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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":"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":"Chaudhuri","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pediatric Nephrology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Pediatrics - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Pediatrics - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8849&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Abanti Chaudhuri","firstName":"Abanti","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Abanti_Chaudhuri","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Arora","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Nephrology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=15093&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Neiha Arora","firstName":"Neiha","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Neiha_Arora","researchInterest":""},{"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":"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":"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":"Tamura","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10432&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Manjula Kurella Tamura","firstName":"Manjula","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Manjula_Tamura","researchInterest":"I am a clinical and health services investigator whose primary interest is in improving the quality of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) care among older adults.  Our previous and current work aims to describe outcomes (especially geriatric outcomes) in older patients and to compare the effectiveness of different ESRD management strategies on these outcomes.  We use a variety of study designs and populations to address questions of interest in this area."},{"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":"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":"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":"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":"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":"Yabu","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Nephrology"},{"focus":"Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation"},{"focus":"Desensitization and ABO incompatible kidney transplantation"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=12791&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Julie M. Yabu","firstName":"Julie","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Julie_Yabu","researchInterest":"My research interests are in immune monitoring in kidney transplant patients and in the management of sensitized patients.  I am interested in translational studies to determine the immunological mechanisms underlying kidney transplant rejection and alloantibody production and to identify novel biomarkers to monitor the immune system in kidney transplant patients.  I am also interested in designing novel protocols for desensitization and ABO incompatible kidney transplantation."},{"lastName":"Chang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Nephrology"},{"focus":"chronic kidney disease"},{"focus":"hypertension"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9428&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Tara I. Chang","firstName":"Tara","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Tara_Chang","researchInterest":"Cardiovascular disease, and specifically hypertension, in patients with chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease on dialysis."},{"lastName":"Pham","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Congestive Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"}],"appointments":[],"imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=11879&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael Pham, M.D., M.P.H.","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Michael_Pham","researchInterest":""},{"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":"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":"Lal","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Pediatrics","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=34059&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ashwin Lal","firstName":"Ashwin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Ashwin_Lal","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":"Petersen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Medicine - Nephrology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Medicine - Nephrology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4675&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jeffrey Petersen","firstName":"Jeffrey","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Jeffrey_Petersen","researchInterest":"High flux dialysis in in-vivo and in-vitro clearances, of small and middle molecular weight solutes; computerized capture, of interdialysis hemodynamics; biocompatibility of biomembranes;, dialysis-related amyloidosis"},{"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":"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."}]}