Who We Are
Our interdisciplinary team reflects the complexity of issues that intersect in early childhood. Our faculty bring together expertise in research, policy, and practice from across education, medicine, law, business, and engineering.
Core Faculty
Philip Fisher, PhD
Diana Chen Professor of Early Childhood, Stanford Graduate School of Education
Director
Joan Lombardi, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education
Principal Advisor
Jelena Obradović, PhD
Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education
Associate Director
Ryan Christopher Padrez, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine
Associate Director
Monica Ellwood-Lowe, PhD
Assistant Professor of Education
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Katharine Sadowski, PhD
Assistant Professor of Education,
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Jason Yeatman, PhD
Associate Professor,
Stanford Graduate School of Education,
Professor of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics,
Stanford School of Medicine
Faculty Affiliates
Brigid Barron, PhD
Professor, Education
Graduate School of Education
Christina Buysse, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Stanford School of Medicine
Meg Cychosz, PhD
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
School of Humanities and Sciences
Ben Domingue, PhD
Associate Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education
Professor (by courtesy) of Sociology
Diana Farid, MD, MPH
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine
Vaden Health Center
Heidi Feldman, MD, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics,
Stanford School of Medicine
Michael Frank, PhD
Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology,
School of Humanities & Sciences
Professor of Psychology and (by courtesy) Linguistics
Nicholas Haber, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Professor (by courtesy) of Computer Science
Chris Lemons, PhD
Associate Professor,
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Guilherme Lichand, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Jonathan Samuel Litt, MD, MPH, ScD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Neonatology
Stanford Medicine Children's Health
Susanna Loeb, PhD
Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education
Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Bruce McCandliss, PhD
Pigott Family Graduate School of Education Professor
Lisa Patel, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Stanford Medicine Children's Health
Roy Pea, PhD
David Jacks Professor of Education & Learning Sciences,
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Professor (by courtesy) of Computer Science
Francis Pearman, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Stanford Graduate School of Education
sean reardon, EdD
Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education,
Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Professor (by courtesy) of Sociology
David Rehkopf, ScD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and
Population Health; of Medicine (joint);
and, by courtesy, of Health Policy,
Pediatrics, and Sociology
Stanford School of Medicine
Maya Rossin-Slater, EdD
Associate Professor of Health Policy
Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Economics
Rebecca Silverman, EdD
Associate Professor,
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Deborah Stipek, PhD
Judy Koch Professor of Education, Emerita
Stanford Graduate School of Education
Professor (by courtesy) of Psychology
Dennis Wall, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics/Clinical Informatics
Professor, Department of Biomedical Data Science
C. Jason Wang, MD, PhD
LCY: Tan Lan Lee Professor,
Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) and of Health Policy,
Stanford School of Medicine