{"result":[{"lastName":"Goldstein","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - General Medical Disciplines","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=21132&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Benjamin Goldstein","firstName":"Benjamin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Benjamin_Goldstein","researchInterest":"I am a senior biostatistician in the Quantitative Sciences Unit in the Department of Medicine. I am interested in applications of statistical methods to all areas of medicine. My current work is focused on computational methods for developing risk prediction tools for health outcomes, with a focus on utilizing real time, genetic and longitudinal data."},{"lastName":"Vagelos","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Disease"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"},{"focus":"valvular heart disease"},{"focus":"Heart Failure"},{"focus":"Radiation/Chemotherapy induced cardiac disease"},{"focus":"Pericardial disease"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4105&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Randall Vagelos, MD","firstName":"Randall","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Randall_Vagelos","researchInterest":"I. 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":"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. Fowler, MB, FRCP","firstName":"Michael","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Michael_Fowler","researchInterest":"Adrenergic nervous system; beta-adrenergic function in, heart failure; drugs in heart failure."},{"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":"Valantine","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Cardiology (Heart)"},{"focus":"Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"focus":"Heart and Lung Transplantation"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4322&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Hannah Valantine","firstName":"Hannah","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Hannah_Valantine","researchInterest":"My lab is focused on understanding the mechanism mediating acute and chronic allograft failure, in particular on the role of microvascular injury in acute allograft failure and the mechanisms of mediating transplant coronary artery disease. 1. Role of microvascular injury in acute allograft failure."},{"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":"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"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Genetics"},{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Pathology"}],"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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Half of the lab is wet benches where we take advantage of cell systems, transgenic models and microsurgical models of disease to prove causality of our favorite targets."},{"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":"Perez","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Atrial Fibrillation"},{"focus":"Arrhythmias, Cardiac"},{"focus":"Channelopathies (Long QT, Brugada, CPVT)"},{"focus":"Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Instructor,Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9771&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marco Perez","firstName":"Marco","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Marco_Perez","researchInterest":""},{"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":"Perlroth","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=4181&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark Perlroth, MD","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Mark_Perlroth","researchInterest":"1. Adult Congenital Heart Disease \r\n2. Cardiac Transplantation\r\n3. General Cardiology\r\n4. 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Other interests include liver transplantation pathology and gastrointestinal pathology."},{"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":"Zamanian","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7572&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Roham Zamanian","firstName":"Roham","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Roham_Zamanian","researchInterest":"1. The Utility of S100A4/Mts1 as a Biomarker in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH).\r\n\r\n2. Prevalence and Treatment of Insulin Resistance in PAH.\r\n\r\n3. The Effect of EGF-Receptor Blockade and Elastase Inhibitor on Pulmonary Arteries of Patients with PAH.\r\n\r\n4. 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In particular, he is investigating invasive methods for evaluating the coronary microcirculation.  His research is currently funded by an NIH R01 Award."},{"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."},{"lastName":"Patterson","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Anesthesia"},{"focus":"Critical Care Medicine"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Surgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6059&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Andrew J. Patterson, M.D., Ph.D.","firstName":"Andrew","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Andrew_Patterson","researchInterest":"Critical Care Medicine,\r\nCardiovascular Pharmacology,\r\nAdrenergic Receptors,\r\nCongestive Heart Failure,\r\nVascular Biology,\r\nCardiopulmonary Physiology,\r\nSepsis"}]}