Our team
Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD
Assistant professor of Biomedical Data Science and Dermatology at Stanford School of Medicine
Contact: roxanad@stanford.edu
Dr. Daneshjou studied Bioengineering at Rice University before matriculating to Stanford School of Medicine where she completed her MD and a PhD in Genetics with Dr. Russ Altman as part of the medical scientist training program. She completed dermatology residency at Stanford as part of the research track and completed a postdoc in Biomedical Data Science with Dr. James Zou. She currently is the assistant director of the Center of Excellence for Precision Heath & Pharmacogenomics, director of informatics for the Stanford Skin Innovation and Interventional Research Group (SIIRG), a founding member of the Translational AI in Dermatology (TRAIND) group, and a faculty affiliate of Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and the AI in Medicine and Imaging (AIMI) centers.
Tofunmi Omiye, MD, MS
Postdoc
Jesutofunmi Omiye is a postdoc in Dermatology and Biomedical Data Science. His research interests border on the nexus of artificial intelligence and policy to improve dermatology, and healthcare more broadly. He received his MS in Health Policy at Stanford where he studied the utility of machine learning algorithms in clinical settings, computer vision models in surgery, and evaluated how macroeconomic policies influence mortality.
Tofunmi received his medical degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria where he was a Federal Government and Shell University Scholar. As a medical student, he served as the chair of a pan-African health conference where he worked with the WHO, and Gates Foundation. His work has been featured in top national and international news media including The Guardian.
Also, he is the co-founder of The Ganglion Initiative, a non-profit that has provided educational and career empowerment schemes to over 8,000 students in Nigeria. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, soccer, tennis, studying the financial markets, and music.
Haiwen Gui
MD Candidate
Haiwen is a MD student at Stanford with an interest in the intersection of AI and dermatology. She graduated from Stanford in 2020 with a degree in computer science. She was a HAI graduate fellow where she worked to improve explainability of AI algorithms. Outside of medicine, she loves dancing, playing flute, and finding the best boba shops in town.
Peter Caroline
MS Candidate
Peter is a MS student in Stanford’s Translational Research and Applied Medicine Program. He graduated from Stanford in 2022 with a degree in biology. After graduation, he joined the Department of Dermatology as a clinical research coordinator. Peter can be found at Stanford’s radio station 90.1 KZSU or playing basketball and the electric bass.
Crystal Chang
MD Candidate
Crystal is an MD student in the inaugural class of the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine as well as a Master's student in the Clinical Informatics Management program at Stanford. She graduated from MIT in 2020, where she studied biology and languages and started Actlingual, an organization that decreases language barriers within healthcare by training student volunteers as professional medical interpreters. She also studied briefly at the Shanghai Theatre Academy and completed the Harvard Medical School Media and Medicine storytelling program. She is interested in the use of AI and digital health to decrease disparities within dermatology, such as the potential of telemedicine, mobile apps, and ML to decrease wait times and provide real-world improvements in quality of care for patients. More generally, Crystal is interested in finding ways to bridge the gap between clinicians and AI developers, and in policy and research to ensure equitable inclusion and development of effective AI. Outside of medicine, she enjoys singing, hip-hop, and writing scripts that (maybe!) will one day make it to the big screen.
Hanan Rimawi
MD Candidate
Hanan is an MD candidate at Stanford pursuing a concentration in bioethics and the medical humanities. Previously, she earned degrees in neuroscience and public health and taught middle and high school English. One of her research interests lies in the ethics of AI, specifically in the medical setting. In her spare time, Hanan likes to hula hoop, sing, and spend time with her family.
Shawheen Rezaei, MPhil
MD Candidate
Shawheen Rezaei, from Massachusetts, is pursuing an MD at Stanford School of Medicine as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. He graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's in economics and master's in Middle Eastern studies. He also received an MPhil in international development from Cambridge as a Harvard-UK Scholar. Shawheen's research interests include dermatology, global health, and the use of technology to alleviate healthcare disparities.