","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Gary_Friedman","researchInterest":"Chronic disease epidemiology, particularly cancer, cardiovascular disease, adverse effects of smoking, alcohol and pharmaceuticals, evaluation of screening tests.\r\nMost of my career has been in the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research where I was Director for 7 years and am still active. I especially enjoy mentoring students and trainees at Stanford."},{"lastName":"Winkleby","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus (Active) Professor,Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4305&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marilyn Winkleby, PhD, MPH","firstName":"Marilyn","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Marilyn_Winkleby","researchInterest":"Cardiovascular disease epidemiology, health of socioeconomically disadvantaged and ethnic minority populations, social determinants of health, community-based intervention research, youth advocacy and mentorship, promoting diversity in health professions"},{"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":"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. Closure devices for atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale"},{"lastName":"DeBusk","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4093&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert DeBusk","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Robert_DeBusk","researchInterest":"Experimental and clinical epidemiology of myocardial, infarction; exercise testing; cardiac risk factor management;, cardiac rehabilitation; systems for patient management; ischemic, heart disease; computer-based expert systems."}]}