Stanford Lab Members
Hayden Kang
Stanford Undergraduate Researcher
Michael Ohayon
Stanford Undergraduate Researcher
Ethan Fung
Stanford Undergraduate Researcher
Connie Yu
Medical Student Intern
Ariana Ghalambor
Postdoc Student Intern
Zeynep Altinbas
Volunteer Research Collaborator
Alondra Sanchez
Administrative Associate 3
Collaborators
Duke Collaborators
- Michael Devinney
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology CIPHER Lab PI @ Duke - Dr. Jeffrey Browndyke, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Tyler Reekes, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow - Mary Cooter Wright, MS
Biostatistician, Department of Anesthesiology - Joseph P. Mathew, MD, MBA, MHSc
Jerry Reves Professor & Chair, Department of Anesthesiology - Michael Lutz, PhD
Professor in Neurology & Pathology, Department of Neurology - Hoatian Zhu, PhD
Postdoc with Sheng Luo at Duke - Dr. Sheng Luo, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics - Dr. Andrew Spector, MD
Sleep Medicine Specialist, Department of Neurology - Dr. Harvey Jay Cohen, MD
Walter Kempner Distinguished Professor of Medicine, in the School of Medicine
Professor of Medicine
Emeritus Director, Center for the Study of Aging & Human Development
Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI’s Center for Population Health & Aging
Faculty Associate in the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
- Dr. Niccolo Terrando
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology - Dr Dave Murdoch
Associate Professor, Duke Department of Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Division - Dr. Heather Whitson
Director of the Duke Center for the Study of Aging & Human Development; Co-Director of the Duke/UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center; Duke Department of Medicine, Geriatrics Division - Dr. Marty Woldorff
Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Psychology & Neuroscience - Duke Immune Profiling Core
- Dr. Kent Weinhold
- Dr. Janet Staats
- Dr. Jennifer Enzor
- Dr. Twan Weaver
- Duke Molecular Physiology Institute
- Janet Huebner, MS
- Mike Muehlbauer, PhD
- Duke Proteomics Core Facility
- Matthew Foster
Duke Clinical Research Staff
- Bethany Hsia, PhD – Research Program Leader
- Melissa Adams, BS – Clinical Research Specialist, Sr.
- Micheal Bennett, BS – Clinical Research Specialist, Sr.
- Piper Boykin, BS – Clinical Research Coordinator
- Noah Timko, MPH – Clinical Research Coordinator
- Rachele Brassard, BS – Clinical Research Specialist
- Lori Cole-Freiburger – Clinical Research Specialist
- Courtney Holland, BS – Clinical Research Coordinator
- Jamarc Simon, BA – Clinical Research Coordinator
- Yanne Toulgoat-Dubois, BS – Clinical Research Coordinator
Students, Alumni & External Collaborators
Duke Undergraduate Students
- Vinith Upadhya – Duke Class of 2026
Duke Lab Alumni
- Melody Reese-Smith, PhD, Biostatiscian
- Morgan DePrizio, BS – Clinical Research Specialist, Sr. (2023-2025)
- Reid Funderburk, BS – Clinical Research Specialist, Sr. (2023-2024)
- Macy Le, MSc – Clinical Research Specialist, Sr.
- Refaat Hassan, MB BChir, MA – Research Scholar
Current External Collaborators
- Courtney Balentine, MD, MPH – Associate Professor, Endocrine Surgery Division, University of Wisconsin
- Dr. John Newman – UCSF/Buck Institute, Bay Area, CA
- Dr. Brandon Westover – Massachusetts General/Brigham Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Joseph Lucas, PhD – Statistician, Vital Statistics, LLC, Chapel Hill, NC
- Dr. Beth Stevens – Harvard/MIT Broad Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Dr. Henrik Zetterberg – University of Gothenberg, Sweden
- Dr. Kaj Blennow, University of Gothenberg, Sweden
- Dr. Stacie Deiner – Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
- Drs. Fah Vasunilashorn, PhD, Sharon Inouye, MD, MPH, Ed Marcantonio, MD, SM & the SAGES team – Beth Israel Boston, MA






