Despina Contopoulos-Ioannidis

Despina Contopoulos-Ioannidis, MD is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is Board Certified in Pediatric Infectious Diseases by the American Academy of Pediatrics and serves on the Steering Committee of StaR Child Health, an international collaboration promoting evidence-based standards in pediatric clinical research.

Research Focus

• Evidence-based medicine frameworks
• Meta-epidemiologic evaluations of clinical interventions
• Population-specific comparative effectiveness analysis
• Global health outcome disparities across settings
• Translational research milestone assessment

Contact: dcontop@stanford.edu