Awarded in 2017
Home Department: Immunology
Faculty Advisors: PJ Utz (Medicine - Immunology & Rheumatology) and Purvesh Khatri (Medicine - Biomedical Informatics, Biomedical Data Science)
Dr. Kelly Mahaney is a Pediatric Neurosurgeon with clinical interest in Hydrocephalus, Craniovertebral Junction abnormalities, Spasticity, Spinal dysraphism and Myelomeningocele, Central Nervous System tumors, and Pediatric Epilepsy surgery. She completed residency training at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and subspecialty Pediatric Neurosurgery training at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and the Barrow Neurologic Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital. She is interested in advancing Neuro-endoscopic techniques in Pediatric Neurosurgical practice. Dr.
Home Department: Biology
Mentor: Matthew Porteus (Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation)
Dr. Kawin Setsompop is an Associate Professor of Radiology and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering. His research focuses on the development of novel MRI acquisition methods, with the goal of creating imaging technologies that can be used to help better understand brain structure and function for applications in Healthcare and Health sciences. He received his Master’s degree in Engineering Science from Oxford University and his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Prior to joining Stanford, he was a postdoctoral fellow and subsequently a faculty at the A.A.
Dr. Kavita Sarin, M.D./ Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Dermatology. She has an academic interest in Precision Medicine, focused on the integration of genetic and clinical patient data to inform disease susceptibility, stratify prognosis, and direct treatments in dermatologic disease. Her lab applied cutting edge sequencing and imaging technologies to better understand skin cancer and rare immunologic skin diseases. She sees patients in medical dermatology at Portola Valley and directs a specialized Skin Cancer Genetics clinic.
Dr. Sarin's research encompasses two main areas:
