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SUMCAA Newsletter
September 6 , 2005
From the Desk of the Associate Dean for Alumni Affairs
Dear Alumni,
On Friday, September 30, 2005 we will hold our second annual Alumni Biomedical Symposium on campus. The title of the event is "Stanford Synapses: A Meeting of the Minds", and will feature speakers from the departments of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Biology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and from the private sector. I encourage you all to attend the event.
On another note, I urge you to carefully read the information concerning “models and mentors.” Current medical students are anxious to be in touch with alumni who are working in public health, and I am hopeful that many of you will take part.
I look forward to seeing you at Stanford.
Sincerely,
Ross Bright, MD '58
Associate Dean for Alumni Affairs
Stanford University Medical Center Alumni Association News
Alumni Biomedical Symposium, Friday, September 30, 2005
On Friday, September 30, the SUMCAA will be holding the second Alumni Biomedical Symposium: “Stanford Synapses: A Meeting of the Minds.” This half-day event begins with a career networking lunch for alumni and students. Presentations will commence at 2pm in Fairchild Auditorium. Speakers at the event include:
William C. Mobley, MD '76, PhD '74
Director of the Neuroscience Institute; Chair, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences; John E. Cahill Family Professor
Robert Sapolsky, PhD
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Susan K. McConnell, PhD
Susan B. Ford Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Biological Sciences
Nobuko Uchida, PhD '92
Vice President of Stem Cell Biology, StemCells Inc.
Robert Malenka, MD '83, PhD '82
Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
A reception and graduate student poster session will follow these presentations. The evening will conclude with dinner and a provocative talk by Tina Seelig, PhD '85, Chong-Moon Lee Executive Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program, on "The Mind Metaphor: Building Businesses that Behave like the Brain."
More information and online registration can be found at: http://med.stanford.edu/alumni
Alumni News
Charles A. Czeisler, MD '81, PhD '78, assumes Presidency of the Sleep Research Society
Charles A. Czeisler, MD, PhD, assumed the presidency of the Sleep Research Society (SRS), a professional organization that fosters scientific investigation on sleep and its disorders, at the 19th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Denver on June 20. As President of the SRS until June of 2006, Dr. Czeisler will lead a professional association whose growing membership is composed of an international body of more than 1,000 researchers and academics.
Norman Rich, MD '60, honored by a Festschrift as published in the World Journal of Surgery
In Volume 29, Supplement 1 of the World Journal of Surgery, Norman M. Rich, MD is honored for his 40 years of government services, and 25 years as founding chair of the department of Surgery at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland. A special program was held in conjunction with the 24th Annual USU Surgical Associates Day.
Karl Deisseroth, MD '00, PhD '98 awarded a Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award
Karl Deisseroth, assistant professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, is one of four recipients of a Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award for 2005-2007 by the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. The awards pay $200,000 over two years for research projects that seek to advance the field of neuroscience by developing new tools and techniques enabling deeper understanding of the brain.
Profile of Dr. Deisseroth
School Of Medicine News
Planning the Future of Stanford University and the School of Medicine – News from the Dean
Since it was founded in 1891, Stanford has become one of the great universities of the world. At its core, the excellence of its faculty and an outstanding student body define what makes Stanford truly great. While scholarship, discovery, innovation, and education characterize some of the central components of the university of the past, the future will be increasingly defined by how a university creates knowledge to improve the human condition.
More from the Dean's Newsletter.
Seeking Alumni Models and Mentors in Community Health
The School of Medicine website now includes a “Models and Mentors” database of profiles in community health. Most of the posted interviews have been conducted by students. It’s a way to link students with faculty and alumni as well as with each other, and to create a network of like-minded MD colleagues. Even those who are too busy or too geographically removed from Stanford to work with current students can provide inspiration through these profiles.
The current postings and an archive of past postings can be found at the bottom of the SOM Community Homepage.
If you are working in community and public health, international health, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, or related areas, we hope you’ll consider volunteering for a brief interview so that we can share your experiences and perspectives with current students.
Please contact Ann Banchoff (banchoff@stanford.edu) to indicate your interest.
Stanford School of Medicine’s Fourth Annual Fall Forum on Community Health & Public Service
Please mark your calendar and plan to join us as we celebrate student contributions to community health through public service and community partnership research.
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center (326 Galvez Street)
5:00 to 7:30 pm
Keynote address by Sheri Fink, MD, PhD, Stanford alumna and author of “War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival”
See a profile of Dr. Fink
This event is being organized by Stanford Medical Students and sponsored by the Scholarly Concentration in Community Health and Public Service.
Faculty News
Professor Rodney R. Beard, pioneer of preventive medicine, dies at 93
Rodney R. Beard, MD, whose 65 years on the medical school faculty included pivotal work to establish and enforce clean air standards, died July 12 at his home on campus of congestive heart failure. More
