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SMAA Newsletter
April 2004
From the Desk of the Associate Dean for Alumni Affairs
The spring alumni reunion weekend is just a month away, and I‚d like to ask you to remember to send in your registration forms as soon as possible since the 2004, registration deadline is this week. To make it easy for you to register, go online to the <http://med.stanford.edu/alumni/>SMAA Website. In just a few minutes you will be done.
We have planned an exciting Medical Symposium as well as an array of interesting tours. Along with the reunion dinners these activities will make for a memorable weekend.
I look forward to seeing you here at Stanford in the next few weeks.
Sincerely,
Ross Bright, MD '58
Associate Dean for Alumni Affairs
What's new at the School of Medicine
Match Day--Results
March 18, 2004
Stanford Faculty Club
As you know the match has a long history: it was created more than 50 years ago at the urging of medical students to help organize what had been a chaotic and sometimes unfair process. Coordinated by the National Resident Matching Program, the Match today is a fair and efficient process for both students and institutions. Nationally 85% of U.S. medical students are accepted by one of their top three choices and more than 60% by their first choice. These percentages are higher at Stanford -- generally well over 90% match at one of their top three choices.
Of the 81 students in this year's match, 44% of the students will go on to three programs: 20 will be spending their PGY1 year at Stanford; nine at Harvard teaching hospitals; and seven at UCSF. Other excellent programs were included in the remainder of our students match results. This year the specialty choices attracting the greatest number of students were: internal medicine (12 students), general surgery and surgical specialties (11 students), family medicine (nine students), psychiatry (eight students), anesthesia (seven students), dermatology (six students) and emergency medicine, radiation oncology and radiology (each with five students)
The results for this year's match for Stanford medical students can be found <http://deansnewsletter.stanford.edu/archive/2004_residency_match.html>here:
What's new at the SMAA
STANFORD MEDICAL ALUMNI REUNIONS 2004
Friday - Saturday, May 7 - 8, 2004
TOURS OFFERED
Runnymede Sculpture Farm Tour
Friday, May 7, 10:00am ˆ 3:00pm
Bus Transportation to Union Square, San Francisco
Friday, May 7, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve Tour
Friday, May 7, 1:00 - 4:00pm
Medical Center Campus Tour
Friday, May 7, 1:00 - 4:00pm
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Tour
Saturday, May 8, 10:00am ˆ 12:30pm
REUNION EVENTS OFFERED
Seniors‚ Luncheon
Friday, May 7, 11:30am - 2:00pm
Bing Dining Room, Stanford Hospital
Medical school graduates from the Class of 1953 and earlier are invited to this special luncheon in the Bing Dining Room at Stanford Hospital. Maggie Saunders, Education Project and Program Planner, will be the keynote speaker addressing the state-of-the-art information and learning facilities currently being developed for the medical school.
J.E. Wallace Sterling "Muleshoe" Lifetime Alumni Achievement Award Dinner
Friday, May 7, 6:30 ˆ 10:00pm
Stanford Faculty Club
The SMAA, the Board of Governors, and SMAA president will be hosting this dinner event in honor of Ronald Levy, MD ‚68. The award will acknowledge Dr. Levy for his breakthrough research in oncology and his distinguished career in medicine.
2004 Annual CME Medical Symposium:
Educating Stanford Physicians for the 21st Century and Beyond
Saturday, May 8, 7:00am ˆ 12:30pm
Fairchild Auditorium
Each year the SMAA sponsors a CME symposium covering the latest advancements in research and their applications to current clinical practice. The speakers and rotation tours will give hands-on instruction for the new educational processes used to train current and future medical students. The speakers and sessions are:
Henry J. Lowe, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Information Resources and Technology and Associate Professor (Research) of Medicine (Medical Informatics)
Physician as Knowledge Navigator
{Location: CCSR}
Lawrence Mathers, MD ‚71, PhD ‚71, Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Intensive Care) and of Surgery (Human Anatomy)
Anatomy---A New Approach to an Old Topic
{Location: CCSR}
Louis Patrick Halamek, MD ‚93, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Launching the Future of Medical Education at the CAPE (Center for Advanced Pediatric Education)
{Location: CAPE}
Donald P. Regula, MD, Associate Professor of Pathology
Demonstration of Small Group Pathology Laboratory
{Location: Medical School}
Parvati Dev, MS ‚70, PhD ‚75, Associate Dean, Learning Technologies and Director, SUMMIT Lab
Learning Technologies in Medical Education
{Location: Fairchild Labs}
Conclusion:
Philip A. Pizzo, MD, Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine
Evaluating the Program, But Without Grades
{Location: Fairchild Auditorium}
Luncheon on the Alumni Green and Ceremony Honoring the 25th and 50th Reunion Classes
Saturday, May 8, 12:30 - 3:00pm
Alumni Green
Dean's Cocktail Reception
Saturday, May 8, 6:30 - 7:30pm
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
Class Reunion Dinners
Saturday May 8, 7:30 - 10:00pm
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, McCaw Hall
This is the main event for those celebrating their reunions years! Join your classmates for a festive dinner as the reunion weekend draws to a close.
A message from the Dean of the School of Medicine
Dear Alumni:
Alarm is growing in the scientific community over ideology and politics thwarting scientific and medical research and education. You may have heard about Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, a noted UCSF professor who was removed from the President‚s Council on Bioethics. Dr. Blackburn is just one example of how ideology is seeping into science.
In February Dr. Blackburn was not reappointed to the President‚s Council. One of only three full-time scientists on the 19-member President‚s Council on Bioethics, Dr. Blackburn made it her responsibility to inform the council about research indicating the promise of therapeutic cloning. Apparently, her point of view is at odds with the administration‚s perspective.
Last year the U.S. House of Representatives passed, with a clear margin, a law setting draconian limits on stem cell research. In January Georgia‚s superintendent of education proposed eliminating the word "evolution" from the state‚s science curriculum. Clearly this is not a partisan issue.
The Union of Concerned Scientists recently issued a report detailing the negative impact of actions at the federal level that have modified scientific research to accommodate political and ideological goals. The group has launched a campaign calling for regulatory and legislative action to restore scientific integrity to federal policymaking. I encourage you to visit their website, <http://www.ucsusa.org/>www.ucsus.org, to learn more and to take action.
As physicians, researchers, scientists, and most importantly, citizens, we cannot afford to sit back and wait for someone else to raise the issues. Too much is at stake.
Philip A. Pizzo, MD
Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine
Contact us
Medical Alumni Association:
Contact: Amanda Keris,
, 650-306-8191
Stanford Medical Fund
Contact: John Hopkins,
, 650-234-0616
