Jessie (Kittle) Markovits

Dr. Stephanie Hsiao is a clinical assistant professor at Stanford Medicine and a full-time advanced heart failure/transplant cardiologist at the Palo Alto VA. She grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. She attended undergraduate at UC Berkeley and obtained her Master’s degree in Pharmacology at Cambridge University in the UK. She obtained her M.D. from UC San Francisco. She completed her Internal Medicine residency and General Cardiology fellowship at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, where she served as the chief resident and chief cardiology fellow. She completed her advanced heart failure/transplant cardiology fellowship at Stanford in June 2022 and joined the Stanford Faculty soon after.

Richard J. Novak is a highly qualified anesthesiologist and adjunct clinical professor specializing in anesthesiology, perioperative, and pain medicine. He completed his medical education at the Pritzker School of Medicine, followed by residencies in both anesthesiology and internal medicine at Stanford University. Affiliated with Stanford Health Care, Dr. Novak is part of a network of independent nonprofit organizations that provide comprehensive healthcare services. His expertise is recognized through board certifications from the American Board of Anesthesiology and the American Board of Internal Medicine. Generated from the website

Dr. Dita Gratzinger is a hematopathologist who is dedicated to excellent patient care, to educating the hematopathologists of tomorrow, and to improving both by harnessing strengths across institutional and disciplinary lines. Dr. Gratzinger studies the architecture of supporting cells in the microenvironment as well as diagnosis of lymphoma on small volume specimens, and has a special interest in the role of patient-specific factors in manifestation of hematolymphoid disease, including immunodeficiency and dysregulation-related lymphoid proliferations.