Work In Progress Session

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts an in-person Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu

Presented by: Isabella Chu, MPH, Associate Director, Data Core, Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine
Talk Title: TBD

Bio: Isabella Chu is the Associate Director of the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences Data Core. Her research interests focus on the impact of housing and transportation policy on health and equity.
Her role at PHS is the acquisition of high value health datasets for research. The PHS Data Core specializes in hosting high-risk data which are used by hundreds of researchers to answer questions in precision and population health. PHS scope includes governance, regulatory compliance, data security, privacy, ethics and data management. The computational platform developed at PHS has been used by several universities throughout the United States.

Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu

Presented by: Julie Tsu-Yu Wu, MD, PhD, Medical oncologist, VA Palo Alto Healthcare System
Talk Title: “Implementing Precision Oncology for Lung Cancer Survivors”

Bio: Julie Wu is a staff medical oncologist at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System and with the VA National Oncology Program. With primary mentor Shipra Arya and co-mentors Leah Backhus and Summer Han, she works on improving lung cancer outcomes through the rapidly growing fields of implementation science and data science. Specific projects include targeting high risk Veterans for lung cancer screening, guiding lung cancer treatment by leveraging nation-wide clinical tumor sequencing, and informing clinical trial policy. Her work with Shipra Arya is funded through a Merit Supplement to the PAUSE trial, a multi-center clinical trial to improve outcomes in surgery patients through multidisciplinary intervention.

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu

Presented by: Cherisse Berry, MD, FACS, Chief, Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery. Medical Director, Kimmel Pavilion Inpatient Surgery, NYULH.
Talk Title: “Health equity in trauma care: Analysis of disparities in the trauma care system”

Bio: Dr. Cherisse Berry, born and raised in Kansas City, MO, completed her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience with a minor in French at the Johns Hopkins University.  She went on to complete her Master’s Degree in Biology at Harvard University, Medical Degree at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, and General Surgery Residency at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA.  She spent three years at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center/University of Maryland where she completed an Acute Care Surgery Fellowship and Trauma Research Fellowship before joining the Division of Acute Care Surgery at New York University Grossman School of Medicine in New York City.

Dr. Berry is double board certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. Dr. Berry has had a formidable interest in research and trauma systems.  She has 80 peer-reviewed published manuscripts/book chapters / editorials / commentaries, received the 2021 AAMC Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship Award, the 2016 Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) Trauma Research Scholarship in addition to institutional funding for her research, was selected as an NIH Early Career Reviewer, and has held numerous leadership roles on various local, regional, and national committees including reappointment as the American College of Surgeons Diversity Pillar Lead and member of the American College of Surgeons Board of Governors Executive Committee, Chair of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) DEI Committee, Immediate Past Chair of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS) Women in Surgery Committee, and Chair of the Young Surgeons Committee for the Western Surgical Association (WSA).

Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu

This session has been cancelled, we will resume on April 10, 2023.

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts an in-person Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu

Presented by: Nolan Martin, Medical Student
Talk Title: “Universal EHR-based Child Injury Screening for Physical Abuse Detection”.

Bio: Nolan Martin is an MS3 at EVMS and a native of Menlo Park, CA. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Tufts and previously held roles as a software engineer (Epocrates/Athenahealth), a cooking instructor, and a pilot. He enjoys multidisciplinary research and technology-driven quality improvement projects.

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu

Presented by: Prasanthi Govindarajan, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University
Talk Title: “Prehospital stroke transport policies and Effects – Lessons Learned and Future Directions”

Bio: Dr. Govindarajan is a health services researcher with expertise in emergency medical services and healthcare systems. She completed her emergency medicine residency at Boston Medical Center, a fellowship in emergency medical services, and a master’s in clinical research at the University of California, San Diego. She started as a full-time faculty in 2007  at the University of California, San Francisco, and is currently an associate professor of emergency medicine at Stanford University Medical Center. She practices emergency medicine at Stanford Health Care, an academic emergency department in Northern California, and contributes to research training for residents, fellows, and early to mid-stage faculty.

Her research aims to improve access to specialized centers for acute stroke care through early detection of stroke and appropriate triage and transport in the prehospital setting. Her early work on stroke detection by emergency medical services and the effects of county-level ambulance transport policies on stroke treatment (K08 HS17965 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) has led to a national mixed-methods study on the effectiveness of a stroke destination protocol for emergency medical service providers. This study is an ongoing collaboration with S-SPIRE. It is funded by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (R01 HS026207).

Through funding from industry, foundations, and philanthropy, she has made valuable scientific contributions to the prehospital community – feasibility of prehospital telemedicine, effects of training and education on large vessel occlusion by paramedics, and effects of destination protocols on stroke. She is working with the data science team at S-SPIRE and the policy analysts at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention) to develop best practice guidelines and provide evidence on the effects of integrated systems of emergency care for stroke.

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu

Presented by: Alexander Sox-Harris, PhD, Professor of Surgery, S-SPIRE Center, Stanford University
Talk Title: “Methods to Describe Disparities in Surgical Care: Review and Recommendations”

Bio: Alex Sox-Harris is a leader in several domains of health services research, including quality measurement, pragmatic rigorous evaluation, predictive modeling, and improvement science (implementation and de-implementation). As a VA Research Career Scientist and Professor in the Stanford Department of Surgery, he has published over 250 scientific papers, has over 15 years of continuous federal research funding, and has received numerous national awards for the innovation and impact of his research. In addition to his own work, Dr. Sox-Harris mentors and supports surgeons to produce publishable research and secure research funding.

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu