{"result":[{"lastName":"Cox","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Gastroenterology/Nutrition/Hepatology, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Gastroenterology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4210&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kenneth L. Cox","firstName":"Kenneth","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Kenneth_Cox","researchInterest":"Gastroenterology, biliary motility, hormonal regulation, embryology, gastrointestinal tract, clinical management of pediatric liver transplant recipients."},{"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":"Kerner","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Gastroenterology/Nutrition/Hepatology, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Gastroenterology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4615&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Kerner","firstName":"John","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/John_Kerner","researchInterest":"I am interested in pediatric nutritional support and have experience evaluating new enteral and parenteral products especially for the neonate (I studied a \"new\" I.V. fat product for Abbott; I participated in a multicenter trial of a formula with fish oil in it for neonates with Mead Johnson and a multicenter trial of a new human milk fortifier for Wyeth)."},{"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":"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":"Alcorn","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Ophthalmology"},{"focus":"Ophthalmology, Pediatric"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Ophthalmology"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Ophthalmology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4298&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Deborah Alcorn","firstName":"Deborah","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Deborah_Alcorn","researchInterest":"Gene linkage - tuberous sclerosis; stabismus and, molteno implants; congenital stationary night blindness"},{"lastName":"Busque","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Surgery"},{"focus":"Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation"},{"focus":"Liver Transplantation"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3809&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stephan Busque","firstName":"Stephan","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Stephan_Busque","researchInterest":"My research interest is focused on the improvement of clinical immunosuppression. I am  involved  in the evaluation of new immunosuppressive drugs, potentially more efficacious or less toxic.  My ultimate goal is to achieve tolerance, a state that would obviate the need for any drugs. I am an investigator part of a multidisciplinary tolerance induction project using total lymphoid irradiation and donor hematopoietic stem cells infusion after living donor kidney transplantation."},{"lastName":"Krams","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (Research),Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4475&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Sheri Krams","firstName":"Sheri","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Sheri_Krams","researchInterest":"Our recent studies have focused on three specific areas: 1) NK cell interactions with dendritic cells and tumors, 2) MicroRNAs as master regulators in transplantation and viral infections and 3) Mechanisms of tolerance induction."},{"lastName":"Bass","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Gastroenterology/Nutrition/Hepatology, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Gastroenterology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4017&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Dorsey Bass","firstName":"Dorsey","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Dorsey_Bass","researchInterest":"Our laboratory is interested in the pathophysiology, immunology, and epidemiology of viral gastroenteritis."},{"lastName":"Gerson","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4575&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lauren B. 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Her research interests include epidemiology and clinical trials in GERD and Barrett's esophagus; cost-effectiveness studies in the areas of Barrett's esophagus and new technology; and quality of life assessment for patients with GERD and BE."},{"lastName":"Park","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Gastroenterology"},{"focus":"inflammatory bowel diseases"},{"focus":"complex chronic diseases"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=13479&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"KT Park","firstName":"Kun","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Kun_Park","researchInterest":"My research goal is to optimize pharmaco-economics of treating pediatric chronic diseases.  Overall research aims are to improve health outcomes, healthcare delivery, and cost-effectiveness in gastrointestinal diseases.  In particular, I am interested in comparing the cost-effectiveness of various therapeutic and diagnostic strategies in inflammatory bowel diseases, transplantation, and celiac disease.  Using cost-effectiveness modeling and database analyses, my research attempts to compare the"},{"lastName":"Triadafilopoulos","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Gastroenterology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Professor,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Professor,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4251&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"George Triadafilopoulos","firstName":"George","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/George_Triadafilopoulos","researchInterest":"My primary research interest concerns factors involved in the pathogenesis of gastro-esophageal  reflux disease and its complications, such as Barrett's esophagus and the role of diagnostic and therapeutic modalities in their management."},{"lastName":"Kin","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"General Surgery"},{"focus":"Colon and Rectal Surgery Specialty"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - General Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=35074&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Cindy Kin","firstName":"Cindy","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Cindy_Kin","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Winter","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Gastroenterology"},{"focus":"Specific interest in intestinal failure, nutrition and inflammatory bowel disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=20453&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Trevor Winter","firstName":"Trevor","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Trevor_Winter","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Jeng","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Hematology, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Hematology-Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Hematology & Oncology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Hematology & Oncology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3909&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael Jeng","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Michael_Jeng","researchInterest":"Research interests include pediatric hematologic disorders, such as bone marrow failure disorders, sickle cell disease, hemophilia, and thalassemia.  Current clinical research includes transfusion related iron overload."},{"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":"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":"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":"Parsonnet","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Infectious Disease"},{"focus":"Tuberculosis"},{"focus":"Infectious Diarrheal Disease"},{"focus":"Helicobacter"},{"focus":"Parasitic Diseases"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor,Health Research & Policy"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Infectious Diseases","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4495&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Julie Parsonnet","firstName":"Julie","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Julie_Parsonnet","researchInterest":"I am interested in the long-term consequences of chronic interactions between the human host and the microbial world.  Recently, we have focused most heavily on Helicobacter pylori, tuberculosis and helminth infections.  I also remain strongly interested in diarrheal diseases, particularly in the developing world, and in sanitation and hygiene."},{"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":"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":"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":"Gregory","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Liver Transplantation"},{"focus":"liver disease"},{"focus":"Gastroenterology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5958&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Peter Gregory","firstName":"Peter","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Peter_Gregory","researchInterest":"Not active"},{"lastName":"Castillo","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Gastroenterology/Nutrition/Hepatology, Pediatric"},{"focus":"Pediatric Gastroenterology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Gastroenterology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4618&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ricardo Castillo","firstName":"Ricardo","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Ricardo_Castillo","researchInterest":"Study of the interaction and role of nutrients and intestinal growth factors in enhancing intestinal adaptation and allograft viability using animal models for short bowel syndrome and orthtopic intestinal transplantation.\r\n\r\nStudy of immunosuppression regimens and induction of immune tolerance in intestinal transplantation."},{"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."}]}