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Photo of smiling white male faculty member with brown hair and a brown beard, Dr. Matthias Garten, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Bioengineering at Stanford.

Matthias Garten - Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and of Bioengineering

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Dr. Matthias Garten is an assistant professor in the department of Immunology and Microbiology and the department of Bioengineering. He is a membrane biophysicist who is driven by the question of how the malaria parasite interfaces with its host-red blood cell, how we can use the unique mechanisms of the parasite to treat malaria and to re-engineer cells for biomedical applications.

Photo of smiling Black female faculty member, Dr. Michaelle Mayalu, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.

Michaëlle Ntala Mayalu - Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) of Bioengineering

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Dr. Michaëlle N. Mayalu is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. She received her Ph.D., M.S., and B.S., degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department. She was a 2017 California Alliance Postdoctoral Fellowship Program recipient and a 2019 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Enrichment Program award recipient. She is also a 2023 Hypothesis Fund Grantee.

Photo of smiling white female faculty member with long straight brown hair, Dr. Kelly Mahaney, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford University.

Kelly Mahaney - Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

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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.

Photo of smiling female faculty member with long brown hair, Dr. Fatima Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford University.

Fatima Rodriguez - Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

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Dr. Fatima Rodriguez, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine and (by courtesy) the Stanford Prevention Research Center. She received her MD and MPH from Harvard University and completed residency in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Rodriguez arrived at Stanford University in 2014, where she completed a cardiovascular medicine fellowship and served as Chief Fellow. She specializes in the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, lipid disorders, and cardiovascular risk assessment in high-risk populations.

Photo of smiling white male faculty member with short brown hair, Dr. Joel Neal, Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University.

Joel Neal - Associate Professor of Medicine (Oncology)

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Dr. Joel Neal holds a medical degree and a doctoral degree in Tumor Cell Biology from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. Subsequently, he completed a fellowship in oncology, rotating through the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Division of Oncology at the Stanford Cancer Institute at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Photo of smiling white male faculty member with close-cropped dark hair, Dr. Kevin Shea, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Stanford University.

Kevin Shea - Chambers-Okamura Endowed Professor of Pediatric Orthopaedics

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Dr. Kevin G. Shea, MD is an orthopaedic surgeon at Stanford University Medical Center and the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Dr. Shea grew up in Montana and California, graduated from the UCLA School of Medicine, and completed his orthopaedic residency at the University of Utah School of Medicine. His advanced training includes pediatric orthopaedics at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, AO Fellowship in Bern Switzerland with Drs. Ganz (Hip), Dr. Diego Fernandez (Trauma), and Dr. Hans Staubli (sports), and Ilizarov Training in Lecco, Italy.

Photo of smiling white male faculty member with short brown hair, Dr. Scott Fendorf, Professor of Earth System Science at Stanford University.

Scott Fendorf - Terry Huffington Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment

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Dr. Scott Fendorf's research interests include the chemical and biological processes that govern the fate and transport (and thus cycling) of contaminants (such as arsenic) and nutrients (such as phosphate) within soils, sediments, and surface waters. Dr. Fendorf's research group examines the chemical environments that develop as a result of both biotic and abiotic processes, and they strive to account for the physical complexity, inclusive of solute transport, within natural settings.

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