{"result":[{"lastName":"Pershing","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Ophthalmology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Instructor,Ophthalmology"},{"appointment":"MS, Dean's Office"},{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Instructor,Ophthalmology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23244&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Suzann Pershing","firstName":"Suzann","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Suzann_Pershing","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Dunn","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Multiple Sclerosis"},{"focus":"Neuromyelitis Optica"},{"focus":"Transverse Myelitis"},{"focus":"Neurology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8456&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jeffrey Dunn, MD","firstName":"Jeffrey","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Jeffrey_Dunn","researchInterest":"Translational research in the human application of emerging immunotherapies for neurological disease, focusing on Multiple Sclerosis, CIS, transverse myelitis and Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO). Collaborative research with Stanford and extramural scientific faculty to identify biomarkers of disease activity and treatment response in humans. Clinical trials to assess efficacy of emerging treatments for MS, CIS and NMO, recently including trials of alemtuzumab, oral sphingosine 1 phosphate inhibition"},{"lastName":"Barres","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Neurobiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Neurobiology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4239&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ben Barres","firstName":"Ben","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Ben_Barres","researchInterest":"Our lab is interested in the neuronal-glial interactions that underlie the development and function of the mammlian central nervous system."},{"lastName":"Mohan","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23128&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Shalini Mohan","firstName":"Shalini","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Shalini_Mohan","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Chen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=20934&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lu Chen","firstName":"Lu","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Lu_Chen","researchInterest":"What distinguishes us humans from other animals is our ability to undergo complex behavior. The synapses are the structural connection between neurons that mediates the communication between neurons, which underlies our various cognitive function. My research program aims to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie synapse function during behavior in the developing and mature brain, and how synapse function is altered during mental retardation."},{"lastName":"Weyand","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Immunology"},{"focus":"Vasculitis"},{"focus":"Rheumatoid Arthritis"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=15618&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Cornelia Weyand","firstName":"Cornelia","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Cornelia_Weyand","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Goronzy","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Vasculitis"},{"focus":"Rheumatoid Arthritis"},{"focus":"Immunology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=15394&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jorg Goronzy","firstName":"Jorg","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Jorg_Goronzy","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Shatz","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Professor,Neurobiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8146&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Carla Shatz","firstName":"Carla","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Carla_Shatz","researchInterest":"The goal of research in the Shatz Laboratory is to discover how brain circuits are tuned up by experience during critical periods of development both before and after birth by elucidating cellular and molecular mechanisms that transform early fetal and neonatal brain circuits into mature connections. To discover mechanistic underpinnings of circuit tuning, the lab has conducted functional screens for genes regulated by neural activity and studied their function for vision, learning and memory."},{"lastName":"Mocarski","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Microbiology & Immunology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Microbiology & Immunology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4146&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Edward Mocarski","firstName":"Edward","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Edward_Mocarski","researchInterest":"My research interests focus on the biology and pathogenesis of cytomegalovirus (CMV), an opportunistic pathogen that causes significant disease worldwide. We developed global approaches and produced key insights into the areas of CMV gene regulation, DNA replication and packaging, maturation, impact on the host cell, disease pathogenesis, latency and reactivation, host cell signaling and chemokine system. These diverse findings address key aspects of the virus-host interaction."},{"lastName":"Ko","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10414&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Rose Ko","firstName":"Rose","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Rose_Ko","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Takahashi","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=11433&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"D. Koji Takahashi","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Daniel_Takahashi","researchInterest":"I am interested in the mechanisms of epileptogenesis following a traumatic brain injury and also how astrocytes influence neuronal excitability in both the normal and injured cortex."},{"lastName":"Gilly","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6223&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"William Gilly","firstName":"William","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/William_Gilly","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Vogel","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Neurosurgery"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Comparative Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3892&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Hannes Vogel","firstName":"Hannes","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Hannes_Vogel","researchInterest":"My research interests include nerve and muscle pathology, mitochondrial diseases, pediatric neurooncology, and transgenic mouse pathology."},{"lastName":"Reimer","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Molecular & Cellular Physiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3819&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Richard J. Reimer, MD","firstName":"Richard","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Richard_Reimer","researchInterest":"Reimer Lab interests\r\n\r\nA primary interest of our lab is to understand how nerve cells make and recycle neurotransmitters, the small molecules that they use to communicate with each other. In better defining these processes we hope to achieve our long-term goal of identifying novel sites for treatment of diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson Disease. In our studies on neurotransmitter metabolism we have focused our efforts on transporters, a functional class of proteins that move neurotransmi"},{"lastName":"Wandell","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Social Sciences Cluster - Psychology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Social Sciences Cluster - Psychology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7651&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Brian A. Wandell","firstName":"Brian","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Brian_Wandell","researchInterest":"The development and organization of visual cortex.  The study of the brain pathways essential for reading development.  Diffusion tensor imaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging and computational modeling of visual perception and brain processes."},{"lastName":"Lewis","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Molecular & Cellular Physiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Molecular & Cellular Physiology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4176&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Richard Lewis","firstName":"Richard","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Richard_Lewis","researchInterest":"We study molecular mechanisms of calcium signaling with a focus on store-operated CRAC channels and their essential roles in T cell development and function.  Currently we aim to define the molecular mechanism for CRAC channel activation and the means by which calcium signal dynamics mediate specific activation of transcription factors and T-cell genes during development."},{"lastName":"Kerchner","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Alzheimer's Disease"},{"focus":"Mild Cognitive Impairment"},{"focus":"Dementia"},{"focus":"Behavioral Neurology"},{"focus":"Neurodegenerative Disease"},{"focus":"Neuropsychology"},{"focus":"Neurology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=15338&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Geoffrey Kerchner","firstName":"Geoffrey","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Geoffrey_Kerchner","researchInterest":"Dr. Kerchner is a behavioral neurologist who cares for patients with Alzheimer's disease and other age-related neurodegenerative illnesses. He studies the use of ultra-high field MRI and other advanced neuroimaging technologies to reveal how these diseases affect the microscopic structure and circuitry of the brain, with the intent of creating new strategies for early diagnosis. Dr. Kerchner also supervises the participation of patients in clinical trials for Alzheimer\u0092s disease."},{"lastName":"Kendig","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Anesthesia"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4161&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Joan Kendig","firstName":"Joan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Joan_Kendig","researchInterest":"My laboratory tries to find out how pharmacologic agents used in the practice of anesthesia (general anesthetic and analgesic agents) lead to therapeutically desireable endpoints including unconsciousness, immobility and absence of pain. The old idea that general anesthetics are uniformly non-specific \"membrane stabilizers\" is giving way to a new realization that these agents exert specific actions on particular ion channels and intracellular signalling systems."},{"lastName":"Marks","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Interventional Neuroradiology"},{"focus":"Cerebrovascular Disorders"},{"focus":"Stroke"},{"focus":"Aneurysm"},{"focus":"Arteriovenous Malformations"},{"focus":"Diagnostic Radiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4016&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Michael P. 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We are primarily using Drosophila as a model organism for our studies.  Most recently, we are also developing novel genetic tools in the mouse to extend our studies to the mammalian brain."},{"lastName":"Mullins","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Pathology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Pathology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Pathology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8576&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Franklin Mullins","firstName":"Franklin","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Franklin_Mullins","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Okada","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8191&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ami Okada","firstName":"Ami","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Ami_Okada","researchInterest":"Our interests are to understand the mechanism and control of signals that regulate proliferation and differentiation in adult tissue.  We are currently focused on studying modulation of the Hedgehog pathway in brain and muscle stem cell compartments during normal homeostasis and in degeneration or disease."},{"lastName":"Norcia","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=24859&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Anthony Norcia","firstName":"Anthony","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Anthony_Norcia","researchInterest":""}]}