Department: Medicine

Division: Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

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  de Jesus Perez, Vinicio 
  Academic Appointments Assistant Professor,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  Member,  Bio-X
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Pulmonary Disease
  • Pulmonary Hypertension
  • drug induced pulmonary hypertension
  Research Interest

  My work is aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in the development and progression of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). I am interested in understanding the role that the BMP and Wnt pathways play in regulating functions of pulmonary endothelial and smooth muscle cells both in health and disease.
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  Desai, Tushar 
  Academic Appointments Assistant Professor,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Pulmonary Disease
  Research Interest

  Development and maintenance of alveolar epithelium; alveolar morphogenesis and repair; lung adenocarcinoma cell type of origin
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  Dhillon, Gundeep S
  Academic Appointments Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation
  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Pulmonary Disease
  Research Interest

  1. Use of an administrative database (UNOS) to study lung transplant outcomes. 2. Expression of the plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI) 1 antibody in peripheral blood after lung transplantation and its association with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (chronic rejection). 3. Impact of airway hypoxia, due to lack of bronchial circulation, on long-term lung transplant outcomes. 4. CMV specific T-cell immunity in lung transplant recipients and its impact on acute rejection.

  Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
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  Fortenko, Olga M
  Academic Appointments Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
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  Gonzalez-Pena, Veronica 
  Academic Appointments Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
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  Ho, Lawrence Anh Tuan
  Academic Appointments Postdoctoral Medical fellow, Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
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  Hsu, Joe 
  Academic Appointments Instructor,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Pulmonary Disease
  • Pulmonary & Critical Care
  Research Interest

  I am currently working to develop an orthotopic tracheal transplant model for Aspergillus infection and colonization. I am also involved in developing a device to detect pathogen-specific signatures in exhaled breath samples.
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  Hu, Yingbin 
  Academic Appointments Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
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  Kao, Peter N
  Academic Appointments Associate Professor,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Pulmonary Disease
  • Pulmonology (Lung) and Critical Care
  Research Interest

  Our research program has several active projects: 1.) Pulmonary Vascular Disease – Simvastatin reversed experimental pulmonary hypertension, and is safe for treatment of patients. Blinded clinical trials of efficacy are in progress. 2.) Lung inflammation and regeneration (stem cells) 3.) Lung surfactant rheology and oxidative stress 4.) Gene regulation by RNA binding proteins, NF45 and NF90 through transcriptional and posttranscriptional mechanisms
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  Khazeni, Nayer 
  Academic Appointments Assistant Professor,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Pulmonary Disease
  • Critical Care
  Research Interest

  My research interests include social determinants of health, infectious diseases, and strategic planning for global health catastrophes. My research team collaborates with colleagues in the Center for Health Policy / Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Management Science and Engineering, and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to examine and design international pandemic influenza mitigation strategies.
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  Kim, Kwang Min 
  Academic Appointments Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
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  Kudelko, Kristina 
  Academic Appointments Clinical Assistant Professor,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Pulmonary Hypertension
  • Pulmonary Disease
  • Critical Care
  Research Interest

  Drugs and toxins-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension, clinical outcomes research, acute kidney injury in pulmonary arterial hypertension
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  Kuschner, Ware 
  Academic Appointments Professor - Med Center Line,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Pulmonary
  Research Interest

  Occupational and environmental lung disease; Pulmonary and systemic responses to toxicant inhalation; Indoor and outdoor air pollution health effects;
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  Levitt, Joseph Eric
  Academic Appointments Instructor,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Critical Care
  • Pulmonary Critical Care
  Research Interest

  My research focuses on the physiolgogic and biomarker characteristics of early acute lung injury (ALI) prior to need for mechanical ventilation. While, to date no pharmacologic treatment has improved survival in ALI, following the paradigm of early goal directed therapy for severe sepsis, clinical benefit may derive from identifying patients and initiating treatment prior to the need for positive pressure ventilation (and therefore prior to meeting current study entry criteria).
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  Liang, Ying 
  Academic Appointments Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Research Interest

  My clinical and research interest is to apply evolving technologies to the diagnosis, characterization, and individualized treatment of Thoracic cancer such as NSCLC, SCLC, Thymoma,Mesothelioma.
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  Liao, Xiaobo 
  Academic Appointments Visiting Associate Professor,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
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  Mohabir, Paul K
  Academic Appointments Clinical Associate Professor,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Pulmonary Critical Care
  • Pulmonary Disease
  Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
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  Nair, Viswam Siva
  Academic Appointments Instructor,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Pulmonary Disease
  • Lung Cancer
  • Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
  Research Interest

  • Molecular determinants of FDG-PET using non-invasive methods • Quantitative imaging of glucose metabolism in malignant nodules • Metabolic parameters of lung disease using FDG-PET • Circulating biomarker and clinical data database development for early detection of lung cancer
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  Neff, Margaret Jane
  Academic Appointments Clinical Associate Professor,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Critical Care
  • Pulmonary Disease
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  Nguyen, Tom 
  Academic Appointments Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
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  Nicolls, Mark Robert
  Academic Appointments Associate Professor,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  Member,  Child Health Research Institute
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Pulmonary Critical Care
  • Lung Transplantation
  • Heart-Lung Transplantation
  Research Interest

  Our lab focuses primarily on the contribution of the immune response to lung disease. We are specifically examining the contribution of inflammation to the development of pulmonary hypertension. We also study how airway remodeling occurs in transplantation with specific respect to the microvascular circulation and to the initiation of fibroproliferation.
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  Patel, Kapilkumar 
  Academic Appointments Clinical Assistant Professor,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Pulmonary Disease
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  Proctor, Robert N.
  Academic Appointments Professor,  Humanities and Arts Cluster - History
  Professor (By courtesy),  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
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  Qian, Jin 
  Academic Appointments Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
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  Raffin, Thomas 
  Academic Appointments Professor Emeritus,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Pulmonary Disease
  • Pulmonology (Lung) and Critical Care
  Research Interest

  Dr. Raffin is a clinician, teacher and investigator. He retired as Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in 2004. His key areas of academic interest include the biology and management of acute lung injury; basic biology of human lung and white cells; and, key issues in biomedical ethics including withholding and withdrawing life support, health care delivery, genomics, genetic screening, and neuroethics.
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  Rizk, Norman 
  Academic Appointments Professor - Med Center Line,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Pulmonology (Lung) and Critical Care
  Research Interest

  I am interested in the prevention and control of critical care-related illnesses and complications, including ventilator-associated pneumonia, spread of nosocomial infections, and prognosis of multiple organ system failure in intensive care units. Infections and complications of therapy in immunocompromised hosts, including effects of chemotherapy and hematopoetic stem cell transplants is another interest.
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  Rosen, Glenn 
  Academic Appointments Associate Professor,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  Member,  Bio-X
  Member,  Stanford Cancer Institute
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Pulmonology (Lung) and Critical Care
  • Pulmonary Disease
  Research Interest

  Our laboratory examines apoptotic and cell cycle pathways in cancer and lung disease. We have identified a novel cell cycle protein which regulates cell cycle progression in immune cells and the lung. We are also studying signaling pathways that regulate cancer cell growth and metastasis.
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  Ruoss, Stephen 
  Academic Appointments Professor - Med Center Line,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Pulmonology (Lung) and Critical Care
  • Internal Medicine
  Research Interest

  We have an active collaborative project examining basic and clinical aspects of non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung infection in non-immune compromised adults. Studies have examined possible cellular immune mechanisms for increased susceptibility to these infections, and are also investigating aspects of optimal diagnosis and treatment. In addition, a clinical and translational research program is investigating the causes and genetic factors underlying the evolution of bronchiectasis.
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  Spiekerkoetter, Edda 
  Academic Appointments Assistant Professor,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Pulmonary Medicine
  • Pulmonary Hypertension
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  Sung, Yon Kyung
  Academic Appointments Clinical Instructor,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Academic Appointments Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Pulmonary Medicine
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  Tamosiuniene, Rasa 
  Academic Appointments Basic Life Research Associate,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
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  Wei, Ke 
  Academic Appointments Research,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
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  Weill, David 
  Academic Appointments Professor - Med Center Line,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Pulmonary Critical Care
  • Pulmonary Disease
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  Weinacker, Ann 
  Academic Appointments Professor - Med Center Line,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Pulmonary Disease
  • Pulmonology (Lung) and Critical Care
  Research Interest

  Dr. Weinacker's research interests center around ICU outcomes. Her specific interests include venous thromboembolism, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, and the use of echocardiography in the ICU. In addition to ongoing research in each of these areas, Dr. Weinacker has taught a course with Dr. David Liang (cardiology) on the use of portable echocardiography to evaluate hemodynamic instability in critically ill patients.
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  Yuan, Ke 
  Academic Appointments Postdoctoral Research fellow, Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
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  Zamanian, Roham T.
  Academic Appointments Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,  Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  
  Clinical Focus

  • Pulmonary Hypertension
  • Pulmonology (Lung) and Critical Care
  • Pulmonary Medicine
  Research Interest

  1. The Utility of S100A4/Mts1 as a Biomarker in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). 2. Prevalence and Treatment of Insulin Resistance in PAH. 3. The Effect of EGF-Receptor Blockade and Elastase Inhibitor on Pulmonary Arteries of Patients with PAH. 4. Characterization of Pulmonary Arteries in Patients with Idiopathic and Secondary PAH by Wedge Angiography. 5. The Optimal Angle for Angiographic Evaluation of the Left Pulmonary Artery in Patients with PAH.