Department: Health Research & Policy

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  Whittemore, Alice 
  Academic Appointments Professor,  Health Research & Policy - Epidemiology
  Member,  Stanford Cancer Institute
  
  Research Interest

  Cancers of the prostate, breast and ovary account for a major proportion of new cancer cases and cancer deaths in the U.S. each year. Our recent research focus has been on developing improved statistical methods for the design and conduct of studies involving hereditary predisposition and modifiable lifestyle characteristics in the etiologies of site-specific cancers.
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  Winkelmayer, Wolfgang C
  Academic Appointments Associate Professor,  Medicine - Nephrology
  Associate Professor (By courtesy),  Health Research & Policy
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Nephrology
  Research Interest

  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.

  Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
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  Wise, Paul H.
  Academic Appointments Professor,  Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine
  Senior Fellow,  Academic Units - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
  Professor (By courtesy),  Health Research & Policy
  
  Research Interest

  He is a health policy and outcomes researcher whose work has focused on children's health; health-outcomes disparities by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status; the interaction of genetics and the environment as these factors influence child and maternal health; and the impact of medical technology on disparities in health outcomes.
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  Wong, Wing 
  Academic Appointments Professor,  Natural Sciences Cluster - Statistics
  Professor,  Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics
  Member,  Stanford Cancer Institute
  Member,  Bio-X
  Professor (By courtesy),  Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)
  
  Research Interest

  Current interest centers on the application of statistics to problems arsing from biology. We are particularly interested in questions concerning gene regulation and signal transduction.