{"result":[{"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":"Lin","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Internal Medicine"},{"focus":"Syncope"},{"focus":"Preventive Health"},{"focus":"Chronic Care Management"},{"focus":"Athletic Health"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7842&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Bryant Lin","firstName":"Bryant","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Bryant_Lin","researchInterest":"Medical device design, prototyping and testing."},{"lastName":"Han","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=34686&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lichy Han","firstName":"Lichy","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Lichy_Han","researchInterest":""},{"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":"Friday","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Arrhythmias"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"focus":"Pacemakers/Defibrillators"},{"focus":"Syncope"}],"appointments":[],"imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4407&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Karen Friday, MD","firstName":"Karen","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Karen_Friday","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Sung","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7017&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ruey J. 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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":"Hancock","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6911&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"E William Hancock","firstName":"E","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/E_Hancock","researchInterest":""},{"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":"Miller","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"valve repair and replacement"},{"focus":"Thoracic Aortic surgery"},{"focus":"mitral repair"},{"focus":"Valve-sparing aortic root replacement"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Surgery"},{"focus":"Thoracic Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Adult Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4170&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"D. Craig Miller, M.D.","firstName":"D","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/D_Miller","researchInterest":"Cardiac and heart valve disease with  experimental laboratory large animal projects focused on the investigation of left ventricular and cardiac mechanics, bioenergetics, and LV and mitral valve physiology and pathophysiology.  Current thrust is aimed at understanding the mitral valve and subvalvular mitral apparatus and transmural LV wall strains, thickening, and myolaminar fiber-sheet mechanics.\r\n\r\nClinical research interests include thoracic aortic diseases (aortic dissection, aneurysm) and "},{"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"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7578&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Euan A. 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Frommer","firstName":"Wolf","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Wolf_Frommer","researchInterest":"Watching cells at work \r\nFocus: Transport / signaling across the plasma membrane (sugars, amino acids). \r\nTools: FRET-based nanosensors for metabolite imaging (with subcellular resolution) in living organisms using confocal fluorescence microscopy and HTS; Sensor optimization by computational design; RNAi to modify cellular functions.\r\nGoals: Identify unknown sugar effluxers from liver/plant cells; study regulatory networks. \r\nModel systems: liver, neuronal, plant cell cultures, Arabidopsis, yeast"},{"lastName":"Foppiano","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Anesthesia"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4302&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Linda Foppiano","firstName":"Linda","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Linda_Foppiano","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Fowler","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Cardiomyopathy"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4094&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael B. 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Several areas of research are currently being pursued."},{"lastName":"Barton","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor (By courtesy),Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6253&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kathryn Barton","firstName":"Kathryn","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Kathryn_Barton","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Sosso","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=37311&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Davide Sosso","firstName":"Davide","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Davide_Sosso","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Perera","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Pediatrics","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=29781&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jennifer Perera","firstName":"Jennifer","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Jennifer_Perera","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Mudgett","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6232&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mary Beth Mudgett","firstName":"Mary Beth","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Mary Beth_Mudgett","researchInterest":"My laboratory investigates how bacterial pathogens employ proteins secreted by the type III secretion system (TTSS) to manipulate eukaryotic signaling to promote disease.  We study TTSS effectors in the plant pathogen Xanthomonas campestris, the causal agent of bacterial spot disease of pepper and tomato. 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