LIVER - Key Persons


Aaron Hsueh

Job Titles:
  • Endocrinologist
Endocrinologist Aaron Hsueh discovers obestatin, a hormone that supresses appetite and may lead to treatments for obesity.

Alisa Richardson

Job Titles:
  • EDUCATION PROGRAM MANAGER

Alyssa Elsey

Job Titles:
  • EDUCATION EVENTS SPECIALIST

Amanda Harrison

Job Titles:
  • EDUCATION EVENTS SPECIALIST

Amanda Morris

Job Titles:
  • CLINICAL CONTENT and GRANT DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST

Anam Terra

Job Titles:
  • PROJECT COORDINATOR

Anthony Donahue

Job Titles:
  • PROJECT COORDINATOR

ASHLEY KO

Job Titles:
  • Program and Outreach Coordinator

Avram Goldstein

Job Titles:
  • Pharmacologist
Pharmacologist Avram Goldstein discovers a chemical in the human brain that could lead to the development of powerful painkillers with fewer undesirable side effects.

BEN MIYAHARA

Job Titles:
  • Research

Brandon Armstrong

Job Titles:
  • COMPLIANCE COORDINATOR

CARL AND ELIZABETH NAUMANN

Job Titles:
  • CARL and ELIZABETH NAUMANN DEAN of the SCHOOL of MEDICINE / VICE PRESIDENT for MEDICAL AFFAIRS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Charlotte Law

Job Titles:
  • PROJECT COORDINATOR

Daryl Oakes

Job Titles:
  • ASSOCIATE DEAN, POST GRADUATE

David Entwistle

Job Titles:
  • PRESIDENT & CEO / STANFORD HEALTH CARE

Dean Lloyd B. Minor

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Physician
  • Scientist
  • Surgeon
  • Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the School of Medicine
  • CARL and ELIZABETH NAUMANN DEAN of the SCHOOL of MEDICINE / VICE PRESIDENT for MEDICAL AFFAIRS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
  • Vice Dean Linda M. Boxer
Dean Minor is a leading physician, basic scientist and educator. Lloyd B. Minor, MD, is a scientist, surgeon, and academic leader. He is the Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine and Vice President for Medical Affairs at Stanford University. Dr. Minor also is a professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and a professor of Bioengineering and of Neurobiology, by courtesy, at Stanford University. As dean, Dr. Minor has had an integral role in setting strategy for the clinical enterprise of Stanford Medicine, an academic medical center that includes the Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and Stanford Medicine Children's Health. With his leadership, Stanford Medicine leads the biomedical revolution in Precision Health. His book, "Discovering Precision Health," describes this shift to more preventive, personalized health care and highlights how biomedical advances are dramatically improving our ability to treat and cure complex diseases. In 2021, Dr. Minor articulated and began realizing a bold vision to transform the future of life sciences at Stanford University and beyond - a multi-decade journey enabled by Precision Health. In August 2023, Dr. Minor was appointed Vice President for Medical Affairs to lead all matters related to health and medicine at Stanford University. Before Stanford, Dr. Minor was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs of Johns Hopkins University. Prior to this appointment in 2009, Dr. Minor served as the Andelot Professor and director (chair) of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and otolaryngologist-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. With more than 160 published articles and chapters, Dr. Minor is an expert in balance and inner ear disorders perhaps best known for discovering superior canal dehiscence syndrome, a debilitating disorder characterized by sound- or pressure-induced dizziness. He subsequently developed a surgical procedure that corrects the problem and alleviates symptoms. In 2012, Dr. Minor was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the School of Medicine, Vice President for Medical Affairs, Stanford University, Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, and Professor of Neurobiology and of Bioengineering, by courtesy Lloyd B. Minor, MD, is a scientist, surgeon, and academic leader. He is the Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine and Vice President for Medical Affairs at Stanford University. Dr. Minor is also a professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and a professor of Bioengineering and of Neurobiology, by courtesy, at Stanford University. As dean, Dr. Minor has had an integral role in setting strategy for the clinical enterprise of Stanford Medicine, an academic medical center that includes the Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and Stanford Medicine Children's Health. He oversees the quality of Stanford Medicine's physicians on the faculty and in the organization's growing clinical networks and physician practices. In August 2023, Dr. Minor was appointed as Vice President for Medical Affairs to lead all matters related to health and medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Minor has demonstrated a steadfast commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. For example, between 2012 and 2022, the number of underrepresented students increased from 9.9 percent of incoming PhDs to 24.6 percent and from 14 percent of incoming MDs to 28.9 percent. Other key accomplishments include quadrupling the number of women department chairs and maintaining the highest NIH funding per faculty ratio in the country. With Dr. Minor's leadership, Stanford Medicine is leading the biomedical revolution through Precision Health. Empowering people to lead healthy lives, Precision Health is a fundamental shift to more proactive and personalized health care that predicts and prevents disease before it strikes - and cures it decisively if it does. His book, "Discovering Precision Health: Predict, Prevent, and Cure to Advance Health and Well-Being," highlights how biomedical advances are dramatically improving our ability to treat and cure complex diseases. Dr. Minor also spearheaded the creation of an Integrated Strategic Plan (ISP) that reaffirms Stanford Medicine's Precision Health vision. A groundbreaking roadmap launched in 2018, the ISP aligns Stanford Medicine's three entities, informs how each will develop strategies, and has activated dozens of high-impact initiatives across Stanford Medicine. In 2023, Dr. Minor and the CEOs of Stanford Health Care and Stanford Medicine Children's Health launched the ISP Refresh, an initiative focused on Stanford Medicine's evolution as it leads a biomedical landscape that has rapidly evolved due to COVID-19 and other developments. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Minor quickly implemented protocols to ensure the safety of patients and of the Stanford Medicine community. He emphasized open communication, transparency, and accountability as he and the leadership team responded to the unprecedented challenges that affected every facet of the enterprise's activities. Under his leadership, Stanford Medicine became one of the first academic medical centers to develop a COVID-19 test, launched hundreds of clinical research projects, and distributed 480,000 vaccine doses. In 2021, Dr. Minor articulated and began realizing a bold vision for transforming the future of life sciences at Stanford University, in the Bay Area, and beyond. This multi-decade journey will leverage the region's unique strengths in information sciences, technology, and biology and biomedicine to establish a biomedical innovation hub that, through collaboration, enhances fundamental understanding of biology and translates promising discoveries into transformative leaps that promote human and planetary well-being. Dr. Minor has long provided significant support for basic science research and for clinical and translational research at Stanford. Through bold initiatives in medical education and increased support for MD and PhD students, Dr. Minor is committed to inspiring and training future leaders. He also has increased student financial aid and expanded faculty leadership opportunities. Among other accomplishments, Dr. Minor has led the development and implementation of an innovative model for cancer research and patient care delivery at Stanford Medicine and has launched an initiative in biomedical data science to harness the power of big data and create a learning health care system. Before Stanford, Dr. Minor was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs of The Johns Hopkins University. As provost, Dr. Minor launched many university-wide initiatives such as the Gateway Sciences Initiative to support pedagogical innovation, and the Doctor of Philosophy Board to promote excellence in PhD education. He worked with others around the university and health system to coordinate the Individualized Health Initiative, which aimed to use genetic information to transform health care. Prior to his appointment as provost in 2009, Dr. Minor was the Andelot Professor and director (chair) of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and otolaryngologist-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. During his six-year tenure, he expanded annual research funding by more than half and increased clinical activity by more than 30 percent, while strengthening teaching efforts and student training. With more than 160 published articles and chapters, Dr. Minor is an expert in balance and inner ear disorders. Through neurophysiological investigations of eye movements and neuronal pathways, his work has identified adaptive mechanisms responsible for compensation to vestibular injury in a model system for studies of motor learning (the vestibulo-ocular reflex). The synergies between this basic research and clinical studies have led to improved methods for the diagnosis and treatment of balance disorders. In recognition of his work in refining a treatment for Ménière's disease, Dr. Minor received the Prosper Ménière Society's gold medal in 2010. In the medical community, Dr. Minor is perhaps best known for his discovery of superior canal dehiscence syndrome, a debilitating disorder characterized by sound- or pressure-induced dizziness. In 1998, Dr. Minor and colleagues published a description of the clinical manifestations of the syndrome and related its cause to an opening (dehiscence) in the bone covering the superior canal. He subsequently developed a surgical procedure that corrects the problem and alleviates symptoms. Dr. Minor received his bachelor's and medical degrees from Brown University. He trained at Duke University Medical Center and the University of Chicago Medical Center and completed a research fellowship at the University of Chicago and a clinical fellowship at The Otology Group and The EAR Foundation in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2012, Dr. Minor was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. As part of the Stanford Executive Briefing series, Minor shares his thoughts on authentic leadership and offers five leadership principles.

Deanna Hudspeth

Job Titles:
  • CONTRACTS SPECIALIST

DR HANG PHAM

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Dr Samuel So

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director
  • Executive Director, Lui Hac Minh Professor

Dr. Stephanie Chao

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
  • Associate Professor

Emily Manche

Job Titles:
  • COMPLIANCE COORDINATOR

Emmanuel Mignot

Job Titles:
  • Sleep Researcher
Sleep researcher Emmanuel Mignot identifies the defective gene that causes narcolepsy, a disabling sleep disorder affecting humans and animals.

Eugene Butcher

Job Titles:
  • Pathologist
Pathologist Eugene Butcher discovers a receptor that guides white blood cells into the peripheral lymph nodes.

Frances Divinagracia

Job Titles:
  • PROJECT COORDINATOR

Gerald Crabtree

Job Titles:
  • Pathologist
Pathologist Gerald Crabtree develops techniques that allow scientists to toggle genes on and off in animal models.

Giselle Saddik

Job Titles:
  • CREATIVE DESIGNER

Henna Bajwa

Job Titles:
  • EDUCATION COORDINATOR

Holly Meyer

Job Titles:
  • COMPLIANCE COORDINATOR

Hugh McDevitt

Job Titles:
  • Immunologist
Immunologist Hugh McDevitt discovers regulatory genes believed to control the body's reponses to foreign proteins, which suggests that people may have predictable susceptibility to certain diseases.

Irving Weissman

Job Titles:
  • Pathologist
Pathologist Irving Weissman isolates a rare mouse cell, known as the hematopoetic stem cell, which gives rise to all the cells of the blood and immune systems. Pathologist Irving Weissman identifies the stem cell that gives rise to bladder cancer, and also shows how the cell uses the "don't-eat-me" signal, a molecule known as CD47, to evade the body's defenses. Pathologist Irving Weissman shows that a single antibody, which counters the effect of the CD47 molecule, shrinks a variety of human tumors transplanted into mice.

Isabella Preston

Job Titles:
  • PROJECT COORDINATOR

Jasmine Griffiths

Job Titles:
  • PROJECT COORDINATOR

Jasmine Koon

Job Titles:
  • Graphic Designer

Jean Hengst

Job Titles:
  • PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR

JIAO YANG

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator

John Farquhar

Job Titles:
  • Peter Wood Lead the First Large Clinical Investigation That Shows Lowering Cholesterol Levels Prevents Heart Disease
John Farquhar and Peter Wood lead the first large clinical investigation that shows lowering cholesterol levels prevents heart disease.

Kari Nadeau

Job Titles:
  • Immunologist

Kurt Snyder

Job Titles:
  • EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Laura Corbett

Job Titles:
  • COMPLIANCE MANAGER

Lauren Bojrab

Job Titles:
  • PROJECT COORDINATOR

Lauren Taylor

Job Titles:
  • PROJECT COORDINATOR

LINDA ZHANG

Job Titles:
  • China Program Manager

Lucile Packard

Job Titles:
  • Support

Lui Hac Minh

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Surgery

Lydia Wang

Job Titles:
  • MEDCAST INTERN

Magna Patel

Job Titles:
  • ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Marius Wernig

Job Titles:
  • Pathologist
Pathologist Marius Wernig turns mouse skin cells into cells that insulate neurons with the application of just three genes.

Mark Davis

Job Titles:
  • Immunologist
Immunologist Mark Davis characterizes the T-cell receptor, believed to regulate the body's response to infectious agents and cancerous diseases.

Mary Gohlke

Mary Gohlke receives the world's first combined heart and lung transplant in a landmark operation led by surgeon Bruce Reitz.

Mary Sisney

Job Titles:
  • MARKETING MANAGER

Mei-Sze Chua

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scientist

Melissa Schwartz

Job Titles:
  • EVENTS PROJECT MANAGER

Nancy K. Masuda

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Strategic Partnerships & Communications

Nasrin Biglari

Job Titles:
  • ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST

Noor Hassan

Job Titles:
  • PROJECT COORDINATOR

Paul A. King - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • PRESIDENT

Peter Wood

Job Titles:
  • Peter Wood Lead the First Large Clinical Investigation That Shows Lowering Cholesterol Levels Prevents Heart Disease

Riley Buehner

Job Titles:
  • PROJECT COORDINATOR

Rosemarie DeKruyff

Job Titles:
  • Researcher

Roy Cohn

Job Titles:
  • Surgeon
Surgeon Roy Cohn leads the first human kidney transplant operation on the West Coast.

Ruth Adewuya

Job Titles:
  • CHCP

Sanjiv Gambhir

Job Titles:
  • Radiologist
Radiologist Sanjiv Gambhir develops a new type of imaging system that can illuminate tumors in living subjects with a precision of nearly one-trillionth of a meter

Sarah Peykar

Job Titles:
  • PROJECT COORDINATOR

SHARON YAO

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager

Sofia Donato

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to Dean Lloyd Minor, MD, Office of the Dean, Chief of Staff

Sonia Vittori

Job Titles:
  • EDUCATION EVENTS / SPECIALIST

Thomas Robinson

Job Titles:
  • Pediatrician
Pediatrician Thomas Robinson finds that children who curtailed their television time gained significantly less body fat than those who didn't .

TIFFANY CHEN

Job Titles:
  • Youth Outreach and YLC and Social Media Strategist

William Haskell

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
Researcher William Haskell shows that intensive lifestyle changes and prevention/treatment programs can reduce cardiac events and slow the progression of atherosclerosis in coronary arteries.

William S. Robinson

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
Researcher William S. Robinson isolates the genetic blueprint of a virus that causes hepatitis B and a common form of liver cancer.

Yi Liu

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow