WSDM Faculty Leadership Board: Who We Are
Leadership
Marcia Stefanick, PhD
Director and Co-Founder, Stanford WSDM Center (Women & Sex Differences in Medicine)
Marcia Stefanick, renowned women’s health researcher who chaired both the executive and steering committees of the Women’s Health Initiative (the largest study of women ever done in the United States), has been involved in the Women’s Health at Stanford program since its inception, in 2001.
Dr. Stefanick’s research, which has been widely disseminated nationally and internationally, has emphasized the role of lifestyle — especially exercise, diet, weight control, and menopausal hormone therapy — on chronic disease prevention, particularly heart disease, breast cancer, osteoporosis, and more recently, dementia. Her primary academic interests include sex/gender differences and the influence of sex hormones on human physiology and disease, menopause, and health promotion over the life course, including healthy aging.
In addition, she is an experienced and active mentor of junior faculty, and teaches courses to both medical students and undergraduates on the role of sex differences in physiology and disease, and current topics in women’s health.
Sonoo Thadaney
Managing Director, Stanford WSDM Center (Women & Sex Differences in Medicine)
Sonoo's career has included higher education academic program management and student affairs; teaching and mentoring; high tech product marketing/management/business development/sales; civil/corporate/community mediation; executive/leadership coaching/training, and film making. In each career, she works with and supports brilliant minds as they focus on research, teaching, engineering products, cine art and more. She engages professionals from diverse and multiple identities; builds cohesive teams in dispersed and decentralized organizations; helps create, launch and manage centers, businesses, programs and projects; and delivers timely and measurable results.
Most recently, Sonoo engaged campus partners and Stanford allies to create and deliver programs for the Program in Feminist Studies, the Diversity and First Gen Office, and the Weiland Health Initiative. She also spearheaded a pilot on Restorative Justice, under the auspices of the Office of Judicial Affairs. This work contributed to evolving Judicial Affairs into the Office of Community Standards.
Sonoo serves on the Advisory Board for San Mateo County Court's Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs and for the Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center. She serves as a Pre-Major Advisor to Stanford freshmen and is a key member of the Feminist Studies Partner's group at Stanford. She teaches conflict and decision coaching in multiple venues, including Stanford and UC Berkeley Extension.
Sonoo has a B.A. in Psychology, with a Minor in Sociology from the University of Poona, India; a post Baccalaureate in Mass Communications from Sophia College, Bombay, India; and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University, California.
Terri Oppelt ("TO") Preising
Program Associate Stanford WSDM Center (Women & Sex Differences in Medicine)
TO’s career has included teaching at the secondary education level and practicing law as a litigation attorney with a focus on labor and employment discrimination matters.
She has served in organizational leadership roles in multiple community support groups, including the board of the Irvine chapter of the National Charity League, several PTA boards and the Girl Scouts of America.
TO began her career at Stanford in the Residential Education Department engaging Resident Fellows and their student Resident Advisors to develop and deliver a variety of programs to the dormitory residents. More recently, she supported several faculty members in the Mechanical Engineering Department’s Design Group and managed the Design Group’s course database of more than 200 active classes.
A graduate of Stanford with a BA in Political Science and a MA in Education, she holds a secondary teaching credential. TO received her JD from UCLA, where she was on the UCLA Law Review, and is a member of the California Bar.
Advisory Board
Michele Barry, MD, FACP, Professor, Medicine (General Medical Discipline), Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment & Professor, by courtesy, of Operations, Information and Technology at the GSB
Jonathan Berek, MD, MMS, Laurie Kraus Lacob Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology-Gynecologic Oncology
Bertha Chen, MD, Professor, Med Center Line, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Mark Cullen, MD, Professor, Medicine - General Medical Disciplines
Mark Davis, PhD, Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Heidi Feldman, MD, PhD, Ballinger-Swindells Endowed Professor in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Gabriel Garcia, MD, The William and Dorothy Kaye University Fellow in Undergraduate Education and Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology)
Neil Gesundheit, MPH, MD, Professor, Medicine - Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism
Sabine Girod, DDS, MD, PhD, Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Steven Goodman, MD, MHS, PhD, Professor, Medicine - General Medical Disciplines
Michael Greicius, MPH, MD, Assistant Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Paula Hillard, MD, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Stanford University Medical Center
Andy Hoffman, MD, Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism
Amy Ladd, MD, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE, Professor of Pediatrics (Nephrology) and of Medicine (Nephrology)
Yvonne (Bonnie) Maldonado, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity
Professor of Pediatrics and of Health Research and Policy
Tracey McLaughlin, MD MS, Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) at the Stanford University Medical Center
Douglas Owens, MD, MS, Professor, Medicine- Primary Care Outcomes Research and Professor, Freemen Spogli Institute for International Studies
Mark Pegram, MD, Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Oncology
Marlene Rabinovitch, MD, Professor, Pediatrics - Cardiology
Natalie Rasgon, MD, PhD, Professor - Med Center Line, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Psychopharmacology
Laura Roberts, MA, MD, Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science
Londa Schiebinger, MA, PhD, John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science
David Stevenson, MD, Professor, Pediatrics - Neonatal & Developmental Medicine
Eila Skinner, MD, Professor - Med Center Line, Urology
Michael Snyder, PhD, Professor, Genetics
Jean Tang MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Dermatology at Stanford University Medical Center
Jennifer Tremmel, MD, MS, Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Katherine Williams, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Behavioral Medicine
Lynn Westphal, MD, Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology (Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility) at the Stanford University Medical Center
