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Focused interest in drug-eluting stents and balloons, endovascular stent-grafts, including branched aortic devices and techniques for the endovascular management of aortic dissection. Current clinical research projects include drug-eluting stents for superficial femoral arterial disease and multiple device trials to evaluate stent-grafts for the treatment of aortic lesions."},{"lastName":"Beraud","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=11011&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Anne-Sophie Beraud","firstName":"Anne-Sophie","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Anne-Sophie_Beraud","researchInterest":"My main focus of interest is in bedside echocardiography. 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We are currently working on gene expression in endothelial cells at sites of pathology."},{"lastName":"Wang","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Interventional Radiology"},{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=24317&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David S. 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Role of microvascular injury in acute allograft failure."},{"lastName":"Reddy","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiac Surgery"},{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery"},{"focus":"Cardiothoracic Surgery, Pediatric "}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Pediatric Cardiac Surgery"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Cardiothoracic Surgery - Pediatric Cardiac Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3807&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"V. 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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":"Harris","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Vascular Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Surgery - Vascular Surgery","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4678&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"E. 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I am also interested in vascular hemodynamics and the use of ultrasound, MRI and computational modeling in evaluating arterial flow in exercise conditions."},{"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":"van der Starre","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3805&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Pieter van der Starre","firstName":"Pieter","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Pieter_van der Starre","researchInterest":"Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Cardiovascular Physiology,\r\nNeurophysiology and Monitoring,\r\nTransesophageal Echocardiography"},{"lastName":"Brinton","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Interventional Cardiology"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Lecturer,Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8134&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Todd Brinton","firstName":"Todd","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Todd_Brinton","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Nagamine","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Comparative Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Comparative Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8418&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Claude M. 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